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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1900
Page
6
GEO. BOYLES COLUMN reports Whittemore activity from Monday night meeting to weddings and local arrivals. Mentions Sam Drake, John Munch, Munch & Keepers railroad work, the Schumacher wedding with lavish gifts, and various residents visiting, buying land, or handling horses and cattle. A light-hearted note on a census joke closes the column.
The Bancroft Catholic parochial school, opened on the third of the month and directed by the Franciscan Sisters of Dubuque, uses steam heat and new furnishings. One hundred thirty four pupils enrolled the first day. capacity reaches 240. Father Schemmel and his congregation receive credit for the project in Bancroft.
Real estate transfers show numerous grantors and grantees including Smith and Rist to Anna Cronan and Clarke to Smith with various lot descriptions. The list includes multiple parcels, dates, and small notes and ends with an exhibition note about Edyth LaVelle and BY I Banders performing trick and fancy bicycling at the fair.
Two more of the Town Central Railway's Nome Visitors' Excursions to Indiana and Ohio on Sept 18 and 27 offer round trips. Tickets on sale Sept 18, 18 and 24, with 1000 wood to return within thirty days from sale. Inquiries to Geo. Barry, G P&T, Marshalltown Iowa for full particulars on points, rates, and address.
The Town Central on Sunday September 1 will inaugurate a daily sleeping car service operating between Minneapolis and Kansas City with connections via Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and the Wabash. Cars of the latest Gulfoland drawing room pattern depart Minneapolis at 9:50 am and reach St Paul at 8:10 am. The schedule runs through Mason City Hampton Ackley Eldora Marshalltown Grinnell Oskaloosa and Albia, with Kansas City arrival at 7 am. Northbound departures from Kansas City at 6:20 pm and St Louis at 7:28 pm reach Minneapolis about 3:00 pm. For details contact local ticket agents or Geo. S. Gutty G P L S T A Marshalltown IA.
Northwest Wisconsin land sale offers about 400 acres of fertile farm land on the North Western Line with streams lakes timbered soil and easy cultivation. Proximity to Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Superior Ashland and other thriving markets via rail lines. For details contact Gov W Bell Land Commissioner Hudson Wis or Ga Mekae AG P A St Paul Minnesota.
James Carey and David Vox are notified there is a district court notice filed by Frank W. Stanley to quiet title to the northeast quarter of Section 35 Township 97 North Range 27 West in Kossuth County. Defendants must appear by noon of the second day of the next November term at Algona court house or default will be entered and judgment rendered. attorneys Stubble and Stiger represent the plaintiff.
State of Town Kossuth County to James Carey and Mary Carey you and each of you in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Kossuth County Town a petition of Frank W Stanley asking for correction and reformation of a decree in an equity action where Frank W Stanley was plaintiff and James Carey and Mary Carey were defendants foreclosed the real property and requesting a sheriff s deed to the fund sold under the foreclosure and that the official record be corrected to describe the northeast quarter of section thirty five township ninety seven north range twenty seven west and to describe the purchaser as Frank W Stanley and directing the Clerk to correct the record nunc pro tunc also asking for quieting of title see petition unless you appear to defend by November term beginning November 9 1900 default will be entered and judgment rendered Struble Sliger Attorneys for Plaintiff
In the district court of Town in indoor Kossuth County for the November term 100 presents David T. Jones as plaintiff against unknown claimants of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter Section 25 Township 100 North Range 29 West. The petition seeks to quiet title by adverse possession and removal of unknown heirs or claimants from the land, after tracing ownership from Austin Sivele to Lemuel A. Chapman and Sarah Chapman to David T. Jones, due to a deed description error. Respondents must appear by noon of the second day of the next term, otherwise default and judgment may be entered. Attorneys Bonar & Fellows.
The New Lumber Yard offers a full stock of building materials all new and good with no warped or sun damaged inventory. Lumber grades and prices are highlighted along with coal and related supplies. They invite customers to visit before buying to compare prices and pledge to stay in business.
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