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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1933
Page
4
A public notice invites readers to send greetings to friends or relatives and view a card display at the Register-Tribune office. It also promotes a Trade In Akron with Live Mer chants program claiming a payment to participants.
The Plymouth county board of supervisors rejected a 2470 move to fund the Farm Bureau after a confidential check found fewer than 200 bona fide paid members. O L Weber led township verifications amid delays caused by detained officials. The dispute may go to court as statutes require a paid membership list to justify county aid.
A six foot, 200 pound bandit threatened a station attendant at Milleroi near McDuffie Park Sunday morning around 2 o clock. He escaped in a car with a slot machine and some change, according to the LeMars Sentinel.
A man seated in a vehicle fled down Highway 75 toward Sioux City after a holdup. The victim offered only a vague description, saying the robber was tall and wore blue clothing.
Harold A. Palm of Sioux City and other local leaders rode in a large multi motor transport plane visiting Sioux City Sunday morning. The United Air Lines thrice weekly 3 mile a minute plane carries ten passengers, a crew of three and mail baggage and express. The 74 foot wingspan and 61 foot four inch length give a tall cabin. Palm notes overnight service from Sioux City to most US cities via United Air Lines and other major carriers.
American Red Cross certificates awarded to county residents who completed the Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick course in Plymouth County. The three month weekly class, led by instructor Miss Hazel Roberts, plans similar programs across the county next year. Recipients include Mrs. Joel T. Shepherd and several Misses with additional graduates from Merrill and Hinton high schools in Leona Carstensen, Eileen Schneider, Patricia Mertes, and others.
The Johnson Jewels 4 H club met at Frank Jeffers home Saturday May 20 1938. Roll call opened the meeting. Members prepared programs for future meetings and discussed sending a delegate to the Ames convention. A bake sale was approved for the Weidenfeller market in Akron on Saturday May 27. The next meeting is scheduled for June 8 with Lucile Lucken as club reporter.
Four Akron churches join in a union meeting at the Christian Church Sunday night at 8:00. Mrs. Ida B. Smith of Des Moines, state W C T U president, will urge preserving the prohibitory amendment to the U S Constitution.
Akron residents hear about garden sales, dental gold, and graduation gifts while planning baseball games on Memorial Day weekend. Community groups meet for dances, bake sales, and club events. local roads receive improvements. residents travel to Cedar Falls and Sioux City for schooling and visits.
A Memorial Day poem from Westfield Iowa reflects on fallen soldiers and the grieving, while the town prepares to investigate buffalo gnats with Iowa State College entomology head Carl Drake visiting Plymouth County to study the pest. The verse honors those in Flanders and Civil War memory, paired with a report on outdoor pest trouble and official oversight.
The Lundberg family thanks neighbors and friends for help and sympathy after the illness and death of their wife and mother. They especially thank Miss Margaret Carensen for timely assistance and note floral offerings. Also mentions Akron vs Westfield game details: May 30 at 2:30 p.m.
Ralph Kittinger of the state emergency relief committee says county quotas must be revised to allow 26 experienced men per camp. About 4,300 enrollments are expected in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Iowa. The first ten Plymouth county recruits to Fort Des Moines for reforestation training include Wesley E. Garrod Edward L. Carr Harry B.H. Brandon and Worth Igon Everett C. Johnson Ralph R. Warren Orville Attrill Henry A. Richter Lowell Swift and Vernon Everett of Akron. Everett Johnson and Vernon Everett left the program and returned to Akron earlier this week.
Des Moines Register reports the National Guard cost for Plymouth and Crawford counties during the farm foreclosure rising will total under 25 000 dollars. Adjutant General Grahl cites 16 673 40 spent to date with payrolls and other costs not yet estimated. In 1981 cow war expenses reached 177 000 dollars. Guardsmen were on duty April 28 to May 17, with up to 500 on duty. Court reporters’ wages were included in the tally.
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