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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1910
Page
4
Bancroft residents share travel and business updates from Algona to Des Moines. Cites include Dr Waters in Ledgari, Alona visitors, land deals in Algora, and moves of families between Ledyard and Ringsted. Local officials, bridge repairs, and upcoming exams feature among routine community items.
Reading shows fragmented OCR about pensions, a person named Wades, a visit by someone to town before a coin in a GP, mentions Belin Missouri and a railroad, but most details are garbled and names are uncertain.
Swea City notes show residents in court, travel, illness and local business. Dawsons from Alpens visit. Mrs Pred Worcester ill with pneumonia. photographer Johnson back on duty after illness. Panl Jorgensen of Boffislo Oster, mournful shop scene. new Panmears Cleversier offices finished except plumbing. Several residents resign, move, or visit, including Cary, Haglund heading to South Dakota and Jack Evens selling hay. Church pastor changes and political platform planning appear amid a miscellany of town life.
Ray Hotbison visited friends after Wesley Wednesday and Thursday. Clarence Cook and wife welcomed a daughter born Saturday. Harvey Knepper began testing in Algonson for the week ahead. Hobart Creamery traded engine and boiler for Spurbeck Leibert Co. a new fire horse power boiler arriving soon. Spurbeck’s men removed the old machinery last week. Ed Kubo returned from Polo Illinois where he rents a farm and will move there. Ed says Iowa is good, Illinois is a bit better.
Ledyard reports Reverend Gardener of Germania and Mrs. O L Graves visiting from Algona last week. Banerch pastor Br Walters and Clarke assistant state dairy commissioner called in town. Bancroft guests included Mrs E J Skinner and daughter Oaiota, plus Jisses Lids Herzog and Lens EKooner and Alvena Eogiebaria. A special train hauled twenty five cars Sunday night with seventy five more stacked, signaling a severe car shortage.
At the annual election O Mann was elected to succeed himself as director and Wm Tre to succeed Wm Knoll as director. D L Godden was rehired as buttermaker. Miss M E Warner was elected secretary to succeed herself. The Burt Creamery Co invites bids for buttermilk for the ensuing year with bids due March 1 and the right to reject all bids reserved. Also notices on butter pricing and daily tourist tours in sleeper cars offered by Northwestern Line.
Auction will be held at the old Butler farm in Riverdale, 8 miles south and 2 miles west of Igona, 7 miles east of West Bend, 6 miles north of Bode, starting 10 o'clock sharp on Thursday, 24, 1910. Items include 99 head of cattle with 4 cows and 1 heifer among them. Horses listed: a fall-bred Belgian stallion 1800 lbs, three mares aged 5, 10, and 6 with weights 1650, 1550, 1490, plus several 4 to 14 year old mares with weights 1250 to 1300 and two mares at 1200 each.
A terse classified note invites buyers to the fair to purchase horses and asks owners to notify the contact at renormnaien hte with a phone number 9.13 for arranging sales. The ad signals broad horse availability and contact details.
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