Alma Wins Fame as Musician and Local School News
Former Algona teacher Miss Winnifred Almy gains musical fame as soloist at Schubert Theater in Minneapolis. Graduation dress committee sets $8.50 limit, bans silk and satin favoring organdie and voile. Literary Societies of four classes meet with Emphasis on senior program and Boone Valley declamatory contest prep Spart.
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Alma
Algona
Laura Mitchell
Winnifred Almy
Algona High School
Grinnell College
Miss Almy
Schubert Theater
Minneapolis
Patrick
Clagg
Helen Murtagh
McCoy
Boone Valley
Clear Lake
Angel
Helen
Local notes from Cresco and area health and visits
L N Thorpe remodels home. Mike Loss shipped cattle to Chicago Saturday night. Miss Vivian Robinson of Irvington stayed with the Harry Sabin family last week. Telephone lines 7 25 and 16 share poles due to power line work. O I Miller family near Sexton and the Plymesser family visited R G Fry. Children of Earl Miller and Oscar Calhoun families ill. Mr Hamen and wife and baby moved from Bancroft to Algona. Haien formerly Marjorie Kelso. Sadie Potter of Granville recovering from smallpox. Fifty attended Idle Hour Club at Ed Wildin home Friday. Last items include garbled names from a Friday entry.
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Mike Loss
Chicago
Vivian Robinson
Irvington
Harry Sabin
O. I. Miller
Sexton
Glen -Plymesser
R. G. Fry
Earl Miller
Oscar Calhoun
Hamen
Bancroft
Algona
Haien
Marjorie Kelso
Embroidery Club Social and Tragic Hog Wagon Accident
Mrs M de L Parsons hosted the Embroidery Club with many attending and her daughter entertained schoolmates Wednesday evening. J M Cox returned home after attending a brother’s funeral and a hog hauling accident led to a fatal skull injury when a wagon overturned after a passing incident.
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J. M. Cox
Sailor Boy Home From Arkansas On Furlough
Charlie Clement of Bancroft, a Navy sailor for four years aboard the Arkansas, is on furlough visiting his wife and his parents. He has served as a barber on the ship and expects to retire and settle on land this summer.
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Charlie Clement
Bancroft
Arkansas
America
Curran
Sherman Olwnship
John Clement
Charlie
Northwestern Ar number fifteen arrives an hour earlier
The Northwestern changes the morning passenger schedule, moving Number Fifteen one hour earlier to 8:55 am. Algona mails now arrive earlier, affecting local paper deliveries and morning communications. The alteration shifts northbound travel times and newspaper mail arrivals accordingly.
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Northwestern
Algona
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Percales
Ladies
Lisle Hoge
Packer
Woodbury
Men’s Union
Rockford
State House
Sprustex
Melba
Ladies’ Union
Emily Rist
Lois Schenck
Hale Shirley
Mary Crandall
Cresco News
L. N
Thorpe
Sadie Potter
Granville
North Dakota
Idle Hour Club
Ed Wildin
Will Runchey
John Alfers
Ape
C. H. Potter
Algona Opera House
Fou
Rexall
Aydeae
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