Akron Local Notes and Community Events 1918
Akron residents hear about farm sellouts and frequent visits from Hawarden and Vermillion while planning a Fourth of July celebration. Local civic notices include a Baptist Ladies meeting, a St Joseph school program, and a public military registration for all men 21 and older. Community life highlights skating at Riversioux Park, theater outings in Sioux City, and regional church updates amid illness and travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garland Ellis
Hawarden
Faye Volek
Agnes Marshall
Cherokee
Iowa
St. Joseph’s School
Akron Opera House
Perry McCorkell
Clarence Pike
Herman Jacobs
Sioux City
Pierre
War Savings Stamps Drive and Local Notices
Local brief reports residents traveling to Parker and Pender Nebraska for visits, church and club meetings planned including Vesper chapter OE 8, and Junior League events. Cattle market notes, vandalism to a harness shop window, farewell party for Harald Lunde bound for Camp Lewis, and a parade plan for Memorial Day with Plymouth county soldiers represented. Community announcements cover dances, chamber plans, and school commencement week with local weather and storm notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Ervin
Parker
Ed. Burnight
Pender
Nebr
George Neal
Vesper
W. M
League of Lutheran Immanuel Church
Peter Ploy
First Trust & Savings Bank
Financial Institution
Chas, Willer
Sioux City
Willer
Memorial Day Exercises Across town on May 30
On Memorial Day at 10 a.m. the G A R and W R C will line up at the Savings Bank corner Second and Reed, march to the river to cast flowers for the Sailor dead, then proceed to Riverside cemetery to decorate graves of Veterans with G A R and W W R C members. Cars donated by citizens may transport members to the cemetery. Houses to close 10 to 12 a.m. Donations of autos and flowers are requested, with contact via Mra. A G Rhodes and the Masonic Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savings Bank
Second
Reed Streets
Riverside Cemetery
Www. R. C
Mra. A. G. Rhodes
W. BR. C
Masonic Hall
Memorial Sunday Services at Baptist Church
Memorial services set for Sunday May 26 at 11 a m in the Baptist church with Rev L M Derreen of the Church of Christ delivering the address All members of the G A R and W R C urged to assemble at the Masonic Hall by 10 30 a m and march in a body to the church Those unable to march may meet the delegation at the church
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LUX
Dudley
Chas
Fursee
Sioux City
Tertha O’rielly
Draper v
Akron Public Schools
Baptist Church
L. M. Derreen
Church of Christ
Masonic Hall
Baptist Church Services Marked by Union Observances
Sunday services announced for May 26 include Bible School at 10 a.m. and B Y P U at 7 p.m. Union services are held as customary with a Memorial at 11 a.m. in the Baptist church and a Baccalaureate at 5 p.m. in the Methodist church conducted by Frank Homond Volck, minister, phone 130.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist
Baptist Church
Frank Homond Volck
Farmers Seek White Corn Supplies for Miller Cereal Mills
Miller Cereal Mills of Akron Ohio requests farmers to withhold sales of white corn until their wires confirm purchase. The notice urges growers to contact Miller Cereal Mills for agreed terms and delivery arrangements, signaling a sourcing priority for the mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller Cereal Mills
Akron
Towa
The Long Arm of Mercy and the Red Cross Faith
A tribute to the Red Cross as humanity in action over war and disaster. It frames the organization as the universal arm of mercy guiding relief from Japan to Belgium, Cuba to India, with a moral call for all to enroll despite creed or politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Iowa
South Dakota
Nebraska
Woonsocket
Lere
Fairview
Canton
Red Cross
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Emerson
Mercy
Japan
China
Cuba
India
Italy
Poland
Servia
Belgium
County Spelling Contest Set for Te Mars High School
The Plymouth county Spelling Contest and Rural School Display will be held at the Te Mars High School on Saturday June 4 at 12 30 PM. Each township sends one contestant, the township winner. First prize is a trip to the State Fair Des Moines, second a fountain pen. A silver cup will reward the best school display. Portland township's contestant is Miss Hery Murphey. If weather or roads are bad the event will be postponed to June 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riversioux Park
Red Cross
Dawson
The
Union
Clay Counties
Plymouth County
L. N. Crill
W. H. Freeman
J. C. Gillespie
Fairfield
Commercial Club
LeMars
Akron
Court House
le Mars
Akyon
Te Mars
Des Moines
Pelze
Portland
Hery] Murphey
If You Can Do These Things You Are the Girl for Uncle Sam
A wartime verse praising the ideal American girl. It urges sewing and knitting, writing letters, supporting soldiers in France, buying War Savings Stamps, and sacrificing personal comforts. It emphasizes grit, sacrifice, and patriotic duty as forerunners of national effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Uncle Sam
Also Mentioned on This Page
Akron High School
Opera House
Heine Hohenzollern
Thompson
Red Cross Little Scout
Neb
Horace LaFohl
New York
Harry
Ethel
Betsy Ross
Lilian
Claugs
Colorado
Dabney
Germany
Mary
Act
Daddy
Lillian
Berlin
Paris
Soui
Sam
Cobh’s
M. W. Strobel
Elke Point
John Hansen
Old Dilly Stand
Earl Ervin
J. B. Melillips
F. T. Purvis
S. D
Baptist Ladies’ Association
E. F. Cobb
Wm. Harnett
Hettinger
N. C
Ponoka
Alberta
Canada
Blarnett
Mmany
Mr. Harnett
Crill
Mississippi
Dundee
Velva
New Orleans
Bridge Club
Margaret Anglin
Kingsley
Martin Larson
Spink Township
Union County
Larson
Larsen
Owhiel
Jessie Williams
Dick Dierksen
Annie Dierksen
Jesse Huckett
Vermillion
Lawrence Grange
W. H. Morse
Sioux Valley Red Cross
James Kurth
Gu? Harkness
Baptist Ehurch
M. E. Ehurch
Akron High
Wmn. Slaughter
E. A. Fields
Coucil
Akron Milling Co
Miller Cereal Co
the Baptist Church
Wrank Billings
J. D. Billings
AL Semple
W. O R. Semple
George Billings
Te Hind
Frank
F. Smythe Harness Shop
Chas Kanage
Harold Lunde
Union Ccounty
Camp Lewis
Washington
Harald
Chas. F. Lytle
Sionz City
Mr. Lytle
G. A. BR
W. BR. C.y
AIM
Millard and Eyes
Farm Lands
ANG Ranch
Huron
Kiptlag
Carolyn Moucy Penny
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