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Regular meeting of the W. R. C., Tuesday evening, July 30. Miss Ida Fortman of Minneapolis is here for a visit with her uncles, the Boals boys of Cresco. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Chase are back in Algona after a visit of several weeks in Hartley. Mrs. Lizzie Hahn from Livermore arrived yesterday for a week visit with her aunt Mrs. §. E. Ressegue, and other relatives, Mrs. Alonzo.D. Clarke left Tuesday evening for Whitewater, Wis., where one of his sisters resides and where another one will also visit at the same time. It will be a family reunion. Mrs. James Godden of Algona was taken to Cherokee again Monday last. She had been there before and was discharged as cured a few months ago, but her trouble recurred. J. H. Conner was in Algona last week. He has been engaged in the tiling business for some years past, and was then on his way to Avatin, Minn., to engage in a job. Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Kerndt and family of Lansing, who were here on a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Chris chilles, left for home Monday morning in their auto. They figured on going only as far as New Hampton that day. Ed Haines of Garfield declares that our reporter, Mr. C. Byson, was mis taken in his report of the straw vote on that Minneapolis excursion train. He says it was 108 for Wilson, 104 for Roosevelt, and 86 for Taft. An Algona moose bet with an Algona republican the other day that Roose velt would get more votes in Kossuth county than Wilson and Taft together. We would consider that a very rash bet on the part of the moose. Do you know that you can get ring worm from scabby calves? We know for a man who was feeding such a calf the other day and hig hand came in contact with the scabs and very soon ringworm appeared on his hand. A report comes from Bancroft that Mr. Menke, who lives about a mile and a half east of town, sold his farm to some parties, down the state for $108 an acre, and that the purchasers put it on the market again and Dr. Walters bought it at $125 an acre. Barney Goeders was looking for a cottage to rent in Algona a few days ago, and on being asked why he want ed to rent a cottage, he confessed that he was married on the 11th at Sioux troll county lady, which gained the matter satis factory The Courier congratulates Mr. and Mrs. Goeders and wishes them long lives and happiness, Mrs. J. A. Lang reached home last week from her old home at David City, Neb., and brought with her papers containing pictures of the Catholic church lately dedicated there, together with a history of the Catholic congre gation there from the beginning. Mr. David City is a town of about. the size’of Algona, and still the Catholic community built “this church which cost more than $55,000, and also have other valuable property. Johin Mesing’ ard “his son ‘Max ‘and Mr. Stéphenson of the Lusby drug ,store are recently. back’ from an auto ‘trip. to ‘Kenosha, Wisconsin,and they report that no’ where did they see crops equal ‘to those here in Kossuth county. Through Wisconsin generally the oat crop was'not’ more than ten or twelve inches high. They report a very pleasant trip, encountering no un favorable weather, and the roads were good. They started from here 9 in the morning and reached North McGregor at 5 in the evening. The next evening they reached Kenosha. * It ias an unusual thing in Algona for a furniture man to take whole pages in the newspapers to advertise his busi ness, but that is what Mr. E.H. Reaser is doing these times. That is good evidence that he has goods to sell and that he wants to sell them. He wants to call public attention to the fact that he has a stock as good and large as can be found outside the cities, and that he can duplicate any thing that may be found in the cities lead at a less price. ‘The public should heed this advertisement and call and see what Mr. Reaser can do in the way of furniture. While we are planning to improve Algony and make it more attractive the Courier would renew a suggestion that it made “before. The suggestion is to make a Maple Park a deer park. That would cost but little and it would make, that park a very attractive place. Let ‘it be enclosed by a high wire fence, a shed and a little granary built, and the city water piped tait, and all would be ready for'two or more deer. ‘The colenale would need no other feed in’ The big circuit comes to town next Wednesday. C. T. Chubb made a business visit to Minneapolis last week. Mrs. Otto Neuman and daughter visited at Tracy, Minn., last week. Albert IL, Kramer and Veronica Fy Studer are licensed to wed this week, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. McEnroche came the parents of a son Tuesday. Miss Linda Heise visited last week , with her sister, Mrs. Dr. Arent, in Humboldt. Fred Bartlett of Dallas, Texas, an old time residence of Algona, made a visit to Algona this week. Jacob Falkenhainer, father of the Falkenhainer boys of Algona, is here for a visit with his sons and their families. The democratic county central com mittee will notice the county chairman’s call for a meeting of the committee to morrow to nominate a candidate for representative, Mrs. H. J. McGirr and two children from Boise, Idaho, spent last week with her sister-in-law Mrs. B. F. Ressegue, and family, leaving Sunday a. m. for Dubuque to visit other rela tives. Advertised letters: Silvester Brain ger, M. T. Cronan, Geo, Gray, ©. R. Rohde, C. R. Smith, Mrs. Gussie Cot trell, Mrs. Hattie Deed, Mrs. Anna T. Hohna, Mrs. William Miller, Mrs. Mary Thomson, Mildred Willner. The brakeman of the N. W. who was injured at Burt. is still living and is likely to live, but he will not fully re cover. Two-thirds of one of the ver tebrae was broken off, and he was oth erwise badly injured. A young man named Neilson has come to Algona and will set up a clothes renovating and cleaning establishment. He calls his manner of doing the work the French Dry Cleaning and Pressing atyle. He has an outfit that costs $700. A little pocketbook containing a few pennies was picked up on the street last week and left at the Courier office for the child who lost it. And, by the way, we have one or two other pocket books like it for whom we have found: no owner. We also have a key, . Grant Jordan came home from Win nipeg last week. He had been in the Winnipeg country for several weeks. He reports crop prospects right in Manitoba, but improving ‘on account of late rains. But the reports from Saskatchewan and Alberta were that crops were immense. . Alonzo Franklin, the man who was one hundred years old on the second of May last, has a garden of about’ the area that he works himself, and we ‘venture to say that there is not a more highly cultivated patch of ground in the state or a more fruitful one. What, other man of his age can do such work? _ The doctors of the county met in Al gona Tuesday and had a good time. They were joined by Dr Bowen of Fort Dodge and five or six Humboldt county doctors. The subject for study and discussion was ‘‘fractures, ’ and they studied it and discussed it and dissected it, and they also, discussed a six o’clock banquet and some etceteras. F. W. Peck went to Chicago early in the week with two car loads of hogs of his own raising, and he has 200 on his farm yet. . He is buying three- year old , corn of Mike Loaf at 75 cents'a bushel, and either he or Mike hauls it nine miles. While in Chicago he met his mother and sister of Ilinois, who had been on a visit to friends in Wisconsin, The Methodist Sunday school will hold its annual picnic in Ferguson’s grove, Friday, July 29th. This picnic in for all members and friends of the church and Sunday school and plenty of amusements will be on hand for everyone but over one hundred years old. The Business Mens’ Class mecta the Burt Mens’ Bible Class in a ball’ game in the afternoon, and there will’ he sports and races of all kinds for all ages. The committees have been busy planning for a big time and everyone is to meet at the church at 10 o'clock with their lunch baskets. OC, E. Lampright and a Marshalltown land buyer went up to the Sutherland land sale in Swea township that week and report that the sale did not go through. The land was put up at auc tion. A half section was put up first and was bid off at $100 per acre. Then the other two quarters were put up separately and one went at about $80 and the other at about $90. Then the whole section was put up and went at $94. But according to the conditions of the gale the owner did not have to et the land go, and did not let it go. She wanted $100 an acre for the whole. _C. E. Lampright has the land for sale now. _ The Courier reported a few weeks ago that Mrs. James Ryan was enjoy ing #8. visit from her aunt, a Mra, Mary Finnegan of Sycamore, Ill. The old lady was accompanied'’by her n niece, ‘she being too old to travel alone. And now we are obliged to report the death of the old lady. She became ,ill about “an AY of Mrs. B. F. Reed has gone to Indiana to visit with her son Lee. The Baptist ladies will serve dinner at the G. ALR. hall on eirens day. The ladies of the Methodist Aid will not be dinner at the church on circus By. Mrs. Fletcher Hofius of Kunsaga City is here for a visit with her children and many friends, Mrs. ©. B. Holdridge of Whittemore visited at the W. A. Dutton home in Algony this week. Misa Clara Frambach is up from Toledo, Iowa, for an extended visit with her relatives. Mr. Nelson Larson, our drayman, found a laprobe and left it at the courtier office for the owner. Be sure that your dog has plenty of water these days. It would not be a bad idea also to keep him muzzled. Mrs. Staley and her two children of Fenton are visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Zeimer of Algona. Matson Strom are doing a nice business... They sold a thousand dollars worth of goods in the last thirty days. The judicial problem has been simpli fied to some extent by the nomination of a Mr. Scott of Sioux City for con gress. The Misses Agatha and Ivadel Coughlin are spending part of their summer vacation visiting friends around Dolliver. We heard a gentleman say the other day that if all the money made in Kos suth were kept here the banks would not be able to hold it. John Mertz of Garfield has sold two quarter sections of his land to his sons at $100 an acre each. That is said to ‘be a very cheap price for the land. There was no bull moose convention in Palo Alto county last Saturday. The republicans of that county are not as progressive as those of Kossuth. Mr. Ferguson suggests that all foot passengers going to the circus take the Thorington street entrance to his park. They will avoid the dust and the park way will be lighted up in the evening. Whittemore will hold its Ox-Fest on August 7 this year, and will give the people who attend the best time they ever had. Whittemore always does such things up in first class style. Mrs. A. C. Willey and her sister, Mrs. Champlain of Chicago, left Tues day for Westgate, Iowa, to visit on poets who is quite aged and in feeble earth. Dutton Sorensen picked up another fsnap in real estate this week. They bought “the Col. Spencer’ quarter at Sexton. The boys have placed it on the market at $100 per acre, although it did not cost them near that figure. Pettibone McDonald have sold fifty binders this season. Four years afto there were only five binders sold in Algona. That is quite a difference. And there is a shortage of twine this year. The grain is so heavy that it takes lots of twine to bind it. . Roy King, a young farmer near Mitchell, 5. D., became a candidate for county treasurer and was, defeated in the primary. His disappointment and discomfiture were so great that he went insane. He evidently took him self very seriously our new lumber man, Mr. Quinn, has b bought two Jota north of Judge Quarton’s residence and will build there if he does not find a suitable location nearer to the business center. We are pleased to have Mr. Quinn located permanently with us. Farmers are busy harvesting their grain and are getting nearly all of it, though grain generally was Judged retty badly. The weather is extreme ly warm and corn is doing well. A’ bumper crop is being raised in Kosauth county this year, the best, perhaps, since 1895.. Victor Johnson, ‘who lives north of the Milwaukee depot, phoned Sheriff Bronson early yesterday morning that an insane man was in his barn and was annoying him. The sheriff took him in- hand and found that he was a strang er, his name Joseph Madgen, and is supposed to be from, Chicago. The Advance learns that our old friend J. F. Lacy, who went to Cali fornia some weeks ago, was married on the 13th, at San Diego, to a Mrs. 8. L. Brown of Salmon,, Idaho. The lady is a niece of his first wife. They will live in San Diego. Much happiness to them. _Old gentleman Koepke met with a little accident some days ago in the way of a kick from a horse. He and his son drove into Jerry Helgen’s yard, and at the time a team of Jerry's horses was being unhitched. The two teams, came close together, and one horse kicked at another, but Mr. Koep ke received the kick on both knees. He was disabled for some days but is now recovering. Charley. Kuhn is a progressive and he has progressed away ahead of all other sand haulers in Algona. He has a new fangled wagon box for hauling sand. When the box is loaded he drives to, where the sand is wanted and works a lever and all; the sand drops to the ground. Hauling sand with such a device is o no man’s job. We wouldn’t mind tackling it our selves. Mr. A. L. Kennedy, grandson of Mr. Lewis H. Smith arrived in Algona| ‘Tuesday, accompanied by his wife, for! @ Visit with his old friends. He is now! and has been for two or three years at, a resident of Milwaukee, and is each waiter In the Fountain Inn restau rant, one of the largest in Milwaukee, Bsters coming to Algona Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy went to Ancpateong and vigit ed a few days with Mr. Kenndy? 8 mother, Mrs. Geo. Stewart,
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Algona Courier
Algona, Iowa, US
Fri, Jul 26, 1912
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