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Local notes include news from Algona area farms and towns
A long list of rural notices, visits and events from Algona area covers new creamery plans in Wesley, farm sales in Germania and Hancock counties, births and illnesses, travel notes, and updates on residents like Rick Bruns, Otto Falk, and J. Vipond. Also mentions the Victory Liberty Loan drive, local funeral notices, school activities, and travel hardships on the railway line with community updates throughout Kossuth county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victory Liberty Loan
Phil Nelson
Iowa Falls
Yankee Robinson Circus
Algona
Iowa
F. R. Amesbury
Gardner
Elma Marie Olson
Buffalo Consolidated
Rick Bruns
Buffalo Center
Ed Bruns
Lewis Larsen
Chicago
Burt
Anna Bosma
France
Fred Amesbury
Wesley
Garner
John Amesbury
Wallace Donovan
Union Township
Chas. Hultgren
Hancock County
Wessey
Wessel Jutting
Juttings
German Township
Heinjer Beerlken
Germania
Abbe Dreismann
Otto Falk
Otto
Art
W. P. French
Sartor
George Tjaden
A. Bloomquist
Kenefick
Rose
Anna Holm
Titonka
Fort Dodge
Des Moines
Anna Jeff
Willie Ricklets
Herman ‘Daniels
Mr. Daniels
Raymond Bonacker
Fort Bayard
New Mexico
Medical Corps
Army Life
Pete Schwartz
Herbert , Furst
Miss Wirties
Herman Wirties
Clayton
J. A. Vipond & Son
Sioux City
St. Peter’s Hospital
Henry C. Meyer
Frank Meyer
George G. Schutter Jr
Miss Miller
Tion
B. F. Reed
Algona Advance
Ben Reed
Kossuth County
Sugar Creek
Logan County
Illinois
Reed
Algani
Rock Island
Jthis
Titonia
St. Paul
Newport News
Cuba
Estherville
Kirondyke