Algona Upper Des Moines (Newspaper) - January 30, 1929, Algona, Iowa 32 WESLEY MAN SHOT mm Shots Went Wild and Only Minor Injuries on Back of Head OVER SONS Had Irrational at Times for Several Was Sent to George Prairie township south of discharged a revolver five times last Sunday in an attempt to kill Hanig had gone to the Fremmel farm near his home to investigate the arrest of his otherwise known as Happy and the boye Robert who were about to be brought ito Algona to the jail after be caught open handed in an attempt to rob the Fremmel Gun Belonged to Young After leaving the Hanig went to his car and few minutes later the of gun was Three of the went through the top of the car which was an old Ford One flattened buBet was fomu in the back seat of the One oJ the glass on the left side pf the car was and this indicate had been broken by a shot from the Hanig it is must have held the gun at the back of his head and shot in an upward because of the small wounds on the back of his head which appeared to be made by the glancing blow of a A small amount of Woodi was found on the The it was discovered belonged to young Just how Hanig ob lit is nbt Shot Red Fox South of A fed was shot last Sunday oh the Clayton Sills farm four or five wiles southeast of and L Mewitt and Lawrence Were hunting rabbits rhen they Scared the fox Mer ritt shot the final shell which kid the animal low although some of the others had put some lead into It was a fine of rather un and had a black ftp on its tail The pelt about SHIRLEY LARKIN JANE PIONEER LADY DEAD 4 Passed Away Sunday at the Home of Her Son at Found With Bullet in Brain in Denver Hotel on George Galbraith Regains POSED AS A RETIRED IOWA Leaves Son in Algona by Former Request Burial be Made at CAME TO ALGONA OVER 70 YEARS Was in Funeral at Baptist Church Thursday at Walked Home and Went to After the shooting Hanig got out of the walked to his home which is only a short distance from the the two boys to Physicians ex Hanigs head arid said that the injury was not Hanig has been known to have had periods of irrationality during the past five and has threatened previously to shoot Committed to Tuesday morning Hanig was taken came to Algona Monday of thei death of occurred at the home of her in South January Chapin one of the few remaining Algona pioneer ladies and was beloved by all who knew her during the years of her residence in For the past twenty years since the dearth of her Chapin has made her home with her She had been in poor health for a number of and a year ago sustained a broken hip from a fall while at the home of her Frank Clark at Chapins maiden name was and she and her four the Misses Mary and known ahong tha pioneers Last Harrington received a telegram from stating that Shirley Lark in was and that he had request ed that he be Found With Bullet in The report gleaned from the daily papers is as follows over ill health and failure of his fiance to marry him was believed by Deputy Coroner OBrien Saturday night to have been the cause of the asserted of Shirley a retired who came here from Larkin was dead with in his in his room in a hotel late His room was barred from the in Algonas pioneer who went to San few weeks ago in company With Amie waa quite ly ill for a time and confined to his but Miss who is in Charge of the store received word Monday that he was much improved and to go out Saturday and look after some of his property in also wrote and Sat Mr Vincent and and Charles Johnson called i upon them last IMPROVE THE Highway Eighteen West of Algona Reported in Years WILL PAVE WEST FROM ALCONA SOON State Highway Commission Will Receive Bids on February ROUTE THROUGH ALGONA AT Portion of Highway East of Sixteen Held Up Until Some Time WILL PASS THROUGH ALGONA AT Was Well Known Shirley Larkin was well known in this He came to the county and lived near West Bend for sev eral where he was united in marriage to Miss Winnie who passed away several years ago at she was an inmate of the state One child was who lives at the Julius Peterson home in this city and who is about seven years of Sold His owned a piece of land West Bend and about two years ago disposed of it to Harring He went back to old Road from Victor Johnson to Number Sixteen Held up for It isj very evident that Highway west from Algona will be paved during the coming positive statement has come irom the highway but i contractor was an the last week up the route and hinted that ne a hunch that this work was A The Bancroft Regis ter they were informed fay an of highway commis sion that the this work would soon be Will Pass Through The State Highway Commission is advertising for bids on several future paving contracts in the state and in cluded in the list is the road west from Algona to the Palo Alto county a distance of The letting will involve cubic yards of earth and square yards of includ ing flumes to allow the water to run This letting will in the road west from Highway 18 north of and if the contract is awarded this work will probably be done during the Pass Through Algona at The route east of Highway 16 to the paving at the Victor Johnson conter will not be improved for a tame and the route will come up into Algona and probably follow the old route Other counties to receive are Adair and Potta Big Winter Storms Delay the The heavy storms during the oast week have caused late mails and for several days the morning papers did Algona until Last Friday they did not arrive until nina as 3 on the due here about did not arrive until that 16 on due here about nine m bussea from Mason City and Fort Dodge were also Rural mail carriers find much in making their routes and in some instances did not get around be cause of the Well Known and Popular Algona Man Answered Summons appears to foe that the road will be improved from the junc tion north of the river Alto straight a before the insane committed to the commission and state hospital at He is a man of about thir years of and is the father of seven the young est of whom is two years of He is to be taken to Cherokee some time this afternoon or Fremmel Sets Trap for The boy and Ms Robert were up for trial yesterday in the juvenile but the case was postponed until next It seems that there has been a of petty robberies in the vicinity of the boys The Fremmel home had been robbed previously and the story goes that after the Fremmel family had started out to go to church Sunday Fremmel discovered the going toward his The rest of the family went on to but he and went into the His first lidea seems to have been to lock the but as the boys were al most to the he hurried in to conceal himself and left the door un The boys entered the and in a short time discovered a purse with somo money in They were making ready to leave the house when Fremmel made himself Officers were notified and the boys were later brought to Algona to jail by Sheriff Hovey and Deputy Coldest January in Twelve A heavy snow is falling and has been falling almost continuously since last During the night five and onehalf inches of snow fell and so far today at least another inch cover the Previous to this snowfall there had been fourteen and onehalf inches of snow this win according to Weatherman Going back over Ms Laird finds that this has been the coldest January in eleven or twelve There have been seventeen when the temperature has been zero or The coldest day was January 7 when the thermometer dropped to sixteen degrees The second coldest day of the year was last Wednesday when St was fifteen below The usual January thaw has failed to temperatures fop the past week beginning with last Wednesday We as High law 23 8 24 three inches enow 25 46 48 Henderson girls claimed by During her active years she was pro minent the good works of the and she and her husband raised a fine family who have them selves taken creditable places in the business of the Miss Jane Henderson was born in Trumball October and moved to Iowa with her and James Hend erson in settling in Jackson where they resided for about two when they moved to Kos suth to what was then the small village of Here she lived until the close of the Civil when she was married to Morris Chapin on May They lived on the old homestead four miles north of Algona for twentyfive Chapins health was very poor so they rented the farm and moved to town and Algona was their home until death on June Since that time she has lived with her She was at the home of her at South visited her January Five children were born to and Chapin who died Octo ber 1896 now a business man of South Dakota in the lumber business at Mon California Northwest ern railroad engineer at Mason City Frank of Editor Frank Clark at She had nine three great grand children and and one brother The sisters are Mes remained there for several months then returned to Algona cured the balance due him on the sale of his stating that ed to return to Indiana and make some improvements upon property owned by his He left and in stead of going to went to During the summer he was in Algona for a few days it is said and showed friends a picture of a Denver lady with whom he was very much It is surmised that had spent his money and perhaps became despondent wihen the lady re fused to marry him and then com mitted He was a reticent quiet and had little to do with so not much is known about While but for the present traffic will be through While Algona was very much disappointed that Number Eighteen was it is admitted that the new route will get away from three railroad crossings as it will go over or under the Northwestern from all re The part of the route east of sixteen across the river will mean much grading and a new and perhaps it ds because of this that the commission is leaving his part of the road until DIAMOND JUBILEE AND HOMECOMING Al Falkenhainer Appointed Chairman of all Commit 1 BIGGEST EVENT IN HISTORY OF State Park Will be Dedicated with an Appropriate REMAINS FIRST TO BE IN RECEIVING Was Prominent In Masonic Ritualistic Services Held at Ira father of Editor passed away Thursday after following a long and painful dating Back to the summer of 1927 when he was confined to his bed with and Dewel moved to Algona about eighteen years During his residence here he erected a number of dwelling houses and the garage and filling south of New Algona He served as a member of the city coun cil for several Dewel was prominent in Masonic was a member of the Consistory at and a charter member of ZaGaZig order of the Mys Shrine at heire he roomed at Dehnert and Kuhn At Ms the re mains were buried in dames Mary Maitha Charles Waldo of Los The brother is Henderson of Long Califor The remains of Chapin arriv ed in Algona night from Watertown accompanied by and James and the funeral will be held at the Baptist church on Thursday afternoon at Chapin was a lifelong member of the Webster will have charge of the services and the burial will be in Riverview by the side of her It is expected that all of the children will be and Brad Al and Charley Waldo of are also ex Annual Creamery Banquet at Three hundred and fifty persona at tended the annual banquet of the stockholders and patrons of the Al gona CoOperative Creamery which was held at the hall Saturday Because of the cold weather a number of persons were unable to attend the meeting and some of the town people were asked as After the a program was Members of the high school glee club under the direction of Miss Elizabeth sang several num George former Coun ty Agent Frank and County Agent all gave short a member of the division of the dairy department at Ames was speaker the Herbert of Mason president of the Iowa State Brand Creamery association was the main the capable manager of the Algona creamery gave his an report of the creamery for the past Maundy Thursday to be Consistory Masons In Algona and Kossuth county will observe Maun dy Thursday on March the Thurs day before which occurs this year on March appropriate Court Opened Here grand Post Office Force Somewhat Don assistant is around on crutches because of a frac tured bone in his leg which he receiv ed while skiing at the golf links on Sunday where he had driven with his In making a turn he struck a drift and he waa thrown in such a way that he was seriously Beth the window ap injured her ankle in some way and yesterday morning was ob liged to quit work and be taken Was Arrested for Shooting Gordon Jergensen week by a game warden from urg for shooting He given a fine of twenty and being unable to pay was to county fell where he will f x lor the Business Man Wedded Ward and Bertha Shilts were married at Fort Dodge last Sat The following item about their marriage was taken from the Fort Dodge Messenger The of the Leighton supply company was the setting Sat evening for the marriage of Bertha Shilts of Humboldt and Chester Ward of An account of the wedding taken from the Weekly Bulletin of the Leighton supply company follows A very pretty wedding was solem Saturday evening at five oclock at the show room of the Leighton supply company when Chester Ward of Algona and Bertha Shilts of Humboldt were united in marriage by the Mcueen of the The couple were attended by and of this To the strains of Wed ding played by William Brab bit on his the couple took their places in front of our display of Weil McLain scientific combustion boil ers and in these familiar surround ings Chet was immediately at Floyd Craft then sang I Love You with violin After the Holt our official photographer took a number of Ward wore a charming gown of tan georgette and carried a cor sage of sweet peas and dress was of tan After receiving the congratulations of the office ice cake were passed after which the happy couple were allowed to followed by the good wish es and rice of all A supper for the immediate wed ding party and a few intimate friends was served at the home of and Cleaveland at seven and Ward will make their home at Algona where Ward is actively engaged in the plumbing and heating Grover of Burt The Diamond Jubilee to be held this summer and the dedication of the Call State Park will be one of the biggest events in the history of Kossuth coun A meeting of the directors of the Community Club was held last even Al Falkenhainer was made chairman over all No pains will toe spared to make this a The birthday of the founding of Algona and the dedication of the Call State where the Calls erected the first cabin and were the first settlers in this part of is an event that is worth At the same time H will afford a wonderful time for a genuine home coming for many people who formerly lived in this vicinity and who will de light in coming back to meet old friends and view the scenes so dear to their the cooperation now In Algona will toe well prepared to entertain and take care of the The exact date will be fixed in the near years ago on Thanksgiving he was united in marriage to Miss Jennie whom with two of Al gona and Dewel of and three Marshall Keith of Wyom George Cole of and Thorpe of Al came west in 1880 and settled at where he engaged in contracting and building and also In 1895 they mov ed to where he con in the lumber and banking business and in 1911 they moved to which has since been their The funeral follow ing Dowels were simple with no Seward of the Methodist church deliv ered a short followed by the Masonic services led by Past Master George Dowel had also elected his pall Mc Mis Dg White and The local lodge attended the services in a body after which the re mains were placed in the new receiv ing the first time it has been Was Hurt in Fall of father of had the misfortune to fall last Saturday and sprain his While the arm was quite painful for some for one of his advanced he is at present do ing The accident occurred When he tripped on a Teachers Examinations Held Here Last Fourteen Kossuth county young ladies took the teachers examination last week conducted by Superintend ent and not a young man being The examina tions held in the court room and the following were present Marie Lone Rock Anna Lau retta Whittemore Edna Funk Cylinder Laura Cornelia Bancroft Theresa Govern and Sarah Titonka Abbic Algona Agnes West Bend Agnes Wesley ad Ida The fol who live in this county and are attending the State Teachers College at Cedar wrote the ex at that place Agnes Trenary and Dorothy Intermill of The eighth grade examinations for the county will be held February at which tame it is expected that from 276 to 300 will These tests will be heild in the various Peters and Frank Dacken Lone January Special On Saturday afternoon of last week when Frank Dacken and were driving south on the pavement and Peters of Burt was driving they had a head on collision that completely de both Dacken was thrown from the car to the pavement and was knocked Peters and Russell miraculously caped Editor Wolfe Froze His Face Last Wolfe was in the city yesterday and stated that Wolfe was badly frozen when he reached home after a visit to Algona one day last His cheek and ears were frozen and his hands also badly frost It was one of the bitter cold days and he stated that it was cult driving when he came over of the snow and Deserted Baby Will be Adopted This The baby boy who was left on tho door step of the Me Arthur home at Burt a ago Saturday and who has been a guest of Super visor and McDonald in town since the following was taken to Burt Saturday where he will make his home with and Floyd The Duncans expect to adopt the little and tha papers are DeLands Organize Will Dilg League A meeting of a number of was held last evening at which a Will Dilg League was organiz This league was first organized for the purpose of conservation of forests and wild life and there are a number of enthusiasts in this com Frank Marnette of Spirit Lake was in was chosen president Ted secretary and Joe of the local A delegation also went to Titonka to endeavor to organize a league at that
