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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1950
Page
9
Akron Iowa supplement dated May 18 1950 presents a compact collection of local notices and brief items unique to the community. This page captures civic updates and small notices typical of a mid-century county newspaper supplement, reflecting everyday life in Akron and nearby areas.
Special Correspondence reports a Sunny Side Hall dinner on May 9 to boost the Cancer fund. Hancock township Telephone Association discussed sharing their pole line under conditions. O. J. Port rebuilt a creek dam after last fall’s washout. Local rural schools end the year this week while 4 Her clubs in Hancock and Sioux City areas meet May 11 to view dairy cattle pictures and discuss care. Mrs. Lester Williams hosted a Chicago visit from a sister last week.
Disabled veterans in hospitals nationwide are making memorial poppies for Poppy Day on May 27. The effort aids thousands of veterans with employment and occupational therapy, with patients at Knoxville Veterans Hospital producing the poppies under an Auxiliary Therapy Department director. Local volunteers will distribute them on Poppy Day, aided by cooperating organizations.
Memorial crepe paper poppies, replicas of Flanders Fields blooms, will fund rehabilitation and child welfare efforts of the Legion and Auxiliary. Veterans create the flowers in hospital beds and workrooms, earning funds while aiding disabled veterans and needy children.
The Swift family thanks all who offered help and sympathy during illness and after the death of our wife and mother. Special thanks to Dr Brunner Akron Hospital staff Miss Kerr Mrs Dalton Bellwood neighbors friends and the Christian Ladies Aid for pantry supplies flowers and memorials. Luvern Swift and Children.
Card of appreciation from Mrs. Ragnar Johnson thanks friends and neighbors for cards flowers gifts and visits during hospital stay at Hawarden Hospital. Guests are urged to notify the Register-Tribune. In LeMars Justice J G Koenig court Lloyd Andresen 24 of LeMars, former Akron resident, was sentenced to serve thirty.
The picture shows T. A. Ross among children at his surprise birthday event in Hancock township. Mrs. Lester Williams invited him to a township hall moving picture show, then presented a fine Electric Victrola bought by neighbors in appreciation of his lifelong community service.
New stock of rib bons for typewriters of different makes available at the Register Tribune office.
Days in county jail and a one year license suspension were imposed on Andre Sen for reckless driving after a car he drove into a ditch east of LeMars March 31, killing Joe Feller. Justice Koenig fined Charles Owen Berg 100 dollars and suspended his license six months after Berg, 17, Hawarden high senior, collided with Henry Dykstra north of LeMars April 23, injuring the Dykstra infant who died. Berg pled guilty to reckless driving.
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