Algona Advance (Newspaper) - November 26, 1903, Algona, Iowa THE ALGONA NOVEMBER Are You Looking for Bargains You Cant Miss em in our Hosiery and Sweater Department we do in large direct from the enables us to offer the trade values that cant be UNDERWEAR fleece Extra heavy 5091 is an extra heavy wool gar ment made to sell at by giv ing you all our extra discount and selling close we can offer it The regular grade we sell Best domestic usually shown at our Best Australian plain wool garment Ways Australian worsted which we heretofore handled only in this store and sold at bought this season for 10 Kraft we nn Union Suits afc from down uL sects Boys fleeced underwear and SWEATERS Our Sweaters arc all wool and have about 10 per cent more value than the usual Fancy weaves and extra plain and stripes at Our Sweaters have double cuffs and which makes them re tain the a very desirable feature and costs nothing extra here plain QQ WAS A GREAT SUCCESS Christmas Market Sale Brought Rich Returns to Ladies Aid OVER WAS RECEIVED No Similar Effort Here Ever Was Productive of Better Our line embraces plain and fancies that are of ten sold at double cuffs and tail our n RQ Our line is enough in range of weight and styles for but if you want better we have them genuine Spaldings at to The Christmas market sale last Thursday and Friday at the armory proved to be a great being taken in from the sales of the various The ladies will clear on their enterprise over The splendid oyster supper was the first great attraction and drew an im mense How true it js He dines best who dines in good The band contributed several selections which were thor appreciated and enjoyed by Before long Mother Goose attracted the attention of all the young people arid they kept her busy giving each a grab from the The Gypsies in their prettily deco rated tent were occupied the entire evening telling It took some time to visit all the booths and the general appearance of HOSIERY Another case received direct from the sock has double heel and in wool Our 2 for Similar values Clothing Popular milliners NEW FALL CHOICE RIBBONS AND FASHIONABLE HATS OF EVERY Prices Satisfaction Call and see Matson Franklin Mixed Paints Why and The BEST CHEAPEST Because they go further and last longer than any other Paint Get Prices on Oil and Dry Colors before PARSONS Do You Like Good CO If try We have a fine line of Extracts and Baking Premium tickets given with all Chicago Tea and Coffee Two doors west of the TREATS SUCCESSFULLY BOTH AND SEIBERT Graduate of the America Phone Calls answered day or 4 apd Boston the hall was Everybody was interested in the childrens booth and patronized them They built their decorated it with evergreen and autumn leaves and then filled it with the pretty things that represented many months work for these little The proceeds were beyond their highest expectations and both chil dren and teacher were delighted to be able to give so much to the organ The handkerchief booth was beauti fully in pink and We were surprised to see what a vari ety of articles can be made out of and it is no wonder that this booth was completely sold out at the close of the The fancy work is al ways attractive and in JU much as it contained so many beautiful and ex pensive and the ladies man aged to dispose of The cash receipts of this booth were the As we passed along we came to the booth all trimmed in pure white and The ladies in charge were kept busy waiting on their customers and could have more if they had had the garments to Aprons went like hot The art booth was filled with beau The decorations were in green and white and everything was ar ranged in a most artistic Around this booth you could always find a The home made candy was a special feature of the bazaar and the ladies in this booth were unable to supply the Ice cream and cake were served dur ing both evenings from a booth very handsomely decorated with yellow and Across the hall was the Ladies Home Journal standing out away from everything else and rately trimmed in black and Here the ladies took subscriptions for that magazine and the Saturday even ing Through the kindness of Turn the genial agent for the Wheeler Tompkins the lumber for the booths was for the most part and Coan very kindly donated several hours of his time to the erection of the At 10 oclock on the second day of the the people began to come to the rummage sale and many remained for dinner which the ladies at There was a crowd at the armory during the entire Supper was served from 5 oclock until all were The suppers given by the Congregational ladies are always well The attractions were almost too numerous to but did you notice the mass of people that came to listen to the band and see the Gypsy which was such a great success Algona people were surprised to Jearn what splendid local talent we have among our young people and all agreed that the entertainment was too The handsome album quilt pur chased by a worthy citizen the ladies were given the pleasure of pre it to the wife of our highly esteemed The Congregational Aid society is a large one and noted for the harmony of its Every lady of the organization is entitled to special mention for the energy she displayed in the market sale and only lack of space prevents us from do ing Each had a special work to perform and she did it Work ing together as they aid they made a mighty force which caused the Christ mas market to be the greatest church entertainment ever given in The ladies fully appreciate the liberal patronage of their neighbors and President of Division Warren HOOTH Childrens Dannie Setchell and her Sunday school Weaver and Misses Ella Cora Setchell and Ella Fancy Miss Myrtle and Mesdames Chris Fishel and Robinson and Fannie Starr and Misses Louise McCoy and Josie Jones and Ice Ralph and Miss Nellie Home Har rington and Manager of Rummage Gypsy Fortune Jes samine Sprague little Donahoe and Spear and Mother Gypsy and Ruth Neva Ella Beatrice Mildred Mabel Fred Phil Lawrence Russel Cleve James Woodie Gypsy Managers Howard Robinson and Kate ANOTHER BAD FIRE Algona Cooperative Creamery Plant Is BURNS TUESDAY Together Taylors Ice Cream and Can dy Factory The Sunday School The fourth annual meeting of the county Sunday school association con vened at the Presbyterian church in last Thirty two de legates were present from out side of The citizens of Burt increased the attendance so that no complaint could be made regarding the numbers Throughout the three sessions the interest was marked and the convention pronounced a decided From outside the state came from and Ran from Mason Mitchell spoke Thursday evening on the twentieth century Sunday Kaus principal talk was on Sunday school work during work He illustra ted his remarks with scientific experi There are about forty Sunday schools in the The county has been divided into districts with a president for each Compared with other counties the work in Kus suth county is in poor but with energetic work on the part of the cers much good can be accom during the coming Two important factors for accomplishing this purpose are teachers and adult The following officers were elected for the ensu ing year Algona Vice Algona Secretary and District Algona Allen Lu Whitte Burt Bancroft Swea City Jerrie Gor Resolutions were adopted urging the secretaries of schools to make complete reports recommending a house to house canvass in Septem expressing sympathy with the temperance department of the association and thanking the citizens of Burt for their generous HAND PAINTED On 27 I will place on sale at Pattersons furniture store a collec tion of hand painted Christ mas orders Lessons The Algona creamery and Taylors Ice Cream and Candy Fac tory were destroyed by lire Tuesday Just how the fire origi is not but smoke was first discovered coming from the boil er room and it is thought the fire started who oc the upper story of the building witli his Ice Cream and Candy was the first to send in an He had been working in his office all afternoon and not until the smoke filled the upper part of the building did he notice anything He immediately sent in an alarm over the telephone and started in to get some of his property He carried his books out but no help arriving in time was unable to save anything else except a few pails of the smoke filling the rooms so densely that no one could The fire company arrived in due but did not have half enough hose to reach from the nearest hydrant to the After one or two trips back to town they finally got enough hose together to but the water down on Mc Gregor street was too thick to run through the and the building was past all help by this If they had been able to turn on a stream of water when they first ar rived there is no doubt but what the building could have been The creamery was owned by a stock comprised mostly of farm ers living near Under the management of Sterzbach it has been doing a prosperous business and furnished a profitable market for the product of several large The loss of the plant will be a severe one for the stock Nothing was saved except the butter and the big new churn recently put The insurance carried was very light and will not begin to cover the We understand that it is the intention of the stockholders to rebuild immedi Taylor is perhaps the heaviest loser by the He started in about four years ago with but little capital and by hard work and honest dealing had succeeded in building up a nice He was looking forward to a big holiday trade and had a large stock of both raw material and finished product on He estimates his loss at with only insur He wishes us to that he will be able to fill all his ice cream and as soon as the nec essary arrangements can be made will resume the manufacture of His many friends and customers will be glad to know that he is able to con the business after such a serious financial FOSS SECURES She Is Allowed Alimony and Custody of Her Boys by the The domestic trouble that has been existing for some time between Foss and his wife culminated a week ago today at Sioux City by the latter securing a divorce from the bonds of Until recently the pub lic has known nothing of the friction that caused the They have both been respected citizens and have many warm We are in deed sorry that a reconciliation could not have been During the fall Foss left for Sergeant Bluffs where she is at the present It soon leaked out that there was trouble in the The newspapers here gave Mr Foss version of the The Sioux City Journal gives the following regarding the divorce and the version of Foss as to the grounds for securing the same Upon the strength of her story as to 20 years of cruel treatment on the part of a jealous husband with an ugly Ella in the dis kill She said he refused to let her go to the homes of her women friends and flew into a rage every time she spoke to another They have had five two of whom are aged and aged Foss lias been staying for some time at the home of a sister in Sergeant Bluffs and her boys are with The court gave her the custody of the Gardiner repre sented The defendant entered no The Last evening in the presence of a house full of friends at the home of the brides Cor bitt united in marriage Miss Katie Blackford and Forest After extended congratulations the wedding supper was The happy cou ple received numerous gifts from lov ing hands as tokens of The bride is the youngest daughter of and has lived all her life here and lias been a favorite with a large circle of our best young For several months she has been stenographer at Bonar Fellows While all rejoice in her the fact that she is about to depart from her friends and her old home to live in a distant state causes a feeling of Jones is a son of and Deck Jones and is a line young During the lime he was a partner with Lang at this in the restaurant business he made a host of friends who are now glad that he has chosen such an admirable compan On Saturday and Junes will leave for their own home at Love May their joys of wedded life ever increase is our part ing A Laudable Ambition The Iowa colony at Harvard univer made up of about sixty yonng ardent admirers of Governor proposes to take a band in entertaining the upon the occasion of his proposed visit to the Bay when he will deliv er an address before the Boston Manu Governor Cummins has received a letter from the Harvard stating they would like to give their annual dinner upon the occasion of his and wishing to know if they might have the Iowa governor as the guest of Governor Cummins will probably accept if it is possible to so arrange his and Lea Town Run by The town of in Monroe is It is an all black and claims a larger population than any other city in Monroe Of its twelve ten are owned and con ducted by The departments of its four room school are presided over by negro There are two Methodist and Baptist and both have colored The only hotel in town is kept by a The postmaster and all the local cers are black The town is prosperous its main business being digging The proprietor of the local bank is a white and it is learned that the bank accounts of the negro miners range in sums up to Gate Guilty of an Awful Sarah Miller would be pleased to have the party who stole a half cistern full of rain water from her to return it at She has her cistern handy to her back door and it seems a shame that any one would be guilty of so low a trick as to take the rain Miller is getting pretty well along in years and tries to keep things around her as conveniently as Unless it rains this fall she may have to do without soft water most of the She has a pretty good idea where it went to but has no positive A Boy at Wallace a boy of nine shows great skill in the molding of clay into forms of animals and About a year ago he took some ordinary clay and with a little work produced something that bore a close resemblance to a If is par ents procured a little sculptors clay for him and now he spends much of his time modeling animals which he sees in the He insists upon using the original for a model and like a real refuses to follow The boy is named for Gener al Lew to whom he is relat ed on his fathers Moines 17t2 WOOD WOOD Dry Oak and court yesterday secured a decree of divorce from Ole a mer chant tailor at She was also allowed Foss said she was married to Foss when she was 17 years of the marriage occurring at Ever since her husband bad been extremely Jealous of her and had abused she calling her names and threatening to Invests at Buffalo A deal was during the week whereby Jones disposes of his entire stock of furniture to and Sparks of The work of invoicing began yesterday and the new proprietors hope to be able commence business the of They have been in the furni ture business in Bancroft lor selling out They well recommended as excellent ness men and as such will be receiv by the people of this Center
