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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1909
Page
4
A local shop advertises a very large and carefully selected line of Valentines and Valentine post cards described as real beauties. The notice invites customers to visit the store for a broad assortment and mentions affordable pricing.
Local store promotes a new no leftovers line with all new stock and bargain pricing. Shoppers urged to view the full line before making selections and consider options available.
E E Conner & Co advertises Rexall Mucu-Tone as a blood based cure for catarrh and related female illnesses. It claims 98 percent success under a physician’s regimen and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied. Product sold in two sizes, 50c and 1.00, by Algona dealer E. E. Conner & Co.
An advertisement claims eczema is a skin disease best cured through the skin using oil of wintergreen thymol and glycerine in a liquid formula. It credits Dr. D D Dennis with discovering the eczema germ and promotes D D D Prescription with D D Soap as the recommended regimen.
GEO. BOYLE'S COLUMN recounts local life with wry tone as storms and blizzards hit Algona Whittemore and nearby towns. The piece mentions machinery, dances, wind damage to storefronts, stalled telephones, and the Strategy Board social event with jokes about local figures. References to Dennis Vayes illness, Frank Tholt trips, and residents moving or visiting showcase a snapshot of small town concerns and humor.
The Bancroft News reports upcoming property changes as Thorson, Delperdang, Grandgenet, and Johnson households shift sites and tenants across local farms. Clarence Odell survives a serious shop accident at the tile factory with a scalp wound. Dr. Sartor attends. A Lincoln Birthday program and school union event is planned, with S. K. McMahon as speaker. Local politics, road and ditching work, and assorted community notices fill the page alongside farming prospects, market day ads, and health updates.
In Forest City last week the Kossuth and Winnebago boards met in joint session. Five Kossuth members are Democrats though the county leans Republican, and Democratic visitors felt at home in the Republican citadel. Chairman Ogren of Kossuth, who resigned for private business, was reappointed by Republican officials. Also an rental ad notes a seven room house near the I. C. depot vacant February 15 for $10 monthly, with utilities and three lots, letters to J J McCall, Webster City Iowa.
John Seefelfeld farms up for sale at a public auction February 10 1909 starting at 10 o clock. Location one mile east and twenty miles north of Sexton and six miles northwest of Wesley. Items include seventeen horses twenty two cattle twenty one hogs extensive farming machinery a cream separator and 2500 bushels of corn. Terms cash for sums to ten dollars others on 10 months at 8 percent interest lunch provided.
In the District Court of town in Kossuth County a foreclosure petition is on file seeking payment of debts totaling sixteen dollars and twenty cents with interest at 8 percent per year from May 20. The suit includes a promissory note dated Sept 26 and a mortgage securing the debt on property in Original Plat block ten, together with tax and abstract fees, seeking attorney fees and foreclosure. Defendants are John W. Dieckman and T. E. Dieckman plus others. If not answered by February term, default will be entered and judgment granted.
To the named defendants you are notified that by February 2, 1900, a petition seeking foreclosure of a mechanic’s lien on real estate in Fenton has been filed. The suit claims $308.30 plus interest from December 1, 1908 for lumber and materials supplied to R A O’Dell for a house and outbuildings on Lot Sixteen in Block Two, between April 180 and June 9, 1908, with no personal judgment unless you appear by February 16, 1909.
In Kossuth County District Court, Ellaworth & Jones, Inc. sues Albert Young, Louisa Young, Lulu Gonlich, BE, W. Stevenson and D. W. Wiley. Plaintiffs claim sixteen and 39-100 dollars plus interest, eighty-one and 74-100 dollars on mortgage notes, seventy-five and 5 dollars on other notes, plus taxes and abstract fees. Personal judgment sought against Albert Young and Louisa Young, costs, and attorney fees. Foreclosure of a mortgage on the west half of the southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 98, Range 28. No personal judgment against others. Defendants must answer by Feb 15, 1900, or default. JOS. M. DYE, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Ferdinand Mittag a registered pharmacist seeks a permit to buy keep and sell intoxicating liquors in Kosuth County Iowa. The application lists the Mittag Grefiert firm and a deeded property description with a February 1909 hearing date at Algona District Court. Also a help-wanted ad for a corrugated pipe salesman appears.
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