Baking Prizes At Fair Offer Cash Awards
In cooperation with County Fair officials the Seal of Minnesota Flour and International Milling Company offer cash prizes for baking entrants who win first or second in White Bread, White Unfrosted Angel Food Cake. Prizes: Yeast Bread first $10 second $5. Angel Food Cake first $10 second $6. Entries judged openly. one prize per person and per family. Postmark deadline is the day before the fair opens.
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County Fair
Millers of
Seal of Minnesotat Flour
International Milling Company
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Seal of Minnesota
Fite
Hanks
Folwins Yeast Bre
Ows
Witte Yeast Bread
High School Course List and Texts for 1087-38
The senior high announces offered courses and required texts for the coming year. Ninth grade covers English expressing yourself and science along with home economics and mathematics. tenth grade includes geometry and new General Mathematics. eleventh grade lists American Literature and History with French and typing. twelfth grade features English Literature Physics typing French and vocational courses. Electives may be withdrawn if enrollment is small and seniors may avoid physics if they completed biology and general science. Students renting typewriters must pay by week one and obtain approval for own machines. Mr Hoon and Mr Dunmire offer guidance to select best fits.
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Wade
Blossom
Maton
Ec—Harris & Lacey
Haton
Pahlow
Grimes and Holton
Pieper, Beauchamp
Frank
West
Harned
Cochran
Eddy
Redfield
Bogert
Moore
Goodman
Stewart
Cushing
Towns
Towne
Goodman Moore
Hoon
Dunmire
L. CG. Smith Typewriter Co
Parenta Ind
Eck
Fair Exhibits Attract Large Exhibitors At 1987 Kossuth County Fair
Exhibits at the 1987 Kossuth County Fair are larger than prior years with many reservations for stalls in the livestock sections and booths in the floral hall. The farm machinery exhibit will be enlarged and visitors will see the latest farm equipment, much arriving directly from the state fair. Affected areas include harge cattle and hog barns and floral hall booths.
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Kossuth County Bath
Harge
Floral Hall
MOW YOUR WEEDS AND CLEAN UP BEFORE INDIAN DAY
Notice urges residents to tidy premises in coming days or town will perform cleanup at property owners' expense. Report from a workshop where Howard French discovered a fire burning a bag of a big power sander and minor damage to the lumberyard.
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Howard French
Higgins Boys Visit Totanka Relatives on Monday
From Whittemore Donald Robert Patrick Vernon and Gordon Higgins with parents Mr and Mrs Don Higgins visited Totanka relatives and friends Monday afternoon. The boys are good friends of ourg and made us a pleasant visit.
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Whittemore
Donald
Robert
Patrick
Vernon
Gordon Higgins
Mrs
Don
Higgins
Ourg
Allene Martinek Promoted to Waterloo School Music Arts
Miss Allene Martinek, long time Doan neighborhood youth instructor in Corwith, is released from her teaching contract to join Waterloo public schools as music art and literature teacher. The promotion honors her as an excellent educator.
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Waterloo
Allene Martinek
Doan
Corwith
Allene
One marriage license issued in Fairmont week
Dan Cupid skipped town as only one license was issued this week for Martin Swanson and Bernice Pehrson of Fairmont Minnesota.
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Dan Cupid
Martin Swanson
Bernice Pehrson
Fairmont
Minn
Illinis visitors leave for home after family visit
Harkness and Geo Markness from Yorkville Illinois returned home after visiting several days with Mr and Mrs Willie Welhousen and Mrs John Welhousen and other relatives. Their son in law and wife Mr and Mrs Ray Stroud accompanied them and visited the Steinbergs at Lakota.
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Harkness
Illinois
Geo. Markness
Yorkville
Ill
Willie Welhousen
John Welhousen
Ray Stroud
Steinbergs
Lakota
Warn Against Fur Racketeers Across North Iowa
Mason City furriers warn buyers to beware the fake fur racket spreading in North Iowa this summer. They cite reports of peddlers or agents of large fur buyers and note a Portland Maine gang's arrest, including a bill of lading showing 20 coats bought at $20 each and a coat sold as Russian sable for $100 but appraised at $20.
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Mason City
Iowa
Portland
Maine
Globe- Gazette
Methodist Church Notes Pastor W. L. Patterson
There will be no service or Sunday School at the Methodist church for the next two Sundays. Services return to normal on August 29. Mrs. R. M. Jones of Ranger, Texas, visited in the county for a month with relatives, formerly Miss Elva from Ti tt onka.
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Methodist Church
Texas
R. M. Jones
Ranger
Jank Hagen
Visiting Old Home Leaves for Decatur Illinois
Mrs. Earl Blakley leaves Wednesday morning for an extended visit with relatives in Decatur Illinois. Born and raised in the Decatur community she and her husband lived there for three years.
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Earl Blakley
Decatur
Illinois
Ill boy Richard Cosgrove improving after Colfax illness
Colfax Thursday Richard Cosgrove was taken for treatment with rheumatism and later flu. By Saturday his condition worsened, prompting his parents to come to Colfax and his brother Kenneth from Chicago. Cosgrove is showing improvement, a cheering development.
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Colfax
Richard Cosgrove
Kenneth
Chicago
Richard
Two New Teachers Elected to Fill Vacancies in Perry School
Mrs. Ruth Burng of Perry Iowa was elected to fill the home economics vacancy caused by Miss Lena Madsen's resignation. Miss Alice Chittick was elected to the 8th grade vacancy. Both bring previous experience.
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Ruth Burng
Perry
Iowa
Lena Madsen
Alice Chittick
Wesley Pearson Sought as Disappearance Prompts Search
Wesley Pearson, 78, is missing after leaving Wesley last week for Chicago to visit friends and relatives. Family fears for his safety as checks show he did not reach Chicago. Police in several towns notified. relatives continue tracing his whereabouts after he departed Wesley on a Wednesday morning headed east.
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Wesley
Swen Pearson
Chicago
Bua
Oats yield reports and local notices from Titonka area
Local farmers report oats yields ranging from 50 to 60 bushels per acre. Funeral attended for Mr Benke, father of Mrs Bud Tenan, in Ventura. Interstate Power Co transmission lines rebuilt from Bancroft to Titonia. A baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Henry Beenken in Bingham township on August 4 1987. Titonka and Sinverne school faculties face resignations and new staffing. A Buffalo Center infant Leona Mae Anderson died of whooping cough. New farm house on B S Pannkuk farm east of German Valley. Hoover reference as town fear grows. Mary Louise Baumann injured playing. two middle fingers on right hand broken possibly amputated.
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Elizabeth Kennedy
John Wood
John
Benke
Bud Tenan
Ventura
Interstate Power Co Eal
Bancroft
Titonia
Henry O. Beenken
Bingham Township
Titanka
B. S
Algona Grays Lost To Des Moines In Sunday Homer
Des Moines Western League beat Algona 15 to 6 as Hensley struck out 8 for Algona and Halankas struck out 6 for Des Moines. Des Moines had 24 hits to Algona's 11. errors were 3 to 2. Algona will host the Brooklyn Giants colored team for the season's rest, starting with a Sunday game against the Dixie Roamers, and will finish with the Mexican Carta Blancas on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algona Grays
Algona
Des Moines
Grays
Hensley
Halankas
Winck
Brooklyn
N. Y
Supervisors Hold Session on Drain Work and Welfare Aides
The Algona board accepted engineer C C Shatlach's report on drain No 95. Appointments created a Social Welfare Board for the year, raised monthly wages for Mother Laurenz manager and two Relief Board members, and assigned drain repairs to Supervisors Baum and Fraser. A beer permit for A K Anderson of Stevens was approved. Final estimates for several secondary road projects were approved, and weed commissioners salaries set at 35 cents per hour plus 5 cents per mile.
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Algona
County Board of Supervisors
C. C. Shatlach
W. A. Dutton
Hazel Keen
Charles Morvig
Social Welfare Board
Laurenz
National
Dorothy Shatto
Lucille Dole
Relief Board
Orthel Twp Pioneer Reaches 100th Milestone
Drumheller Alberta June 93rd Edwin W Kendall Drumhellers centennarian celebrated his 100th birthday among friends. Once active he now uses a wheelchair and preferred a barbecue but remained lively in memory to Hancock county and Orthel township residents. He arrived at Hancock at 21 on horseback from Waterloo and bought the farm now owned by the Mike Gahan family.
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Drumheller
Alberta
Canada
Edwin W. Kendall
Drumheler
Kendall
Drumheller Valley
Wetaskiwin News
Albert
Orthel Township
Mike Gahan
Hancock, County
Waterloo
Hancock County
Britt News
Reformed Church Notes Ramsay’s Services August 15
Regular service at Ramsay’s Reformed Church will be held Sunday at the Titonka school building. Rev. Schnucker will lead both German and English services with Sunday School at 9 30 and preaching at 10 30.
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Ramsay' S Reformed Church
Titonka
Schnucker
Hopi villagers photographed near water tank scene
The Hopi remain in adobe or mud huts akin to ancestral dwellings. They are very camera shy, but the water tank driver managed to capture this image with little trouble.
District Court News In Brief
District Judge George Heald of Spencer signed probate orders and planned to hear a contested probate case, but parties could not attend. Next regular term of the liarrier court opens September 20 with Heald on the bench. State v James Robinson profiled a bootlegging case with 10 half pints and 50 pints of whiskey seized. Robinson held to district court under bond of 1500. Gronwall fined 1.00 and costs 8.10 for driving without license. Becker fined same for no chauffeur license. Miss Welter absent on vacation in California. New district court filings include adoption of Gerh Lucille Crouch by Guy and Mary Giddings. executorship of Wilhelm Ohn in Helmike estate. notes between Helmke parties. New probate filings: estate of Andrew Robinson will. guardianship of Orville and Ortwin Kressin. Mollie Kyressin appointed guardian. estate of C A Johnson will.
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George Heald
Spencer
Heald
Justice Danson
of State
James Robinson
Robinson
Robert Gronwall
Algona
D. l L. Becker
Sicense
Della Welter
California
Gern Lucille Crouch
Guy C. Giddings
Wilhelm Ohn
Christian Helmike
Peter Helmike
August Helmke
Paobate
Andrew Robinson
Orville
Ortwin Kressin
Mollie Kyressin
C. A. Johnson
Resurfacing Algona Pavement Gets Underway
Algona is resurfacing its streets to fix cracks and rough surfaces. A chemical coat is applied, followed by heavy asphalt and a fine gravel layer to smooth the roads like new.
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Algona
Lakota News Illnesses and Social Visit Highlights
Reuben Olson, a farmer near Lakota, fell ill while threshing Friday and was operated on for appendicitis at Buffalo Center hospital that evening. Miss Arlene Lewis received gifts at a gathering hosted by Mia Ukena and Gertude Wortman. Various local families and residents, including Jerry Heetland and Mr. Leigh, are noted for visits and hospitalities as community life is reported.
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Reuben ‘Olson
Buffalo Center
Mia
J. &. Ukena
Gertrude Wortman
Ukena
Arlene Lewis
Jerry Heetland
American Legion Auxiliary
Mike Christ
Fred Schroeder
Peter ‘Bruer
F. G. Torino
Swea City
August Gutkne
Paul Hertzke
Richard Zeitske
Ray Stroud
Yorkville
Lutheran Church Notes With Pastor Schniz Activities
Lutheran Church notes list Martin A. Schniz as Student Pastor. Services in English at 10:00 AM with Sunday School at 9:00 AM. Luther League meeting Sunday evening at 8:00. Choir practice Wednesday evening at usual time. Ladies Aid plans a stand for Indian Day in front of Callies Store. Mission festival to be celebrated the Sunday closest, August 29. Buffalo Center builds an east side swimming pool, 100 by 160 feet.
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Ladies Aid
Callies
Buffalo Center
Rest Room and Nursery Added at Titonica Theatre
The Tyke Theatre reports new improvements this week including a rest room off the foyer a balcony nursery with a glass front for mothers and a newly installed drinking fountain Titonica proclaims the theatre the best in the county for pictures comfort and convenience to be enjoyed by patrons during Indian Day and beyond
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Tyke Theatre Management
Titonica
Iowa's Greatest Sale of Land Includes Kossuth Farms
Auction at Algona Court House on Monday August 16 offers seven Kossuth County farms plus others in Humboldt Webster Clay and more. Listings include Thompson 297 acres Wright 160 Frambach 75 Dahlhauser 170 Dennison 80 Johnson 154 Beenken 120 Gales 230.75 acres with terms allowing two thirds seller financing and one third cash by Sept 20 1937.REFERRED: Lincoln Farm LTD INC. Contact for details and terms.
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Iowa
Kossuth
Humboldt
Court House
Algona
Humpbelt
Clay
Webster
NOTH
Kossuth County
Thompson
Swea City
Edward Lathoff
Wright
Ledyard
August Busch
Frambach
Whittemore
Hugo H. Meyer
Dahlhauser
Frank J. Hilbert
Dennison
Bancroft
Andrew J. Boyer
Johnson
Luverne
Roy Guy
Beenken
Titonka
Warner
Beanken
Ralph Olsen
Humboldt County Gales
Ivoty
Livermore
DM River
Chris Gales
Alcatra
Lock Land Incoln
Faterrarka
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Titonea High School
Ashanti
W. L. Patterson
Martin Schulta
Pearson
Wesley Man
Orthel
New Mexico
Rehoboth
Columbian Steel Tank Company
Kansas City
Missouri
District Court News
Lakota News
Lutheran Church
Martin A. Schniz
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