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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1917
Page
4
A mixed livestock listing details several horses by color age and weight. Grey mare eight years in foal weighs 1500 pounds. Black geldings aged six and five weigh 1500 and 1300 pounds. Bay mares four and two weigh 1400 and 1200 pounds. Bay gelding three weighs 1300. Black mare five weighs 1300. A bay mare two weighs 1200. A bay mare coming two weighs 1100 with one last spring colt noted.
Kansas City reports a long range forecast noting a warm dry spell from late January to late April 1917 with spring starting January 26 in some areas and February 17 in most. Expect cool changes late April to mid May, early frosts, and generally normal to near normal temperatures and rainfall through the year with agricultural plenty in many regions.
A letter from C. E. Owen of Algona Iowa questions why the U S Constitution used a male citizen standard for voting and taxation. It asks if women should resist paying taxes, provoke rebellion, and challenges gender norms while reflecting on English influence, family roles, and kitchen chemistry.
Swea City meat market owner Bill Wenzel recently installed an ammonia driven ice machine from a Des Moines supplier. The unit, with eight horsepower pump and complex piping, freezes water by ammonia cooling and brine, cutting daily ice tasks from shipping to refrigeration. The upgrade cost about $1,600 and runs several times daily in summer, less in winter.
Wesley World column recounts Lou Matern driving through snow when his engine caught fire. A neighbor helped extinguish the blaze with snowballs, then the damaged road vehicle was towed to Titonka. On returning home another mishap left Lou with two broken ribs, yet he remained calm.
H Austin of Canada returned for a short visit visiting wife and family in Titonka. He left around fifteen years ago to take a homestead in the King's Domain, his son Wardaleo moved to Canada and settled on a claim. Now in Iowa City with daughter Gladye, the first home visit in years.
An ad encourages farm and stock sales with Auctioneer Peter W. Dahlhauger of Whittemore, Iowa, as the selling agent. It advertises rental notices for Mrs Zanke and Mrs Jacob Winkel, and lists warrants and payment calls with February interest groups and treasurer H. Jr. McCheaney.
Mason City special reports Leater Barlow of Clear Lake, inventor of an aerial torpedo and aerial bomb, has left for Philadelphia to conduct tests in a government arsenal. He claims a serial torpedo can be dropped from a plane from 1000 feet and explode seven feet above ground, with a lethal radius of 100 feet. A government patent for manufacture is granted. he declines military commission and pay.
Herman K. Kurt of Eagle Grove was tried this week after being indicted for perjury. The jury found him guilty as charged, facing a ten year sentence though parole may alter the term. The piece closes with a call to end perjury and to uphold the oath to tell the truth.
Humboldt Republican reports Frank Gotch purchased most of Editor Hopkins’s blooded horses after a prior favor between them. One two year old remained with Hopkins for driving and personal use. The horses will be kept on Gotch’s farm and used for driving, bringing satisfaction to the champion.
A parole violator from Iowa, Ed Smith, allegedly sought a pardon to his mother in Oklahoma but was exposed as composing a fraudulent letter from Franco claiming he died a hero while enlisted in an English regiment. Smith, sentenced from Scott County for breaking and entering, fled Iowa in April 1915.
In the February 1917 term of the district court Patrick A Adams and Oscar F Hale with unknown claimants seek to quiet and establish title to a described tract in township 90 north range 29 west. The defendants including unknown claimants must answer by February 1 1917. otherwise default and judgment will be entered. Sullivan and Mestoeon represent the plaintiff.
In the District Court of Iowa for Kossuth County, February term, Tormine Melzar P Haggard plaintiff sues Henry E B Kramer and Alice A Kramer and Mary Montana Savery and others unknown claimants of the SE quarter of Section 34 Town 97 Range 28 West of the 5th P M to quiet and establish plaintiff’s title to the described premises. The petition seeks barring of all unknown claimants and other defendants from any right or interest. Default will be entered on February 7 at the Algona courthouse if not answered, with Sullivan and McMahon representing the plaintiff.
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