Teachers Meeting to be Held in Algona Next Week
The Kossuth County Teachers Association will meet Friday and Saturday January 27th and 28th with visits to Algona schools possible for teachers from other districts. Registration at the central city building required to plan visits. Friday features a free lecture Grace and Gumption by Profit O. P. Colgrove at Congregational church and reading by Miss May Farley. Saturday morning program in the Bryant building begins at 8 o'clock with papers and discussions on teaching language, school decorations, library use, and parental expectations, followed by an election of officers.
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Boards of Directors
Algona
Profit O. P. Colgrove
Cedar Falls
Grace and Gumption
Congregational Church
Grace O. Stevenson
Minnie Erwin
Esther Adolphson
Edna Williams
Nellie Galagan
Margaret Corweiler
W. Kerguson
Geo. Carroll
J.T. Graham
C. D. Ward
Albert S. Murray
Laura C. Peterson
Bessie Brinton
Jessie McArthur
Co. H. Bellnapp
State Dairy Convention in Mason City February 1 2
The 28th annual meeting of the Iowa State Dairy Association will be in Mason City on February 1 and 2 with strong speakers and a cash premium fund of 800 dollars plus prize medals. The event aims to boost dairying knowledge from cow breeding to product making and promises broad participation and reasonable rates.
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Towa State Dairy Association
Mason City
Poultry Letter Praises Plymouth Rocks Versatility
The Burt Monitor prints a letter suggesting Plymouth Rocks excel not only at setting but also at laying and table use, countering the belief they only brood. The writer argues the breed serves multiple practical roles and invites readers to learn more from the letter.
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Burt Monitor
Plymouth Rocks
Higher Criticism Debate Shocks Chicago Medical Students
Jan. 4 in Cur iaco reports a University of Chicago medical lecture where Dr. A P Mathews argued there is no divine origin of life and that Adam and Eve are mythical. He asserted life is produced by physical and chemical processes and predicted real life could soon be created in the laboratory.
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Curiaco
University of Chicago Medical
A. P. Mathews
Mathews
Death from leg wound shocks Livermore area
News from west of St Joseph reports Nick Decker bled to death after a knife slipped while he was skinning a beef. The wound was likely in the groin and proved fatal despite physicians arriving from Bode and Ottosen. Mgr. Decker, a St Joseph figure, leaves a wife and two children. Funeral held at St Joseph. Burt Monitor notes D L Driver top butter quality in Spencer trip. Also ads for dry wood, work shoes at Galbraith’s and a cutter for sale.
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Livermore Gazette
Nick Decker
St. Joseph
Bode
Ottosen
Mgr
Decker
St. Joe
Work for assessors The Taking of the Census Will Be a Difficult Undertaking
The 1905 state census will be collected by county assessors using four schedules covering population, farm, town and city, and an agricultural road. Questions cover name, birthplaces, property values, occupations, schooling, military service, and extensive farm outputs. Assessors have to finish by June 1 with cards returned to the state department every ten days. local rates for real and personal property are listed, and the county is divided for assessment purposes.
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P. O
United States
Iowa
Towa
P. O. Addres
State Department
Death of Thos Henderson in Algona Iowa
The Courier reported his illness and impending death but he died Thursday evening from apoplexy and paralysis. Born February 18 1844 in Orleans County New York, he moved to Ohio then Algona in 1857 where he lived until death. Survived by wife Margaret and six children, four of whom with their mother survive. Funeral Sunday conducted by Rev Holmes with relatives visiting from Delta Colorado and Minneapolis.
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the Courier
Thos. Henderson
Henderson
Mr. Henderson
Orleans County
N. Y
Ohio
Algona
Margaret C. Heckcart
Walter C
California
L. W
Frank
M. Cady
Blue Earth
Minn
Fort Dodge
Holmes
Congregational Church
Robert
Delta
Colorado
W. H. Stough
Brad Means
Minneapolis
Morris Chapin
Grandma Henderson
Emmetsburg
Cost of Raising Core in Kansas The Albany Ledger
An old corn grower notes production costs per bushel for Kansas crops. Sixty bushels per acre costs 18 cents, fifty bushels 16 cents, forty bushels 18 cents, thirty five bushels 22 cents, and thirty bushels 80 cents. These figures help judge if selling price is below cost of production.
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Fen Old Corn Grower
Money to loan at 5 percent advertised by firms
A. D. Cuanke & Co and A. D. Clarke & Co advertise loans at five percent with optional payment. Interest paid annually. Also invites customers to bring butter and eggs and lists high prices paid by Patterson & Son. A light wagon open buggy and single work harness for sale by W. H. Moller.
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A. D. Cuanke & Co
A. D. Clarke & Co
Patterson & Son
W. H Moller
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Frost King
FROST
HB. Conner A Co
Shackelford Bros
Court House
State Street
Woodford, Wheeler
Tompkins
Algona, State Street
Ripke
Spock Bros
Alvous, Fa
The
Kossuth County
Herman Dau
Herman Day
Burt
Prof. Mathews
University of Chicago Dantes Divine Creation
D. L. Driver
Spencer
Northwestern Iowa
N. CU. Taylor
Galbraith’s
Cutter
Jaa,Taylor
Thos
Kansas
Albany Ledger
Lk. W. Dingley
Algona Bats Bank
Anderson & Go’s
Ciars and
Tohacey
Trurureh
Moore Bros
OK Reliable
Huveniture Store
J. R. Laird
City Oray
T. A. Richardson
Imake
Willow Lane
Poland
China
J. R. Lilloie
Lowa
Dinuhes
Catlon
J. P. Byson
A. Q. Clarke & CO
Olie Norwood
Alona
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