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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1911
Page
5
An explosion at the N. W. depot shows the safe blown open with no money taken. Agent Winkel found the inner door intact while the burglars used nitroglycerine to force entry. No suspects or trail were found, and the piece-end discussion questions whether society grows more moral amid rising crime.
A traveling man advertised the American Tobacco Co in Algona prior week. He arranged with liveryman Cheney, lumberman Watts, and Mayor Wadworth to place signs and paint a standpipe. Cheney endorsed a $765 check to aid the scheme, which Mog Brothers cashed. The con man then tried to get Cheney to endorse a further payment, leading to a bank check that failed identity checks.
A Hebron man Frank A Goodrich, 29, was killed last Saturday when a horse he bought kicked him while he unhitched it in Elmore. He was the sole support of his mother and sister. His nephew Stephen Goodrich of Mason City and Frank’s uncle described the tragedy and blamed the horse seller M W Smith of Hebron township for the fatal accident. The family also suffered a fall by the mother that week, bruising her badly.
A neighbor named Leason was injured when a crack in a jug of water caused it to break as he helped Jim Hanson fetch turpentine. The fall gash near his eye required quick medical care, with blood loss significant yet the patient recovering fully. The tale ends with a quip that Leason was the first to suffer more from a water jug than from a jug of whisky or other peril.
The Courier reports the engagement and upcoming marriage of Caroline Staley of Bancroft to Charles Miller of Sigourney. The ceremony will occur at the Staley home with both families and friends invited. the couple will reside in Sigourney after December first.
Local notes describe contracts for three drains with bids from Shinn & Bush Bancroft Geo H Erickson Armstrong and Walter A Anderson Clear Lake and mention the board’s plans for a fourth drain toward Buffalo Center. The piece also covers community events including a political drama, a charity knife fundraiser, a funeral, a sheriff story, a marriage in Des Moines and theater plans for The Lion and the Mouse at the opera house next week.
GEO BOYLE'S COLUMN credits Fred Wegener with organizing the most successful drainage meeting yet. Wegener gathered twenty farmers, produced survey and plan, allocated costs, and secured farmer commitments to fund the project. The note also covers local marriages, family news, city water jokes, and various neighborhood updates from Whittemore and LaVerne.
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