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Local notes from Algona and surrounding area
Local news items include social events, travels, health updates, and community notes. Highlights cover Mrs. Wilkins visiting Rodman, Gov. Harding speaking at a Long Beach August picnic, cattle market steadiness, Farm Defense League meeting in Des Moines, and local school and church activities. Also noted are new bank names, Camp Fire Girls visits, pheasant release, and ongoing farm labor efforts coordinated by the Algona Commercial Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Opera House
Fred Cotterell
Moe and Sjogren
Mary Wilkins
Rodman
John Pool
Gov. Harding
Long Beach
California
Max Herbst
Theo
J. W. Wadaworth
Harry Jenkinson
W. F. Jenkinson
Des Moines
Welman
Livermore
Galbraith
H. D. Cerain
Whittemore
Henry Bowman
Miss Eisle
Bowman
Presbyterian Church
Irvington
Walter Barton
St. Paul
Barton
A.J. Keen
Bartonslan
Ames
Joe White
Republican
Boone
Mrs. White
Oakdale
Kossuth
Farmers’ State Bar
Bancroft
Scott Hayes
Clear Lake
Fraser
G. Minger
West Bend
Algona
Agnes Neuman
St. Benedict
Algona Hospital
Dicia Beane
Cedar Rapida
Coe College
Lang
E. W. van Derstan
Armstrone
G. E the Busman
Milo Gardner
John Schimmel
Berniece Baughman
Margret Strain
Julia Wuttock
Edna Sorensen
Cedar Falls
State Teachers’ College
Kuntz Grain Co
Wesley
Pete Seaberg
North End
Mr. Seaberg
Ed Kunz
Kunz
Ilinoia
Wisconsin
Mendota
Ill
Me. Kunz
Chicago
Congregational Church
Christian Endeavor
Methodist Church
J. J. Jones
H. P. Morgan
Woden
Adam Attig
Olive Eigenmann
Swedish Lutheran Church
Ruthven
Spencer
Algona Church
Algona and
E L. Dullard
Father Dullard
St. Michael