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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1934
Page
2
Public schools plan to form a news staff from Eleventh and Twelfth grade English classes to prepare weekly school news for the Register Tribune. Selected pupils will spend one English class period weekly gathering and preparing news, credited toward their course. The complete staff should be organized this week, with the first issue to appear soon.
Mrs. Chris Hasenbank and children express gratitude to neighbors friends and the English Lutheran quartet for sympathy assistance and floral offerings after the illness and death of their husband and father Paul Hichacker returned from Thorn ton Ark with a CCC service discharge.
Local snippets recount Goings and Doings in Akron and nearby towns with visits to Sioux Falls Des Moines and Chicago. Residents attend fairs, rodeos and expositions while families migrate for holidays and reunions. Community events include library reopening delays, Legion meetings, and local farewells.
The Register-Tribune states it will publish a day early next week to allow staff to observe Watermelon Day on Thursday and requests all correspondence news items and advertisements be submitted accordingly to ensure placement.
Town residents and property owners are urged to clean up premises and vacant lots on Monday and Tuesday September 10 and 11 to present a clean and orderly appearance for Watermelon Day visitors. By request of Town Council. Dick Bohlken, Mayor.
We express heartfelt thanks to neighbors and friends for acts, sympathy during illness and after the death of our mother and grandmother Mrs. Anna Mullen, and for the beautiful floral offerings. -Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Anderson and Family.
Funeral notices report the deaths of Mya Mullen and Patrick H. Dunn. Mullen, a longtime Akron farmer born in 1881, died after a long illness and is survived by sons in law, a daughter, granddaughters, and great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at St. Patrick’s Catholic church with interment in the local Catholic cemetery. Dunn, 63, died August 31 1934 at the state hospital Cherokee Iowa after pneumonia treatment. He never married and is survived by three sisters and many nephews and nieces. services were held at St. Patrick’s Catholic church with Catholic cemetery burial.
Committees finalize plans for a large Watermelon Day celebration in Akron including rides for children, eating stands, and booster advertising Sunday Monday September 10. The Advertising committee will run a booster trip through twelve nearby towns with a car caravan departing at 9 00 a m from the Akron Bakery. The Akron Little German Band will entertain in each town.
Nelson Day invites readers to a Thursday gathering at the County Club in Sioux City. Dr. Geo Mattison participated in the American Legion golf event, finishing fourth in the first flight of the 36 hole match.
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