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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
5
Local Akron page features a sprawling mix of shop ads and notices. Vendors promote window shades, carpets, pianos, and sewing machines while residents, visitors, and relatives travel and visit. council discusses water pumping and a new bookcase. various local personalities travel, diagnose, and plan events amid harvest season and land draw outcomes.
Governor A B Cummins of Iowa will deliver a political address at 8 p m in Akron’s opera house next Monday October 26. The Akron band will provide music and the local committee invites all, including ladies, to attend. This rally may be the campaign’s sole Akron appearance.
Dr J H Kerr and J F March return Saturday from a six week hunting trip in Jackson Hole Wyoming with a party of five. They covered 96 miles up Wind River to Dubois and through Union Pass to Green River country facing heavy snow. They bagged two elk and one deer along with antlers hides and quarters. Both men grew long whiskers and felt fine despite roughing it and missing a bear.
The Akron band thanks local business men for support that has kept operations running. They report 260 invested in new uniforms and 8667 spent by members on instruments. A winter fund drive is planned with free concerts at the opera house, starting October 2 with a dance after, featuring a fourteen piece band. A Georgettes concert is slated for November 7 under band auspices.
AB Goodwin arranged for an appearance of several extra fine plays in Akron on January 16 in the opera house. The company comprises twenty-one performers. He demands high class shows and is determined to secure them.
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