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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
4
County Savings Bank advertises general banking services including drafts and money orders payable worldwide. It promises 4 new cent interest on savings deposits compounded semi annually and notes personal attention for depositors.
Miss Sarah Grace Jones visits Algona while Miss Zoa Lrene Tones hosts her at Setchell millinery. Mrs Charles W Plumsey and daughter Lela come from Nagle Grove to stay with Ericksons. Rev Joseph Steele to preach at M I church Aug 27. Cirrus of events as townsfolk attend teas, court hints, and circus plans.
About twenty residents traveled to the Twin Cities last Sunday. Mrs. Van Voast went to Des Moines to buy millinery. Kanawha natives Mrs. I. S. Benedict and children visit, while Mrs. Patterson and Mason head to Minneapolis for fall stock. Howard Beardsley returns from Minnesota. Local farming, out- ing stories, and Chautauqua notes fill the week. Glen Ostrander family news and church activities smooth the town scene with social visits and meetings.
Bitter prose surveys acrobats gymnasts riders and elephants as the grand Gollmar Bros circus prepares to open. It describes a festival atmosphere with a sea of spectators and a royal hippodrome and huge menagerie joining the earth’s nations for the big day.
Plum Creek reports C C Robinson and son Louis spent Sunday in Burt. Kiva Slagle stayed Monday with Jessie Robinson. Mrs Thomson visited relatives in Armstrong last week. Mrs Charles Albright ill with Quinsy but improving. Mrs George Miller attended funeral of Jolin ox in Bancroft last Wednesday. Frances Peterson and brothers Charlie and Otto Sexton visited Mr and Mrs Thomson. Mrs Gregg Ramer and Miss Bitzer Algona spent Monday and Tuesday with Mrs Hopkins. Several locals planned to attend Indian day exercises at Vitonka but rain changed plans. Ed Hopkins Ed Jorgenson and Roy Jordan left for Canada last Monday intending to bring home-
Norman Maine and the Moore brothers visited Irvington on their way to Ttunka, dining at the Maine home. FP, d. Thomson handled Delos Gardner's depot duties while Delos helped with threshing. A diphtheria case is present in the neighbourhood and care to stop spread is urged. Mr and Mrs Seefeld and Mr and Mrs Martineck with family spent Sunday at J C Robinson's.
Bunyan of Bublerville cites Dr King s New Life Pills as a perfect remedy for dizziness sour stomach headache and constipation. The claim appears in an old advertisement offering guaranteed relief at Conner s drug store for 2 cents a pill.
Notice offers well located furnished rooms to let during the fall at moderate rates. A. Jary, proprietor, 46b12 Insist on Taylor's ice dream and Rocky Mountain Tea promoted for beauty. Money to loan at five percent. Clear Lake to Des Moines excursion via Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Ry with a special train August 30.
Low round trip rates on the North Western Line promote Lewis and Clark Exposition travel with direct routes or via San Francisco and Los Angeles. Explanations request 2 vent stump for illustrated folder and full route options including a side trip to Yellowstown National Park and Alnsten on Aug 26. Homeseekers and settlers: first and third Tuesdays each month offer round trip excursion tickets to Minnesota Ohio Wisconsin California Nebraska Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma Texas with return at twenty-one days from sale date. stopovers allowed. Contact agents or address Z. Comms, G. Pt ThA, Minneapolis, Minn.
Very low rates to Kansas City Missouri on the Northwestern Line for Annu National Kenes Association convention travel. August half rates to Minnesota State Fair at Hamling St Val and Minneapolis with return until Sept. Also Chicago to Denver and other routes with G A R encampment specials. Single night Denver trips from Chicago with direct trains and side trips to mountain scenery. For itineraries contact WB. Waiskeru P.M. at Chicago August 8th.
The Good Roads Movement gains strength after a special campaign on the North Western Line. A bulletin prepared by Henry Wallace of Wallace's Mariner explains the road drag and its work. Submit your name to the agent at your station for delivery. Chicago Illinois September 2.
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