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Local notices mix with farming prices and town news
A sprawling bancroft column reports crop prices for oats eggs butter cattle hogs and grains alongside a flurry of local life. It lists sick lists baptisms weddings church repairs baptist and catholic services and a steady stream of visits from Algona Wesley Portland and Burt residents. The piece notes schoolhouse work, a new furnace, territory politics and a wedding planned for Olaf Pearson and Lillian Johnson at the Baptist church with a reception to follow. It closes with community notices, church updates, obituaries, lodge resolutions and advertisements for local shops and services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Mallory
Hi. J. Simpking
Julius Pleth
Algona
G. W. Smith
D. C. Hewitt
Joe Crose
Mary Nelson
A. G. Ward
Wesley and
M. E. Church
Gullixson
Bede
Bancroft
J. Il. Graham
R. E. Davison
J. H
C.H. Getts
Elmore
C.D. Smith
C. F. Peck
Wm. Shaw
Jackson County
C. E. Bliss
Peck
Burt
Q. E. Bliss
George
Earl Robison
C. E. McLaughlin
Blue Earth City
Peter A. Johnson
Red Wing
Minnesota
Wesley
Alma
Theo
Silma
Oscar Hulk Terstrum
Otto Johnson
Buffalo
Malvina Sweeney
Minneapolis
Geo. Hoflus
Little Bertha
Nick Arend
Clarence Robinson
Anna
Erma Barsley
Armstrong Grove
Emma Smith
Iowa Falls
Bro. Hinchon
Lillian M. Johnson
Minn
Addison Fisher
Vince
Invington
Leon Meaker
Burtis
Gale
Benj. Payne
Africa
Monrovia
Liberia
M. E
Tennessee
Olaf Pearson
Lillian V. Johnson
Baptist Church