Akron Register-Tribune Subscription Rates and Details
The Akron Register-Tribune lists subscription rates of 2.50 per year and 1.25 for six months in Plymouth Sioux and Woodbury Counties Iowa and Union County South Dakota, 3.00 per year elsewhere. Published every Thursday in Akron Plymouth County Iowa. Entered at the post office as second class mail matter September 26 1901.
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Plymouth
Sioux
Woodbury Counties
Iowa
Union County
S. D
Aketon
Plymouth County
Westfield write ups convey community life and events
Special Correspondence from Westfield reports Sunday visits in the Albert Harrington home and guests from Sioux City Inglewood and Cherokee. Notable items include Darrald Hoffman’s expected hospital discharge, Rosie Hoffman’s foot needle issue, and a birthday bouquet for George Main and Charles Knapp. Armed Forces week activities at the air base, the Spring Sing at Westfield school, and a lively program with old songs and period costumes are described. A parade at the air base featured local nurses nursing students and National Guardsmen with M41 tanks. Summer library hours are posted with days and times.
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Westfield
Ronnie Carlson
Sioux City
Albert Harrington
Ralph Wiese
Inglewood
Calif
George Bern
Kenneth Bern
Cherokee
Darrald Hoffman
St. Joseph Hospital
Rosie Hoffman
George Main
Grace, Spaulding
Keith Knapp
Charles Knapp
Keith
Ivyl Knapp
Delbert Maynard
Ione Lease
Westfield School
Miss Lease
Clementine
New York
Sioux City Arecration Department
Dale Davis
Cavis
Arch Lilly
Ivy Knapp
Mavis Limberg
Woden
Iowa
Bethine Fisher
Hinton
Lutheran School of Nursing
Tom Roas
Weekfield
Darwin Bauerly
Randall Lilly
National Guards
Barbara
Brian Knapp
Jack Knapp
Schaller
Tuesday Club Notes at Knapp Pasture Picnic
Westfield Tuesday Club met May 14 at Knapp pasture for its annual picnic and a brief business session led by President Clara Mackey. Nella Lilly and Grace Spaulding reported year end finances and a library circulation total. A May 28 Workshop on storytelling and reading was announced for Sioux Center City Auditorium with a film show from 9 to 12. Plans were made to mend books during Vacation beginning May 28 and library grounds improvements were approved.
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Westfield
Knapp Pasture
Clara Mackey
Nella Lilly
Grace Spaulding
City Auditorium
Sioux Center
Mansfield
Chuir
Generony
Way Back Yonder Items of Interest From Akron News Files
Reprint recalls past Plymouth county events from 1923 to 1993 and earlier. It notes sports teams, marriages, births, obituaries, local officials, wartime notices, and community milestones in Akron and surrounding area, with references to Sioux City, LeMars, and Newark. Strong names include Olson, Bronson, Dugue, Zane, Kennell, Johnson, Swift, Osterthun, Toel, Burrill, Petersen, and Dierksen.
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Akron Register- Tribune
Akron
Olson
Junior Legion
Sioux City
Akron High
Bronson High
Jacob Dugue
Lawrence
U.S
Perch
Java Sea
W. J. Zane
First Christian Church
Andrew Johnson
Bernice Reid
Baptist Parsonage
LeMars
Albertson & Co
Gerald Smith
Laughter
Barbara
Washington, D. C
U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
Vern Swift
Genevieve Swift
Newark
New Jersey
J. O. Kennell
George A. Johnson
Robert Smith
Floyd Anderson
Local Couples Buy Plots. Births and Ceremonies Noted
Afternoon program in the opera house followed cemetery decorations. Mr. and Mrs. 7. L. Burnight bought lots in I. H. Adams block 29 for 1100 and plan a residence. Dr. R Vinton Ellis, son of Salem residents, married Flora M Beck in May 1913. A new son and daughter born to local couples in May 1918. A Class Day and commencement exercises featured Ethel Wintersteen and others.
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Airlie
Ore
Louis Koch
Helen Cobb
Olive Smith
Jessie Wade
Cecile Bennett
Clair McCorkell
Neil Searls
Lloyd Nelson
Ruby Knudson
Glenn Hammer
Agnes Thorne
Elsie Williams
Jay Hammer
Lawyers to Conduct Annual Chautauqua at Lake Okoboji Iowa
The 40th Annual Lawyers Chautauqua by the 14th and 21st Judicial District Bar Association will be held at The New Inn Lake Okoboji on May 28 24 25 1963. The program focuses on the New Probate Code and is open to lawyers statewide. Sponsored by the two districts, the steering group includes Don ald Skiver Dick Smith William Sturges and David Sayre. Contents feature talks by Jom D Conner and Phillips Habermann on law office management and a full day on the Probate Code led by Shirley Webster and committee members. Saturday includes discussions by Walter Cochran and David Crumley on inheritance and federal estate tax aspects.
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21St Judicial District Bar Association
New Inn
Lake Okoboji
Iowa
Donald Skiver
Sibley
Dick Smith
Primghar
William $. Sturges
le Mars
David Sayre
Jom D. Conner
Washington, D. C
American Bar Association
Phillips Habermann
Madison
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Bar Association
Shirley Webster
Winterset
Iowa State Bar Association
Walter Cochrane
Des Moines
Iowa State Tax Commission
David Crumley
Fort Dodge
Westfield Man Dies in Iowa City Hospital
John Willis Nelson of Westfield died May 16 after a long illness at an Iowa City hospital at age 67. Born September 1 1895 in Bluncoe Indiana, he was a retired farmer who worked near Westfield for 30 years and earlier near Smithland. Survivors include wife Eva, three daughters Iva Cook Celina Tenn Melvin Brockman Sioux City and Mrs Charles Hughes Westfield, a son Larry Nelson Westfield, brother David Nelson Portland Oregon, two sisters Betty Parks and Jack Beacher Sioux City, nine grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Funeral services were held Saturday at a Sioux City funeral home with Rev T Henderson of Nazarenes Church of climbing Mills officiating and burial in Smithland cemetery.
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Dick Dierksen
A. R. Haney
Elk Point
P. Vargason
Ann
Gordrey Davidson
Ruth
Winstorp
Stockholm
Sweden
Lee Thornburg
J. H. Hays
J. H. Hays Electrical Stock, Moving It To the Sanitary Plumbing
Hays
Sioux City
Delbert Hoffman
Elihu Blecken
Johnson
Orange City
Sioux Center
California
Ogg
de Mots
Diel—Curtiss
Bean
Akron
Myrtle
Chester
Richard
Christina
Alice
Riverside Cemetery
Westfield
Iowa City
John Willis Nelson
Nelson
Bluncoe
Smithland
Eva Holbrook
Onawa
Ill
T. Henderson
the Nazarene Church of
Climbing Mill
Smithland Cemetery
Local Airmen Buys Assigned for Missile Electronics Training
Airman Donald R Buys at Lackland AFB Texas and Airman Dennis R Buys son of Mr and Mrs John H Buys Akron Iowa is being reassigned to Lowry AFB Colorado for technical training as a United States Air Force missile electronics maintenance specialist. Airman Buys enlisted recently and completed basic training. He is a 1961 graduate of Akron Community High School.
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Donald R. Buys
Lackland Afb
Tex
Dennis R. Buys
John H. Buys
RR 1
Akron
Iowa
Lowry Afb
Colo
United States Air Force
Buys
Air Force
Akron Community High School
Westfield Cloverettes Rally Day Report
Westfield Cloverettes held Rally Day on May 2 with sixteen members and three leaders no guests. Sharon Sands and Cathy Perry competed in Better Groomed Girl with Cathy earning County title for juniors. Dixie Dowdy tried for Country Girl Creed in blue ribbon group. Reporter Marsha Irish.
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Westfield Cloverettes
Sharon Sands
Cathy Perry
Sharon
Cathy
Dixie Dowdy
Marsha Irish
Many Pass Bike Safety Test At Akron Park Event
A Saturday event at The First National Insurance in the Akron Ball Park drew over sixty youths and accompanying adults for a Safe Bicycle campaign. Weather favored participation as youngsters joined demonstrations and safety activities led by local organizers and officials.
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First National Insurance
Akron Ball Park
Prevailed
Akron Jills 4-H Club Meetings Report and Rally Day
Akron Jills 4-H Club held meetings on March 12 and April 27, 1963 at members' homes with 12 and 11 members present. Reports and demonstrations covered care of hair and skin, health habits, storing winter clothes, and sewing equipment. Rally Day awarded Linda Larsen a blue ribbon and Marsha Kilstron the best of all girls. Chas B Hoeven noted approval of the Held watershed project near Hinton benefiting 28 farms. Plymouth county Soil Conservation district manages the measures.
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Akron Jills
Pam Larsen
Mariann Higman
Nancy Claessen
Algo Mariann Higman
Melinda Thorson
Linda Hansen
Akron Jills 4.H Club
Debbie Pollock
Linda Larsen
Linda
Marsha Kilstron
Marsha
Michelle Garvin
Claesson
Chas. B. Hoeven
Washington, D. C
House Committee On Agriculture
Hinton
Plymouth County
Plymouth County Board of Supervisors
Plymouth County Soil Conservation District
Ford dealers in Des Moines sell record April totals
George Grant was suspended for good behavior and paroled to the Plymouth County Probation Officer while Gerald has a prior criminal record. New car sales by Ford dealers in the Des Moines district last month reached a high for April since 1955, with 1,586 cars sold, up nine percent from last April and 82 percent over March 1963. Cavnar reported April truck sales at 346, up 65 percent from last year and nearly 15 percent over March this year. The standard Ford led the division's pace, with 1,054 standard Fords sold, up nearly 20 percent from April last year.
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Oldsmobile
George Ed. Laffner
William S. Sturgea
James P. Kelley
Michael Worden
Sioux City
Iowa
William 5. Sturges
Becker
Plymouth County
Robert F. Clarey
Akron
Towa
William S. Sturges
Clarey
Richard George Fleck
John Robert Rich
Garden City
Michigan
Fort Madison
Frank Scholer
Leonard Betaworth
LeMars
Nebraska
William 8. Sturges
Glen H. Clinkenboard
Justice of the Peace
Gordon Tentinger
William Flewelling
Kingsley
Clinkenbeard
South Sioux City
Richard Lappegard
Kathleen Lappegard
Robert Lappegard
Anna Lappegard
Iowa State Penitentiary
Kethleer Lappegard
Iowa Womens Reformatory
Rockwell City
Iowa Women's Reformatory
Gaylen Otto Sorensen
Galva
Sorensen
Iowa Highway Patrol
Robert €. Jennings
LeMara
Walter Sleezer
George
Gerald Grant
James Williams
Sturges
Gerald de Shenek
Gan
George Grant
Gerald
Ford
Des Moines
J. T.cavnar
Ford Division
Philosopher Hopkins Question Sparks Heaven Question
In a philosophy class a student asked Mark Hopkins who would go to heaven. The educator replied he did not know yet asserted that no one would be there who did not feel at home. The remark captures Hopkins’s thoughtful, comforting stance on ultimate belonging.
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Mark Hopkins
Heaven
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W. W. Burrill & Long
Christine Petersen
Frank Owens
Akron Hospital
Alfred Skogman
Ben Andresen
Wm. Vreugdenhil
Elmer J. Dimmick
John W. Osterthun
Leone Catherine Toel
Preston Twp
Lutheran Church
Theo. Meyer
Milwaukee Road
Chicago
AL. Kegarice
Beresford
J. J. Simeon
A.J. Claeys
Debbie Pollack
Richard Hedeby
Bob Hartmann
First National Agency
Mrs. Lucken
Anderson Construction Co
Wilcox Electric
Mnred Slaves Brewers Association, Inc
OWA Division
Farmers Mutual
Am Sura
Agen
Glen Gabel
Grand Ce
American Express
First National Bank
Akron, Iowa
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