Algona Courier (Newspaper) - January 23, 1914, Algona, Iowa IOWA NUMBER 4 Theres an I VIA IV i cent as giving the r a half lion dollars more for the first two years than it otherwise would have He Throws Some Light on the Capital Hence had there been no capital ground Extension And Gives Some Reasons Why a Crimp Should be Put Into the Des Moines MILLER Druggist and Jeweler IOWA The Buick Overhead Valve Motor is guaranteed to develop more power and to give more mileage per gallon of gasoline than any y motor of its either American or foreign You the Buick word for i We make claims for the Buick some of them too big for the average person to The people who do believe are the people who have driven are driving and will drive They know that the statements we make are state ments borne out by own every day ex The Buick has more power than other cars be cause of its overhead valve It is more economical for the same burns less It It is more durable because everything going in to the Buick manufacture is built in the Buick enabling us to use better material at less cost than other concerns pay for goods of inferior Our rigid system reduces the chance of slip shod work to a The inspection costs a million but it saves a million The is complete in The bodies are stream the running boards are the Delco system of lighting and ignition is reliable and everything is left side drive and center There is a model for every from the runabout to the six our rich mans car at a business mans You can take the Buick word for anything we but we dont ask you We want you to make us prove Models at Algona ADTO MACHINERY Heated Fireproof Garage West of Court House If you contemplate holding a Public get your bills at the From tlic Supplementing his announcement of two weeks that he would be a candidate for Rowley has this to say Had the supreme court sustained s contention that the appropriation hy the last legislature should have been submitted to a vote of the he would not have been a Rowleys contention was not against the right of the legis lature to appropriate to pur chase 56 acres more of cov ered with to convert into a or to appropriate ten times or enough to purchase the whole city provided it was submitted to the people for their approval at a general aa the constitution This was not done the people who have to pay the were designedly ignored they were not The governor and the other three members of the executive went into an appeal against the people who had voted them into and the supreme court sustained the con tention of these gentlemen by a deci sion that holds that a legislature without any consideration of the elect ors of the appropriate fifty mil lion a hundred or an amount that would bankrupt every property owner in the And already the members of this council who usurped the rights of the people and refused to permit them to vote as to whether or not they be compelled to pay the two million dollar are preparing to ask the voters whom they to return them to the official positions they now Rowley does not believe the fathers who voted the organic law into which is the political Bible of the when they said to legis you can obligata the people thus if you go beyond the limit we have the people must be con The result of his contention against the usurpation of the peoples rights by the powers that be under the dome of the capitol at De has forced can in order that the people may express their desires at the next and he submits the following as suggestive of the main points on which he shall his campaign That the capitol ground extension act is the product of a That the extension grounds in and passed by the legista is a having no known Of the hundreds of bills introduced this is the only one railroaded through n one That the gentleman credited by Des papers as largely instrumental in getting passengers aboard 669 Extension Special of April was given a free junket to while the in charge of this legislative train during its railroad recordbreaking run over the first di calling in succession the Take Up The Suspend The Reconsider And Lay On The appointed member of the Board of That the act of the state executive council in stepping out of its sphere as an equalization board of assessments as returned by and doing what an council has never done constitute itself an assessing board and raising the tion of real property 40 per cent over the is simply a supplement of the capitol extension this 40 per LIBRARY AID Good Papers By Harrington and McMahon on the Monroe extension property holders of Iowa would not have had to pay one third more taxes this year than ever Rowley urges the election of a legislature and an executive council favoring the repeal of the capitol grounds extension law and selling every dollars worth of ground bought in ex cess of the limit authorized in Article Seven of the To this end he urges that all candidates for legislative offices be required to define their position in this matter pre vious to the and that county conventions pass resolutions for the repeal of the law and selling of grounds as herein set He favors a careful review of the much complicated road law by the next looking to its improvement by needed amendments and repeal of objectionable He favours the preservation and util of the waterways and lakes of the state a gift which nature has blessed Iowa with and which our peo ple should greatly He favors a thorough review of all laws of the state by the next general so far as can be done during the looking to amending and faulty legislature He favors the referendum and its enactment into the constitution of the He believes in the recall at the Primaries and at the general election of all officials who disregard the rights f the people and are not faithful to their official The creation of nearly offices y the last as many per laps as has been all dur ng the previous 15 and an in crease in salaries to the amount of fully three hundred thousand coupled with the capitol extension out and other extravagant totaling many thousands of dollars more than any previous legislature ever is severely trying the patience of a forebearing people who have to foot the bills and it is time for legislators to call a and to that end members of all parties should in struct legislative nominees to do all in if to put down the tendency towards unreasonable ex which has prevailed of late years in our legislative as to the principal point in is the extension we close thi article with this admonition Alarm ists have said that our republican form of government will sooner or later The Library Aid Society gives enter that are well worth attend The last of these was on Friday evening last when Harring ton discussed the Monroe and McMahon discussed Bryans policy bearing on the Monroe Both were in the form of and Harringtons paper was practically all extracts trom Pres ident messages and other I state papers of the time when the Monroe Doctrine came into It I was a very complete history of the international politics of that and must have cost Harrington much labor to compile paper wag all his own thought and a of it though it was still rife with modern and serious It was rather opposed to the strict maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine now because con ditions have changed since the time of Monroe and it is not now a necessary or wise He read what he humorously stated was a draft of a pending treaty between this country and the Republic of that had been confidentially furnished him by his intimate and if such a treaty were really adopted it would be a very creditable piece of work for our state The music which was furnished by Adams and other ladies was and the whole was a fine intellectual COUNTY FAIR Advertising Paid on 00 2000 35 Cash on hand 21 THE FARMERS come to an We do not believe and do not consent to such a but desire to go on record witH this prophesy Should this government ever come to an the first symp tom of its decay will be when the peo ple approve the acts of officials in high authority whp have deliberately and knowingly violated the plain provisions of our Public Sale McMillen and Clark 27 Green 28 30 John 4 John 7 Barker 5 9 11 Hutchins 10 Nate 12 Gus Sund 16 Joe 18 John Squires John Mesing sold pianos last week to Joe Fred LuVerne Lone Rock and The Annual Meeting Was Held Tuesday of This in The annual fair meeting was held was far from what it ought to have been in point of attend There were but few farmers in attendance and but few town The farmers may be excused because the inconvenience it is to but the people of Algona owe that meeting their attention and Every business house in Algona should be represented at every annual meeting of that It is very ing to a man like Wolcott who puts so much of his time and labor into the up of the fair to see so little interest manifested by his fellow business It ought not be sary to lecture the people of Algona but unfortunately it is The meeting was called to order by President and the annual re port of the secretary was read by Secretary Henry It was accepted as The treasurers report was read by Treasurer and was accepted as On motion Wolcott was unanimously reelected Henry Wadsworth was elected vice Har rington was elected and the other old officers were all The salary of the secretary was raised to The majority sentiment of those present favored the second week of September as the time for holding the next but the final word on that point was left to the board of Here is the Treasurers report Cash on hand 341 36 Recd from barn rent 10 00 Auto 100 00 Unused tickets 3 00 General admission 4100 20 Quarter stretch 535 65 Good Program Prepared For Two January and Arrangements have been completed for holding the annual farmers insti tute week in Algona on Thurs day and January 29 and The sesions will be held in the Court House and promise to be of more than ordinary if the president of this important asso secretary and Mrs Car Hofins and A The program for the two days institute is as follows JANUARY 10 How to Arrange for and Conduct a Farm Fruit by Harry Ward Hospitality in the Clara Good Roads and the Laws Per to Cooperative Breeding of the Sil ver King JANUARY 10 Hog its by Dairy Questions and Odell and Canned by Ellis Mc Report of treasurer of Short by from the Soils Department at About a dozen samples from different parts of the county are to be ed and reports made thereon iu the presence of the FOK Plymouth Lots of six or 10 per cent Viola Phone 2 on Dollars On account of the two dollars pei ton Swift added to the price ol their Digester tankage and we soiling at the same old just figures a loss to us of on the cay we just We hope you appreciate Iowa Protein Feed Em 2 year old Hereford blood but not eligible to reg Willow Lane girl to do Will remove all dead animals within 18 miles of Phone at our ex Rendering NOTICE TO Notice is hereby given that Board of Supervisors of will receive bids for the County Grading to be done in year Bids will be received up till two oclock P February at the office of the County and all bids to be made for the to be done in each Supervisors or each Township separate and to be accompanied by deposit or certified check of con that the successful bidder will enter into contract or bond tor che faithful performance of the Bids to state price per and also per clay for and The right to reject any or all bids is hereby Dated at this day of Auditor of Kossuth Notice of Probate of State of Kossuth District Court in and for Kossuth To all whom it may concern On the 19th day of a paper purporting to be the last will and testament of William Cording ley late of said was 075 25 J filed in my and was by me Season Season team tickets and From From 80 50 23 50 50 08 00 380 25 270 00 Total 21 For COO 50 1200 25 1109 30 opened and publicly read and the 17th day of appointed and fixed as the time when the same will come before the at the ary term thereof then to be as the duly executed last will and testa I ment of the said William Cordingley I at which time all persons interested may appear and show cause j why the same should not be admitted J to Dated this 19th day of Clerk of the District By Bertha THE FERNDELL BRAND OF GROCERIES LEADS THEM ALL SUGAR IS CHEAP NOW Phone 214 Sold Only at the Sanitary Grocery GET OUR EGGS AND BUTTER PRICES LONG HENDERSON Phone
