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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1907
Page
4
Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul local trains report arrivals and departures for Nos 1 3 4 7 9 and 93 freight services. Passenger and freight connections coordinate with passing schedules as listed by agent R B Bed.
Partial timetable from Chicago and Northwestern shows trains listed as north and south bound with passenger and freight services. Agent M A Winkel notes Sunday only services and restrictions on passenger carriage.
A lively crowd in town enjoys a water wagon ride to the waterfront with Monty Lund's plan praised by drivers. Mrs Ralph Clark and others visit familiar faces, while several families relocate or visit, including the Funk, Hendricks, Montgomery, and Seeley families. A note on Woodmen dues, a local sale recalls Thomas Robison’s preemption saga, and Alex Brown faces illness as 1848 era graduates gather for the event.
A 1903 Algona high school reunion occurred Monday afternoon at August Zablten’s farm. Eleven graduates attended, including August Slagle, August Sandstrom, Cora Fuller, Essie Patterson, Ruth Reed, Neil Gilmore, Agnes Clark, Helen Cowles, and Lou Bushnell. Nina Blossom and Ray Achatz could not attend. The group toured the woods, recalled school days, and ended with a hayrack return and a picnic supper. The event was deemed a grand success and encouraged for other classes.
Verne and Wing return from North Dakota after claiming near Mandan. Wing will stay until late August then move with his family to a new home. La Verne residents plan camping in Goldfield for the chautauqua starting July 3, with speakers including W. J. Bryan and Robert La Follette. Warner Eggert, formerly of this place, wed a Clayton County Iowa woman and now resides in Seattle.
Local notices report Atlas and Te Patterson closing major distributions and a nearby school closure due to measles. Humboldt and Corwith regions plan a Modern Woodmen pilgrimage with special train, while residents pursue travel and church work in Green Bay and Jewell Junction. Obituaries note Miss Bessie Jutte’s death aged 14.
Trom Breslau writes Consul H. T. Spehr on Esperanto expansion. American manufacturers and dealers should use it in campaigns for foreign trade. There are Esperanto groups in the twenty four leading German cities and new ones forming. Worldwide about 425 groups plus sixty organizations use Esperanto. Fourteen periodicals are wholly in Esperanto, seventeen partly, and nineteen journals devote space to Esperanto content.
A Roosevelt complimenting a congressman's wife leads to a witty exchange about hair and memory. The piece contrasts the president's charm with a remark on how a wife might be remembered based on appearance. The passage appears in World's Events Magazine.
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