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Advertised letters and local moves in Algona area
Local items list names of advertised letters and visiting figures such as Elmer Hake Tom mie Wells and Elmer Jaques. Mentions Rev Holmes visiting Algona, the Clendening family moving west, and fundraising candy sales by M E church girls. Notes on horse purchases Frank Fangman and Wm Paetz, and county real estate transfers totaling over 1.6 million dollars in March. Also reports on smallpox cases, quarantines, and staff changes at the courthouse and post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Hake
Tommie Wells
Elmer Jaques
J. R Canham
Mitchell
8. D
Rosouth
Tom Gray
Messrs Rice and
Zerfass
Ilinois
Illinois
J. H. Dunn
Crawford
Nebraska
Iowa
Algone
Woodrow Wilson
W. F. Jenkinson
Union Township
Fiest
Henry Buchart
Minnesota
Kossuth
Lotte Creek
Albert Wittkoff
Buchart
Lagenhausen
Witthof
J. E. Ray
Algona
Cedar Falls
Leo Dailey
Spencer
Spencer Herald
Verne Groes
Rice Place
Plum Creek
Ames
Wm. K. Ferguson
Jefferson Yeakel
Kanawha
Fred Zeigler
Cresco
Louis
Harvey Peck
Madison, Wis
Louis Gilbride
John Gilbride
Portland
Oregon
C. B. Hutchins
Courier
Goddard
Barraboo
Wis
W. J. Guderian
D Lynch
Lynch Boys
Lone Rock
Tlinois
Chicago