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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
4
Fragmented OCR text recounts community events in Hawarden and surrounding areas. Mentions Luther League meeting at Salberg home next Wednesday evening, farm activities near Wert Union Creek, Anderton and Johnson families, deaths and funerals, farm sales near Braham Minnesota, and local stray references to schools, weather, and visiting relatives.
Owing to rainy weather the Mothers Day program at the U B Church was postponed to 2 pm next Sunday. The Ladies Aid will meet with Mrs Wim Welch next Thursday afternoon May 25. Mrs B Goodrond of Canton visited her parents and relatives as she plans to leave for a homestead near Sturese South Dakota. The youngest child of George Carls son is living with his father. His grandmother Mrs Wm Klewely of Akron visited relatives here a few days past. The Lover Somarvoid Je family are gathering with an aunt nearlet fever alert. All are getting along as well as expected.
Early Beeler was an Akron caller Saturday Joseph Appley with An Akron blast six caller Monday Mrs Henry Relish and Mrs Aw ay Huckert called on Mrs Orie Laynard one day this week
A garbled OCR fragment mentions weather, quilts, wind, wardens, and several indeterminate names. The readable bits include references to a city home, a person named Mrs, and a Sunday in a business walk context, but most content is noncoherent and lacks a discernible event or outcome.
Pleasant View notes show a religious gathering by the Evangelical Christians, a school musical for students, and visits by residents. Local residents Jim Waterman, Miss Telale Williams, and Max Pollock attend events. Pollock joins a Masonic lodge in Akron. A Cedar Rapids conventicle draws attention as Clifford Pollock delegates back home.
Special correspondents report a flurry of visits and events in Westfield. Mrs Harry Feltis visited relatives in Teo South Dakota while T St Marthy and daughter Kathryn joined others at St Josephs hospital in Sioux City. Local gatherings include a Trinity College orchestra dance and a Thesday club meeting with papers by Elizabeth Cluss and Grace Hopkins.
An OCR readout summarizes a community meeting and brief visits by local officials and residents including Frank Millanina Pinengersen and Frank Pachattple. It mentions the superintendent and an upcoming event at a local establishment with informal notes on attendees and locations.
Fragmented notes report visits by Jefferson and Hil Climbers members, school plays at Buangalde High, upcoming Baccalaureate sermon, and Sunday church services canceled by a storm. Also mention Miss Hathaway visiting, Miss Thorercve Hathaway, and a Woodward area barber joining rounds. Fragments reference Rainebow play, deliveries of ash, and corn planting dampened by cold rain.
All services for Sunday May 22 are at regular times. Hours of worship 11 a.m. 3 p.m wife and 8 p.m. sermons by the pastor at both meetings. Bible School at 9 a.m. Prayer meeting 2 p.m. Thursday evening at 8. Choir practice Friday evening. Shareholders invited. minister Frank Edmond Volck. Phone 190.
The church will not hold services next Sunday due to the abdication of the pastor. The Sunday school will meet at 5 p.m. in the church parlors, followed by a gathering hosted by Miss Serena H
In Aron church preaching at 11 a.m. Sunday school 10 a.m. and Lutheran League at 8 p.m. Chatsworth church services at 2 30 p.m. F A Meske, Pastor. Church of Christ Frauseale services continue at Christian church over Sunday and next week. Rally Day Sunday May 21 all invited to attend and enjoy the special program. Geo P Bramell, Pastor.
A series of birth notices from northwest and northeast of town list a daughter born to George and Mrs Milles in May 1916 a son born to Howard Seards in May 1916 a daughter born to Lester Hepley in May 1921 a son born to Dek Dalton of Akros in May 1916 a son born to Karl Michael south of town in May 1916 and a son born to Emil Stevens south of town in May 1916. Also mentions typewriter paper ink and copying paper for the Tribune office.
A Mothers Day service saw attendances at the club on Sunday. A license was issued in Shottx City to Gearke A. Engen of Akron and Miss Ha6 Sherman of Sioux City. Several locals visited here Tuesday regarding highway improvements. contract for grading and lay improvement on the stretch will be awarded next Tuesday in Elk Point. Gov Coburn campaigned in Akron for the Republican nomination for state senator from the Ida Cherokee Plymouth district. Mrs J Thompson returned from Sutterland Town after caring for her mother Mrs Husled who passed away Sunday. Area reports rain and improved crop conditions after dry weather with light frost. Hans Willer’s train near Chicago stopped to extinguish a hay fire sparked by engine.
Reports from across the county indicate Hon J W Wormley of Kingsley is gaining favor as a Republican state representative candidate. A successful lawyer and businessman, Wormley’s stance blends business acumen with farming insight, and local supporters in his town advocate his qualifications to lead in the next general assembly.
Town council orders a halt on new water connections until street paving and payments are completed. A proposed ordinance would prohibit new connections for at least one year after the paving charge is laid. Burnett, Clerk, notes the need for feasible plans.
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