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Farmers Institute and Corn Show dates listed
Local notes cover Father Vaughn lecture date January 20 and a series of community updates. Mentions John Wellendorf’s farm for rent, stores closing at 6 pm, travel notes about B F Grose and G W Lambert, and plans for a January Agricultural Society meeting. Also notes ticket sales for Way Down East, local marriages, business changes, and various visits, with the county paper choices for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Vaughan
John Wellendorf
Algona
B. F. Grose
Spencer
G. W. Lambert
Waverly
Farmers’ Institute
Frank Wiemer
Ledyard
Illinois
Ele
Corwith
Chas. Foskett
Orange
Mass
Texas
Stilson
Towa
Father Vaughn
Emmetsburg
Whittemore
Bancroft
Burt
Wesley
St. Benedict
Mason City
J. M. Brown
Searles & Baxter
Marblemen
Cedar Rapids
E. P. Keith
Mr. Brown
Jessamine Jones
Timmie
Miss Jones
Peter Winkel
Alonzo D. Clarke
Charley Magnussen
Clarke
Winkel
Matt Kuhn
Ehlers
Des Moines
C. B. Satchett
Hancock Grocery House
Dubuque
Everly
Clay County
Emma Douglas
Little Boy
North Dakota
Joseph Zanke
Miss Dodd
Tom Lawson
Theo Schroeder
W. P. Jones
Julia Nolan
Cloquet
Mina
Sioux City Journal
First National Bank
City National Bank
First National
City National
Geo. C. Call
Germania
Finn Bank
E. J. Murtagh
C. C. Chubb
Gardner Cowles
Cowles & Murtagh Bank
Guy Dalton
Will Butler
Sexton
Matt Butler
Cretameyer
John Branagan
W. S. Branagan
Emmetsburg Democrat
Mercy Hospital
Lawler
Ireland
Jesuit Fathers
Stonyhurst College
Lancaster
England
Iowa
Clermont
Fayette County
Branagan