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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1908
Page
7
In Algona area items include coal and heater supplies from Frank Fox and wife, residents visiting relatives in Illinois, Fenton cement tile plans, a long list of local visitors and farm activity, tax due reminders, and notices of frost, barn fires, and county grading work.
Algona residents attend a dairy fair at the grounds with Prof. Van Pelt and Dr. Wood judging dairy cattle. Ed Marlow plans to move to Frankfort, South Dakota. O. J. Stephenson campaigned for clerk of courts with encouragement. Wesley hosts visitors. Mrs Stough returns from Minneapolis. Redmen lodge secures five year lease on Durdall Annex second floor. Halcyon Club forms with Dr Trib as host. Dr Fellows named president.
Harry Dailey leaves for Allison Iowa to take a bank bookkeeper post with prospects for assistant cashier. Al Falkenhainer sells Titonia drug business to Dr Wallace and shifts to druggists insurance company work. Co L McKee marries Myrtle Van Buskirk. couple to Ohio then LuVerne. Mrs J D McDonald visits relatives in Kossuth after years in Riverside. Miss Clara Mills starts a piano studio in John Galbraith block. Will Clarke visits Des Moines with daughter Meredith. plan study at St Katherine's Davenport. Tickets for W S A S course on Oct 7 8. Macauley Patton shows visit opera house. 10 pound boy born to Rome and Mrs. Robinson. E & Conner redecorates store. Judge Quarton mourns mother Charlotte Quarton of Fremont. Wehler Bros take Dingley jewelry store. Fred Wehler a skilled watch repairer and engraver. Horses in area show distemper like illness with pneumonia in some cases. C B Albright brings 10 ears of yellow dent corn from June planted field. crop ahead of last year. Dr Charles Sheetz suffers fall causing brain concussion and ankle sprain. prognosis guarded.
Supt Collins of the C M St P Ry agreed to add two extra coaches to the freight leaving Wesley about 7 p m and allow passengers from Wesley westward to ride this special on October first. Algona Sexton Whittemore travelers on warning trains may ride the full celebration, returning at 7 p m. Girl Wanted Enquire of Mrs Ti B Butler.
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