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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
7
Local residents mingle through Christmas and New Year events in Algona. Wives and families travel to Des Moines, Guthrie Center, and Burlington while Algona hosts a watch night at the M B church and a year end dance at the Armory. Community members attend conventions, sales, and social gatherings, with several couples tying new beginnings in January.
Last week invitations announced the marriage of Dr Sithner Reed to Mina Helen N Beal in Agency City on Christmas Day. The groom, son of the late John Reed, has practiced in Agency City. Gardner Cowles and family visited Algona for Christmas at Mrs Comes parents. Russell Cowles came from Dartmouth College for vacation. Elizabeth Pulghum, a Mason City slater, visited the Bohning home. The Algoos Harp Orchestra plans a year-end dance at the Armory on Friday December 28. The group now has ten pieces after enlargement. Mrs Vernon W Finkle and son arrived from Milledgeville Illinois and will live with the Durdalls. Henry Wilkins and wife of Sioux Falls visited relatives in Algona. High stock prices at Burt creamery auction and at D A Bagard sale are noted. Petir Winkel and wife sought medical opinions in Rochester. doctors advised against surgery. D F Miller’s Plum Creek sale yielded about 3000 dollars. Miller plans to move to Colorado by February. A successful basket social at Plum Creek No 2 raised funds for school books. Marie Modin organized the program. Mrs Brace reports reading about coal famines in North Dakota relieved by a letter from Glenburn. Robt Starr reports 34 below zero on his claim in McLean County but residents keep busy. A compulsory arbitration debate at Bryant High School featured strong arguments by juniors.
A crowd witnessed Matt Dalziel's team break from a yard run on Dodgestreet. The wagon hurtled toward the feed yard gate with the harness torn. Dalziel stood in the front, gripping the off line as horses turned and jumped through the wall, narrowly avoiding injury to himself and others.
County Superintendent Co. H. Belknapp reports 205 subdistricts and 209 rural school rooms. Average country district schooling last year was 71.6 months with the longest in Portland and 8 months in Ledyard and Cresco. Teacher pay averaged 57.00 for men and 39.30 for women, higher in town schools. Highest female wage in the country was 30.55 in Buffalo, with male pay 43.33 in the same township. Taxes for teachers’ wages totaled 408,949.88, while fuel, rent and repairs reached 18,556.09. County school age residents 6-21 numbered 4,588. ages 7-14 out of school numbered 240 despite compulsory attendance. Tuition per pupil ranged from 8.07 in Sherman to 1.30 in Prairie and 2.03 in Algona. Independent districts added books, with 612 volumes costing 205.28, while many teachers funded activities raising 163.00 through entertainments.
The text argues the single upfront cost of a New Domestic is cheaper than total expenses from repairs on other machines. It urges common sense to buy the newer model to avoid breakdowns, repair bills, and lost time, presenting the upfront price as the only sure cost.
Of 226 school houses, 103 are in good condition, 62 in fair, 61 in poor. Separate out houses are provided in connection with 0 school houses. Eighty school houses have flags, 176 school sites have thrifty trees. A total of 1,782 thrifty trees are reported on the school sites of Kossuth county, Hebron township is an opty one which provides free toxh ooks.
Norton brought a wolf trapped the day before to Germania Bac ord for town clerk Ave ry to claim a six dollar bounty. Wolves have long been suspected in the area, but none had yet been shot. Norton had spent fall and winter trying to trap one.
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