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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1903
Page
4
Markets corrected weekly with prices for oats wheat barley and hay items including oats at 2a, wheat at .54, barley at .22, wax toys at 4.00 per unit, butter 20 cents, timothy seed listed with a rate of 1. Raat "10, and other miscellaneous agricultural items. The document reflects typical rural trade figures and commodity quotes from the period.
Mrs E B Butler visits Cedar Rapids while Cooke and wife travel from Des Moines. Tom Stull visits Corwith with relatives. Several locals travel to Rolla Missouri for land business. Court attendance and neighborhood social events noted. The high school senior orations upcoming and local teaching moves reported alongside local court matters and a barbershop procurement from Des Moines.
A fragmentary column recalls a Marshall Minnesota death and notes a delayed wedding plan. It also critiqued youth curfews and manners, citing Fort Dodge Messenger style moral reflections on social conduct and propriety.
Conductor Harry Fox on the Davenport to Council Bluffs run discovers a six year old Italian boy packed in a grip crying to be let out. A ten year old girl is found in an adjoining seat, surrounded by traveling traps. Two other youngsters travel free, too young to require fare, as Davenport Special reports.
Geo I Nelson suffered serious hand injuries while unloading hay at his barn last week. A rope on a tandem fork got tangled as the team pulled the load, catching two fingers in the pulley and tearing nails and flesh. TheTitonka Topic reports the incident.
Des Moines News reports a man named Ben Walker watched $700 vanish as a windblown incident outside Des Moines National Bank. About $5,000 more remained in his buggy, saved only by a total stranger who refused payment. A $6.75 check and two ten dollar bills are missing if not recovered. In other notes Webster City Freeman cites Hardin County’s large GOP majority, Cummins leading with a 2,732 margin, the largest Republican gains in the county’s history amid Tuesday polls.
A Palo Alto Tribune excerpt recalls Emmetsburg duck hunting of 1908 as perhaps the best ever seen in the valley. It notes men could shoot ten to thirty ducks in an afternoon and laments old times as cherished, vowing the memories will be discussed by those who enjoyed them.
Chas Cohenour and his wife of Algona visited Dr. Walters' home Sunday. Cohenour is the present county chairman of the Republican party. He leaves soon for St Louis to make his future home. He will likely succeed in his new field as one of Sossuth's best attorneys, and his departure is regretted.
The Burt Monitor notes growing concern over cruel treatment of animals as residents urge the formation of a humane society to prevent horses and other dumb animals from starving and suffering.
Mrs J Dolliver of Fort Dodge has been named national historian of the Daughters of the Revolution. She will organize officers and has just instituted a new chapter in her home city Kurt Dodge Palo Alto Tribune.
In a Burt Monitor note, Mr and Mrs Cant Salisbury celebrate a fine one pound boy hired as a would be helper last Thursday. The item ends with a cheerful blessing for the child to aid the couple. The locality is also advertising loans at five percent and shoe prices at a local Variety Store.
The Advance offers reduced clubbing rates to county subscribers to boost circulation without canvassing. New subscribers may get The Advance plus one weekly for $1.00 cash. Options include Iowa State Register or Des Moines Capital or Sioux City Tribune, or The Advance with Des Moines Daily News for $2.25, or The Advance with Sioux City Daily Tribune for $2.75. Delinquent subscribers may also be included if all arrears are paid. Orders must include spot cash.
Mrs. C Little is sick. Mrs. Nels Johnson stayed at Algona. Neal Nielsen recently operated on can sit up. Ladies Aid meets with Mrs. Grant Benschoter. Fred Shultz returned from Wentworth. Mr. Shultz Sr. plans to visit soon. Clara Johnson with Dr. White’s sister Had typhoid fever. Jr. Tribon out several times. Gertrude Nielsen visited Drake University rival Grinnell. Drake beat Grinnell in football celebration observed. Variety Store offers heavy wool socks two pair for 25 cents. Durham bull for service at Lacy barn 1.50 paid at service. Louvia Ann M. Be. Glenwood Duroc Jerseys herd for sale one mile SE of town. Prefer Larson, Prop. Very low rates to International Live Stock Exposition via North-Western Line. Excur sion tickets Nov 29 30 Dec 1, valid to Dec 7. Apply to OC and NW Ry agents.
Tax sale notice dated October 28 1903 warns Geo R Wells that on December 5 1898 parcels Lots6 7 8 and 11 in Block1 May Barrets Park Addition Wesley Township were sold for unpaid taxes. Certificate now held by Wm C Datusen with 90 days to redeem after service of notice or deed will be issued.
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