Algona Upper Des Moines (Newspaper) - November 28, 1917, Algona, Iowa THE UPPER DES MOINES 43rd VI A n THE YEAH WENT OVER THE TOP Subscriptions For Exceed Quota In Every One Donated Liberally To Good Cause List of Contributors With I The subscriptions to the A tost week were in excess of the quota assigned Kossuth and were as Matt Frank Flora Gus Roy W T Elmer Jas Ernie Subscribed J W J Hasz Walter E F Fred hL Steb Harley Wm Palmer Ed NOVEMBER FARM AGENTS MEET A MOTHER is Crouch Passed Away Several Counties Represent VOL 22 Ed Bert DeaT Marguerite Shepherd Fox Hein follows 50 Billings J Gil Subscribed Al Andrew Pet PW Martha Subscribed Good Hope Church Sunday Lath rop Moe Quin by Adam Subscribed Al gona Brick Tie Wol Subscribed Hugh Van Agnes Peter Miss Carrie Cora McChes Battery Electric Rice Zer Seller George Tom Fos Joe Anderson Broth John Clara Gal Schoby Subscribed Earl Joe Hart James La See Carle Sim Joe Fin Mo Henry Lu Earl John Earl Nau Will Stevenson Harts Sid Lute Shilts Long Russell Paul Anders John Cowan Tay Meda Blom Phil August Harry Harry Will Ec Frank Will Hugh n Miss Francis Frank Bank hton W Shack Leo Julius Peter Harry t i Bessic Frank Glenford Walker Chris Frank Jul J Bertha Matt Lucille f J W Kelley hast R Frank Grant Anderson Louise Tromer G Harry Fos Fred John John John Wd Bert John Magnus Sfn gre Scha n r James Jim James Cas Lewis Roy Subscribed 50 cents Fred w S B CRUSHED TO DEATH Edwin Young Man at Germania Was Fell From Load of Corn Last Passed Over Chest Caus ing Instant Edwin a young man 25 years of was found dead in a owned by where he had been engaged in picking The accident occurred some time dur ing the afternoon last and the indications are that he climbed onto the wagon which was nearly in order to turn the team A large rock lay in the and it ap pears the front wheel struck the throwing the young from the when the wheel passed upon his chest in which manner he was The team had broken from the wagon and a neighbor saw them loose in the field and phoned to ed In Algona Last Plans Made To Secure Good Seed Corn For 1918 and Increase Pork Pro duction In A meeting was held in Algona Mon day by a number of County farm ag ents from this section of the and plans are being made to insure every farmer in this territory with good seed corn that will grow next sea Evidently the seed corn prob lem is very important and it is esti mated that not less than eighty per cent of the seed picked early is kil Much of it was hung in cribs where it did not dry out sufficiently and the hard freeze killed the A complete survey of the situation is being made and testing establishments will be located in each Hog production will be discussed after the corn Iowa has been asked to increase her production twentyfive per This can only be accomplished by the farmers in creasing the number of brood and it is estimated that the increase will an average of four more brood sows on every farm in the An effort will be made to reach every farmer in this The following county farm agents were in attendance Clay Dickinson Bert Palo Alto Emmet Wright Humboldt Hamilton assistant state leader corn exten sion and hog extension of were also after the meeing they were entertained at a luncheon at the New Thursday Afternoon After A Short Six Harvey Crouch died at the home of her and Anton last Thursday morn Crouch came to Algona on the previous from her home near She was taken ill with and was unable to return so she was taken to her parents The death of this mother is extremely as she leaves besides no her parents and several brothers and six motherless The funeral services were held CORN BAD FOR Moulded and Spoiled Corn Causes Death of Live Stock In Several It is probable that about fifty per cent of the corn in northern Iowa is more or loss and will not corn is being fed to cattle and hogs and it is reported that in severa instances cattle have died from the moulded It is also that Henry one of the lead ing young farmers living south of Al gona in Riverdale township lost a valuable horse last Friday th animal having evidently through the fence and enten some o the poorest corn that had been sort ed out and was lying in a should bo fed sparingly of this corn ALGONA CORN SHOW HOME Albert Reed After Much Dies The Best Medical Experts Could Not Agree As to the Cause of Her Great Program Arranged For December 5th and THE GRINNELL Algona Grinnell College Students May Be in Purgatory or Considerable curiosity has been ex pressed in Algona during the past few days in regard to the welfare of the fourteen Algona students at Grinnell The question they in purgatory or It seems that there are some new dormitories at this popular college and the perhaps because the school is a denominational have thought it proper to christen the different buildings with names intend ed to keep a vivid picture of a picturesque hereafter constantly be Clarke To Speak Tues Harding Called To T fUll fl V who at once investigated and fore the mind of the A spe found the dead body of the young j from Grinnell the other day Coroner Laird was notified and Purgatory and Par went at once to the The the residence places of young mans Peter I Grinnell Building one has been Trout Emil Reid John Delos Will Geilen Adolph Tom Howard Nels y Fred Harry Da resides at Ledyard and was also As the cause of his death appeared clearly to have resulted by no inquest was He has two brothers in the located somewhere in it is named Because some effort was made by building three to reform once it has been given the name of The other houses have tak en their identification from their rel ative position to Hell and i Thus which is between them is TTT TT RIP A PIT i Purgatory and which is above Heaven is As buildings five and six are not yet occupied they Leo Algona Finds the have not been Paradise Moon and Perhaps the Girl in Far Lost Regained have Away Interest in the dormitories is now Saren L Ross Cal John Emil Al lf Jacob t Sam Carl Grant Alf Ray Ruth El Thomas XL Mil Gard B Ole RA Jpa Frank and building one will reply For hell we for hell we yell fire and were from THE SOLDIER Leo former Algona printer centered on The first three and has been writing some units have each recruited eleven men very interesting letters to the Whit who are willing to risk their necks for temore Champion from the glory of the house The first game where he has been stationed since be s aged soon between Hell and listing in the army some months Purgatory will play the In the last letter published he Although the dope histor mates that he has found Honolulu a ically there are many baradise tells of a moonlight i who think that Hell can outdo her stroll on the celebrated beach as ancient uu mo j Appropriate yells are being prac Tho of the have ori for the Building three The tne city nave or an Iowa Club and a great nnp For many enlisted men from the state be We had a meeting Saturday night and it was certainly an enjoy able Some of the most promi nent people in Honolulu are from I met and Guy who lived in Algona a number of years Tuttle used to chum with Melzar Charley Jones and the rest of that He says he knew Uncle Harve Dailey and who went hunting with him He is cash ier of a big trust company here and they are very fine I was invited out to Jvu bournes home last evening and we had The Doctor plays his daughter the violin and another lady so we had duets and so They live in a roomy bunga low on the beach at at the foot of an extinct Diamond Head We strolled about the grounds and a great big moon was shining through the palm trees and out upon the surf of the Talk about Paradise It must be Party The Home Economics Christmas which was to have been on De ird at Steeles has been until one week De A very complete program has been arranged for the North Iowa Commercial and Farm Congress which will be held in Algona December and Plans call for talks both and evening of each day as follows December 2 John Ev Iowa State Wartime Hog DCS Good Government and Good December 8 Seed Corn Serious December 2 Kling Iowa State What Do You Know About Your Business Iowa State Elimination of Soft December 8 Iowa State Sales manship Credit McDonald Cre December 2 Iowa State Get ting Results From seed corn exhibition corn will be i After suffering for nearly four with an ailment that baffled local physicians and hospital experts to Albert Reed pas sed away at her home at Tuesday November The real cuaso for her suffering was in Up to about the irst of August she had been in ro vigorous health and in com lete possession of her mental pow Then she began to be attacked with severe headaches which were by the stiffening of her her knees being especially af The loss of the sight of one of her eyes was her next By the first of October her condition had become so serious that she was taken to the University hospital at Iowa City for examination and treat There she submitted to a min or but no particular relief was Four weeks af ter being brought home she began to rapidly and then continued going clown until the end came as above The maiden name of the deceased was Lydia She was born at August she was in infancy her mother and her father brought her to this county when she was only three years With no mothers protect ing her early years were largely spent in strenuous She was married to Will April and lived with him in Algona till his death which occurred August Four children wore born to this but all died in After becoming widowed the ing partner lived with Mary Sor ensen on South Thorington till De cember the date when and Albert Reed were united in Thus the wed ding ceremony and the final summons came during the Lydia Reed was a consistent member of the church and was much respected by the many friends who had known her for a long term jf Her disposition was natur illy cheery and her countenance full f BOY HAS CLOSE Stanley Plum Creek Al most Loses Life in Tumbling Rci Accident Last Grim visaged death was not far away from little Stanley son of and Austin Gardner of Plum last Thursday when his clothes caught in the tumbling rod of a corn elevator tearing off the gar ments and almost crushing the life from the little The boys was helping his soninlaw crib his com and was busy unloading a wagon hat had just come in from the Stanley was gathering up the shelled corn around the elevator and in manner his clothing caught on the rapidly revolving tumbling rod which connected the gasoline engine with the His screams brought his grandfather to him and he was ex with considerable difficulty af ter the engine had stopped itself from the added There were only a few remnants of clothes left on the body of the little and his horri fied grandparent thought that he waa For fully five minutes there was no sign of heart action or of but finally faint signs of life began to appear after the child hud been carried to the house by his The blood had been forced to the little lads head and his eyes were A doctor and nurse were hastily summoned and the faint signs of life Were finally lated to stronger Aside from a broken rib and the loss of skin on chest and stomach no serious Ties were sustained and the little boy will soon bo all right The little lads relatives are very happy over his return from the land of A SURPRISE Her Jack Meinburg of Ban died several years She eaves one t Mary Roseanu of Algona is her nd John Rosenau of South Dakota ier half The funeral will be held from the ome at two oclock Friday TELEPHONE and Soren Nelson of Plum Creek Honored Friday Evening By Numerous and Soren will leave soon for their new home in where they have purchased and last Friday evening a large number of their friends and former neighbors from near Wesley called and gave them a genuine surprise and Nelson royally entertained the group who then pre sented these worthy people with a which will be used to purchase Nelson a gold and Nelson are among the best peo ple in Kossuth county and have made many friends in their present local having resided on the Rice place for severa Their leaving is much regretted and hopes for their future prosperity and happiness will go with them to their home in sunny COMEDY Superintendent Way Visited Al gona Improved Service in Much complaint has been made in Algona during the past few months regarding the unsatisfactory tele phone service and the matter was Building a Corn The corn show will be staged in the show room of the Algona Auto and Machine garage across the street west of the court ager and came to Algona Monday and held a conference with the Board of Direct ors of the Way promised an increase in pay to the to take effect December He also promised an improved to be installed until a new Many entries have already been made and modern board can be and indications are that a large ex The Western is now You need no capital but a fixed idea and the resolve to carry it George Algona Boy at Calls Us Gently Down For Publishing George who is one of Algonas boys in Camp Cody is mak ing somewhat of a record as a poetic George or Jakie as he is familiarly known to recently wrote a nice little story in rhyme about our game John which we Now Jakie comes back at us and says You old space Have you run out of boiler plate Please do not be so flowery on the head From now on I will write my own introduc tions for all of my Longfellow at his best has nothing on The note is written on a post card showing a scene in the City of near Deming and shows two one of presumably our standing on the top of a large apparently in deep Here is wishing Jakie and all of his com rades the best in the and a vic campaign against the Notice to A special meeting ofthe Home Economics Club is called by the pres ident Monday December at three oclock at the The members are urged to be present as important bt larg hibit of corn will be At a countywide meeting of corn men held Saturday afternoon many cooperators were secured for presenting the in formation regarding the show into the hands of Kossuth The Western Electric Company is now installing the board formerly used at Mason City in and the Spen cer board will be brought Algo na has about 850 telephone subscrib ers and is said to be the best tele phone city of its size in the In addition to prizes of Way stated that the government is and have been offered to the rural schools who secure the greatest number of entres in either Junior or Senior classes of potatoes or Yesterday the Secretary to the Gov ernor telephoned that it will not be possible for Governor Harding to be He has been called to Dem New to review the troops with Secretary of War A spirited effort was made to secure a good man in his place and through the efforts of Harrington will ap pear in both afternoon and evening of the first taking over so much of the Western Electric that it would be unwise at this time to install a new which would probably cost 000 at present He admitted that we were having very poor ser vice and promised relief to take ef fect as early as The com pany is now spending about at The End of a Perfect Day To Seen in Algona This Week Friday Howard McKent the author of The End of a Perfect com ing to the Opera House next November has written an unusual ly bright comedy filled with rollicking Barnes had in mind events that transpired at the end of a day in England some years and his vivid imagination enabled him to see the exact little spark of wit that was needed to make the day a perfect In The End of a Perfect Day we find a scintillating comedy with life as its theme and youth very much m The principal a litte Irish lass of is placed in many ludicrous situations trying to find her prince and with the aid of who manage to give themselves into the same trying the day ends perfectly after they have surmounted obstacles that would make many an ambitious sweetheart turn from the path which leads to the cas HOBART MAN SOLD OVER 700 Bailey Frankl Dispose of Large Numbers Last Saturday at Auc tion and Private The big hog and cattle sale held by Bailey Frankl last Saturday was a although the weather was not favorable and the crowd smaller than was About 275 hogs were sold at auction and after the about 600 were sold at private This firm has sold over in this locality during the past three which will do much in disposing of the soft These bogs appear to be healthy and no doubt will save many of our farmers as the soft com is not mark i Former Hobart Business Dies After Long in Cresco Special The news reached here late last week that our former Ho bart store had passed away at his home at Durango It was known that he had poor health when they left here some years ago and has since suffered severely from He spent most of the sum mer at a and seemed ben in some ways but in Septem ber he became ill again from which he gradually grew his heart be coming very weak and during the last week he failed very The news was delayed in reaching rela tives here and only Tilton of Plum able to reach there in time for tbe Cook was well known here and has a host of who hep her WILL RETURN Engler and Daughters Erma Dee and Edna Expect to Leave Next Week For who was called from Texas last week by the illness of her Erma expects to re turn in a few and will be ac companied by her two Ed who for several years has been em ployed in the county auditors has tendered her to take effect December Erma Dee is gradually recovering her strength and no doubt a change of climate will give her a permanent They expect to be able to leave the fourth or fifth of the RED CROSS Knitting Received and Shipped Nt 12th For South Townships and lets Socks flers 31 24 Fenton 16 15 Lone 0 Union 1 Wesley Whittemore Algona 1 0 39 22 26 49 178 16 0 I 2 82 17 19 86 If 3 f 11 11 34
