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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
4
Burt notes report visitors and travels including Lois Wesvet in Burt, Miss Zell Hardgrove from Algona, and many neighbors visiting relatives in Fort Dodge Worthington and Des Moines. Community events include Red Cross play at the opera house and a church Ladies meeting. local building projects add silos and a brick barn. Death of D. W. Pratt, Burt dentist, mourned by family.
Cresco news notes summarize social visits and daily life including Will Galbraith building a cement block site G W Grown and son at Frank Sparks home Albert Bass trades for a Maxwell Lewis Wilden and son George travel to Ft Dodge Ethel Fry ill with Liberty measles several family picnics near Plum Creek visits at Gardener home Whittemore and Emmetsburg trips Stirring mention of haying conditions amid whooping cough and various gatherings at farms and towns including Clear Lake Algona and Interlaken Park
Peter Thompson has been on the sick list this week. Mr and Mrs J L Green spent Sunday at Corwith and Monday at Irvington. Lloyd Spooner left for Chicago to spend the summer. Mrs Alice Griffitt hosted a party for her two sons Joe and Bob. Mrs C A Waln and daughters with Mrs Murphy toured Fort Dodge and back. Ernest Edge and Ray Hamrod visiting at the Methodist parsonage. H FE Veitzke and family visited Mason City. Elizabeth Janse returned from Racine and Chicago. Mrs Helger has retired home from Algona hospital and is improving. Excavation for Dr Janse’s new home foundation is underway. Ralph Robinson returned from Sioux City for a visit. Mrs Ross and Mrs Alfred Beckman gave a baby party for Elizabeth and Dana. Ayers Robertson of Monterey, Mexico arrived, later leaving for New York City. Mrs Robertson and family plan to join him in Kansas City and return to Monterey.
W Dilon received a Sunday visit from his father. F W Amspoker of Waterloo was a business caller last week. Dillon drove northeast county roads last Friday. Mr and Mrs Harry Lichty Mr I Robinson and Ralph drove to CorWith last Sunday afternoon visiting Mr Robinson's daughter. Gottlobb Weisenberg was transferred from Dodge to Fort Robinson Nebraska and writes he likes the new post in Co B Ut 4 Gnas.
The local board requests additional volunteers from Class T with some experience in mechanics for training at government expense. Chicago Trials will enroll 103 Grammar School graduates to report to Local Boards by June 21. Only white men physically qualified for general military service will be inducted. Signed Crowder Pro vest Marshal General.
Everett and Hugh Lusby, drafted in Independence Iowa, arrived overseas about a month ago aboard a voyage across the Atlantic. Everett, in Wagoner with the 110th engineer train, writes that they reached France safely despite early seasickness and note the country’s ancient, walled cities and unfamiliar customs. He mentions receiving a box of candy and a letter after reaching the eastern edge of “God’s country.”
Congregational Church Sunday services include a sermon by the minister on The Army Y M C A Work as Seen from the Inside. The rest of the day’s services proceed as usual. The piece notes a 25 years ago feature from the Courier dated June 16, 1893, with various local items: A A Call and family leaving for the World’s Fair, Armstrong water works talk, a precocious child in Armstrong, Deputy Sheriff McEnroe at a sheriffs’ meeting in Council Bluffs, Geo Stewart visiting with a circus, and a circus accident leaving an actor with injuries.
Giddings of Wesley reports a ten acre price of F20 per acre for farm land in Cerro Gordo County. Tohn Kaiti sent seven young wolves from his northern court area. Ed Murtagh, Col. Seastons mid niece of TW, noted. Wadsworth family mourns wife and daughter who left for the World’s Fair last Tuesday. Gardner Cowles builds a new city water intake and wires for electric lights. Hog market softer this week, prices from 5.50 to 6.50. Milwaukee and Chicago business colleges mentioned with a move to Burt bank during cashier’s absence. Joe Cordingly’s market robbery occurred Monday evening, about 20 dollars stolen from Digs meat market while Perry St John tended the market. The thief entered the back door then carried the till to the yard and sold it.
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