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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1909
Page
2
The Burt County newspaper defends its stance on the supervisor issue, denies seeking favors from the drainage board, and rejects any insinuations of graft. It recalls expressing regret at Mr. Ogren’s resignation, asserts no political influence, and invites further questions from the Monitor.
A Courier report claims Chicago catalogue houses plan a new blitz in Iowa and the northwest to regain lost trade amid pure food laws. Fourteen hundred trained men will canvass rural areas to persuade farmers, organize lyceums, and push goods, aiming to revive catalog houses at the expense of home merchants. The piece argues for merchant cooperation and warns against harming town growth. it also notes Rep Dabney proposes a bank guaranty law akin to the Oklahoma model.
Death of A M Coan after months of illness cancer of the liver and stomach. He was manager and part owner of a tile plant and a respected carpenter designer. Born Sept 12 1858 in Russellville Ohio he left his mother and grandmother after death. Funeral held here with Rev Holmes then burial in Ohio home. Mrs I W Dingley to visit Yellow Springs. Bargains at Patterson Son ad in issue.
A moving sale in Dakota moves listing of horses cattle farm machinery and household items. Auction at 10 a.m. features four horses two ponies cattle yearlings and calves, farm implements including Deering binder and Dutch Uncle cultivator, two wagons and a cherry list of supplies. Terms: cash under 10 dollars, over 10 dollars eight percent interest for 10 months. Free lunch at noon. Provisions by W H Bingaman proprietor auctioneer John M Vinson W K Ferguson clerk.
Ill health forces sale at public auction on the farm four miles west and two miles south of Algona five miles east and fourteen miles south of Whittemore on Tuesday February 2 beginning at 10 oclock. Free lunch at noon. Nine head of horses including a brown Percheron team in foal and other working stock. Twenty-six head of cattle with dairy cows, heifers, and a Short Horn bull. Twenty-five Duroc hogs with brood sows and fall pigs. About 100 chickens, 600 bushels of corn, hay, seed corn and machinery including multiple wagons plows mowers binders separators and more. Terms cash under 10 with installments on bankable notes at 8 percent. All property to remain until settled for. Mrs Sypitua Stanpow Prop. Auctioneer H B Dailey. Clerk Wm Ferguson.
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