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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1905
Page
7
Local retailer announces spring arrivals of the celebrated Nilsson silk coats and jackets. New stock includes black brown tan and white options with every pair warranted.
GEO. BOYLE'S COLUMN mentions Keeleyites and bootleggers in town with warnings of penalties for selling liquor to them. Obituary notes Henry Christian Meyer, German-born Elmhurst native who died April 7 after paralysis. Local opinions scorn Rockefeller, praise church missions, and report on Whittemore equalization board, bank bookkeeper Kepple, and school superintendent Belknapp. Also updates on weddings, cement block project, creamery offer, and local stock movements.
George Klinck visits weekly with assistant Carlson while barbershop service is approved by citizens. J W Hopkins supervises fence erection around farm quarter. Nick Weimerskirch trades for Minnesota land at 65 per acre in Grant county. N H Raskopf plans to vacate Bruns building as Globe hotel is renovated. Seeding nears finish. Martin Rahm buys out lot No 1 platted St Benedict for 87.50 per acre. Melzar Haggard passes through en route to a Wesley farm. P J Lickteig travels to meet son George returning home.
George reports excellent weather in Kansas while town sources recount weekly movements. The Town Separator Co. sent rep down from Algona to meet local agent Jos Rahm Sr. Theo Bohn and family shipped goods by the overland route to Algona. Theodore’s many friends regret his departure yet wish happiness in the new home. Wm. Rutshara arrived from Sexton with daughter Julia taking music lessons. M C Matern visited with a Ft. Dodge horse buyer. several arsefresh specimens were picked up. Frank Arndorfer and N W Witte delivered horses to a buyer in Corwith for good prices. Robert Goethe and Annie Raskopf visited Sexton friends. Road Supervisor G G Studer had a crew on city streets. G B Ludwig shipped two carloads of mixed stock to Chicago. X J Immerfall was here for several hours Friday.
Last Saturday John K Rippentrop traded his general merchandise stock for Ben Kleist’s quarter section farm eight miles northeast of Titonka at fifty dollars per acre. Kleist will move goods into the Hall building after invoices. John J Cosgrove bought Anton Pankuk’s Main Street restaurant building for 1200 and Pankuk will sell stock and move to Marion North Dakota to enter hotel business.
Matt Freilinger arrived Wednesday looking sound after a winter in the fatherland. He sailed March 10 via the north route, stopping in Canada, spent time in Luxemburg but will not live there again. A. D. Clarke & Co. advertises loan money at five and one half percent with annual interest.
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