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Back in Iowa John Conner visits farms and friends
John Conner of San Antonio Texas returns to Iowa to tend his farms and reconnect with friends. Other news notes include Mrs. Frank Slagle visiting her parents in Strawberry Point, Mrs. Alonzo Clarke traveling to St. Cloud to see her daughter, and local residents like Fred Wehler in Madelia and Wally Slagle starting railroading in Minnesota. The Fenton Reporter reports a lightning strike on the Pompe farm barn in Lotts Creek. The Whittemore Champion notes John Brue found a purse at the Algona circus, and Mrs. Lantry’s improving condition is clarified after a transposed telegram. Oscar Norman returns from Carroll to work on the Catholic hospital project, with unions backing Bryan. Local youths fined for fishing, editor Tom Bilsborough’s alleged pocket-picking yarn denied, and several families begin a Sioux City trip for Beresford, S. D. typhoid concerns rise in Mankato with hundreds ill and nurses arriving. Excursion rates to the Iowa State Fair are set at three cents a mile, and local sport tensions flare over a Bode Bugle critique of Algona.