GOOD ROADS CONVENTION DISCUSSION AT DES MOINES
County Auditor M P Weaver attended the Des Moines Good Roads convention last week. He criticized the proposed solution as impractical for local road work and noted government estimates run $600 per mile. A Story county delegate described a successful plan of township cooperation funding road improvement. Weaver returned home Saturday morning.
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Matt Weaver
Des Moines
Weaver
Story County
Church and Society Announcements Collide in Local Notices
Local church listings outline sermons at Congregational and Presbyterian houses with topics including Autumn Leaves and Why Did God Create the Devil. Baptist service announces Unoccupied Possessions and The Simplicity of Salvation. Other items advertise library quotes, encyclopedia Britannica sale terms, and assorted classified notices on jobs, real estate, and town services.
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Thames
Presbyterian Church
Setchell & Setchell
The
Baptist Church
Governor Shaw to Speak at Germania Bancroft Meetings
Gov Shaw plans speeches this week in Germ Gard and Bancroft with a public gathering organized by local business leaders. A large tent will be erected for the event and townspeople, regardless of party, are urged to attend. The governor's campaign reports suggest broad support as farmers and merchants are advised to hear his remarks.
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Shaw
Germania
Bancroft
Geremania
Abe P
Germgard
Imhald
Dolliver to Speak in Kossuth County Wins Speak Dates
Congrasemal Dalliver plans three campaigns in Kossuth County next week with stops at Swea City Monday night October 24 Bort Tuesday afternoon October 25 Sand Mtoonka Tuesday night October 25 Fred White set to speak in Wesley October 19 at 12:30 pm and at Hotcroft 112:30 pm and at Algona ab Sin he will speak at Wesley at 10 am
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Congrasemal Dalliver
Kossuth
Swea
Bort
Ost Sand Mtoonka
Fred White
Wesley
Hotcroft
Algona Ab Sin
Local items from Algona area note court, church and band news
Capt H W H Bush editor of the Garner Signal and Klondike railroad officer visits Cousins meeting and denies Supreme Court ruling on Garner case. The new courthouse soon to be occupied, a Sioux City church appoints Elder Marsh as pastor after a local controversy. A young Algona band forms and grows to twenty four, with instruments expected in two weeks. General Weaver to speak at the courthouse, corn harvest underway amid dry weather. Mrs G O Simpson hosts a ladies afternoon in honor of Mrs Phil Hann.
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H W. H. Bush
Garner Sienal
Klondike
Bush
Supreme Court
Garner
Court House
I. Marsh
Algoni
Haddock Memorial M. E
Sioux City
Buth
Marsh
Algona
Fritz Granzovw
42Nd Regiment
Weaver
Gen. Weaver
United States
G.'O. Simpson
Phil
C. ‘Hann
San Juan
Porto
Rico
Mra
Wanpa
Mra. Simpson
Livermore
Local notices and theater plans in Algona area
The snippet reports G A Elmendorf of Minneapolis with a musical talent claim for his daughter Lela and notes an 1900 telephoto service extension by Western Electric across Iowa and Minnesota. It also covers Burns night public events, political visits by Dr G A Walters and J H Ward, a pasture fire near J T Stacy, school construction delays at Bryant, Algona High football facing Rumboldt and Spencer, and social events including a marriage and upcoming speeches by W J Bryan.
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Call Opera House
Richelieu
Merchant of Venice
Cabinot
Owen
Potter
Eléctu
Butt
Bancroft
Algona
Ward
Indi
H. Winkie
Bryant
Groay
Gross
Algona High
Rumboldt
Smylie
Vetter
Waterloo
Iowa
Wenton
Dolver
Greattinger
Elmore
Germania
Hambolt
Ab Spencer
W. J. Bryan
Bryan
Register
Owena
Rosewall
Walah
Algoia
Wilsh
Wernert
Eldridge to devote year to evangelistic work in Northwest Iowa
Rey N Eldridge state secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society and Sunday school missionary, called at the Baptist parsonage Monday. He plans to spend most of next year in evangelistic work across Northwest Iowa, speaking frequently in Algona for profit and uplift.
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Congregational Church
Webster City
New M E Pastor Rev H C Chipperfield Welcomed
Rev H C Chipperfield arrived midweek as the newly settled M E pastor to serve Algona. Sizeable Sunday morning and evening crowds greeted him and his sermons were praised for strength and force. He came from Lincoln Nebraska and is a Cornell College graduate. His wife and young daughter accompany him to the parsonage as Algona celebrates this ministerial acquisition.
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R. O. Chipperfield
M. KE
Chipperfield
Lincoln
Nebraska
Cornell College
Algona
Perkins Friday Night at the Opera House
A local theatre report previews the upcoming Friday October 13 showing of Si Perkins at the opera house. Sam J. Burton stars as St Perkins with Lillie Coleman as a capable comedienne. the troupe, famed for seven years, promises rural comic drama and a parade by the Pughtowi band followed by ticket prices of 25c, 50c, and 75c.
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Opera Housa
Sime
United States
Ehuilar
New England
Sam_ J. Burton
Europe
Migs Lillia Coleman
Pughtowi
Will*ziya
Impera
Shore Acres
O Jike Denman
Phompson
James Hernery
Sam Burton
M Jan
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Good Roads Convention
M.P. Weaver
Church and Society
British Museum
Britannica
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J .W. Robinson
Thos
Willigmeon
Ana Aly Oare
Hepuson
Wealey
Houe
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Conte Vet Alto
Dolliver
Majestic
Otto Falkenhainer
A. N
Thompson
Burt
Algona Wholesale
Lee Walston
Sheldon
Walston
Spencer
Literary Digest
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Columia
Excelsior, Mfg. Co
Parsons
Kan
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State
Monroe
Liaird
Fort Dodge
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Si Perkins
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