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Local notes from Bancroft area journals and visits
A survey of social visits, church and lodge notes, and local happenings across Algona Bancroft and surrounding towns. Includes travels of G W Skinner, Mrs Skinner, and Nell Walker. race track chatter. cemetery funeral for Catharine Stahl. public hall prospects for the I O G T. and various farm, store, and road developments with short anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Skinner
Algona
Judge Cook
Bancroft
Stahl
Spirit Lake
Ida Slunt
Ledyard
The
Register
David Wilson
Norwan Collar’s
Ramsay
Jno, Shfert
I. 0. G. T. Grand Lodge
Charles City
Lela Gray
Grace Littlefield
G. W. Smith
Normal Institute
Fred Corey
Wesley
Will Moore
Portland Township
L. Anderson
Red Wing
Minnesota
Baptist Church
Catharine Rebecca Stahl
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Lor
Columbia County
Kossuth County
Iowa
Okee Free Will Baptist Church
H. 3. Streater
Grover
Portland
Mr. Streater
Bancroft Creamery
R. E. Davison
E. Tallman
J. H. Grover
W. E. Stahl
This Place
DuBois
Nebraska
Benj. Stahl
California
Lodi
James B
Guy F
Lewis E
Winfield S
Wesley A
George Gil
M. Jean Ri
Leo C
R. Clarenge
W. 5G. Coe