Akron Register-Tribune Subscription Rates Notice
Akron Register-Tribune lists annual and six month subscription prices for Plymouth County Iowa Sioux and Woodbury Counties Iowa and Union County South Dakota at 62.50 per year and 1.25 for six months with 3.00 per year for elsewhere. Publication is weekly on Thursdays in Akron Iowa. Postal matters indicate second class mail status since September 26 1901.
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Plymouth
Sioux
Woodbury Counties
Iowa
Union County
S. D
Akron
Plymouth County
Westfield Clubs Report Busy Community Season
Westfield notes show Ladies Aid Society meeting September 17 at 2 00 p m in Congregational Church social rooms. Tuesday Club held first meeting September 8 with 14 members. Shirley Banks hostess. Clara Mackey presiding. FederationPresident Crabb message urged goals for year and arthritis foundation materials discussed. Marines Korea trip slides shared by Norbert Isert. Pilgrim Fellowship welcomed five new members and planned support to Byun Sang Sik Korea. Next Pilgrim Fellowship meeting September 27 with Jim Ross and Tom Nason in charge. Susan Morehead on devotion. Gordon Knapp reported on Arkansas camp trip. Ralph Stevens of Vista California visiting Allie Banks home.
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Ladies Aid Society
Congregational Church
Shirley Banks
Clara Mackey
Crabb
Iowa Federation
Arthritis and
Norbert Isert
U. S
Korea
Japan
Pilgrim Fellowship
Carla Husk
Carol West
Jeff Roberts
Myrna Hummel
Byun Sang Sik
Jim Ross
Tom Nason
Susan Morehead
Gordon Knapp
Arkansas
Ralph Stevens
Vista
California
Allie Banks
Westfield School notes regular board meeting 1964
Westfield Community School Board met September 10 1964 at 8 oclock with four members present. Minutes and bills approved. 24 lockers for girls shower room purchased with 100 toward price by Athletic Fund. Walt Hummel hired as bus driver 1964 65 term. Heating unit for Auto Mach Shop to be checked. Lavina Newman resigned as cook. Jack Larson hired as cook for balance of year. Bus stop signs at dangerous stops to be requested from County Engineer.
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Westfield Community School Board of Education
Walt Hummel
Auto Mach
A. W. Hummels
Lavina Newman
Jack Larson
Legislation Urged To Aid Rural Electric Cooperatives
East River Electric Power Guardian urges South Dakota lawmakers to allow rural cooperatives to form public power districts and sell tax exempt revenue bonds to finance joint generation and transmission. Publishing in The Guardian notes districts in Washington Oregon and Nebraska as models and argues pooling will reduce costs and reduce reliance on private power firms.
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East River Electric Power Guardian
Madison
S. C
the Guardian
Washington
Oregon
Nebraska
Rural Electrification Administration
Consumers Power
South Dakota
Way Back Yonder Items of Interest Gleaned from the Files
Akron Register-Tribune items of interest summarize historical notices and notable events from the paper’s archive. Names, dates, places and local happenings are highlighted to recall community milestones and era-specific concerns.
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Akron Register- Tribune
Fred Claesson named Fifth district county supervisor
Twenty years ago Fred Claesson Sr was named Fifth district county supervisor to replace the late Dick Bohlken. County clinics immunized children against small pox and diphtheria. Engagement announced for June Larsen daughter of Akron to Pfe Joseph Belshe of Northfield Minnesota to be married in October while University of Minnesota students. Family trip to Clinton Iowa to visit Set Jay Robertson in hospital after battle wounds. Birth announcements include a son to Lloyd Banks on September 8 1944 a daughter to Jack Baker on September 9 1944 and a daughter to Warren Solbu on September 13 1944. Weather was cool cloudy and rainy delaying corn maturity.
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Fred Claesson
Dick Bohlken
Otto C. Larsen
Akron
June
Pfe
Joseph C. Belshe
Northfield
Minn
University of Minnesota
John Robertson
Calvin
Clinton
Iowa
Jay Robertson
Schick General Hospital
Lloyd Banks
Jack Baker
Warren Solbue
Local notices of openings and anniversaries in Akron area
30 Years Are Mesdames Gust Granquist and Marie Trautt opened the Coffee Shoppe in the remodeled building formerly occupied by the Pantry Lunch. Union Creek Lutheran church observed its sixtieth anniversary with a two day program and refreshments. Clarence Nason and wife were injured when their car was side swiped near Akron. L W Koch won the Hawarden golf invitation with 108 strokes. Softball teams fought for city championship with Maybtags and Brule Blue Hawks leading. Robert Brown and Linda Lough visited by marriage in 1984. Daughters born to Gronemeyer and Swanson families in 1934 and 1984. Anna Papritz married Steve Kronek in Los Angeles. Roy Stephens was badly hurt by cattle stampede. Mrs Anders Solem, 80, died Sept 1 1984, survived by husband two sons two daughters nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral at St Paul Lutheran.
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Mesdames Gust
Granquist
Marie Trautt
Union Creek
Wm. McNamara
John A. Gronemeyer
Lester Swanson
Anna
August Papritz
Akron
Steve Kronek
Los Angeles
Calif
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Local fire update and life events from 1924
Fire department responded to a shed blaze north of Aug Papritz cream station. Rev E F Casey left Beverly Massachusetts for an annual visit to his mother. Bernard and Edward Klauer bought F W Dahl & Sons grocery. Dahl family moved to Oakland Nebraska. Wm Frerichs suffered eye injury in Buick garage from battery spark explosion. Elmer Jacobs and Rudolph Willer resumed studies at Phalen Seminary Saint Paul Minnesota. Births include a daughter to Avery September 4 1924. daughter to Johnson September 9 1924. son to Emmick September 6 1924. son to Strong September 11 1924. daughter Winifred Dorothy to Keane September 7 1924. Moore family gathered for 82nd birthday with out-of-town relatives from Joplin Missouri Sioux City Elk Point and LeMars. Herbert Clark and Marie Barton visited Clark family. married September 6 1924 in Chicago where groom works for White Star Steamship Co. Mrs Alfred C Taintor 50 of Mitchell South Dakota died September 4 1924. funeral at J W Hendricks home and Riverside cemetery burial.
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E. F. Casey
Beverly
Massachusetts
Bernard E
Edward R. Klauer
F. W. Dahl & Sons
Mr. Dahl
Oakland
Nebr
Wm. Frerichs
Buick
Elmer Jacobs
Rudolph Willer
Phalen Seminary
St. Paul
Minn
Wm. C. Avery
Chas. O. Johnson
Frank Emmick
Harold Strong
Winifred Dorothy
Willard F. Keane
N. S. Moore
Moore
Joplin
Sioux City
Elk Point
LeMars
Herbert Clark
Marie Barton
Eugene W. Clark
Chicago
White Star Steamship Co
Alfred C. Taintor
Mitchell, S. D
Miller couple to open restaurant in McLaughlin South Carolina
Fifty years ago Mr and Mrs J D Miller former operators of the Kendall Hotel left for McLaughlin SC where they will open a restaurant Frances Meske became bookkeeper in the municipal light and waterworks office Victor J Hays went to Chicago to teach at Bennett Medical College linked to Loyola University Married Anna McGinnis daughter of Thos McGinnis Akron and J C Rogers Akron Sept 13 1914 in Omaha Neb The bride taught in rural schools and the groom later superintended the local electric light and waterworks They began homemaking at once Akron Savings Bank installed an accurate gauge by American Rain Gauge Co Congressman Hubbard said plans were under way for government flood control on the lower Big Sioux River 60 years ago
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J. D. Miller
Kendall Hotel
McLaughlin, S. C
Frances Meske
Municipal Light and Waterworks Office
Victor J. Hays
Chicago
Bennett Medical College
Loyola University
Anna
Thos. McGinnis
J. C. Rogers
Akron
Omaha
Nebi
Akron Savings Bank
American Rain Gauge Co
Hubbard
Big Sioux
Local Notes and Community Snippets From Early Times
Mrs Geo Rader widow of the church pastor travels to Kearney Nebraska after her mother dies. Charley Maxson organizes senior and junior high school football teams. Rural mail carriers Er nest Gassman John Ross and Frank Swanson with Franks wife depart for St Louis Exposition. Substitute carriers Henning Shoulberg Fay Ross and R B Ogden cover. Republicans in Le Mars renominate county officials. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs John L Jordin on September 11 1904. a son to Mr and Mrs Wm Mahnke on September 11 1904. The Vanderhams northeast of town lose their second child to scarlet fever, their eldest dying the week before of the same illness.
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Geo. Rader
Christian Church
Kearney
Nebr
Charley Maxson
Ernest Gassman
John Ross
Frank Swanson
St. Louis Exposition
Henning Shoulberg
Fay Ross
R. B. Ogden
le Mars
Bom
John L. Jordin
Wm. Mahnke
David Vanderham
Talk on Respiratory Diseases Sept 24 in Sioux City
Dr. Lewis J. Dimsdale, 1963 Walter L. Bierring Award winner, will address a regional Christmas Seal Campaign workshop at the YMCA in Sioux City on September 24. Volunteers from 14 counties will attend a program featuring a Emily Bissell life skit and talks by Paul C. Williamson and Nita Nolin. Registration at 9 a.m., session to end about 3 p.m.
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Lewis J. Dimsdale
Sioux City
Walter L. Bierring
Y.M.C.A
Lyon
Osceola
Dickinson
Sioux
O’brien
Clay
Plymouth
Cherokee
Buena Vista
Woodbury
Ida
Monona
Crawford
Carroll
Emily Bissell
Paul C. Williamson
Iowa ‘Tuberculosis and Health Association
Nita Nolin
Health for All Hal Miller Struggles With Mono
Hal Miller of Health for All falls ill in June with infectious mononucleosis. Doctors say it is viral with no direct drug. recovery takes rest, nutrition, and sleep. He months later remains in bed, discouraged, needing cheer from the Christmas Seal association to stay hopeful.
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Hall Miller
Hal
Christmas Seal Association
Information Service
Your Tuberculosis and Health Association
Register-Tribune Want Ads Offer Quick Action
Ad note urges readers to call 8611 and ask for an Ad-Tunker to place notices and get results swiftly.
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Action Register-Tribune
Attitude Shapes a Childs View of School
A University of Iowa child behavior expert says parental enthusiasm for school influences a child’s attitude more than help with homework. Parents should model positive views of learning, avoid criticizing schools, and encourage curiosity and independent problem solving from ages four to eight to foster long term school engagement.
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State University of Iowa
Elizabeth Alden
SUT
Alden
SUI
Pioneers, Diets, and Atomic Age Fears Echo in Mixed Column
Don Cunningham lampoons romantic pioneer lore then shifts to stock market news from Sioux City. He reflects on exaggerated pioneer toughness and predicts future body sizes, followed by cattle and hog markets, noting weakness in slaughter cattle, lower cow prices, and steady bulls at Sioux City Stockyards.
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Sioux City
Homecoming committees named by Student Council president
September 18 football game and September 25 game with West Sioux noted. The Homecoming committees have been announced by Student Council president Karen Wise, listing Publicity Coronation Decoration Royalty Selection Flowers Court and more with named members. Speech checks, bus inspections, and early dismissal for exams are reported along with thanks to parents for bus cooperation and requests for road gravel to improve service.
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George
West Sioux
Karen Wise
Patty Anderson
Jo- Ann Hebeler
Mary Gossard
Richie Brown
Dave Higman
Linda Goodrich
Judy Norton
Lonnie Schuchard
Debbie Loetz
Tim Klauer
Jack Lockwood
Terry Jacobs
Alan Hemmingsen
Susan Henrich
Wayne Brown
Linda Williams
JoAnn Hebeler
State Department of Education
Juniors Switch Fundraiser From Concessions To Magazines
The Junior class moves from selling at games to a magazine drive under the Look School Plan. Subscriptions over fifty dollars earn a pen and pencil set. top sellers win a pajama dog and the top seller chooses a major prize. Two teams compete, led by captains from American History classes.
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Look
Ken Mil
Chorus Tryouts Complete for 44 Member Glee Club
After two weeks of vocal tryouts the chorus members have been chosen. The group totals 44 with 14 sopranos 9 altos 11 tenors and 11 basses. First meeting is set for Sept 15 and Mrs Stoeckmann praised both glee clubs.
National Election in Akron Classes Stage Mock Parties
Nationalist party led by Jay Waterbury organizes two class elections in Akron with Jim Gale as Presidential candidate and David Maynard as running mate. Senate hopefuls are Doyle Small and Bruce Reemis. Federalist team led by Karen Wise fields Scott Baker and Jim Henriksen for President and Vice President with Jim Netley and Terry Jacobs as representatives. Publicity chief Darrell Goudge coordinates posters and speeches. Local votes will be counted after assemblies.
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Murrell
Senate
Sioux City
Federalist Party
Karen Wise
Scott Baker
Jim Henriksen
Jim Netley
Terry Jacobs
Mary Gossard
Dawn Hansen
Kathy Kenny
Donne Frerichs
New Akron Teacher Swanson joins staff in multiple subjects
Mr. Stanley Swanson, new Akron faculty member from Sioux City, teaches French I Spanish II and Seventh grade English. He holds a State College of Iowa degree in Foreign Language, minoring in English, and plans further study while teaching. He endorses SEL-CON-EAR adult education for September 30, a six session home economics program in the high school with limited enrollment.
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Stanley Swanson
Akron
Swanson
Sioux City
Miller
Liberty Amendment Seeks Tax Relief Across States
The text promotes the Liberty Amendment pushing to bar the federal income tax. Mississippi joined as the seventh state by adopting a resolution to submit the amendment to the people. The piece argues the amendment would end federal taxes on personal income within three years of ratification and repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.
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Mississippi
Congress
People of the
United States
Internal Revenue
The
Student Council Officers Elected For Homecoming Prep
At the first meeting Karen Wise heads the council as president with Terry Jacobs as vice president Patty Anderson serves as secretary treasurer and Mary Gossard will compile a school scrapbook as historian Homecoming planning began with committee appointments and a decision to drop a theme four cheerleaders plus one alternate were chosen by students Booster pins and decals will be sold to boost the treasury Bright red and white pins mark council meetings.
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Karen Wise
Terry Jacobs
Patty Anderson
Mary Gossard
AR BICYCLE RIDERS AT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS STORY
The piece surveys school improvements including new audio visual gear such as an overhead projector opaque projector tape recorder and microscopes in the science lab plus a film room with a movie projector film strip viewers and rear view projector. It notes copying machine and Foreign Language Laboratory and urges bicycle riders to obey traffic laws ride single file and review rules with children.
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Mr. Swanson
Miss Benninga
Squirrel and Rabbit Seasons Open in Iowa
The Conservation Commission announced squirrel and rabbit seasons opened Saturday September 12. Squirrels run to December 11 1964 with a bag limit six and possession limit twelve. rabbits to February 21 1965 with a bag limit ten and no possession limit. Last year harvest exceeded 1.5 million squirrels and 2 million cottontails amid rising populations. hunting hours are 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. in high population areas across four regions.
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Conservation Commission
Northcentral
Iowa
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