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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1922
Page
5
Local notices recount Poppy Day on Saturday with Auxiliary ladies urging liberal support for disabled World War soldiers. Community events include Memorial Day parades, flower sales, and church gatherings. Several residents' visits and current business notices fill the Akron region scene.
The Akron Booster Club held a combined session with ex service men at the Ford Garage. Speakers included A. B. Darling of Sioux City and Legion member Mr McMinn who urged memorial projects for Akron. A resolution to dedicate the east wing of the old school building as a memorial to fallen Legionnaires was approved unanimously.
The community is invited to Memorial Day events in Akron on May 30. At 10 a.m. a parade forms at the Akron Savings barn, proceeds to the river to lay flowers, then to Riverside and Catholic cemeteries with G A R Legion and auxiliary participation. Autos are asked to wait for ex service members, flowers can be donated at Magic Hall. An afternoon program at 2:30 p.m. at the Akron opera house features Akron Band music prayers and talks by Rev E F Casey Rev W E Prewitt Wayne Vargason Rev Carl Hammer and others.
The Memorial Sunday program will be held in a Christian church on May 28 at 2:80. Rev C V Allis on, chaplain of Hoschler Post American Legion, will deliver the address. This union meeting invites all to attend. The G A R Woman's Relief Corps American Legion and Auxiliary will meet at Akron Sayings bank and attend the services in body by 2:15. Legionnaires urged to attend strongly.
The Akron lie schools pupil examination, led by Miss Helen Eyres, shows 339 pupils checked. Defective vision 53, corrective vision 9, hearing 8, corrective hearing 2, nasal obstruction 1, nasal correction 81, enlarged tonsils 160, corrected 28, underweight 82, overweight 7, smallpox vaccinated 16. Malnutrition linked to fatigue and poor study performance.
A doctor links child malnutrition to poverty overcrowding and poor home and school hygiene. He urges medical attention and education in hygienic practices and food knowledge while Miss Eyres and the county Red Cross plan to send cleft palate and orthopedic cases to the State University hospital at Iowa City for treatment. River Sioux Park opens with Friday dances May 12 featuring Franklin and Anderson’s five piece orchestra through the summer.
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