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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1907
Page
9
GEO, BOYLE'S COLUMN notes $1200 raised at the Algona county fair meeting for a new amphitheatre and judges stand, with $1000 more since. It reports many town events, school trustees elected, lectures attended, locals’ comings and goings, cattle markets, illnesses, and family news, painting a bustling Whittemore and surrounding area scene.
A jagged mix of local snippets from Buffalo township and Titonka area covers property disputes, farm moves, and farm life. Ora Simmons leaves for a farm job. political talk hints at candidates for Titonka mayor. Queal Lumber adds scales. a liver joke circulates. school board, dances, basket socials, and visits fill the week. Joe Bisby plans work on the Bob Young ranch. a neighbor returns a sick mare. Nel lie Manning seeks dressmaking help in Algona.
The Halbur community successfully pressured the Bishop to revoke a ministerial change. The former pastor remains temporarily in charge, and the town reflects on the failed plan. Laura Rahm attends dressmaking course in Algona under Madiste Baldwin while Edward Rahm drives her to the city. Hampton Creamery opens a local cream station with Jos. Rahm in charge offering liberal prices for cream. Thirteen hour devotion starts at the Catholic church Thursday morning.
Philip Weisbrod, a prominent farmer in the Fenton area, plans extensive tiling this season. He has contracted to tile about 20,000 feet of tile on his farms, and his operation covers 800 acres in one block. Public roads divide the land, and he has purchased tiles that will soon be laid across every foot, improving land quality to among the best in Iowa.
L W Henderson of Algona Iowa remains prepared to relocate structures. Also offered is a first class Oliver typewriter used briefly, for sale. Write Box A Burt Iowa for details.
A Wisconsin rail line promoter advertises sale of pamphlets and maps at low postage. Listings include Valuable Publications such as Excelsior Springs and Among the Lakes, with prices from two to twenty-five cents. Also offered are California Overland Limited leaflets and South Dakota to Montana railway maps, each described with content and postage details.
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