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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1909
Page
4
Principal Alexander outlines commencement plans for Bancroft High School with caps, orations, and baccalaureate sermons. Local families visit, travel, and illness updates mix with business notes, property trades, factory efforts, and band concerts as community life resumes for summer.
Algona civic groups unite for a city wide improvement drive on May 21 with Cleaning Day. Volunteers will clean streets alleys and vacant lots starting on State street with school children getting a half holiday supervised by Superintendent Overmyer and teachers. Prizes funded by PKEO society for best vegetable and flower gardens to be judged in August. Other clubs will tackle cemeteries weeds yards signs boards trees and park areas with assigned duties and contact points listed.
The column laments Dolliver's importance and Iowa political strain while recounting local happenings. It mentions Alfred Matsons ditching machine, Barton with a light generator accident, Dr. Guy Farley visiting, B F Crose and Barney Gardner in town, plans for a Whittemore water system, high school graduation, and many brief sketches of residents and tradespeople around Whittemore including Al Haas, Phil Cullen, Nan Butler, Mrs Boyles shingles, Dr McCreery, M Liddy, H J Thompson, and local stock shipments to Chicago.
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