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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1909
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text shows a notice from Hinchon and Finnell in Algona with garbled phrases. It mentions subscriptions, rates, and a local notice page but specifics are unreadable. The readable elements indicate a business or legal notice context possibly about resubscription or rates.
A discussion on federal meat inspection costs and honesty follows, citing J F Warms of St Louis who resigned alleging corruption. Charges include misgrading, improper condemnation, and doctored carcass handling at stockyards. The piece also covers university funding critiques by Richard T Craine, Woodrow Wilson commentary, advances in surgery, and a push from Franklin County Fair to award cheap marriages at the fairgrounds, warning of moral concerns.
Two years ago Clark McCutchin of Milford was swindled out of 300 dollars in Sioux City over a fake foot race. He was lured by a man named Fields to invest in a supposed sure thing, but Fields vanished with the money. McCutchin Jr vowed to pursue the thief, Fields was arrested in Kansas last week, and local opinion contends Fields deserved the loss and harsher punishment.
On June 10 1909 Corpus Christi Thursday the Rev Magnus A Schemel celebrated his first holy mass at St Benedict Church. A solemn high mass followed a procession from the parsonage with a bridal party and mass servers. Afterward 500 relatives and friends attended a reception at the Parocial school house and an afternoon program.
Word reached Algona that Claud A. Sampson and Miss Mabel Bates married in a South Dakota ceremony. The Black Hills Daily Register reports a pretty wedding at John Turner’s home with many friends present. The couple will reside on Sampson’s Sturgis claim after a brief visit in Lead.
Court record lists new cases including Rous Price Pawlowski against Frank Pow owaki and William J. Anderson against F. C. Austin. Drainage Excavator Company appears with notices. Employment ad seeks a competent pit for general housework for Mrs. E. J. Murtagh.
Algona plans a week of lectures concerts and entertainments starting July 25 with Parland Newhall Company bells Col Bain Lincoln McConnell and Eva Bartlett Macy Company on the bill Bryan and Hagerman lectures Bob Seeds and Dr Hagerman. Diverse shows include trained animals moving pictures and a July 4 close with Rev Kennan sermon and Gamel illustrated lecture.
Captain J M Bowyer of the battleship Connecticut recovers two $500 diamond cuff buttons missing from his room during a Brooklyn yard period on May 1. Detective Edward Reilly traced the theft to a deserter’s circle and recovered the gems, one made into a ring and the other a scarf pin. Bowyer praises Reilly for the skilled work. Girls wanted at the Glove and Mitten Factory.
A Mason City special reports Cerro Gordo County's farm valued at 40000 by the board of supervisors. The 203 acres at 60 per acre yield land value 12180 and an income over expenses of 1035 last year. Meats eggs butter and produce added 122? total crops 2965, oats 900, cattle horses hogs poultry total 6722.80. Farm buildings valued at 15413.70. 30 inmates, 20 males and 10 females, 16 in the insane hospital. Off for Western Tour, La Verne News: Mrs R W Hanna and Miss Lurg depart for a western trip via Vinton to Arizona, California, Washington, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, returning by late August.
Tom Hawcott returns from England with pheasant eggs and raises English pheasants under a setting hen. He now has a small covey with a healthy brood.
Report notes exceptionally heavy suitcase traffic and high business volume with beer sales down. Market shows a general decline in several principles and a tangle of tongue and feet. Future orders for the Minnesota brand persist. Some men offer details on the attraction at an old shed last Friday night.
Special low reduced rates from all points daily via The Chicago and North Western Ry to Seattle Exposition Yellowstone Yosemite Colorado and the Pacific Coast. Electric lighted luxuriously equipped trains run daily between Chicago and major western points. Illustrated folder with Exposition description booklets maps and itineraries of personally conducted tours available free on application to any Ticket Agent.
John Lach Miller, residing east of Webster City, bought a 0.40 acre tract south of the city from Frank Mathias. The sale price was 152.50 per acre, totaling a modest amount for the parcel.
Wanted cattle for pasture. Address John Seefeld Algona Rt. 1. Pasture is 160 acres fine quality land four miles from Algona fenced into 40 acre fields with six wires. Price 2.25 per acre. Best Algona Iowa. Also wanted girls at Algona Steam Laundry and loan money at 5 percent with annual interest. Also a nice eight room house and three lots with cement sidewalk for 8000 sale or trade. Aberdeen Angus Bulls for sale. J F Schoby two miles north west of Algona Cedar Lane farm Rock bottom prices.
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