Local news notes from Algona Iowa in March 1890
Togs up to .60. A new man started at the town well. Normal school ends Friday with a literary program. Geo. GC Cal and Warvey Ingham left for Des Moines on business. Sid Cotterell adds beauty to Bruner Brothers' barber shop with wallpaper. Rev. Davidson to conclude Spirit Life sermon. Baptist ladies host a fifteen cent supper Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Cross return to Rockford. Mrs. Kepninger visiting Tedvick family. FrankJett returned from the East. New goods soon. ink a noted line. Missionary concert at Baptist church Sunday evening with tunes and selections. S.A. Thompson sold his meat market to Kos Limherson and T. Lane. Local notes on editors Taey and Platt visiting, choir music at Congregational, and various town conversations. The press at Northwestern depot. plans for a four-month trial of a household journal. bicycles and street etiquette. Burt Kazoo Band photographed. Episcopal services next Sunday with Rev. McDonald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo
Cal
Warvey Ingham
Des Moines
Sid Cotterell
Bruner Brothers
Rev. Davidson
the Baptist
Dhedy Cherch
G Orlock
Missioniay
Momdlay
S.A. Thompson
Thorington Street
Kos
Limherson
T. Lane
Ruepuniian
Taey and Platt
Tu Verne News
Resear
Robert Schemeld
Afriew
Algoma
Algona
Iowa
Less than Wholesale Prices at Frank Bros Catalog
Algona Iowa notes several local items including Frank Bros clothing house advertising low prices, shipments of horses by J. P. Lacy & Co, new residents like John Gaffney purchasing the Forbush place in Irvington township, and a busy week of town events with church programs, health notices, and a Knights of Pythias lodge charter in Emmetsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Benjamin
Fred Palmer
Land of the West
Washington
John Gaffney
Ilinois
Algona
Gaffney
Forbush Place
Irvington Township
Local Brevities in Town This Week
O G Weekaurt was in town Friday fasts. W G Sterzbach has gone to Tamersburg to take a creamery position. The Baum restaurant is now open to the public with fresh goods. John Grove moved into his recently purchased house yesterday. Jules Frank brought home a large handsome mirror. Blane is on the ground for Geo Minkler's new house. C Sessions is very sick. Dr Crider will visit Altona again. His next dates are Friday and Saturday, March 21 and 22, 1880, at the Tennant House. If afflicted, remember dates and call him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O.g. Weekaurt
W.G. Sterzbach
Tammersburg
Clingeot
Baum
John Grove
Jules Frank
Blane
Geo. Minkler
C. Sessions
For Sale, Exchange or Rent Holt County Farm Nebraska
For Sale, Exchange or Rent. A good improved farm in Holt county Nebraska, one and one half miles from town. Running water on place. Also one of 180 acres in Phillips county Kansas, 2 and one half miles from K H station. Apple and Peach orchard hedge fence around house and orchard some timber each running water on farm. Sixty acres fenced in pasture. A good thing for drift men, come and see me Litt M L Cranky Algona Iowa Jan 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holt County
Nebraska
Phillips County
Kansas
Kh. R. Station
Algona
Lowa
County farmers urged to back fair success
In Kossuth county farmers are urged to aid the county fair per a farmers institute session. The secretary read a strong paper on supporting the fair and the institute unanimously resolved that farmers should exert themselves to make the fair a success. Also notices a sale of one pair of ten year old work horses, weight 2400 pounds, offered by H. McNurr with option to take on time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster City
Kossuth
Farmers’ Institute
Hamilton County
H. McNurr
Death of James Starr in Osage Iowa
The Osage tragedy follows a long river crossing when James Starr attempting to return home with a load of wood and a wagon and horse were swept into four feet of water. He fought to reach shore but perished, leaving a wife and four children. The funeral was held at the Osage Baptist Church with Rev. Pope officiating as neighbors and family mourned a blameless Christian life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Starr
Osage
Iowa
Ife
Daily Press
Starr
Cedar River
Harges
Lie
Ile
Abuve
Fayette County
Hiustaut
Sircken
The
Baptist Church
Goddard Mortgage Sale Report Cleared by Committees
In Algoma on March 19 1889 a investigation into the Goddard mortgage sale found all proceedings lawful and businesslike. The committee exonerates B W Taggard from charges and confirms the integrity of actions surrounding the stock sale and mortgage satisfaction. Additional miscellaneous local notices and advertisements follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goddard
G. A. Post
B. W. Taggard
G. A. Camp
Iis
Algoma
Slagle
Chas
Cany Camp
W. Tlaggard
Why boys Leave the Farm and the Missing Agricultural Press
The writer argues farm youth drift away due to schooling and reading that ignores agriculture. Biographies and papers celebrate lawyers merchants railroads and wealth, not farming. Agricultural content is relegated to meager ads and irrelevant political slips, with no first class agricultural paper in many homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collings
Bates
Cruikslank
Department of Agriculture
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Bowen
Ehoveh
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Alggoint
Wm. Whitteld
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Momlay
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Methodist University Board
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Geo. Bary
G. Li
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Judson & Shadle
Pike & Fine Picture
PB. McDonald
Holy Communion
Rev. McDonald
Comstock
Frank Bros
ONE Price Clothing House
Postdentt
E. E. Sayers
Tie
Tow
Winneshiek County
J. P. Lacy & Co
Spirit Lake
Chandler Ward
Board of Health
Ollie Wilkinson
Tsso
L. Lessing
Pat Kain
Whittemore
Bast
Charlie Winkie
Johnson
Charlie
Methodist Clnnel
GA. Rois
Wassall A. Alger
Llue
Methodist Church
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G. W. Pratt
Jas. Barry
J. (.Mackford
Gardner Cowles
A. G. Smith
Whitfield
Henry Douglass
Methodist
Smith
Envy
Stratford
Boone
Sioux City Journal
R. TI. Dond
Massachusetts
Western Iowa
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Massachusett
Dotul
R. J. Dawson
Spokane Falls
Mr. Dawson
Fred McCall
Fred
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Sawle Aaght
Emmetsiniog
Bain
Spencer
Fitherville
Privces
Algona Boys
Joma
Buffalo
Alex Dorweiler
Jus. Taylor
Alex UN
Alex
Teachers Association
Marcel
Rrof
Gilchrist
Sifert
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Jennie Pettibone
Eimma John- Some
James Chapin
Dora Webber
Reed
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Georgia Nelson
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Peel
Ue Ag
Nannie Gray
Peter Winer Veets
Albert Wayne
Marl Palme
Palmer
Willie Gray
Henry Gray
A. E. Williambo
Comstock's
L. A. Sheets
Setchell & Snighell
G. R. Woodworth
Fife
Jones & Stacy
Galbraith
Dr. King
Luther Lutz
Wy, C. Hamrick & Co
Shelby, N. G
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Patterson Bros
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Galbreith’s
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