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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
9
A fragmented financial line shows figures including five thousand six dollars sixty cents and three hundred seventy five dollars. a code BL7G, another figure 144 dollars 41 cents, and a total of one hundred seventy six thousand one hundred forty four dollars and forty one cents for Destee Bee.
A jumble of local notices mentions Klauer Swanson Co selling Onyxware roasters, Mrs Gee visiting Ha ward en, and Sioux City trips by Mrs George Cain and daughter. It notes a fading milling business, a theater production The Woman of Mystery, and family movements including Batchelder visits. A cemetery gate issue prompts closures, and a town ball game beats Akron high school 6 to 0 in seven innings with Decoration Day to decide the series. Storm damage lashes bridges and roads with several washed-out spans and land purchases and road work planned by county supervisors.
Decoration day events in Akron featured sermons by Rev. H. G. Campbell and J. F. Kennedy. Crops profited from heavy rains, spring 798 echoed current weather. Waterbury Bros business dissolved with H. L. Waterbury continuing. River fishing reported good with abundant catfish. Harvey Toppings enlisted in the Iowa volunteer regiment. A local baseball nine led by Harty Smith defeated Hawarden 12 to 1. Akron High School class of 1898 lists Bert Smith Anus Johnson Clyde Bradley Nellie Biddlecome Stella Tucker.
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