Bancroft News Notes Local Deaths and Docks of News
Last Saturday’s Gad funeral for Mrs Frank Warter at age 24 saddened Bancroft as her husband Frank Wartner and two children endured loss. Reports cover local arrivals visitors, theater happenings, church services, and small town trades with names like Sylvester J. Kennedy, Manhattan Oil Co. agent, and Lenander hotel improvements. Continued notes on residents’ health, travel, and social events frame a busy week in Bancroft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Warter
Frank Wartner
John Winder Farm
Minnesota
Sylvester J. Kennedy
S. J
Timber Lake
W. P. Johnson
Happy Hertig
Ben Sudmeier
Lonergan
Swea City
Underkoffers
Tony Doletschal
Bancroft
Teddy Roosevelt
Waterloo
Algona
Des Moines
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Leo Kelly
Tom Kelly
Mack
John B. Deitering
Remsen
Joe Abeln
Groton
Sam French
Frank Crose
James Mayne
Rich and Family
Albert Nering
John Kremey
Ledyard
J. &, Paul
John Bernhard
Chas, Bernhard
Joseph Hich
Joliet
Wilhelms
Frank
Tom Sherman
Milwaukee
Tom
Helen Sanftner
Frances Seger
Central Telephone Office
Warrick
Jon Menke
Katie
Dubuque
Luxemburg
Petersburg
Volens Nolens
Slong
C. B. Lindberg
Peter Jacobs
Webster City
Chicago
Hazel
Lundell
George Liebfried
C. J. Lenander
Wisconsin
St “My
Art Linsay
Commercial
Theo
Teonnis
P. Ay
Gaul
Cottonwood
Idaho
Gordon Saunders
St. John’s High School
Poarch
Nick Haver
Loretta Johnston
Fred Genrich
Henry Nemmers
St. Joe
Gales
W. D. Waltz
Blue Earth
Barbara Ludwig
D. Grandjennett
St. Benedict
Frank Sparks
Bancroft Sparks
Updegraf
Spirit Lake
Geo. Miller
Anton Stork
Ethel
Owen
Peterson
Fr. Richardson
el More
Marshal Wessels
Peter Wilhelms
Chas. Soderberg
Whittemore Gossip Tells of Local Events and Wanderings
Whittemore column notes theater goers traveling long distances for an opera at the Call Opera House in Algona and details social happenings. It reports land sales in Fairfield township, mayoral changes, residents’ courtship rumors, a mysterious disappearance, a arson-suspected slaughterhouse fire, political tensions, and community chatter about a hypnotic show and local telephone improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittemore
Call
Algona
Titonia
Bancroft
Ledyard
Swea City
Burt
J. J. Sawyer
Smithshire
Ill
Mr. Skinner
Algon
Strategy Board
J. M
E. Lien
Fort Dodge
A. I
Lien
Grace Creighton
H. J. Thompson
Hank
Henry
Dalliver
St. Madison
Valentine Wallace
Marshall
Grundy
Kossuth
Wallace
Ole Olson
Opera House
Ole
Bell Telephone Company
Allen
Arnold
Okoboji
van Ness
Speonie
van ‘Ness
U. 8
Dolliver
Lou. Wegener
Interurban Line Faces Loss Amid Reports of Reorgani zation
The Ft Des Moines and Southern Interurban reports a loss for the year ending June 30 1910 with operating revenue of 458 021 32 and expenses 366 158 90 leaving a gross deficit of 113 643 95 plus additional deductions totaling 155 161 30 and an overall deficit of 43 394 12. The line, now under receivership, is cited as costly and overburdened by freight traffic, with notes of possible manipulation and reorganization plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ft. Dodge
Des Moines & Southern
Algona Sairtmont
Fort Dodge
Algona-Fairmont
State Railway Commission
Husker Claims Five Acres Produce 500 Bushels of Corn
P F Con lon husking five acres of corn on the Joyce land south of town. He claims the yield will reach 500 bushels. Report notes a good load seen Saturday and that the corn is among the largest and best seen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmetsburg
P. F. Conlon
Joyce
Low round trip fares to the northwest offered on select Tuesdays
Low round trip fares to the northwest are in effect on the first and third Tuesdays of each month through 1910. Tickets allow up to 25 days for return with liberal stopovers along the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway routes through the Dakotas Montana Idaho and Washington. Descriptive literature and information available from the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul agent or F A Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
Dakotas
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
F. A. Miller
Chicago
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Algona, Iowa
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Fort Dodge-Des Moines
Palo Alto
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G. A. Watts