Shorty comments on vigorous campaigns and school year start
The piece notes upcoming strong political campaigning and hopes for fulfilled promises. It covers local school openings with mixed emotions among youngsters and college freshmen adjusting to new independence. It also mentions D and W Hardware moving to a remodeled Dalton building and 4th Street becoming a through street with new stop signs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D and W Hardware
Dalton Building
Opera House
4Th Street
Akron
Reed Street
Highway 3
4Th and Main
Community Calendar Promotes Local Clubs in Akron Iowa
Sioux Valley Extension holds Friday Sept 3 meeting at Henrietta Hoschler home. Loyal Neighbors and American Legion events on Sept 7. many group gatherings planned through Sept 14 including 4-H clubs, church circles, and Farm Bureau Homemakers fall tea at Ruth Morehead’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Valley Extension Club
Henrietta Hoschler
Edith Gant
Mystery Sisters
Loyal Neighbors Club
Spencer Bertrand
Chicken Little
Embroidery Club
American Legion
Westfield Congregational Ladies Aid
Immanuel Lutheran L.C.W
St. John’s Lutheran Harmony Circle
Adaville
United Methodist Women Circle
Sioux Valley
Akron
Border Bells
Catholic Daughters of America
Friendship and Service Club
Liberty-Johnson Farm Bureau
Ruth Morehead
Chatsworth News Social visits and youth seminar report
Chatsworth News records a sequence of social visits across Chatsworth and nearby towns including the Collmann and Hendrichs families. Nine Union County Farm Bureau students attended the Young Citizens seminar in Brookings, reporting improved understanding of government and freedoms. County resolutions were adopted and will go to the state convention. Molasses cookie baking winners named with a postmeeting lunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union County Farm Bureau
Brookings
Cherie Sorlie
Ruth Hultgren
Robin Nilson
Rhoda Holtkamp
Kevin Solberg
Kevin Curry
Rick Erickson
Alcester City
Milton Albin
Robert Wendel
Steven Ericson
Local residents share visits and travel plans
Former Storm Lake residents Mr and Mrs John Siefer now reside in Westfield with John in Vermillion graduate business school and directing Red Barn in Storm Lake. Mrs Siefer, ex Marianne Higman, worked in child abuse services. The piece lists multiple extended visits among Oetkens Boetgers Deckers Frisk Johnson and others, as well as a wedding attendance and a birthday party in Alcester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Siefer
Storm Lake
Westfield
John
Graduate School of Business
Vermillion
Red Barn
Siefer
Marianne Higman
Social Service Department
John G. Decker
Riverdale, I
Arden Johnson
Alvin Frisk
Johnson and the Deckers
Colorado
Daryl E. Frisk
Alan
Jaclyn
Hoffman Estates
Ill
Byron Koch
Sioux Falls
S.D
Kenneth Schure
Scott
Jeff
Mark
John Decker Jr
Rob
Sparta
Wisc
Annual Knecht Family Reunion Held Sunday
The Knecht family reunion gathered Sunday at Akron city park with a pot luck dinner. Attendees included Woodrow Thacker and many relatives from Missouri Valley Beresford Meckling Parker Rutland Alcester Westfield Elk Point Akron Chatsworth and Chatsworth area states. The next reunion is set for the last Sunday in August next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Bohlken
California
Harlan Rowe
Brunsville
Henry Collmann
Claus Frerichs
le Mars
Leon
Clara Satthoff
Henry Stinehart
Colin Collmann
Gary Moehlmann
Alvin Hanson
Cherokee
Iowa
Fred Buchman
Freeman, S.D
R. Buchman
Charles Hendrichs
Mina Hendrichs
Alcester
Stephanie Lowell
Nellie Burnight
Akron
Marie McInnis
Carl Olson
Sioux City
John Ludwigs
Arnold Utesch
Council Bluffs
F. Hemmelrick
Raymond Sauceda
Elk Point
Knecht
Woodrow Thacker
Kathy Jo
Connie Jean
Michael Wayne
Missouri Valley
Dennis Lounsberg
Kimberly
Shana
Clarencé Andrews
Beresford
Ronnie Marshall
Jeff
Jamie
Ryan
Meckling
S.D
Arnold Knecht
Parker, S.D
Martha Powell
Rutland
George
Ella) Beeler
Gordon Petersen
Dan Harkness
Westfield
Dale Harkness
Christina
Allison
Angela
Martin Toben
Kim
Roy Knecht
Guy Harkenss
Don Knecht
Darwin
Alan
Wayne Knecht
Sharon
Kenny
Sandra
Dennis Miller
Steven Schoenberner
Jay
Douglas
Steven
Marie Knecht
Freeman Howard
Larry Knecht
Lisa
Pat
Alva Port
David Knecht
John
Gladys Toben
Stephany Knecht
Chatsworth
Art (Josephine) DeRaad
Dale Huettman
Chris
Jenny Lynn
Howard Powell
Cy Larsen Qualifies for New York Life Top Club
Cy Larsen of Akron has qualified as a member of the 1976 Top club of New York Life Insurance. The Top club honors outstanding agents based on 1975 76 sales records, per Robert W. Hartman CSA, Sioux City general office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cy Larsen
Akron
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Life
Robert W. Hartman
C.S.A
Sioux City
Iown Giant Dukes John Corso Grows Exotic Cucumbers
Archival note from Albia News mentions John Corso of rural Albia harvesting muskmelon sized cucumbers. Seed traced to his cousin who ordered from Italy where they are called siciliado Chiacambre. Local interest piece highlights garden crop and origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Corso
Albia
Italy
Albia News
5th annual Marple Campbell reunion held at Akron Legion hall
The 51st consecutive Marple Campbell reunion gathered on Sunday Aug 22 at the Akron Legion hall with a basket dinner for 54 attendees from seven states. Olive Haugen led a 3 pm meeting. officers elected were Janice Marple chair, Dallas Wilkin vice chair, Elvera Wilken secretary treasurer. Prizes were awarded to several Marple family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Marple
Aleda
Ill
Maynard Knutson
Waterville
Minn
Kenneth Marple
Berkly Springs
West Va
Mable Mulligan
New London
Alfred McKenzie
George Wilken
Akron
Oliver Haugen
Cavour
S.D
Roy Hatch
Linda
Twila
Springfield
Oregon
Akron Legion Hall
Olive Haugen
Huron
Janice Marple
West Virginia
Dallas Wilkin
Elvera Wilken
J. M. Johnson
Couples communication program at Floyd Valley hospital
A four week Minnesota couples communication program for four Tuesdays starts September 7 at 7 p.m. in Floyd Valley hospital conference room. Howard and Emogene Marty, trained under Dr. Elam Nunnaly, lead the class with a $40 registration per couple. Plains Area Mental Health Center will conduct initial interviews and supply materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Valley Hospital
Howard
Emogene Marty
Elam Nunnaly
Minnesota
Plains Area
Traveling through Italy and Austria to a U.S. homecoming
The narrator recounts visits to Rome Florence and Venice noting Michelangelo works in Rome and Florence, gondola rides in Venice, and Murano glass. A stop in Innsbruck for the 1976 Winter Olympics leads to Austria and Munich Dachau memorials. Final leg includes Nymphenburg Palace and a homecoming in Richmond Virginia with reflections on pride and freedoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Milan
Florence
Firenze
Michelangelo
David
Medici
Moses
Christ
Venice
Italy
Innsbruck
Austria
Mt. Patscherkofel
Europe
Munich
Germany
Dachau
Nymphenburg
Ludwig
House of Wittelsbach
Wittelsbachs
Shannon
Ireland
Dulles International Airport
Washington, D.C
E.S.T
America
Community Visits and Church Notes From Westfield Akron
Nursing home notes detail visits by Cora Jans Helen Johnson and others to mothers Gertrude Ross Elsie Anderson and more including trips from Akron Sioux City Merrill Le Mars and Westfield. Church and vacation Bible school actions note chapel services and singing with volunteers. baking day features chocolate chip cookies. a reader seeks an old treadle sewing machine for mending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora Jans
Helen Johnson
Akron
Gertrude Ross
Elsie Anderson
Gladys Nyard
Mae Rawlings
Sioux City
Marie Larson
Lizzie Tindall
Wm. Feuerhelm
Merrill
Phyllis Allen
Adam Tindall
Dan
Carol Feverhelm
Scott and Bradley
Karen Allen
Curt
Todd
Janell
Daryl Klemme
Jennifer
Kathy
Arlene
Cindy Klemme
Roger Athens
le Mars
Mildred Laudenschlanger
Oakland
Nebr
Freda Klemme
Roy Postlewait
Westfield
Bob Anderson
Ponca
Nebraka
Minnie Postlewait
Virgil Ross
Ben Hartmann
Chicago
Illinois
Margaret Hartmann
Greece
Maud
Priscilla Knapp
Violet Fry
Lorraine Hartman
Ursula Strobel
Tena Ryan
Janice Morehead
Mildred Johnson
Lois Decker
Riverdale
Phyllis Frisk
Minnie Johnson
Richard Nelson
First Baptist Church
Lester Anderson
Centerville
M.D
Elma Anderson
Beresford
Tom Hughes
Everald Paskett
Remsen
Marcella Hawks
Lizzie Gibbons
Josie Popken
Otto Kroepel
Ireton
Lauretta van Buskirk
John Haage
Lena Lubben
Arlene Kallsen
Lizzie Haage
Brunsville
Flora Cassen
Betty Zane Jenkins
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Oda Jenkins
Andrew Andresen
Anna Eden
Arthur Voss
Margaret Krenz
Helen Hebeler
Kenneth Rollins
Sheldon
Grover Rollins
Msgr
Lenz
Carroll
Marcella Wahl
Sarge
Darius Hansen
Stanton
Harry Pausch
Helen Faust
Marie Caskey
Ed Faust
Dianna Brown
Michelle
Stacy
Bud Bernhardt
Alcester
Alice Bernhardt
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Shorty
Hakan Gustavson
Akron Register-Tribune
Good News, Inc. Owners & Publishers
F. “Shorty
Hazel Ereeeveres
Plymouth County
Plymouth
Sioux
Woodbury
Union County
F.D
American Legion Auxiliary
P.E.O
United Methodist Women
Trinity Lutheran Study Group
Tops Club
Liberty-Johnson
Chatsworth News
Shelia Peterson
Battle Creek
Jerry Frerichs
Herb Frerichs
Alan Oetken
Ft. Morgan
Colo
Mervin Oetken
George Hitzemann
Oetken
Rick Lorensen
Lorensen
eMr
Orville Boetger
el Paso
Texas
Ernest Boetger
Barbara
Marion Harkness
Tacoma
Washington
Lesley Andersons
Kathy Bernhardt
Bill Miller
Cindy
Giant
FFA
Akron Park
Myrtus Newman
Jenny Fleming
Azalene Skinner
Ray Robertson
H. P. Anderson
C. J. Small
Mary Lynn
Peoria
Mike Boden
Anaheim
Calif
Sybil Campbell
Etta Huff
Leonard Laudenschlager
Neb
Laudenschlager
Mildred Meske
Mrs. Herbert Miller
Wm. French
Ervin Vallin
Fullerton, California
Bertha Marple
Delbert Doty
Nicky Ervin
Angela Wilken
George Ballard
Elizabeth Marple
Wayne E. Smith
Bluford
Gayle Trotter
Fairfield
Lawrence Smith
Erik
C. T. Irvin
Nicky
Robert
Pekin
Dale
Smith and Devin
Dalgren
Eloy Smith
Wayne City
Frances Hardenbrook
Aledo
Berley Springs
W. Va
Mary Kellogg
Rochelle
Thomas Marple
Warterville
John Marple
S. D
Rose Shonenberg
Weinblom
ACT Training
Ft. Carson, Colo
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
ROTC
Swen W. Wennblom
Raymond J. Wennblom
Ft. Carson
South Dakota State University
David D. Brundeen
St. Luke’s Medical Center
Donald Brundeen
Maybelle Rose Moir
Ronald Carl Moir
Akron Development Corp
Idelline G
Mental Health Center
Jill-Tindall
Glen Horton
Virginia
Horton
Helen Horton
Ann Maynard
Bob
Gertrude Maynard
Albert Harrington
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