Pioneer Wesley Pioneer Died After Brief Illness
Luella McPherson Olsen of Wesley Iowa died at home Wednesday night October 15 after a heart disease illness. Born November 4 1860 in Bristol Worth county she lived in Wesley since 1869 with twin sister Arbella. She and Arbella ran a millinery shop for 28 years and taught in rural schools. She was active in Methodist church Sunday school league and church work and belonged to Eastern Star and Rebecca lodges. Funeral held Friday at two led by Dr Mossman of Morningside College with local pastor Rev Moore and Dr Bushnell. Distantly attending relatives included nieces Leota Hall and DeBtta Hall. Sympathy extended to the bereaved sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley, In
Airs
Luella McPherson-Olsen
Luella Scarrow
Mason City
Bristol
Worth County
Wesley
Arbella
Wasley
Methodist Church
Eastern Star
Rebecca Lodges
Arabella
Morningside College
George B. Hall
Mossman
Moore
Bushnell
Morningside
Leota Hall
New Richland Minn
DeBtta Hall
Forest City
George Tall
Gilbertson Dies After Appendicitis Operation
Orville Gilbertson died Sunday at Estherville Hospital from peritonitis after an appendicitis operation. He had fallen ill in Varina while running a barber shop. He married Nora Hagen on June 15 and the couple had lived in Varina after marriage. Funeral services were held at Maple Hill with interment near his former home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Gilbertson
Estherville
Varina
Gilbertson
Titonka
Nora Hagen
Frank Hagen
Maple Hill
Hallowe'en Program At District No 2 School
The District No 2 school on the Woden Titonka road hosts a Hallowe'en program Thursday night October 30 at eight o clock. Lunch will be served after the program. Florence Smith teacher.
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Hallowe'en
Hallowe’en
Woden-Titonka Road
Florence Smith
Local social notes from Wesley and Algona area
Wesley residents report weekend visits and travel including Mr. and Mrs. Ben Felt returning from Minnesota and Patricia Miller in Algona for dental work. Algona guests entertained at Ralph Valentines from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Murphy and Patricia Miller. Des Moines trips and church activities noted with Rev C H Moore and county Sunday School event in Swan City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben F. Felt
Minnesota
Charles Murphy
Patricia Millar
Algona
Patricia
Caroling Smith
Hopkins
Minn
H.M. Hansen
William Sturdivant
John Amesbury
Guy M. Butts
Mason City
Des Moines
Butts
Lester Lease
Sterling
Loren
Fred Rasmussen
Euwylek
Patricia Miller
Ralph Valentines
Charles Benton
Bome
Fred Scott
Wallace
Mildred Benton
Archer
Emmetsburg
Wallace Bentons
C. H. Moore
Swan City
Kathryn
Kraus
Charles City
Engineer Smith Plans New Iron Bridge Near Dubie
Engineer Smith of Algona visited town Monday to discuss plans for a new iron bridge to replace the old plank bridge that has served for many years. Specifications and plans are being prepared for erection next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Algona
Brifiga
Dubie
Open Season On Pheasants Declared In Kosuth County
The state game department designates November 1 6 and 15 as open pheasant season in Kosuth and nearby counties. The text also urges voters to participate in November elections and emphasizes the right to vote and consequences of abstaining.
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State Game Department
Kossuth
Farm bought near Burt by Kahler family
Herman Kahler of Titonka Lakota area purchased a farm near Burt last Saturday. It is understood that one of his sons will occupy the property after March 1.
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Kahler
Burt
Herman Kahler
Hutchinson Visits Mankato College and Budlongs Travel
Mr. Dewey Hutchinson visited Attering Business College and remains for a complete course in Mankato Minnesota. Edith Budlong from Des Moines travels there for Rebekkah Assembly business and will stay a week with the auditing committee.
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Attering Business College
Dewey Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Mankato Commercial Business College
Mankato
Minn
Edith Budlong
Des Moines
Wdith Budlong
Rebeccahs
The
Rebeccah Assembly
Committee of Auditors
Appreciation for Legion Helpers in Move
Mr and Mrs Tony Spronson express gratitude to the American Legion boys and neighbors who helped move to Lamoreux eighty north of the Our Way Bridge last week. They thank you from the bottom of their hearts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Spronson
American Legion
Lamoreux
Our Way Bridge
Killing Frost and Freezes Mark Start of Season
The first killing frost arrived last Friday with ice up to a quarter inch thick. Continuous freezing followed over the weekend into Monday. A note recalls Hanford McNider’s wartime uniform worn when presenting credentials as Canada’s ambassador, worn again on formal occasions.
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Hanford McNider
Canada
Vilmy Larsen Returns Home After Illness
Miss Vilma Larsen daughter of Mr and Mrs W Larsen returns home from Des Moines where she had worked for two to three years after an influenza illness that left her weak She plans to stay with her parents until fully recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vilmy Larsen
Vilna Larsen
Win
A Larsen
Des Moines
Hills Buy 200 Acre Ward Farm Near Dean Church
Mr and Mrs Hills purchased the Robert Ward 200 acre farm northwest of the Dean church. They will move from the Wm McDermott farm to the new property next March and plan to erect a barn and other improvements during the season of 193?.
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Jains Bay Farm
Homa
Hills Jai
Robert Ward
Dean Church
Wm. McDermott
Farm Sold in Winnebago County at 135 Per Acre
Ole Ljerde Farm sold by Herman Rachut cashier of First National to Charles Hoyt of Humboldt County. Purchase price 135 per acre cash. Possession March 11. Farm well tilled and cultivated with fair buildings. Farm owned by the bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole Ljerde
Herman Rachut
First National
Ole Tjerde
Winnebago County
Charles Hoyt
Humboldt County
Bank
Farm Bureau Meeting In BaNulo Reports Home Management Lesson
The BaNulo Township Farm Bureau held its first meeting at Mrs. Raymond Krantz home on October 1 with cold weather limiting attendance. Mrs. Lottie Wessel led the lesson on Home Management and Kitchen Utensils, demonstrating a cake mixer and baking two cakes, one in the forenoon and one in the afternoon. Mrs. Bernard Thompson reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BaNulo Township
Lutheran Reformation Festival in Church Next Sunday
Lutheran Church notes outline a Reformation festival next Sunday morning with an offered building fund oblation. Infant Janet Alma Holt, daughter of Mr and Mrs C S Hoff of Ames, baptized Sunday with sponsors Mrs Mary Schoentein and Prof Win Schmidt. Senior and Junior choirs provided music as the Mugbury Confession anniversary was observed. Senior choir music followed by German service at 10 46 AM and Sunday school at 9 30 AM, with a birthday bank in Sunday school and a request to bring pennies on birthdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lutheran Church
Church Building Fund of Synod
Janet Alma Holt
C. St. Hoff
Ames
Mary Schoentein
Win. Schmidt
Luther League
Pool
Wm. Schmide
Honor Roll Fragments From Iowa and Nearby Towns
Fractured OCR list includes names such as Titanka Tawa Kramer and Depue Wesley with dates ranging from 1926 to 1982. Locations noted include Algona Iowa Wesley Iowa Winnebosa Mina and Co B. Thomas. The item reads like a historical roster or memorial roll with scattered dates and places.
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Ray Oasterretcher
Titanka
Tawa
Joe Kramer
Wollen
B. Thomas
Iowa
Yewell M. Larson
Algona
R.A. Depue
Wesley
W. H. Gillan
Winnebosa
Mina
John Rosenau Dies From Apoplexy In Mankato
John Rosenau of Mankato Minnesota a nephew of Mrs Sever Pannkuk died Friday from a stroke of apoplexy. He collapsed at the table after returning from the stone quarry and died instantly. Funeral services were held Monday at Landskamer funeral home with Rev J A Rinkel officiating and burial at Pilgrims Rest cemetery. He is survived by four children, his parents, two brothers and a sister. Relatives from Titonka attended the funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Rosenau
Mankato
Minn
Sever Pannkuk
Mtonka
Landskamer Funeral Home
J. A. Rinkel
Pilgrims Rest Cemetery
Mgr Rosenaw
Clifford
John Helen
Ruth
Henry Rosenau
LeHillier
August
William
Ray Smith
Chicago
Rosenau
Titonka Relglives
Sever Paunkuk
Herman
Raleigh
Senus Isenbrand
John Pannhuk
Bill Wittjes
Amelia’ Riku
Two Men Die After Train Collision Near Kamray
Pete Wessels and Carl Groathous of Buffalo Center died after a Chicago and North Western motor train struck their truck near Kamray. The crash dragged the truck fifty feet. Wessels was pinned under the vehicle and burned, Groathous was thrown clear. Coroner rules the death accidental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pete Wessels
Carl Groathous
Buffalo Center
Webster City
Kamray
Chicago & Northwestern
Kamrar
Wessels
Graathons
Portland area social notes mixed with family visits regionwide
Loretta Larseh spent Saturday in Algona with relatives Gaud Sigsbee and wills were shopping at the county seat Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Duncan and son Tidou spent Sunday at the Will Ringsdorf home near Lone Rock. Many residents visited kin across Algona Cedar Falls and Fairmont. A home management lesson was held at Mrs What Start’s home and Portland township ladies attended with fourteen present despite rain and bad roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loretta Larseh
Algona
Claud Moore
J. W. Moore
Lone Rock
8. M. Peterson
Erne
Cedar Falls
Irna
John Trunkhill
Cedar Trupids
Iva
Coe College
Ward Taft
Fairmont
Minn
M. BD. Larsen
Harvey Graham
Taft
Larsens
Grahamms
Ted Stingsdorf
Bancroft
Pat Mulligan
John Dithmer
Daneh
Josie
Albert Grannon
Ray Biersted
Little Donald
Chas
Larsen
Shetland Sigsbee
Selipal
What
Lottie Wessel
Burt
Portland Township
Will
Fred
Roy Ringsdort
Dane
Wis
Roy Ringsdorf
West Anion
Leo Layton
Portland Farm Baureau
Martin Larsen
Chas, Phelps
C. B. Moore
Dickinson Attacks Dickinson in Iowa Senate Campaign
Senator Steck defends record in a speech at Shenandoah Iowa criticizing Lester Dickinson for attacks on President Hoover and Democrats. He cites votes on the Farm Board tariff and other farm relief policies, pledges to expose Dickinson’s 11 year record, and defends his own voting against the Boulder Dam and immigration law changes. He notes committee activity and roll call participation.
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Lester Dickingon
Jowa Voler
Dickinson
Hoover
Senate
Congress
Iowa
Dickinson Stagues
Grain Board
Dickingon
Boulder Dam
Germany
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Ireland
American Federation of Labor
House
Missouri River
Welp couple marks fortieth wedding anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Welp celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary with a surprise gathering last Saturday October 24 1930 at their home. Twenty three grandchildren attended as families shared cafeteria style cats and treats including ice cream and candy. Their children presented a library table and scarf as a keepsake.
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Dick Welp
H. D. Welp
Joe Temple
EB. D. Welp
Kamvar
Ray Welp
Fred Welp
Harm Cirwen
Titanica
Welp
Iowa group to destroy outdated road maps to draw tourists
A statewide Iowa drive organized by Walter Ferrell of the Iowa Automotive Merchants Association aims to burn old maps showing 6 000 miles of surfaced highways and replace them with new guides to boost publicity and attract visitors. Committees will collect and ship maps to Des Moines for bonfire burning as a publicity stunt.
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Iowa
Towa
Walter Ferrell
Iowa Automotive Merchants Association
Ferrell
Chambers of Commerce
Des Moines
Union
Community Notes On Visits and Local Events
Miss Anna Lawler and friends visited Mrs. John Hutchison. Ackley residents attended various visits while Des Moines trips occurred. M. E. Ladies Aid met. Bazaar plans set for November 8. Bridge club gathered. next meet October 30. Funeral attendance noted for Mrs. Luella McPherson-Olsen. Teachers and principals assigned in New Richland and Forest City. locals headed to Des Moines for courses and family gatherings.
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Anna Lawler
Ackley
John Hutchison
anGwin Kiper
Paul Engin
Des Moines
M. E. Ladies Aid
Carl Hansen
Bridge Club
Thno Gerdes
Frank Kanba Jr
George Hall Jr
Chessna
Luella McPherson-Olsen
Dominic Bruxer
Chicago
Gregory Studer
St. Benedict
Nathan Studer
Ernst Hutchison
Theodore Johnson
Rockford
Otha
Thomas Kerrins
Pleasanton
Charles Kerrins
William Foertschook
Teola Hall
New Richland
Minn
Delitta
Forest City
Homer Lawson
Des’ Moines
Russel
Capitel City Commercial College
Oscar Erickson
Bhnhurst, Ill
Weekend Visits And Local Notices From Algona Area
Rochester nurse student Miss Mira Studer visited her parents the Stucers. Rose Malek and friend from Duncan stopped at the Anthony Johnson home. Mrs Braley visited Iowa City for Father's Day with son Alson. News of teachers Margaret Scott and Grace at Waterloo. Families from Fort Dodge and Des Moines visited Hutchison and Giddings households. Wendell Keith born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Z. Giddings. Royal Neighbors party and Legion activities noted. Adelle Kleinpeter returns to Fort Dodge. Flurry of local club events and oblique family updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mira Studer
Rochester
Minn
Ben Stucers
Mira
Rochester Hospital
Rose
Marie Malek
Duncan
Anthony Johnson
Johnsons
Harry Braley
Iowa City
Alson
Ethel
Welter
Margaret Scott
Bertha Scott
Margaret
Winthrop
Grace
Gata Coolege
Waterloo
Eugene Huber
Kathaleen
Louise
Williams
Lawrence Ricke
Chelstroaum
Clayton
Donald
Mary Hutchison
Fort Dodge
William Hutchison
Albert Young
Wendell Keith
O. K. Wevish
Giddings
Milton
Gordon Giddings
Des Moines
Polyclinic Hospital
Gordon
Clare Robison
Bancroft
Brayton
Algona
Irs
Thomas Forburger
Albert Bleich
Jon
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Misa Lelia Wester
Madison
American Country Life Association
New York
Carl
Carl Ahlers Produce Co
Royal
Bertha Lcott
Louise Murphy
Burdell Loott
Kate Kennedy
Gibson
Isabell
Verna Kerring
Adelle Kleinpeter
Dry
Clark and Smith
A. L. Kleinpeters
Frank Burke
Kleinpeter
Milwaukee
American Legion Auxiliary
John Gutchison
Chas. Murphy
Axel Johnson
L. L. Lease
Chaplin
3Ene Huber
John Hutchison
Ann M. Kung
Methodist Church Notes Sunday Schedule and Convention
Morning worship at 11:00 a m Sunday School at 10:00 a m Epworth League at 7 30 p m County Sunday School Convention held at Swea City at the Baptist church Friday from 10 00 a m to 4 00 p m Older boys and girls conference and banquet in Swea City at Methodist church Banquet at 7 00 p m Price 50 cents Followed by conference All who can go day or evening notify the pastor or Mrs Ray Bonacker by Thursday evening
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Epworth
Swea City
Baptist Church
Methodist Church
Ray Bonacker
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Wesley Pioneer
Qaville Gilbertson
Tito Tarber
Tuessay
Maple Hall
Splebelet
Iol
Wesley News
Budebedtebbel
Portland News
Senator Steck
Shenandoah
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