Algona Chautauqua Program Highlights Big Fourth Week
The second annual Algona Chautauqua program is outlined with multiple concerts lectures and readings from June 25 to July 4. The lineup features The Parland Newhall Co Eva Bartlett Macy Co and Williams Jubilee Singers with speakers such as Col. Geo. W. Bain Lincoln McConnell Gov. Hoch of Kansas and Dr. R. T. Hagerman. Season tickets priced 2.50 for adults and 1.00 for children are urged with notes on easy savings and weekly paper announcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams’ Jubilee Singers
Gov. Hoch
Kansas
Moving Pictures
Thuraday School Notes and Local Social Items
UITY SCHOOL NOTES reports a class activity with taffy making, exams, and community clean up. A high school sleep club event at the Keene venue is noted, with other school social details and a brief on a wrestling scene in Algona and a prison escape attempt at Fort Madison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UITY
L. J. Dwyer
William Pool
Fort Madison
Thomas Hatch
Polk County
New Penitentiary Hospital
Dwyer
Black Hawk Heights
Hatch
In Memory of Mrs Read Pioneer Editor of Upper Des Moines
A recollection of Mrs Lizzie B Read who owned the Upper Des Moines from 1865 and guided northern Iowa journalism. The piece recalls the paper, its reach beyond Ft Dodge, the editors and printers who shaped early Algona and surrounding counties, and Mrs Read as a fearless advocate for women’s suffrage and literary contributions.
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Lizzie B. Read
Washington
Frontier
Mra
Sioux City
Iowa
Robert Warren
Orson Rice
Spirit Lake
Palo Alto
Clay County
Spencer Land Dealer
Cravath
Starr & Haggard
Des Moines
Algona Republican
Read
Httle
Iowa Historical Department
Algona
New History of Value Life of Hon James Harlan by Brigham
Johnson Brigham, Iowa state librarian, completed a two volume history of Hon James Harlan. Mia, Robert Lincoln, last living child of the late Senator, supplied letters and papers. Brigham studied the material, will send manuscript to Iowa City Historical Society for inclusion in the Iowa biographical series edited by Benjamin F. Shambaugh. The work chronicles Harlan life and Iowa’s early history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Harlan
Johnson Bingham
Dea Moines
Johnson Brigham
Mia
Robert Lincoln
Senator Harlan
Brigham
Historical Society
Iowa City
Iowa
Benjamin F. Shambaugh
Robert Lucas
Harlan
Courts Hear Drainage and Land Dispute Actions
The docket includes equity suits by Gregory Studer against neighbors over a drainage ditch marred by a natural divide and wet land flooding Studer’s farm near Saint Benedict. H Blumer sues Mary Rust and Isabell Dodd over a land deed contract for 80 acres in Guverne township. Sullivan & McMahon represent both plaintiffs while additional drainage cases against Drain No. 33 and No. 34 are noted. Also reported is a delayed ball clock delivery to Al Falkenharper after two years and a Sioux City federal case Bort v McCutchen estate, involving about $100,000 and sureties. Furniture sale ad closes the notice items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory G. Studer Va
Josephine Rosenmeyer
Ids. B. Dorn
Steeter DeSales
Studer
St. Benedict
Scroga Studer
Plaintif
Soroau
H. Blumar
Mary Rust
Isabel Dodd
Elizabeth Dodd
Anna Schmitt
Anna Schmidt
H. H. Blumer
GuVerne Township
Sitios
Anna Schmnidt
Sullivan & McMahon
Georgiana J. Tilney
CO. E. Hesse
A. F
Gall
Sioux City
A. F. Call
Corons
Cal
Wright, Call & Sargent
Bort
McCutchen
Reed
Tve
E.H. McCutchen
Holstein,o
Woodmen of America
Bart
Court of Appeals
Aun
Ida County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jung
the Parl and Newhall Co
The
Bells
Parland Newhall Co
Col. Geo. W. Bain
Lincoln McConnell
Eva Bartlett Macy Co
William Jennings Bryan
Eva Bartlett
Macy Co
E.T. Hagerman
Col
Bob Seeds
Pamahasika
Williams’ Tubilee Singers
R. T. Hagerman
Frank H. Gamel
Monber
Plaag
Gihe
Gra
Meriday
Pe High School
Keenee
Hala
Gotoh
Dan. McLeod
Charles Moth
Be ‘Craft
Narvey Ingham
Ingham
Harry Day
Moore
Wehler Bros
Court
Gregory Studer
LaVerne Man
Patience Roward
al. Palkenhamer
Post Office Department
Mr. Falkenharper
Worley
Marsg
L. M, Horton
Society
Nobby
Steele
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