Local Happenings and Community Notices
Friday evening features an oratorical contest at the high school with substantial audience anticipated. Distinguished readers and speakers include Kenneth Sutton Cleora Norton Kenneth Stock Walter Walker and others performing declamations and readings amid interspersed music. Attendance details and admission prices are listed, while community notices report deaths births marriages and local elections updates along with various public announcements and social events across Algona and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Sutton
Cleora Norton
Kenneth Stock
Presswell
Emily Rist
Fay Morris
Walter Walker
Patrick Henry
Raymond Paine
Lincoln
Ian Davidson
John Adama
Lyle Cook
Helen Vinson
Mildred Kresenkeky
Laurel Hutchison
A Quarter of a Century Ago in the Courier of 1891
A wrap of notes from Carroll in 1891 reports Carroll having ten saloons open, seven new houses built in Garfield township, and a spring of building and improvements countywide. Mentions sessions heading to Des Moines for state fair matters, a move back to Illinois by John Lane after his mother’s death, Ernest Lee building a new house, and talk of Editor Miller and Consul Hanna’s possible South American move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lane
Illinois
Ernest Lee
Mentonae
Apton
Miller
The
Livermore Gazette
South America
Phil Hanna
Phil
Towa
Solid men of Seneca transact business in Agona week
Local notes report solid men in Agona, plans for Seneca alliance to discuss the corn question, and property trades in town. Upcoming schoolhouses are planned on the hill, with several towns building facilities. Marriage licenses issued for two couples, and a Patterson Bros. sugar sale noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seneca Alliance
Ramsey Township
Buffalo
Drvington
LaVerne
Questions on world order and war powers
A reader letters questions about the Hague Tribunal authority and global governance, who controls world peoples, if the United States should fire on merchant ships carrying armaments, and whether government actions serve corporate interests. The writer asks if Austria and Germany were fully compensated for royal victims and questions wartime respect and consequences. A. Owen.
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U. 8
U. S
Austria
Germany
A. Owen
The Wrong Time of Year The Erupt Kid and the Caterpillar
A garbled tale recounts a youth and a caterpillar incident, with dialogue suggesting a humorous misunderstanding. The fragment hints at a scene where a child reacts to a caterpillar and an attempted turn of phrase.
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Rock Rapids
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Rock Valley
Mann
Laura Solon
Doon
James Quinlan
Order of Moose
C. R. Madaon
D. McClellan
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C.C. Barton
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C. F. Osier
J. D. Caughlin
St. John
Geo
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Harry
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C. H. Worster
Riverdale
Jones
Congregational Church
Alfred Peterson
Judge Cook
Jim Wall
D. Casler
Couto
Malisan
St. Joe
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Francis Grosnickle
Wm. Grosnickle
Frank McEnroe
Stagle
Henry C. Adams
Burt Monitor
Bancroft Register
Samuel Otto Hedrick
Helen Padgett
Gaylord B. Johnson
Clara M. Newel
Noah Askin
Emma Esther Heifner
Jacob Koenen
Bertha Geerdes
Monitor
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Minneapolis Tribune
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N. D
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North Dakota
Knights of Columbus
E. E. Conner
F. W. Peck
Minnesota
Topeka
Kan
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Mike Rustemier
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W. P. Hurn
Hurn
Frank Skilling
Rochester
Kenefick
Miga Hazel Roupe
Lotts’ Creek
Io Algona
Harriet Roupe
Anne Morgan
Charles J. Dittmer
Union Township
Algons
Opera House
I Taxge
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Mire. Thompson
Hugh Connolly
S. C. Spear
Geo. C. Call
Sioux City
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Edward Sharman
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J. J. Sherman
Sayers
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Chas. Peterson
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Gc.n. Johnson
Frank Gilmore
W. J. Garman
Canada
Henry Hischeid
J. Grandgenet
May Jennings
Hans Carlson
Courier
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Des Maines
Henry Mason
Garfield. Anya
Wm Klein and
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Wm. Tiechan
Wes Hahn
Melzar Haggard
Milwaukee
W. J. Schich
Nina M. Robingson
A. D. Paine
Florence Spear
Patterson Bros
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A. D. Clarke
Ipetitt
Andrew Burt
Geo. Patterson
W. P. Giddings
Huger Ford
O. E. Buss
S. A. Dunn
F. H. Paine
B. W. Tennant
Mike Shiltz
Chas Higley
Ed Yeamans
W. H. Fox
RB. H. Spencer
Martin Schoolman
August Krause
C. B. Paul
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Sam Plumley
W. Zoelle
Charley Lichty
Henry Klindt
W. A. Hunt
Carl Biggin
Edward Will
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D. M. Fairy
Northup King
M. L. Webster
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C. J. Stephenson
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