Fire destroys a large garage building Friday morning
A severe electrical storm likely struck a large garage owned by Lundgren, igniting a blaze that destroyed six trucks, a gas and oil truck, and a portable corn shelling outfit owned by Earl Lias. The fire, starting between 5 and 5:30 a.m. after the storm, spread rapidly, with denatured alcohol barrels exploding and smoke filling the area. Lundgren estimated total losses around 30,000 dollars, with about 10,000 dollars insured. one sheller was uninsured. The garage, four years old, was built of hollow tile and cement with a wooden roof, and rebuild plans are noted.
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Lindgren
Earl Lins
Rex Pollock
Lundgren
Pollock
Sioux City
Barr
Marshal Barr
Wm. Abrath
City Light
All Friends of Hans Hear He Is Improving
The note from Willer, south of town, states that Hans is very much improved, and friends are glad to hear the positive update.
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Hans
Willer
Akron Golf Club Set to Host Second Annual Tourney
The Akron Golf Club will stage the second annual Big Sioux Golf tournament at Akron Country Club next Sunday. It features 27 holes of medal play with five flights, prizes for winners and runners-up, a winning four-man team prize, and a Calcutta sweepstake. Open to amateurs with a $1 entry, the event includes lunches and drinks at the clubhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron Country Club
Calcutta
Akron
Iowa Recruits At San Diego Navy Training Station
A Des Moines Navy recruiting office notes twelve Iowa boys enlisted and arrived Friday, August 18 at the San Diego California training station. They report a wonderful trip, spending all their money, and learning to sleep in a hammock without falling out. Freeman Myers of Akron is identified among the enlistees, signing as The Friday Dozen.
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Navy
Des Moines
Iowa
San Diego
Calif
Freeman Myers
Akron
Methodist Church Notes Sunday and Evening Subjects
The morning service will explore A warming himself and the evening service will discuss A Bit of Grass. Sabbath school and Epworth League meet at regular times. Pageant practice is scheduled for Monday Tuesday and Friday next week at 7 30 PM. Pastor F F Robinson notes festival advertisement elsewhere in the paper.
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F. F. Robinson
First Church Bible School Gathers Before Bi County Convention
The First Church of Christ announces Bible school at 10 a.m. with no C E preaching next Sunday due to the Bi County convention at Sloan. Extra car space requested and calls for rides. the church will host a watermelon day stand inviting public patronage. W. I. McDonald, minister.
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Bible School
C. E
Sloan
W. IL
McDonald
Two Couples Tie The Knot In Aug 1933 Weddings
Miss Hope Smith wed Orville Harbeck at the M B K church in Sergeant Bluff Iowa with Rev Wilson Gow officiating. Attendants were Geraldine Herzberg and John C. Smith. A six o clock dinner followed with immediate relatives. Rose Hilton and Allard Eleeson married in Elk Point parsonage with Rev W I Aamath presiding. Attendants were Tlith Bleeson and Eugene Hilton. Bridal party and relatives celebrated at a later dinner with best wishes for happiness.
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Hope Smith
Frank Smith
Orville Harbeck
Frank Orr
M. BK
Sergeant Bluff
Iowa
Wilson Gow
Geraldine Herzberg
Merrill, Ta
John C. Smith
Elk Point
Rose ‘Hilton
Akron
Allard Elecson
Angie Bleeson
W. I. ‘Aamath
Tlith Bleeson
Eugene Hilton
Bleeson
Aid
Allard Eleeson
Eleeson
Lutheran Churches Plan Sunday Services and Welcome for Loyd Strand
The Brule Creek congregation will hold 11 a.m. services at No. St. Paul eltired with Loyd Strand preaching. St. Paul Luther League devotionals at 8 p.m. with musical numbers and Strand's talk. Sunday schools at 9:45 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. St. Paul Aid meets Sept 14 hosted by Mrs. Sam Eidem and Mrs. Hart Erickson.
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Brule Creek
No. St. Paul
Loyd Strand
St. Paul Luther League
League
St. Paul
St. Paul Aid
Sam Eidem
Hart Erickson
Walter I. Aamoth
Lutheran Services and Sunday School Schedule
Trinity Lutheran Church holds Sunday school at 10 a.m. A German service follows at 11 a.m. St Mathias Lutheran Church in Chatsworth offers Sunday school at 9 a.m. with a German service at 9:30 a.m. Pastor Fred A. Meske.
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Math. Luth
Chatsworth
Fred A. Meske
Akron Ball Club Sweeps Week With Three Big Wins
The Akron baseball team won three straight games last week. Highlights include a 20 to 0 rout of Washington township Farm Bureau at Brunsville carnival. Kapfer pitched for Akron, Casler for Washington. Akron piled 21 hits. Tuelzer led with four in six. Also report of a Sioux City Canaries game on Akron home diamond. Later, a wedding: Marie Beeckh and Richard Pineger wed August 26 at Preston Lutheran Church with simple ceremonies and plans to live near Craig.
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Akron
Washington Township
Brunsville
Washington
Kapfer
Caster
Tuelzer
Sioux City Canaries
C. Metz
Canaries
Kraft
Holmes
Francis
Fahey
Adomer
Johnson
Arden Brown
Peck
G. Hartman
Armand Brown
Claassen
Hartman
Brown
Metz
Tyson
Port
Krommenhoek
Graham
Hanson
Preston
Marie Beeckh
Richard Pineger
Theo, Meyer
Minnie Siebens
Paul Beech
H. W. Hennigs
Hilbert Hennigs
LeMars
Sioux City
Plueger
Gustave Beeck
Richard Plueger
Henry Plueger
Craig
Akron Watermelon Day promises big parade and crowds
As the Register-Tribune goes to press on Wednesday evening Akron prepares for its annual Watermelon Day. A merry-go-round aerial swing and many stands are already in place with floats under construction for the parade at 1 p.m. Favorable weather suggests the event will be Akron’s biggest and best with free attractions and home grown melons from local businesses vying for audience enjoyment.
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Register-Tribune
Akron
Union Creek Church Notes Sunday Services and Events
Union Creek church lists Sunday evening services on September 10 at 8 o'clock officiated by Rev. Oscar Turnquist. Ladies Aid meetings set for September 14 at the Wesley Heeren home with Mrs. Heeren and Mrs. Hugo Granstrom hosting. A stand will operate in front of Silkebakken's store in Akron for Watermelon Day inviting public patronage.
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Union Creek
Oscar Turnquist
Ladies’ Aid
Wesley Heeren
Heeren
Hugo ‘Granstrom
Ladies’ Aid of
Union Creek Jehurehk
Silkebakken’s
Akron
D. J. Edward
Big Sioux River Rises Floods Fields Amid Heavy Rains
Torrential rains across Minnesota and Iowa prompt the Big Sioux River to crest at about 16.42 feet above low water, flooding corn fields and hay stacks near Akron. A potato field and nearby dike effort were damaged yet drainage later resumed. Baseball game Akron vs Sioux City Independents scheduled Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
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Minnesota
Iowa
Big Sioux
Dakota
Grade
Chas. Nall
Akron
American Legion
Hawarden
Alleged Thief Is Returned From Wisconsin
Donald Lennings, arrested in Grantsburg Wisconsin, was brought back to LeMars by Deputy Sheriff Leo Hentges. He faces a burglary case in Plymouth county with a likely guilty plea. Also noted: county grain judging teams ranked ninth and twelfth, and visits by Mrs Dwight Kingsbury and Maxine Wilma Kingsbury of Los Angeles to relatives in Sioux City and nearby towns.
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Donald Lennings
Grantsburg
Wis
Plymouth County
LeMars
Sherif Leo Hentges
The
Sentinel
Wisconsin
Lemings
Frank Emmick
Westfield
Sioux City
Justice of the Peace
G. I. Clarke
Dwight Kingsbury
Maxine and
Wilma Kingsbury
Los Angeles
Calif
M. Swift
Beresford
Centerville
State official eyes gnat control plan in Ames visit
State Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray of Des Moines met local business leaders at City Hall to discuss eradicating the buffalo gnat nuisance. Ames entomologists reported gnats breed in shallow fast water of the Big Sioux River and Murray suggested raising water levels with small dams built by the Conservation corps, with further local investigation.
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Ray Murray
Des Moines
Akron
Ames
Murray
Big Sioux
Conservation Corps
Hawarden
State Plot
Tax levies for Plymouth county and state on 1933 valuations
The Plymouth county tax rate drops to 9.67 mills next year from 25.1. State levy falls to about 2.2 mills with 0.4 for soldiers’ bonus. County levies drop to 7.07 mills on 1933 valuations, with lower valuations creating little extra revenue. General fund levy last year produced $75,000. this year 1.5 mills on full valuation yields under $60,000. No school levy this year and a county bond fund is added.
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Plymouth County
First Baptist Church Announces Sunday and Weekday Events
The First Baptist Church schedules a vesper service next Sunday at 5 pm featuring music and a brief address by the pastor. Morning worship is at 11 am. The Ladies Association meets next Wednesday September 13, with a food sale at Weidenfeller's market on Saturday September 16 and a Chicken Dinner on Wednesday October 11. Patronize home merchants.
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Ladies’ Association
Weidenfeller’s Market
Baptist
Plymouth County Pioneer John Ruble Dies at 90 in LeMars
Plymouth County pioneer and Civil War veteran John C. Ruble died at his LeMars home Monday morning September 4 1933 after weeks of illness. Born December 17 1842 in Mifflin County Pennsylvania he served in the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry and 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry enduring Gettysburg Appomattox and the Wilderness He was shot through the left lung at Gettysburg and held in Libby Prison four months He later joined Sheridan’s forces and was honorably discharged He lived in Jo Daviess County Illinois before moving to Plymouth County in 1878 where Ruble Township and the village of Ruble were named in his honor He had lived in Akron and LeMars and was active in local public affairs as a Republican and township official He left a wife Susan Ruble who died in 1915 and two children Julia Maben of Burlington Kansas and John Ruble of LeMars.
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John C. Ruble
Plymouth County
Akron
LeMars
Tie
Mifflin County
Pennsylvania
Lincoln
John Rable
Pennsylvania Infantry
Seventh
Pennsylvania Cavalry
Jhis
Army of the Potomac
John Ruble
Meade
Gettysburg
Appomattox
Wilderness
Malvern Hill
Libby
Germantown
Philip: Sheridan
Livingston
Julia Ruble
Washington
D. C
Wilkes Booth
Jo Daviess County
Ilinois
Stockton
Llinois
Susan Ruble
Julia Maben
Burlington
Kansas
John. Ruble
Jas. Bid
4-H Girls Place Sixth in State Health Contest at Des Moines
Mata Rosenow of Liberty township 4-H club placed sixth among eighty-six county health girls at the State Fair in Des Moines last week. Plymouth county’s representative also earned one of two perfect-teeth honors. Mata’s diet included milk fruit vegetables and whole cereals per home demonstration agent Pearl Sims. Mata is 17 and has been active in the Liberty club for five years. Leona Gabel and Dorothy Lucken of Johnson township placed sixth in the Accessories class of the Home Furnishings division, first year for Plymouth county. Ellen Byres of Union township took third in Home Furnishings with a dressing table unit.
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Mata Rosenow
Liberty Township
Des Moines
Plymouth County
Mata
Pearl Sims
Liberty
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Akron Golf Club
Methodist Church
First Church OF Christ
the Lutheran Churches
Trinity Lutheran Church
S. C. Canaries
Rhe Akron
Q. Hartman
Casler
Sioux City Independents
W. N. Up
Clarence Thompson
Thompson
Plymouth
First Baptist Church
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