Kossuth County Advance from Algona, Iowa • Page 9

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, ALGONA, IOWA PROMPTED BY SALE OF TOWN. Tells story of early history 100 years ago of Seneca iii-ii III' 8 p.m. Instead of September 1 at the Veterans Memorial Building. SENIOR CITIZENS The Senior Citizens are meeting Monday Sept. 1 at 2 p.m* at the Pit for a business and social iiif-rr.

will Labw lM.ytwf>~ ball foursome golf event at the Whittemore Golf Club Monday for club members and their guests. The event will stait at 3:30 p.m., ending with a Steak Fry. Members are their own steaks. THE WESLEY COOP ELEVATOR can't be outdone by surrounding elevators for it too is expanding it's present facility. The new structure will have a capacity of 245,000 bushels and will be equipped with Hi-airation, a process to store wet corn for a short period of time.

The old elevator received a new coat of white paint and both look very trim on the Wesley skyline. The above picture was taken early this week and shows a view from the ground and future site of a large conveyor belt, which will carry grain between the two structures. Exclusive Advance Photos by Bill Bray; Schnakenberg horse places high twice IRVINGTON John Schnakenberg, accompanied by BobWith- am, Howard Raney and daughter Linda, drove to Sioux City the races at the Jefferson Park Track, and to see the Schnakenberg horse, "VenturaLad" come, in second on a 1 mile track in a claiming race. Oh Sunday, Aug. 24, Mr.

Schnakenberg accompanied, Willie and Ray Vogel of Burt-, to Sioux City to thej Jefferson Park Track, where "Ventura Lad" ran third, on a' 7 furlong in an allowance race. Schnakenberg went to Grand Island, Tuesday where he picked up and took him to Sioux City to the Jefferson Park Track where he will run in a race scon. NEW RESIDENTS New residents who nioved into Irvington Sunday are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jordan and two children, Debra and John, from Waterloo.

Debra will start school in Algona this fall. Mr. Jordan is connected with the Purina Feed Company. The Jordans moved into the home Owned by Mr. and Mrs.

Elmer Dole, which was recently vacated by their son Mr. and Mrs. John Dole and sons, Matthew and Tom, who moved to a home in Algona. Visitors at the home of Mrs. Florence Col well and Claude Fowler, Irvington, Aug.

21 were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Colwell from Dakota City. On Friday, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Colwell and family were dinner guests at the home of mother and uncle Florence Colwell and Claude Fowler. In the afternoon Charles took his mother and unplfe to Dakota City where they visited at home of Mri" and 'Earl''C61weirWd'MrV and Sirs. Floyd Colwell, all of Dakota City'. Enroute to Dakota City, they stopped at Livermore, and visited Mrs. Mary Colwell.

Escape serious injury in crash last Friday Loren Utterback and his family escaped serious injury last Friday night as they were involved in a crash south east of Boone on their way home from the State Fair. The car, a 1966 Chrysler, was termed a total loss. They were struck from behind as they were turning off Hwy. 17 on to Hwy. 30 and rolled twice.

Most seriously injured was their 14 year old son Dennis, who received cuts on the head and a notch out of his ear. The whole family was taken to the hospital but were released after examinations showed that they were not seriously hurt. Mr. Utterback is the local Graham manager. Pickup, mill sustain $1,500 in damage Albin F.

Kayser, Bancroft, escaped injury but a pickup truck towing a portable feed mill sustained about $1500 when the units went off the road and overturned Monday afternoon about 1 p.m. seven miles north and one-half mile west of Swea City on a county blacktop. Kayser' pickup had $800 in damage and the mill had $700 estimated damage. He took his eyes off the road momentarily and lost control. The pickup went into the ditch and then came back on the blacktop where it overturned on its top with the feed mill still attached.

(Esther Charlotte Smith was a longtime Swea City resident and now lives at Charles City. Periodically, down through the years, Miss Smith has submitted articles to the Advance, always much appreciated. The story in Monday's paper about the sale of Seneca prompted the following from Miss Smith). By Esther Charlotte Smith The recent Advance story on the proposed sale of the village of Seneca represents the passing of an era. Now only a crossroads community, the village once held hopes of becoming a thriving city.

The township's earliest settler was Joseph Burt, in June, 1865, who staked his claim on Section 6 when the area was still part of Greenwood township. Others followed him and many remained. The name of the township, Seneca, is Indian, of course, but since it was the Sioux tribe who inhabited the area it seems more likely that the township's name was chosen by early settlers who had come from New York state and remembered the Seneca tribe of New York. B. F.

Reed's 'History of Kossuth County' tells of an abandoned claim shanty being seen on Section 30 by the 1870 settlers, who conjectured that the house was that of some very early settler whose identity was unknown. This was actually the claim shack built by my great- uncle, J. Thaddeus Morgan of Chicago, who lived there with his family for some years, 186873, then sold out and returned east. His brother-in-law, C. 0.

Fish (my grandfather) stayed, and his claim on Section 8 was in family ownership for nearly 80 years. It is now tenanted by Robt. Burt, a descendant of first settler Joseph Burt. There was a stagecoach line thru the township (running from Algona to Estherville) in the 1870's ducted prior to 1896 by Mrs. 0.

A. Littlefield, who with her late husband had founded the congregation of the famed Little Brown Church near Nashua in 1855. She and her husband are buried in Greenwood Cemetery at Bancroft. As to the village itself, around the turn of the century was its peak. It then included two stores, a district school, a co-operative creamery, a Methodist church served by Bancroft pastors and located diagonally southeast from 'where the consolidated school later stood a telephone switchboard in one of the stores, a postoffice in a residence, and several dwelling houses.

About 1898 hopes rose high for the coming of the Chicago Northwestern railroad, which was about to build north and west from its Eagle Grove Elmore branch. The new line was to begin at Burt, and rumor had it that it would pass thru Seneca, across Eagle and Swea townships and connect with another line at Fairmont, Minn. Had this been done, it might, have changed the fortunes of Seneca, since at that time Seneca had no town nearer than ten miles to north, west or east, and none closer than Whittemore on the south. Therefore a railroad could have attracted business from a wide area and the village should have 'boomed'. However, rivalry between competing railroad firms changed all that.

The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern (now the Rock Island) had for six years been halted at Armstrong due to conditions following the financial panic of 1893. The Northwestern possibly hoped to reach Estherville before the Burlington could do so, meanwhile allaying the latter's suspicions by a token attempt to build to Fairmont. At any the Burlington's officials became suspicious, rushed to survey Estherville thru, and began a fast road-construction job aspirations to growth. The church was demolished in the mid-twenties, one store burned, RFD took over the mail service, large telephone companies rendered the Seneca switchboard unneeded, and school district mergers wrote the death warrant for the consolidated school of which Senecans were once so proud. Titonka girl honored at bridal shower TITONKA An Open House bridal shower honoring Elaine May land, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Mayland, will be held at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Titonka, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. There will be a short program at 8 p.m. All freinds and relatives are invited to attend. Elaine is the bride- to-be of Dean Stecker, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Stecker, Titonka. later for a time in a home in- the village, until the rural free delivery routes took over. The old Ormiston farm in the northwest part of the township was the dinner stop for the stagecoach passengers, some of whom might be lawyers and judges going to hold court at Swan later Estherville. One of the last residential postoffices was con- K.

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G. Clopton, have been associated with the firm. It has been a pleasure to serve the needs of this community and we are confident that the new owners, Mr. and Mrs. "Bob" Arnynspn will continue the, Jiaye, come to expect from the Modern Dry Cleaners.

Best of luck to the Amunsons, and thanks again for the wonderful years you have given us in Algona. Mrs. D. G. Clopton I I OUR SINCERE IT HAS BEEN a sincere pleasure in serving the dry cleaning needs of this community the past four years since.

I took over the operation of Modern Dry Cleaners. We have enjoyed doing business with the friendly folks from this area and your patronage through the years has been deeply appreciated. I know that the business is passing into excellent hands and wish Mr. and Mrs. Amunson the best of luck in their business future in Algona.

44 Kink" Willey FIRST OF ALL, let me say it is good to be back in Algona where I was born and raised and where I have so many happy memories. We know that Modern Dry Cleaners has always offered its customers the very best in expert and personal care of their clothing and drapes and we will continually strive to continue to offer the finest in service to our customers. We will take possession of the business effective September 1. Over 23 years of experience in the Dry Cleaning business assures you of continued expert clothes care. To my old friends and to those of you whom we have not met yet we hope you'll stop in at our business and say Hello.

We would most like to meet those of you we don't know and renew acquaintances with our old friends. Stop in and see Mr. and Mrs. Bob Amunson.