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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1901
Page
4
A weekly column notes a foreign horse buyer in town and rumors of a Whittemore party planning a western tour to start a colony. It reports illnesses, a mayoral debate, a liquid air lecture, local business moves, entertainment in Whittemore, and the death of Mrs Valentine Wallace with funeral plans pending.
Swen City News reports the Bancroft area held an old settler reunion last week attended by Ellis GC Anderson J Lengthson and Nels Bengtson. Citizens advocate strict measures against Armstrong to stop smallpox, amid several reported cases. James Sheridan of Bancroft visited the city. Theo Berg, a respected Swea Township citizen, died after a weeklong typhoid pneumonia illness. Theo Miche returned from a Fayett County trip and Q I Baker came back from Des Moines after ten days away.
Hobart notes Walter Phelps left for Minneapolis to seek an operator job on the M and St P line. Mrs LaPlant’s sister and children visit from Marshalltown. Mrs Robinson leaves for Illinois with Mrs Ferguson who has been ill. Mr R will visit Wisconsin for inspection before returning. Miss Susie Rist returns from St Paul where she visited her father and friends. Martha is doing fine work. built a barn last fall, painted residence, now improving home inside. Cook brothers renovate store with ceiling walls and floor refined. Lang did the work. Cook Bros are up to date stock buyers paying top prices for grain and hay.
Last Wednesday Cresco Mutual Benefit Club members and friends joined Mrs. Q. Ingalsbe for a quilting event at her home, with a dinner and a showpiece patchwork quilt to display to Oklahoma ladies. The note also records a Kansas City cattle purchase by Jesse C. Adams of Musquequa for Carnation, a three year old Hereford cow, at 3700 dollars, said to be a record price, plus a compilation of real estate and business listings from B. F. Crose’s abstract notices.
A correspondent describes a six month old calf slaughter and a cow’s emotional response. The grieving cow searches for her calf, halts milk flow, calls and moos, isolates herself, and shows visible distress and tears after the loss. The account draws sympathy for the animal’s perceived maternal grief.
A grocer recalls a deaf customer whose shouting drew a cranky patron into a loud exchange. The tale ends with the husband revealing he earns more, prompting a mock reflection on being printed in the press. Across brief scraps, London Tit Bits and New York Weekly jests about privacy, marriage, and social missteps.
Excursion rates to Mardi Gras in New Orleans and nearby locales are offered by the Chicago and Northwestern. Limited rush tickets available for travel before March 7, with reduced fares to principal winter resorts in the United States and Mexico. Contact ticket agents for full information.
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