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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1903
Page
5
A historical list details cheap kitchen goods such as 10 quart dishpans 9 quart water pails and various tinware including pudding pans bread pans muffin pans and small utensils like nutmeg graters tin cups wire egg beaters and coffee mills with prices in cents. The fragment suggests a broad sale or catalog from a general store.
The coming county fair features balloon ascensions live crocodiles and alligators and other attractions. Fort Dodge and Brownies games are planned plus county team matchups. Entry day is Tuesday Sept 8 with free admission for children under fifteen on Wednesday. General admission 25 cents and a child rate exists for ages eight to fourteen.
The Rebekah social event Saturday night drew a packed house with lively entertainment. Bertha Tellier and Ruby Smith offered musical numbers, Miss Hisse Ahlen dorff delivered humorous reading, and a group of sixteen women performed a drill in white dresses, to the delight of attendees.
Locals applauded the Hubbards as Rebekah Lodge 345 was announced with Mrs. Nattie Miller and Mrs. Will Potter leading lines. Boone and Cole counties face heavy land loss from Missouri River shifts with Wilton at risk, while Wilton’s coal boom expands with new mine, hotel, and increased lignite output boosting regional fuel supply.
The Livermore Gazette recounts a simple path to bees by placing a hive near any hollow tree. James Goddard joins Carl Hunt in the timber to harvest swarms, with Goddard scooping bees by hand into a hive and Hunt carrying away a wash boiler of honey, a lively, rustic demonstration of beekeeping.
The Odebolt Chronicle responds to a Cedar Rapids Republican editorial that alleged Hell is in Northern Iowa. It argues Hell actually thrives in Des Moines, growing with every primary election and insurance company formation, challenging the Cedar Rapids claim.
On a Tuesday while threshing, Gene Satchett hauled in bundles when an inside horse near the feed table had its tail caught by a belt. The belt tore two-thirds of the tail, leaving a stump about eight inches long. The incident occurred on the farm as the team worked.
A wartime style letter from Westley describes a local delegate selection vote result 40 to 103 and accuses rival factions of using fear and bank influence. It lists the defeated candidates Cosgrove Ward Overbeck Roadiner Kunz Johnson Hager and denounces old leaders while urging future reform and law and order.
In Chariton Iowa a man mortgaged his farm to buy his wife a pair of diamond earrings. She lost one in the suds while washing to pay the interest. She attempted suicide by hanging in the barn but the rope broke and she fell onto a Jersey cow, breaking its back. The husband then tried to shoot the cow but the gun burst, blinding him. the wife ran off with a lightning rod peddler. The mortgage remains on the farm.
The Latimer community reports a successful deep well drilling project to drain a pond. The well removes water rapidly and supporters claim the water level in a deep well stabilizes regardless of added input. The Ames Times questions feasibility for local ponds.
Swined the Wet Goods. Johnny Dettering received a present from a distant friend recently in the form of a 24 gallon cask of good whisky which he placed in his cellar to age through the years that would elapse before the family needs would require it all. But some impatient friend hated to see that amount of good liquor lying unused so he burglariously entered the cellar Saturday night and swiped the goods. Anyone low enough to take a man's whisky in that manner would steal.
Algona and Wesley played a tense white team showdown Monday with observers calling it more exciting than the Brownies. Wesley clinched the win in the final inning and collected a substantial prize, while visitors from the region observed the close contest.
A fragment notes a small sum of county seal ducats being carried off in a poker game rather than wagering on a sporting event. The passage hints at a local scene where gambling yielded gains in a non athletic context. No further names or places are readable.
A Geneva man plans to earn about 360 dollars per acre from blackberries on a quarter acre. He has already picked over 700 quarts and estimates at least 200 more can be picked. Selling at 10 cents a quart, he notes a strong income despite a year with a 240,310 loss from not owning 640 acres.
A social gathering at the Garfield home on McGregor Street celebrated Mrs. Myra Garfield’s 72nd birthday with about forty attendees. The event featured a prepared program including recitations by Elsie Barnes, organ music by Mrs. J. E. Stacy, a poem by Mrs. A. J. Lilly, and a fitting tribute to the guest of honor. An elegant lawn supper closed the afternoon as Mrs. Garfield, a longtime county resident since 1865, plans a Cleveland visit with fond memories of the gathering.
Manager C. C. Call announces Van Dyke and Eaton will perform nightly during fair week at the opera house marking the opening engagement of the season. Keokuk Daily Constitution notes a record repertoire for the company at the Casino with large crowds weeknights and favorable reception of Camille with high quality specialties promised to continue. For sale items include a wine span and a bogey. Neck shave price set at five cents after September 1, 1903 with local business signatures listed.
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