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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
7
Community updates from Algona include sermons at the union service and baccalaureate plans, church meetings, and school events. Residents visiters travel to Des Moines for medical society and state convention, while local officials inspect washed roads and damaged bridges.
The program includes a Welfare of the Child talk by Mrs Hutchison, a Pictures exercise by pupils, and a year end gathering in the building. Next Saturday May 23 the city delivery mail examination will be held at 9 30 a m in the Bryant building with 40 to 50 expected, conducted by a Civil Service Commission representative from Mason City. Next Tuesday May 24 J J Hough will marry Miss Mary Purvis at the Purvis home in Algona. Herman Nelson of Titonka, head of Peoples Bank, attended a bankers’ convention in Algona and recently faced smallpox quarantine with no lasting effects. A riverbank collapse near the north bridge led to a crisis as Mr and Mrs J F McFadden’s children fell into ten feet of water. Lute Henderson rescued them. Cards announce a double wedding May 27 for Miss Edith Clara Platt to Mr Howard Dortney of Fairmont and Miss Myrtle Platt to Mr Wm Conklin of Estherville. W T Hall of Titonka declines another term as county supervisor. field opens for Louis Ostermaicher and Olaf Pannemark. Furniture ads: children's beds, chairs, Herrick refrigerator, and sale items from Haggard & Pesk with loan offers.
Kossuth county land values rise with sales frequenting the market. Wilfrid P. Jones sold the quarter section known as the old Hiram Norton place east of Burt for 90 dollars per acre cash. Purchaser Thomas N. Bleklefeld from Kankakee Illinois moved to farm on shares but bought the place. Jones paid 72 dollars per acre five to six years ago and improved the property with tiling and other enhancements, signaling potential rise to 100 dollars per acre in the county.
An independent newspaper ad notes a cottage for rent through M Starr and promotes the Chicago Record Herald as an influential unbiased paper. It ends with a lawn seed sale by F C Wilson offering pure lawn grass seed that meets state purity laws.
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