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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1905
Page
7
The sale features buy one dress at regular price and get a second dress free. Buy material for a waist at regular price and receive enough for another waist free. Ladies Misses and Childs Winter coats come with a free choice item. Silk waist offer and a 20 percent discount on underwear gloves mitts gowns blankets and sweaters.
Local notices report Norton quoting lower coal prices, Des Moines trip dullness, a new newspaper at Cylinder, and many small business updates. Highlights include Brownell’s clearance sale, a $18 000 Garner hotel opening, hospital discharge for Carl Isaacson, and a fatal diphtheria scare in the county.
Mrs Helen A Dickinson Tennant died after paralysis in Hartley where the Tennant family had lived recently. Born January 29, 1846 in Adrian Michigan, she taught school, wed Joel W. Tennant in 1864, and they ran hotels in Dorchester Hartley Algona. Survived by husband, two daughters Mrs Freeman Patch and Mrs Max Herbst and Mrs C T Chubb, and son Earl. funeral held in Algona.
In a bankruptcy hearing before Referee Crowes last Monday, creditors questioned Frank Allison about his assets. He turned over $53.83 and four cows plus 82 hogs were found unlisted. Debts include multiple named creditors and banks, with several figures, and preferred creditors listed including landlord John Wellendorf, International Harvester Co, and Kossuth County taxes.
Edward Johnson sells his mercantile business and plans to open a new bank in Sexton. The deal completed last week will boost local commerce and expand the town’s financial services, with Mr. Edward Jobson involved in the transaction.
A trading of a store building and farm properties between Johnson and Savage updates Sexton business plans. Johnson moves from farming to banking while Savage leaves farming for a store business, with a new brick bank to be erected south of the Johnson store. The piece praises Sexton prospects and Johnson’s rise from a $36 start, urging local youth to follow suit. Also recounted is a Whittemore Champion note about a mistaken horse killing, where Nick Wagner and John Koch nearly caused a misfire over a horse with a bad wire cut.
The Kossuth County Supervisors were paid a total of 2508.05 for 1904 per County Auditor reports. Chairman Albert Ogren earned the least, while J. Cullen of Whittemore received the highest sum for mileage per diem and committee work. Names listed include A Ogren Ledyard J 8 Cullen Whittemore John G Smith Algona A Jacobson Seneca W T Hall Titonka with detailed pay amounts such as 85.00 for W T Hall and Poor Farm charges noted.
Court record lists new cases including E P Swetting versus John Robertson and J L Sutton L W Cotant versus J A Simpson M O Skuttle versus John Craig Geo C Munch versus Wm Heiter Hope Knicker Do you think it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven Becker Not if they judge him by the taxes he pays Flour we have an interesting price on rising as hard wheat flour Remember we warrant every sack Patterson Son Money to loan at 5 per cent A D Clarke Co
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