Drain No 9 Crawfish Bottom Drain Contract Awarded
Ward Bros of Audubon secure the contract to dig the ditch and lay about nineteen and a half miles of tile in district No 1 known as Crawfish bottom drain. Open ditch cost set at six dollars and fifty seven thousandths cents per cubic yard with tiling totaling 40 248 dollars. Auditing officials deem bid reasonable and landowner assessments to be fixed by engineers Lilly Clement and Armstrong after site survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Ward Bros
Audubon
Anderson
A. J. Lilly
L. T. Clement
Germania
H. ©. Armstrong
Titonica
Death of Mrs. Jane E. Bentley in Algona Iowa
Mrs Jane E Bentley died of general debility Saturday. Her remains were sent to Des Moines for burial. She was born March 29 1824 in Washington County Kentucky and moved to Shelby Indiana at eleven. She married Geo M Bentley October 24 1839 in Indiana. The family moved to Polk County Iowa in 1855. Her husband died in Confederate service May 26 1862. She lived at various places in Iowa and later with Mrs Hoyle in Algona. Survived by eight children two died in childhood. Sons J T Bentley Glidden and Geo C Bentley Salem Oregon. Daughters Mrs M M Campfield Oregon, Mrs Mary J Bumgardner Salem Oregon, and Mrs Bidora A Hoyle Algona. Active in the M E Church for 35 years. Remains accompanied to Des Moines by Mrs Hoyle and granddaughter Mrs C L Akerman. Brother J Bentley of Glidden attended. Near relative F I Peed went to Des Moines to arrange burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane E. Bentley
Des Moines
Rev. W. Torbet
John Hoyle
Geo. M. Bentley
Polk County
Iowa
Bentley
Lincoln
Drowned diver Jamie Davison in Fargo accident
Jamie Davison, long time Bancroft resident and Fargo diver, died after a 65 foot high dive into the Red River for a prize of 867. He had previously fallen from a Fargo Floor Mill smokestack, survived hospital recovery, and recently worked as a brakeman for the Northern Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamie Davison
Mane Houd
Bancroft
Fargo
Red River
Northern Pacific
Exhibition items show varied works and designs
During Williamson's absence, a study shows graded items from the primary to drawings and paintings. The exhibit includes active and still life, floral and avian subjects, wall paper, window shades, friezes, posters, calendars, and mats. Nora Sprince attends in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Williamson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kraft Clothing
JOS. Misbach
Ards Oppiaite
Alma, Mich
Crawfish Bottom
Algona Fair
Kossuth
Conatalog
Algona
Dover
Steele’s Clothing
Brownell
J. A. Brownell Shoe Co
Jowa
Boston
Dave
Nora
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!