Algona Advance (Newspaper) - May 19, 1904, Algona, Iowa THE ALGONA MAY Dont let a Blacksmith Shoe Walk along State Street till you come to 16 and you will be in front of a real Shoe Nothing but No Shoes but good Brownell Shoe Repairing done Boston SAUNDERS Writes Interesting Letter Telling of Former Algona LIVES AT v Being Overstocked on account of the light holiday and in order to realize and get some money to pay for the goods I have al ready on I will make all who may call soon some Special Bargains for Cash It will pay yon to get in on the ground floor while the stock is Saw Copy of The Advance and Becomes One of Its When Looking Around for a Lawn Mower dont take the price into considera tion so You are the one that runs and if you have seen the difference you know how much more satisfaction you can get out of a good 1 We have the PENNSYLVANIA and other highgrade mowers from down to Falkenhainer m m Algonas old time high school prin lives at though we were not aware of the fact till we received a letter from him yesterday His many friends will be interested in reading what he has to say ADVANCE Through the kindness of some unknown friend The Advance of May 5th was mailed to me containing the death of Patterson and both of whom I was well It was a treat to me to see a paper from my old home and read the doings of my old friends and This is the Urst Algona paper I have seen for years and the first that I knew of your publishing a I late you on your newsy paper and in close a years subscription for the 1 presume you would like to hear from old who have strayed away out here in Northern California the man who built the old skating rink lives Art who used to set type on Starrs paper is married and lives in Corelo about 50 miles north of here on a ranch and a methodist who was a boy in Algona years ago is stationed here and will shortly visit his mother who lives at At Lake Point lives old Vickroy whom all the old residents will He lives north of town several All are doing well and arc I had a visit last week from Clark Rice and wife who live in Redwood They came up on an excursion from San He is doing a fine business down there and getting We expect a large num ber of people from the east during the conclave in San Francisco this and if anyone comes from Algona we would be pleased to entertain them if they would run up to Ukiah and make us a Ice Cream Bricks CARRIED IN SPECIAL DESIGNS APPROPRIATE FOR WEDDINGS RECEPTIONS CARD PARTIES AFTERNOON TEAS Cream is Pure and Algona Ice Cream and Candy Factory 13 State Phone V i RANKLIN PAINT I per Gallon I It will weigh heavier per go further per and last as long as any lead and oil paint on the Red Seal Linseed Oil and Glass Parsons Now Writes Her Name Sunday Advance Must tell had Saturday afternoon and evening out for first time Let baby brat squall if it wanted Lit tle cross Put on best dress and Sunday hat went up street to hub store and sat on counter to see bashful clerk sell then turned in at Blacks store and buy napkin for spoiled one to mop up ink on floor Paid 18 Passed Peter Jones and they went by and said green Then saw Behda at Asked me if mother knew I was Doc Kidder smile and Skowbo Ached for pan hot Got four yards ribbon at Sheas store to sew fancy rim on shirt waist bought at Variety store before left Algona Bowed to Alex Moses on side He spit tobacco juice and say hello Sal Then went to elite caffy and got short order lunch around smart devil eggs browned and turned over with two cups of No thank you dont take Traveling man came Talked Told him wasnt manners to too close Him did say Emmets burg cows eat everything Told him have little sense like Algona Went home found kid Changed ate babys candy and went BHIDOIE P toned here at Emmets dont now write name Bridget or but this Serious Use of Ruler Last Mike Elsenbast a 9 year old who lived with his par ents about two miles west of ger died of brain the result so the coroners jury of having been struck over the head with a ruler by his Chris Jensen has been arrested and taken to Em for preliminary It seems that there are a number of very bad boys in this school and all lady teachers who have taught there have been forced to resign on that ac who is a stone living in was re cently granted a and given the school for two Last Thursday tlie Elsenbast toy became unruly and according to the testimony of the was struck over the head with a ruler four or five Noth ing serious developed at the But a short time afterward the boy was taken brain fever developing from which he It is sta ted the boy was not very therville Memorial Day Program The Relief Sons of Veterans and all are requested to meet at the hall at May and march to the opera house where the program will be carried out as follows 10 OCLOCK of Holmes Quartette Lincolns Gettysburg Address Miss Abra Ethel Laird Quartette Flag the direction of Miss Edna At 2 oclock procession will form on State street and march to cemetery in the following order Company Civic flower girls and Post and Womens Relief Corps in carriages and AT Deposit of flowers on soldiers graves by girls escorted by comrades of Ritual at soldiers Flowers for known and unknown at soldiers Firing of salute by squad of Com pany The following ladies are requested to act as committee for caring for flowers and making bouquets Mesdames John Hoi B AH having flowers will please send them to the armory May 29 at 2 or early on the morning of May The boys and girls of the public schools are requested to gather flowers and bring them to the armory and on Memorial day act as flower Congregational The following numbers will be ren dered by Benjamin and the choir next Sabbath Organ Traumerei and Ro mance Schumann Ye Jehovah Beethoven 26 Last Dream of the Virgin Massenet No Sunset Yonder by Keeling a Friend in the Homeland Havens Batiste MADE GOOD SHOWING The Algona High School Track Team Gets Third Place at Ida Grove WINS ON RELAY RACE Parsons on Hurdle Wins Elegant Gold in those early than the recent opening of the Worlds fail was for City Free Bicycles at the White Daisy flour beats the best Winter Wheat lour CEMETERY Owners in Riverview ceme tery are requested to clean up and put them in good condition before decoration All leaves and refuse matter from the lots must be taken to north side of cemetery near rail The association will do the work and tax cost to owners if not at tended to WOOD WOOD Dry Oak and MOORE FOR good comfortable Money to Loan at 5 per HAGGARD Our stock of Hard and Soft Coal is Place your orders now witl Moore FOR cottage and lot in FOR well located Inquire of The high school athletes returned from Ida Grove feeling jubilant over the record they made and prizes won at the field meet at Ida Grove last Fully people wit the In number of points made Algona won third place by securing while Sioux City made 41 and Ida the The excitement was Tin horns and high school yells were con stantly employed to cheer the winners of the numerous Our boys were recognized from the very beginning as strong factors in the meet and secured good places in the In the finals they were strong con especially in the hurdles where Dave Parsons won first in the and second in the The dash was a race to a finish as they were lapping when the line was and Fred Evans was the third In all the events that the boys took part they proved to be strong but were not quite strong enough to With a year or two more of systematic we be lieve they can win the silver cup presented to the association by the citizens of Ida The members of the team were Fred Dave Cleve Lan Russell Ralph Lon nie Lawrence h Richard and Wood In the various events our boys won s follows Evans third in 100 yard third n hammer third in shot in discus throw and second in broad Parsons won on and second on Hutchins won thira on half mile Laird won second on step Starr won third on discus On the one mile relay the Algona earn Overmyer was elected me of the members of the executive for the ensuing The neet next year will be at Sac t was decided that the association would offer prizes for each a gold for first a silver one for second and a one for Saturday Humboldt Let us turnout and encourage them by our even if we cant Invents Steel Wagon Anderson of this place has in vented a wagon box made of and will try and interest capital in the en with a view of having the new invention Those who have examined the invention of Anderson firmly believe that it will prove a City Wet in The The editor of this sheet spent a part of last week in southern Iowa and northern From Columbus Junction southwest to Kansas City there is no corn planted with only part Webster City Is A most unfortunate affair occurred at Webster City on Tuesday County Gerber and City Ford had a fistic encounter at the of fice of the latter and as the Ford is in a serious It ap pears that Gerbers boy was a trifle late in getting to school one Ford told him of it as he reached the second The boy said if he con him late it was small Ford sent him Gerber went with the boy back to Ford to have the boy apologize to but it end ed in a desperate Ford is too much injured to but Gerber says the trouble really grew out of a matter that occurred a year A young lady was not al lowed to enter the senior class because she had not studied all the branches in the prescribed A few days ago a petition headed by Gerbers boy was presented to Ford asking him to allow the young lady to enter the sen ior Gerber thinks this is what caused Ford to have a spite against his The dispatch to the Register and Leader says in part The noise of the called some of the high school teachers to the scene and a carriage wds sent for and physicians They found that Ford was severely injured in the back of the neck and also that he was cut on the right of the He was taken to his home in a hack and soon sank into He lay in this comatose condition until three oclock this morning when he became con scious for a short sinking again into a His head and neck bear evidence of having been viciously and for a time last night the attending physicians say his case was ADAMS Money to Loan at 5 per FOR acres of land on mile south of Small house on it JJ Money to loan at five per CLARKE Use Fancy Patent flour made fron Northern From May 10th to September 1904 the By will sell ex cursion tickets to Clear Lake Okoboji and Arnolds Park an return at one and one third of the ground From Kan sas City to central the earth is saturated with water and has been for over four No corn has been planted in that section and none will be until the middle of the month if it quits Relic of Early Days The first wagon shop ever erected in Hamilton county was torn down a The building stood on the rear of the premises known as the old Story near the watering trough on east Bank For many years it has been used as a The build ing was erected in and has stood continuously until a few days It was known as the Shar key wagon shop when first Frank Mason says there were over rive hundred people from the sur rounding country in town the day the new shop was People came from all over the county and as far north as Head Grove in Wright coun to the opening of the new wagon It was a bigger event for Web Did Not Come to If there is any man here who im agines that I have come upon this platform to sneer at and flout any re publican in or to sneer at and flout and ridicule the opinions of any republican in then that man has a very different conception of the duties of a temporary chairman than I I am here as a as one rocked in the cradle of republican whose idea has and to be true to what Lincoln taught and Grant fought and to the lessons laid down for us by the long line of illustrious men who have been leaders of our great I am here not only to but to that inside our ranks there must be the most absolute freedom of opinion that every man has the right to speak and think as he pleases without fear and without I am as I trust you are from all over broad subservient to know master of just as you gentlemen from every county in the are masters of your selves and owned by no Chairman Irwin at the republican Horses Had Right of A team of horses closely hitched to raced the entire distance from Hills to Iowa City before the Rock Island passenger The distance of seven miles was made in something less than twenty Two miles south of the city the hor ses ran for three hundred yards on the top of a narrow This remark able adventure occured when the morning train started from It seems that the horses were grazing on the right of just outside of The train on leaving the frighten ed and springing onto the track without being at any time in danger of being run A Glorious Best worked quite a skin game He took with him three young fellows from this place to where he secured seven others who were willing to surrender portions of their cuticle for the pur pose of patching a new epidermis on the burned leg of the little DuBois In all about 150 patches were covering a space extending from close to the knee to the ankle and nearly two thirds around the As will be the burn was a very bad but Best thinks the grafting process will be successful and that the leg will not only be saved but will not be badly County Go to the Williams Bakery for all kinds of fresh baked pies and pastry of every Goods made to order on short notice at reasonable prices for
