Iowa Old Press
Algona Republican
Algona, Kossuth co. Iowa
January 3, 1900
SHORT LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
-Miss Zoa Jones returned to her school work Monday.
-Lorn Smylie returned to Morningside College the first of the
week.
-Chas. H. Taylor spent New Year’s eve in the vicinity of
Bancroft.
-Miss Alma Wilson of Swea City was a holiday visitor in Algona.
-The State Board of Health report 57 cases of small pox in the
state.
-Miss Ada Smith returns to her school duties at Stillwater,
Minn., Saturday.
-Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Wilson visited relatives and friends in
Humboldt last week.
-Attorney George Patterson and Lee Wheelock were holiday visitors
in Algona.
-Walter and Fred King visited their sister, Mrs. Dr. Bowen, at
Whittemore last week.
-Miss Helen M. Wallace, who is teaching at Swea City, spent
Christmas with Algona friends.
-Walter King joined the crowd and came up from Des Moines to
spend his vacation in Algona.
-Lutie Wallace and family are settled in their pretty new house
at the end of South Thorington street.
-D. J. Lyman, pharmacist at the Sheetz drug store, spent New
Years at his home in Iowa Falls.
-Henry Rausch, the proprietor of the Thorington House, is back
from a holiday visit in Wisconsin.
-Mrs. H. B. Smith and son, Earl Humlong, were down from
Minneapolis for the holidays.
-Dr. Ripke writes the Republican that he will be in his
office January 10, which is next Wednesday.
-The W.F.M.S. of the M.E. church will meet Thursday afternoon at
3 o’clock at Rev. Chipperfield’s.
-Wm. Owen and his company played to delighted audiences Thursday
and Friday evenings at the Call.
-F. C. Winton of Webster City, representing the state Sunday
School association, was in town last week.
-Chrischilles & Herbst are making some low prices on their
handsome line of silks. This is a good time to buy.
-Titonka voted for incorporation last week. 50 votes for and two
against, with one ballot thrown out.
-Howe Bros of Fenton shipped a carload of turkeys to Algona
Saturday for Higley & Co. There were 5,000 pounds.
-Mrs. May Sturson, of Sheldon, with her daughter, Harriet, spent
the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stacy.
-Mr. G. C. Wright, the drayman, goes to Hot Springs, Arkansas,
this week to obtain relief for his rheumatism, if possible.
-The fireman’s ball at the Armory Monday night was well
attended. The Algona Harp orchestra furnished the music.
-Haswell Ramsey of Seattle has been a welcome visitor in Algona.
He came here to visit his relatives and many friends.
-W. H. Reed and wife and Arthur Corey spent their Christmas with
Mrs. Yorke at Wesley, says the News of that place.
-J. H. Van Horn, stockbuyer from Filmore, was in town Thursday
and Friday of last week at the home of E. C. Tuttle.
-Fred Hartzell was visiting his old neighbors in Ledyard township
last week. He intimates that the living is good up there.
-Titonka Topic: George Parker, a well known pedagogue
teaching near town is spend the holidays with his parents in
Algona.
-The implement men are in convention at Des Moines this week.
Wilfrid R. Jones of the Wigwam is on the program for something
about co-operative stores.
-Will Norton, of Dassel, Minn., and Miss Myrtle Trauger of
Livermore have been holiday guests at A. L. Peterson’s.
Young Norton is Mrs. Peterson’s brother.
-Col. R. H. Spencer and wife were called to Washington, Iowa, to
attend the funeral of Wm. Spencer, an uncle of the first named.
They arrived home Tuesday of last week.
-Bert Williams, the state Bank barber, received a handsome
hunting case gold watch as a Christmas present from his wife. It
is a time piece to be proud of.
-J. M. Dickinson is the new second man at the Northwestern. He
comes from Tennessee, where he was in the employ of the Norfolk
& Western.
-C. O. Simpson is having a January clearing sale of boots and
shoes to make room for spring stock. This sale means great
bargains for buyers of footwear.
-Mrs. Edna Waterhouse Allen comes from Minneapolis this morning
for the Stacy-Waterhouse marriage. It is only a few weeks since
Mrs. Allen became a bride.
-Miss Edith Bowyer took Amy Hedrick’s place at the piano in
opera house orchestra at the Owen entertainment last week. Miss
Bowyer is a brilliant performer on the piano.
-James C. Taylor Post and the Women’s Relief Corps will have
a joint installation of officers at G. A. R. Hall on the evening
of Jan. 10. A large attendance is desired.
-Rev. W. J. Suckow and family spent their Christmas at Klemmer,
where they attended the wedding of a younger brother of the
popular Algona pastor. The latter performed the ceremony.
-Mrs. M. Buse and children, of Goldfield, were in town visiting
many old friends last week. Mrs. Buse is conducting a restaurant
in Goldfield and she finds the town a good point for her
business.
-James M. Murray, one of the employees of the city at the power
and light plant, was married on New Years to Miss Gene R.
Goetsch. The ceremony was at the Presbyterian parsonage, Rev. S.
Ollerenshaw officiating.
-General Superintendent Ashton of the Northwestern railway system
is expected in Algona some day this week. Algona business men
will do well to improve the opportunity to see Mr. Ashton.
-Miss Katy Blackford, who has been teaching near Swea City,
returned to Algona Friday to visit over New Years while Mr. and
Mrs. Beach from Weeping Water, Nebraska, were here.
-As the old year was about to fold his wings and sink his aged
head in eternal slumber, a party of young people gathered at the
pleasant rural home of Forrest Rice to welcome the new year.
-C. W. Sarchett wishes the public to know that his recently
published book on “Imperialism” is now on sale at Otto
Newman’s news stand, south of the courthouse. Everyone
should get a copy.
-Miss Kelley of the Elmore teaching force was in Algona Saturday
on business with the county superintendent. She says that in
northern Kossuth there are several good schools without teachers.
-Miss Jennie Thompson, who is teaching this winter at Buffalo
Center, came down for Christmas with her parents in Union
township. Miss Thompson is one of the best school teachers in the
county.
-Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pinkerton, of Adair county, have been
visiting in Algona for some time at the Will Naudain and Frank
Nicoulin homes. Mr. Pinkerton has sold out his livery business
and is taking life easy at present.
-The turkey shoot at the Armory was quite well attended New Years
day, but owing to the dance that evening and the consequence
early closing of the shoot, it was not so big an event as the one
Thanksgiving.
-Mr. Ray Tillinghast and Miss Ethel May Stebbins began the new
year auspiciously as man and wife. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. S. Ollerenshaw at the residence of Mr. O. T. Dawson. Mr. and
Mrs. Tillinghast will make their home on the farm east of Algona.
-Mrs. Lora Pangburn and her sister, Mrs. Guy Taylor, will start
for California this week or next to spend the balance of the
winter. They will visit in Redwood City, where their brother
Clarke Rice lives, and with relatives at other points. The trip
is to be made partly on account of Mrs. Pangburn’s health.
-Miss Gage, who severed her connection with the Algona schools
with the close of the term, has been succeeded by Miss Sandborg,
a graduate of the Burlington training school. Miss Sandborg has
had experience as a teacher and is spoken of very highly. Miss
Gage hopes to secure higher grade work.
-The dailies are giving interesting details of the life of Mary
Hubbard, who has just died at Holt, Mo. This lady played a
conspicuous part in the early Kansas troubles. She it was who
spirited Gov. Reedy out of the state when in peril. She was the
great aunt of an Algona resident, who remembers her as a visitor
at this father’s home in Wisconsin years ago.
-Word reached here Friday that Dr. Ripke’s father had died
the day previous at his home in Cedar Falls. He was one of the
early settlers of the locality, having lived in Black Hawk county
for thirty-two years. Dr. Ripke was at the old home when his
father died. His stay will likely be prolonged by the sad event.
-Mrs. Dr. Seeley, Mrs. Long and Mrs. Lloyd arrived home yesterday
from Buncombe, Dubuque county, where they went to be present at
the 60th wedding anniversary of their parents, Dr. I. S. Bigelow
and wife. Dr. Bigelow settled there over fifty years ago, and has
been one of Dubuque county’s ablest physicians.
-Superintendent Spencer of the Algona public schools attended the
state teacher’s convention at Des Moines last week, and with
him Mr. Bowers, Miss Coate and Miss Stevens. There was a large
and interesting convention. Resolutions were adopted strongly
urging the creation of three new normal schools by the present
general assembly and favoring compulsory attendance of pupils at
school.
-“Grandma” Wallace, mother of the Chubb brothers and
Mrs. Wolcott Hart, and Mrs. Nichols of Wisconsin, had the
misfortune to break her hip a few days since. The accident
doubtless hastened her death, which occurred last night. She was
88 years old. She was loved by all who knew her. The funeral will
be tomorrow at 2 in the afternoon.
-Representative Gardner Cowels left for Des Moines early in the
week. There are very stirring times in the capital city. The
speakership campaign, which is one of the hardest fought in the
history of the state, will end in the house caucus Saturday. The
senatorship is being fiercely contested, but Gear apparently is a
sure winner, and Bowen seems to have the lead for speaker.
-Miss Emma O. Smith and Miss Sponholtz spent their holiday
vacation in Minneapolis. Miss Sweney visited her sister at
Sheldon; Miss Sadie Taylor was at her home in Burt; Miss Helen
Eddy was with her parents at Humiston; Miss Samson was at her
home in Amboy, Minnesota; Miss Turner was at her home in
Oskaloosa; Mr. Sniffin and Miss Colton were at Mt. Vernon, the
seat of their alma mater; and Supt. Spencer and wife found time
for a brief visit to Mr. Spencer’s parents at Alden.
-The Woodmen installed their officers in the presence of a large
company of friends Monday night, as follows: Wesley Hohn, vice
consul; G. H. Ohnstedt, advocate; J. W. Curtiss, banker; C. J.
Doxsee, clerk; A. L. Benton, sentry; C. Lampright, escort; and A.
H. Hackman, watchman. After the installation ceremonies,
refreshments were served and music was rendered by the Algona kid
band.
-T. J. Julian last week received a carload of gluten for cattle
feeding. Gluten is produced by Des Moines mills and is sold at
$14 per ton. The freight to Algona is quoted at $1.12 per ton.
Mr. Julian says it is worth for feeding purposes twice as much as
bran and the starch taken out. Mr. Julian’s move will call
attention to this feed, and the above statements will help, as
far as they go, to answer the questions that will naturally be
suggested.
-Alex White is still in charge of the Lamb Lumber Co.’s
business, but he is expected to be relieved in a few days. He has
planned to visit several points in Minnesota this week. Algona
business men regret to see Mr. White leave. There is some
prospect that a planing mill will be located in Algona in a short
time, and if that is done probably Mr. White will have a leading
hand. A gentleman connected for years with the planing mill and
sash factory in Charles City was in town last week looking over
the town in that interest.
-Lawyer Welt Miller was in town yesterday. He reports that there
has been considerable excitement at Whittemore over the
circumstances attendant upon the death of Dr. Felling. He states
that the action of the commissioners was irregular, the affidavit
which was to give them jurisdiction not having reached Whittemore
for signature until after the arrival home of the Doctor’s
remains. He says further that Mrs. Felling was not willing to
have her husband taken to Independence when he was. Mr. Miller
says they understanding is that Whittemore is to have a new paper
and that the press is on the way. It will be run by a stock
company.
SMALL POX AT SWEA CITY—Three Cases Were
Developed Last Week Thursday—Dr. Kenefick Is On the Ground
Looking After Cases—State Board of Health to
Inspect—The Cases are Mild.
Last Thursday, while at a church entertainment at Swea City, two
sisters of Mrs. Dr. Packard of that place were taken with chills
and fever and were removed to their home, where it was discovered
that they were stricken with small pox. On the next day another
sister was taken sick with the disease, making three in the
family.
On Saturday the town was quarantined, and placards were displayed
warning people not to enter or leave the town.
Monday forenoon Dr. Kenefick was telephoned for. He went up on
the 1:55 train and at this writing he is still there.
A telephone from Swea City to the Republican this
morning states that there are only the three original cases and
that the disease is in mild form. A member of the state board of
health is expected there today.
WATERHOUSE—STACY NUPTIALS
Tonight at 8 o’clock at the Fred Waterhouse home in
north Algona occurs the marriage of Miss Caddie Marie Waterhouse
to Lute Stacy. Rev. Ollerenshaw will perform the ceremony before
a company of relatives and near friends, after which refreshments
will be served. These young people come from two old, well known
and respected families and will receive the congratulations of
hosts of friends. They will live at the J. E. Stacy home on
McGregor street where Lute is engaged with his father in the
nursery business.
FUNERAL CUSTOMS —Manner of Placing a Coffin
in a Room and of Carrying It to the Burying Place.
While in old times it was more or less the custom, in the
interment of bodies, to bury them with their feet to the east, a
custom now substantially superseded by the almost common practice
of burying the body with the feet to the path along the front of
the lot, so was it once more or less the custom to place the
coffin in the room in which the deceased was to lie before burial
with the feet to the east. Nowadays, says the New York Sun, the
disposal of the body in the room would be determined altogether
by the shape and size of the room, except that commonly the feet
would be placed toward the door. Though the common way is to
place the body in the center of the room, another way, in
comparatively modern practice, is to place the coffin or casket
across one corner of the room. This gives opportunity for a
convenient and effective disposition of flowers and floral
pieces, and it perhaps affords a better view of the face. As to
the manner of moving a body to its burial, that is always done
with the feet foremost. It is carried out of the house in that
way, put into the hearse feet foremost, and so it is borne to the
grave.
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The Courier, Algona, Iowa
January 5, 1900
MRS. GAFFNEY’S DEATH.
The Good Lady Passes Away From a Singular Cause.
It is with much regret that we chronicle the death of Mrs. J. Gaffney of Irvington township which took place Wednesday night at her late residence. The cause of Mrs. Gaffney’s death was somewhat singular, it being an impediment in the throat. It seems that about a week or ten days ago the Gaffney family dined on rabbit, and that a small bone lodged in Mrs. Gaffney’s throat, low down, below the collar bone.
Soon after the physicians were summoned, but they were unable to remove the bone, and feared the process of making an incision from the outside to reach it. Had it lodged higher up in the throat an incision might have been made with less danger of a fatal result.
The throat of the patient swelled and her breathing became difficult, though at times her breathing was easier. Finally, however, her vitality became exhausted and she died.
We sincerely sympathize with Mr. Gaffney and family in their great affliction. Deceased was an aunt of the Mann boys and girls.
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The Upper Des Moines
Algona, Kossuth co. Iowa
Wednesday, January 10, 1900
KOSSUTH SCHOOL STATISTICS
Some Items From State Superintendent Barrett’s Report —
Nearly $70,000 Paid to Teachers.
Kossuth has 28 school townships, eight independent
districts, 202 sub-districts, 204 ungraded schools, 42 rooms in
graded schools, and eight months is the average length of the
school year.
There are 70 male and 325 female teachers in the county. The men
get $34.98 a month, the women $31.58.
There are 3,766 males of school age, 3,454 females. The
enrollment in school is 5,107. The total average attendance is
3,669.
There are 211 school houses worth $144,895 with $8,882 of
apparatus, 2,108 books and 1,566 trees on the grounds.
The county pays $85,531.46 to teachers.
There are 53 first grade teachers certificates, 197 second grade,
two special certificates, seven state certificates.
The average age of male teachers is 28 years, of female it is 21.
NEARLY ASPHYXIATED
A Turkey Near Sexton Causes Serious Trouble — Wanted to Get
Warm
Mayor Johnson tells the Swea City Herald the
following tale, after a visit to Sexton: Along in the night a
large turkey climbed from the ridge of the roof on Ole
Peterson’s house, to the top of the chimney and sat down, so
as to get the benefit of the heat from the fire below. Early in
the morning Mrs. Peterson and two children sleeping in the room,
where the hard coal stove was located, were discovered to be
deathly sick and the room was full of gas. The turkey was soon
discovered and driven off, but it took quite a while for the sick
to recover.
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