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Local News Notes and "Tip-Top" Ad Tracts
Local news items from Elk Point area include business visits, church events, and a flood of small ads. Mentions Rev William G Smith as a Haward visitor, Lena Johnson returning to Sioux City, Mrs Bes sie Waterbury granted a divorce, and local tradesmen advertising paint, seeds, and furniture. Decoration Day events feature Baptist Ladies Aid dinners, free meals for veterans, and an Akron baseball game planned at 3:20 pm between Hinton and Akron. Stock shipments to Chicago and local farm activity are noted, with multiple farmers and merchants cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keane's
Klauer-Swainson. Co
von Hagel
Iblings
V. Montagne
Elk Point
L.A
Waterbury’s
G. Smith
Hawarden
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Peter Bredall
Sioux City
J.C. ‘Button
Cobb
Troskey
A. Strobel
Akron
Pat, Johnson
Emery
S. D
John Burnight
Art Baldwin
Johnson
G. Kirstein
Opera House
Wendt’s
E. E. Mellen
Beresford
Ladies’' Aid
The
Christian Church
New
Airdome‘theater
Metz
Ladies’ Aid of the Christian Church
New Airdome
Metz -Harness
Wilk Soldions
Lee
A. V
Tidd
Haynes
N. D
Chas. A. Seamands
Hettinger
Samuel Wisnow
Samuel Maben
Ruble
Klauer- Swanson Co
John. Englemann
Klauer-Swanson Co
A. R. Whitney
Akron” ‘Creamery
Papritz
Waterbury
Robinson & Cross
Baptist Ladies’Aid
C. N. Ogden
Sioux City Grain Commission
Akron’s
Ed. Waterbury
Florence
Arizona
Mr. Waterbury
Hudson
S. C
Chicago
J.C. Bredall
Herman Jacobs
Aug. Borchers