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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1906
Page
5
The County Farm meeting inspected stock and praised trials against quack grass. Prof Holden urged seed corn testing and good stands, rotation, and warned about worms and beetles harming ears. Attendees were urged to better advertise next year and begin in the morning with baskets.
Herman Dittner, over sixty, lived near the Iowa Central depot with his wife. He had recently stayed home from work to tend corn and crops. On Friday night he hanged himself in the corn crib, tying a cord to a timber near the door. He could have saved himself by standing, yet appeared determined to die. He was step-father of Mrs. J. J. McCall. funeral held Monday by Rev. F Wiever sick of the La Verne German Evangelical church.
Miss Lucy Hasley fought off a masked assailant who bound her wrists and tore at her clothes before fleeing into a cornfield. A hastily formed posse hunted the fugitive but failed to locate him in Hancock county Garfield township. The Burt Monitor reprints a letter from Charles H. Cooper of Burt noting Iowa farming conditions and local prices amid a broader, semiannual update.
St Benedict news notes a phone request from Col Geo Boyle for band music at the county fair’s date but band members could not assemble on short notice. The article also covers local injuries, insurance settlements, deaths, farm rentals, and visits by local figures amid a busy fair week.
Be sure to get Taylor's candies and Democratic Candus. A caucus of the Democratic electors of Garfield Ino Kossuth County Iowa will be held at the Center School House on Thursday Sept 20 1906 at 2 oclock p m to nominate candidates for township offices including two justices of the peace two constables one assessor one clerk two trustees for two years and to transact other business. H F Andregg chairman. Also Quick White shoe cleaner advertised at Galbraith's Shoe Store.
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