Akron Watermelon Day Parade Ends With Narrow Win
Akron celebrated Watermelon Day with ideal weather and a lively midway. The parade led by the Akron police and mayor featured local businesses and a kid circus vibe. At City Park Westfield beat Akron 2 to 1 in a tight baseball clash, drawing a large festive crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Akron Police Department
Moir Motor Co
Dodge
Dirks Motor Co
Chevrolet
Akron Register-Tribune
Akron Creamery Co
von Hagel & McCune
Ross Grain Co
Akron Track Co
Cobb & Greenleaf
Marathon Oil Co
Akron Union Delivery Service
Swift Produce Co
Thorson Drug Store
Standard Oil Co
Jas. Coleman
J. W. Hedges
John Reemis
Akron Register- Tribune
the Elite Shop
Lundgren Motor Co
Meriam Ericson
Mary Lou-Ross
Beverly Barber
Hendren
Addie Rose Burtis
F.greenwood, Jr
Bellwood
Westfield
Fall Festival At Methodist Church Promised
A Methodist church rally day and fall festival are planned for next Sunday with a Sunday school rally, a service on The Bounteous God, and a 7 30 evening pageant America Grows Up by forty five participants. A cafeteria supper Monday evening will precede a half hour program of music and readings followed by a fruit and merchandise sale. All are welcome.
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Methodist Church
America
Lutheran Churches Plan Sunday Services and Classes
The Lutheran Churches announce Sunday services at So St Paul 11 am with sermon by Lloyd Strand and special music. Sunday schools meet at 9:45 am So St Paul and 10 am Brule Creek. confirmation classes start next Saturday at 9 am for registering and lesson assignments, pastors Aamoth and Strand urge attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Lloyd Strand
St. Paul
Brule Creek
Bergen
St. Paul and
Aamoth and
Strand
Union Creek Church Notes
Union Creek Church notes announce no services on Sunday, September 17, with Sunday school starting at 10 o clock. The Woman's Home and Foreign Mission group offers a program at Nathaniel church in Alcester Sunday evening at 8. The Luther League hosts at Albin Carlson home on Tuesday, September 19. Junior Mission Band meets at Luther Hall on Saturday, September 16.
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Woman’s Home and
Foreign Mission
Nathaniel Church
Alcester
Luther League
Albin Carlson
Junior Mission
Luther Hall
Rugs made by veterans offered for sale in Knoxville
D J Edward Pastor announces Legion Auxiliary rug project by veterans at the Knoxville hospital. Interested buyers should call Mrs Otto C Larsen to purchase a rug.
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The
Legion Auxiliary
Knoxville Hospital
Otto C. Larsen
The Worlds All Right to Be Staged in Akron Opera House
A local committee of Masonic and Eastern Star lodges arranged with Universal Producing company to present The Worlds All Right a fully musical show set as a radio studio broadcast. The October 4 and 5 performances feature eight scenes with varied acts and elaborate costumes lighting and songs, promising lively entertainment and a top Akron season highlight.
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Masonic
Eastern Star
Universal Producing Company
Fairfield
Town
Akron Opera House
Stars and Stripes
Dixie Cotton Pickers
The
Collegians
Vested Choir
Irish Quartette
Akron
Trinity Lutheran Church Sunday Schedule and Events
Trinity Lutheran Church offers Sunday school at 10 am and English service at 11 am. Luther League meets Sunday evening at 8 pm. Ladies Aid meets next Thursday September 21 at the home of Mrs August Meske northeast of town. St Math Lutheran Church Chatsworth holds Sunday school at 9 am and English service at 9 30 am. Fred A Meske is pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther League
Ladies’ Aid
August Meske
St. Math. Luth
Chatsworth
Treasure Hunt Event At English Lutheran Church
Young people invited to a treasure hunt on Thursday September 21 at 8 15 p m at the English Lutheran church. Bring a dime and a lunch of five similar items to trade for lunch. Participants should be prepared for walking. Everyone welcome for a good time.
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English Lutheran Church
Nine lettermen on hand for first football drills
Akron High School opens fall drills with fourteen candidates, rising to twenty by Monday. Graduation last spring reduced returning players left gaps in both line and backfield. Only four lettermen from last year were regulars. Lowell Swift will join after a government camp. Coach Konarska emphasizes speed and smart play over weight, with a small playbook and brains over brawn.
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Akron
Chas
Konarska
Leslie Burnight
George Harkness
Joy Neal
Harold Port
Lowell Swift
Government
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa
Robert Tillotson
Arden Brown
Armand Brown
Robert Adams
Harper Kerr
Kenneth Marbach
Kenneth Simeon
Dernell Swift
Roland Pletcher
Charles Swift
Russell Hultgren
Peter Blum
Wayne Aalfs
Immanuel Lutheran Church Plans September Activities
On Sunday September 17 the fourteenth Sunday after Trinity the morning service at 11 will feature a sermon titled On the Verge of Destruction. Sunday school and Bible classes begin at 10 00 a.m. Luther League meets at 8 00 p.m. Aid Society gathers next Thursday afternoon. Treasure Hunt starts from the church parlors at 8 15 p.m. with a ten cent starting fee and each hunter to bring five portions of refreshments. Group One of the Aid Society will host a community dinner October 1 at 1 00 p.m. with a Rally Day service in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther League
Aid Society
Climeli
Akron Eleven-Inning Win Over Sioux City Independents
Akron baseball team outslugs the Sioux City Independents in an eleven inning duel on Akron’s local diamond. Ben Hartman outpitched Petty as C Metz and R Metz anchored a late drive with four and three hits respectively, scoring the decisive run in the eleventh to give Akron 3 to 2 victory amid a good crowd Sunday.
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Akron
Sioux City Independents
Cliff
Royal Metz
Petty
Independents
Ben Hartman
Bogenkel
Cole
G. Hartman
Safle
Brown
Bohlen
C. Metz
Hartman
R. Metz
B. Hartman
Steiles
Holmes
The
Indies
Ben
R. R. Mets
R. Mets
Sioux City
Pleasant Hill A B Church Pastors Return for Another Year
The Pleasant Hill A B Church pastor and wife returned Monday from Seward Nebraska after attending the annual conference. Rev N 18 Hamilton of Laurel Nebraska accompanied them. Former pastors A B Small Strang W A Sauer Miller and G B Weavoer Stickney were returned to their charges A P Vainice re elected for thirteenth year. Sunday school at 10 worship at 11 with sermon gleanings from the annual conference a business session of the official board to follow.
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Seward
Nebr
J. I. Conner
Hamilton
Laurel
A. B. Small
Strang
W. A. Sauer
Miller
G. B. Weavoer
Stickney
A. P. Vainice
A. Jacobson
First Baptist Church Weekend Services and Events
Worship at 11 o clock with a sermon on The Long Look. Vesper service at 5 p.m. Special music and an address on Lifes. Bible school at 9:00 a.m. Baptist ladies host a food sale Saturday afternoon at Weidenfeiter's market. Cotton Blossom Singers from Piney Woods School Mississippi give a free entertainment at the church. Pastor R K Brown and Gerald Smith with wife and daughter Barbara Mae visited Vernon, S. D., last week.
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R. BE. Talbott
San Diego
Calif
M. M
Pleasant Hills
A. H. Senne
Baptist Ladies
Weidenfeller’s Market
Searls School
Evelyn O. Ericson
Hazel
Bergh
Sioux City School of Music
Akron
Don Ross
George Pollock
Hal. Pollock
Clark
Galt
J. H. Pollock
Wenatehee, Wash
R. Kd. Brown
Former Akron residents named in obituaries
Obituaries for Halvor Lewison, long ago Akron resident and Union county settler, who died September 8 1933 near Spink S D at age 72 years 2 months 22 days. Details of illness include a fall on ice nine years earlier and spinal pneumonia. Also Mary Ann Buck a former Akron resident died September 7 1933 in Sioux City aged 77. Funeral arrangements note Riverside and Brule Creek cemeteries and survivors listed with spouses children siblings and grandchildren.
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Halvor Lewison
Akron
Union County
Spink
Alilsborg Lutheran-church
Walter I. Aamoth
Brule Creek
Mary Ann Buck
Sioux City
Riverside Cemetery
Buck
Pennsylvania
Leonard. W. Buck
W. R. Farrin
L. A. Buck
8. E
A. A. Nixon
Canada
C. H. Wilkins
Sioux Falls
George Royalty
A. W. Wade
Miller
C. N. Vanaisdalin
Seattle
Wash
First Church of Christ Bible School and Services
The First Church of Christ announces a Bible school at 10 a.m. Morning worship follows at 11 with the sermon on Worship and Praise. Evening service at 8 features Why Christianity. A social and supper, in the church basement, Friday night with Groups two and four entertaining. Public invited. Minister W. E. McDonald.
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Bible School
Christian Endeavor
W. EH. McDonald
M E Cafeteria Supper Ahead At Fall Festival
The M. E. church plans a cafeteria supper during the Fall Festival on Monday evening September 18 serving Chicken and Noodles or Fried Chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy. Menu includes buttered rolls cold slaw cottage cheese sliced tomatoes pie cake and coffee. The Ladies Aid meet Wednesday September 20 in the church parlors with Mrs Aug Kaoike and Mrs Albert Waterbury hosting and officers to be elected.
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M. E
M. E. Church
Aug. Kaoike
Albert Waterbury
Big Sioux golf tourney draws solid Akron turnout
The second annual Big Sioux golf tournament at Akron country club drew strong attendance with 32 players from Akron and nearby towns. Geo Ross and M C Smith led the nine hole qualifier at 32 while Dr N J Brown won the 27 hole sweep with 68. Hawarden claimed team honors with 436, and individual prizes went to top scorers in five flights despite morning showers.
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Akron Country Club
LeMars
Kingsley
Tilk Point
Vermillion
Alcoster
Vawarden
Akron
Geo. Ross
Hawarden
M.C. Smith
Aleéster
N. J. Brown
M. C. Smith
Alcester
Wm. Lynch
Dr. Brown
Golf
Gee
Ross
W. Meisenfolder
J. Ohlmacher
A. Rasmussen
H. Dirks
J. A. Jenson
PF. W. Haas
Elk Point
Oren
J. C. Walters
Well Known Akron Couple Wed in Sergeant Bluff
Charles Moffatt and Miss Genevieve Brugger of the Akron vicinity were united in marriage on Tuesday September 12 1933 at the M B E parsonage in Sergeant Bluff Ta Rev Wilson Cow performed the ceremony. The couple were attended by Mr and Mrs G Brugger of Akron. A wedding dinner followed. The bride is a daughter of Mrs L D Brugger and the groom is a local farmer. They will make their home and honeymoon in northern Minnesota. They receive many congratulations.
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Charles Moffatt
Genevieve. Brugger
Akron
M.be
Sergeant Bluff
Wilson Cow
G. Brugger
L.D. Brugger
Minnesota
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Lutheran Churches
Union Creek
D. J. Edward
Masonic Star Lodges
Trinity Lutheran Church
Immanuel Eng
LUTH
Churcb
C. W. Samuelson
Fast
Independent Ball Club
Rhe Akron
S. C. Indies
Peck
Pleasant Hill
A. B. Church
First Baptist Church
Gerald Smith
Barbara Mae
First Church OF Christ
Big Sioux
Alcestor
Lynch
Dr. N. J. Brown
G. Madigan
Geo. March
C. Beatty
F. Schoeneman
H’w’d’n. Aseee
G. Mattison
Ir. Beardsley
Glen Olson
Genevieve Brugger
Chas.Moffatt
Sargeant Bluff, Fa
Searls
Evelyn Q. Ericson
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