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Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, December 15, 1932

JOHN W. ANDERSON
DIES AS RESULT OF
FALLDOWN STAIRS
Had Been in Failing Health
Several Months — Funeral
Service Friday

J. W. Anderson, a resident of Akron
for many years, passed away at his
home in this city at 1:16 o’clock Wed-
nesday morning, December 14, 1932,
at the age of 68 years. Several months
ago Mr. Anderson submitted to a serious
operation for prostrate trouble and had
been practically an invalid since.

Recently he is said to have suffered a
light stroke, as a result of which he
fell down stairs the first of this week
and sustained injuries which hastened
his death. His widow and three sons
have the sympathy of the community in
their bereavement. An obituary of this
widely known and esteemed citizen will
appear in these columns next week.

Funeral services will be held Friday at
2 p.m. at the home and in the First Baptist
Church, conducted by Rev. R. E. Brown.
Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery.
Herbert Anderson and family of Cotton,
S. D. and Arthur Anderson and family of
Westfield, and Mrs. I Knudson, of Sioux
City, Ia., were relatives called from out of
town by Mr. Anderson’s illness and death.

LeMars Sentinel, Friday, December 16, 1932, Page 1, Column 2:

WORK OF RURAL SCHOOL IS THEME
MUCH HAS BEEN ACHIEVED IN WORK DONE AIDED BY THE STATE

Miss Christine Petersen, superintendent of schools for Plymouth county,
addressed the assembly at Western Union college Tuesday morning. Her
subject was "What the Rural Schools Are Doing."

Miss Petersen spoke from a wide range of experience with rural schools and
the trends in rural education. During the course of her remarks she said:
"Iowa ranks lowest of all the states in illiteracy, yet the rural teachers
of Iowa do not rank highest in qualifications for teaching." The state of
Iowa has done much to encourage education in general and has made a special
effort to support rural education by giving state aid to rural schools which
come up to certain standards set by the state board. The standard schools
in Plymouth county have increased from four to fifty-three during the past
eight years. The financial aid given by the state is used only for
permanent equipment. This feature has not only helped the schools which
came up to standard but has given encouragement to nearby schools in the
district where standard schools are established.

There may be some injustice towards the schools in communities where the
people are poor, since they are unable to come up to the standard in order
to qualify for state aid.

Much has been achieved in making the schools more uniform in quality of work
done. A very helpful course of study has been issued in Iowa which gives
stability and efficiency to curricular aspects of rural schools.

County choir work has been inaugurated successfully and with the aid of
Victrola equipment, the county grade children usually sing at the eighth
grade graduation and last year they sang before the teachers meeting in
Sioux City. Over one-half of the rural schools now belong to the junior Red
Cross and health programs are featured in all the schools.

Many of the college students are expecting to enter the teaching profession
and, although they may not teach in rural schools as their chosen field,
with teacher competition as keen as it is, some may be glad to accept such
positions, since the rural school really is a worthwhile challenge to the
best teacher.

At the close of Miss Petersen's address a show of hands indicated that more
than half of the students at Western Union college had at some time attended
a rural school.

LeMars Sentinel, Tuesday, December 20, 1932

SCHOOL HOUSE BURNED
Teacher Arriving For the Day Finds Building in Flames

The school house building in school district No. 5 in Remsen township was
burned to the ground Friday morning of last week. Miss Alice Collins, the
teacher, had just arrived preparatory to opening school for the day and
found the building in flames.

Temporary quarters have been found for the scholars on the H. C. Jurgensen
farm where the lower floor of a large, modern, recently built chicken house
has been fitted up as a school room and will be used until a new school
building is erected.

HOMESTEADER IN THIS COUNTY
FINAL RITES HELD FRIDAY FOR
JOHN F. CLARK, FORMER RESIDENT HERE

Final rites were held in Sioux City Friday morning for John F. Clark at the
Cathedral of the Epiphany and the body taken to Hawarden for interment.

Mr. Clark was an early resident in Preston Township Plymouth County where he
lived until moving to Sioux City ten years ago.

John Clark was born near Apple ___, Ill., December 23, 1861. He came with
his parents in the seventies to LeMars and they engaged in farming on a
homestead in the northwest part of the county. He was united in marriage
with Hannah Donohue, February 12, 1899. He leaves his wife to mourn his
death and one sister, Mrs. Edward Hennessey, of LeMars, now residing in Los
Angeles, Cal., two nieces and two nephews, Mrs. M. Redmond, Mrs. Chas.
Burnight, Lawrence Gibbons and Patrick Gibbons, of Akron.

*****

Leslie Darville and family, well known residents here for many years, left
yesterday for Florida where they expect to take up their residence. They
will visit relatives at Omaha on their way South.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, December 22, 1932

NEARLY FIFTY- YEARS RESIDENT
Brief mention was made in these
columns last week, of the death of J. W.
Anderson, a well known resident of
this city, on Wednesday, December. 14,
1932, after a long illness, at the age of
68 years and 15 days.

John W. Anderson was born near
London, England, November 29, 1864.
He came to the United States forty-nine
years ago, locating In Akron,
Iowa, and spent the greater part of all
these years here, with exception of;
a brief residence at Vermillion; S, D..
where he was employed as a fireman
in the heating plant of the University
of South Dakota. In Akron he held the
office of town marshal for several years
and was also employed, as sexton of
Riverside cemetery. He was a good,
faithful workman and dependable in
any position. He is survived by his
widow, Mary Myers Anderson and
three sons, Arthur of Westfield, Iowa;
Herbert, of Colton, S. D. and Race at
home in Akron; also by one sister, Mrs.
Esther Warren, of California. Mr.
Anderson had a host of friends in
Akron and vicinity who extend their
sympathy to the bereaved wife and
children.

The funeral was held Friday afternoon
In the First Baptist Church, conducted
By Rev. R. E. Brown, the pastor.
Interment was in Riverside Cemetery.