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Man Died When Clubhouse BurnedBy Ou«r* | Dew* IMfNW ftitry cw,. dirt»^ tV clob house burned U*of Aug 3|^p, ,(££ UtS'Mr c,n-*« ond tV two mu .tayed JJ g1 ‘jjw friends Wlwday nights were noisy at®*d«b and tV family some-*nes stayed la town ,0 Rr( ■•■y from tV mrt*T* club doted that night _ m ralh«r momlni - « u-•J a fire TV odgh, of the fire kno.n. Vt it started In“vtnfnt First notice was about lt;45 rm.whaianUN man the •Jertrlc ll«hc plant noticed 0* names lighting the ,hyi *d V called the Ore crew The crew was short-handed hr on* Art truck had been •WVd to a fire af Wes-*y Coming bach they ,*w «V bin,, and )Mnrt the other trucks at the club By the time the lire depart-arrived, the entire build-•« was a mass of names and « bwncd to the ground It Is thought Mr. Canning was f*P I the apartment over club house Hi a secondTHt CLUB house had an •ctoed porch on the south aa shown, with a ballroom anddining room combination on tV north The kitchen was on IV cast In IV basement was tV pro dwp. shower rooms and lockers, and a card room.TV golf course was laed out in IV late nmetcen-leens alter Ving organised by a eroup of Algonans TV course was designed by W.IV Dunn, a professional of somr note at thM tunc, and Its bash- pattern has not been changed sureTVre was a big fight over IV location of tV dub Vuse. some wanting it near whereGOLF CLUBS had n*nes m those days Instead of nun-Vrs. There was a raashle. nlMlc. driver. brassie and so forth Dunn sold dubs. too. and many an Algo nan got his start with Dunn dubs Most of them burned with tV build-“VTV Vies in those days had some fancy names, given bvsike put tV golfer into a pasture were cows graxed and an occasional bull caused the ■olfm second tVughls about going after a VIINo T was ' Hell's Half Arre or Choo Choo Creek”. TV golfer sVt south off the top of tV hill toward tV green located across a creek on the side of a hill Just over the hill was IV Milwaukee tracks, hence IV Choo Choo. H was an esasperating hole that ruined many a fine score.No a went east-west along that creek to the rreen which
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Kossuth County Advance
Algona, Iowa, US
Mon, Oct 01, 1973
Page 11
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Rick B.
USA 30 May 2018
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