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Algona By Onieta Dldriksen 295-2665 MRS, L. L. RITER flew to Baltimore Dec. 21 and remained with her daughter's family, Dr. and Mrs.

M. 0. Mageft's two children, their seven-year-old son and four- year-old daughter, until Jan. 8. Among trips enjoyed was one to: Virginia's Blue ftidge mountains and the famed Lu- Ray Caverns.

They also had tickets to a Boston Pops orchestra with Arthur Fiedler conducting. Dr. Magen is Hearing the end of his third and last year 6f residency at Johns Hopkins and will be through by summer. He has specialized in obstretlcs and gynecology and has had his medical training interrupted by military service. MRS.

LOIS Wickliff, Algona, accompanied Mrs. Ardis Rockwood of LuVerne, to Freemont, Nebr. Saturday, Jan. 13. That evening they attended an Eastern Star installation of officers at Arbor Vitae Chapter there.

Installing officer was Mrs. Frieda Nielsen who is Nebraska's Grand representative to the state of Iowa. Mrs. Wickliff is Grand representative in Iowa to Nebraska. The two women had met earlier and had become friends.

They plan to meet again at Nebraska's Grand Chapter to be held in Lincoln in the spring. The two Iowa women returned home MRS. E. J. EVERS and son, Larry, drove to Des Moines Sunday and brought her husband home from Veterans Hospital where he had been-a patient for the past two months.

On the previous weekend, the Evers' daughter, Virginia, and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Greg Kinsman, and Stephanie, came from St. Paul to visit her mother and brother, Larry. Mr.

Kinsman is in night school making up college credits preparatory to entering veterinary school. A WEEK AGO Mrs. Rose Sigsbee was reported to be proving at a Lincoln, NebrJww-r, pltal where shelias Been treated for pneumonia. She and her daughter, Ruth Ann Beardsley of Lincoln, had gone earlier to Florida to see her son, Harlan, who was reported to be seriously ill, and on return to her daughter's home, Mrs. Sigsbee became ill herself.

It is not known when she will return to Algona. FIVE WOMEN from the Algona Order of Rebekahs went to Wesley Friday evening to install officers in that chapter and enjoy a social hour. Included were Julia Johnson, Bea Lynk, Bertha Spear, Linnea Hiserodt and Betty Galbraith. MRS. W.

A. Foster had as guests Friday a nephew and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rawson, Independence, who were accompanied by the former's sister, Mrs. Lester Humphrey, of Fayette and they spent the day here.

MRS. WM. RUNCHEY remains much the same at the Kossuth County Hospital, though continuing to grow in strength. It is expected that she will be transferred to the Good Samaritan Home where there is a vacancy there. ELVA EWOLDT was taken by ambulance to Kossuth County Hospital Monday afternoon.

She had been having a sharp attack of the flu and then suffered a fall so went to the hospital for treatment. DR. AND MRS. John Schutter flew from Des Moines Wednesday of last week to Washington, D.C. to attend the inaugural festivities.

They were expected home Monday. MR. AND MRS. Allen Buchanan attended a meeting of the Iowa Land Title Associ- ation held last Friday and Saturday at Newton, coming home Sunday. DR.

AND MRS. Ted Van Bruggen, Vermillion, S.D., were guests Saturday at the L. L. Riter home. MR.

AND MRS. Alvin Wahlin and their daughter, Sharon, of St. Paul, spent the weekend here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Halverson.

The Wahlins are aunt and uncle of Mr. Halverson who is a linotype operator Algona.Publishing Co. -'He gave-the-Visitors a tour of the printing plant on Saturday afternoon. Sunday morning the Halversons and Wahlins drove to Forest City for a church meeting and were dinner guests of friends in Forest City. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ALGONA A YEAR TAKE THE HEADACHES OUT OF TAX TIME FIGURING WITH A VICTOR TALLYMASTER ADDING MACHINE ELECTRIC AS LOW AS 69 95 ALGONA PUBLISHING "Kouuth'i Office Supply Headquarters" Algona Newspapers Correspondent! AIGONA Onieta Didriksen 295-2605 ALGONA Mrs.

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Clem Bisenius 884-2593 LETTERS TO EDITOR Reader Recalls History Of Lone Rock Area Dear Mr. Waller: Among the many feature stories with your by-line which I have enjoyed is the recent one about the moving of the 'Lone Rock'. As a former resident of Kossuth county, whose grandparents were among the pioneers, I heard rather frequent mention of the big rock. My late grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles 0. Fish and their two-year-old daughter, settled on Section 8, Seneca township, in 1868. Grandmother often told of the slow, tiresome trip from Iowa Falls by ox team, and how civilization seemed to drop behind them with every mile. Leaving Algona, which was then a frontier village without a railroad, they followed a trail thru the prairie grass, fording the streams and circling the sloughs. The last house seen was the Frink place on Black Cat creek in Union township.

Mile after mile was versed with no sign of human habitation. At last, a low, brown shape was seen rising above the grass. Grandmother was overjoyed, thinking it a settler's home where she might alight, rest, and find a welcome. But Grandfather had to tell her that this was only a huge boulder and that the end of the trail, and a few welcoming neighbors, were still eleven miles The boulder, of course, was the 'Lone Rock'. Harvey Ingham's group of privately printed booklets on Kossuth county's history includes one which shows an 1863 map of the county.

This map traces the old military road's path across Kossuth, including its route past the 'lone rock', up thru the eastern parts of Seneca and Swea townships, north-westerly across Eagle township, and finally out of the county near Iowa Lake, which was then the site of Fort Sch- uylef, an outpost against the Sioux tribe. Mr. Harlan Blftnchafd's account of Lone Rock's history mentions the rock as a landmark for teamsters and soldiers going to Fort Defiance at Estherville, which was commanded by Capt. Wm. Ingham, father of the late author and publisher Harvey Ingham.

Defiance and Schuyler were both built in 1862 following the New Ulm massacre, and B.F Reed, author of the 1913 'History of Kossuth County', wrote of driving teams with wagon- loads of supplies for the soldiers at the Iowa Lake fort. (Its site was just inside Emmet county, south of the store at Iowa Lake). He mentions the rock as a 'nooning' place where the teams were fed and the teamsters ate their 'sack lunch' dinner. Mr. Blanchard's story also mentions the rock's having been a landmark for travelers going from Algona to Armstrong Grove.

One area newspaper erroneously called the latter place Armstrong Grove was a fine grove of natural timber near the east fork of the Des Moines river and not far west of the west line of Kossuth county. It was first claimed by a Mr. Armstrong in 1856 but he abandoned his claim and the area was taken up by 1865 arrivals, many of whose descendants still live in this part of Iowa. When the Rock Island railroad was put thru in 1892, a new town was platted some three or four miles northwest of Armstrong Grove and took the name 'Armstrong'. The old settlement soon declined.

My father, the late Walter G. Smith of Swea City, moved from Algona with his parents to Seneca in the spring of 1899. He often told of noting the staked- out right-of-way from Burt northwest, for the soon-to-be- built Burt-Fox Lake branch of the Chicago Northwestern railroad. This railroad spelled the death of the old village of Lone Rock, whose site he recalled and whose buildings consisted mainly of a creamery, a house or two, and a store- postoffice, all on the west side of the road leading south into the present village, he said. Whenever we were in that area, we frequently stopped to Interest On All Deposits Is Automatically Reinvested 4 Times A Year.

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The rock, isolated in the midst of level land with few or no higher objects close by, was the highest thing in the immediate area and therefore became the target for the lightning. I hope to see many more of your stories in the UDM. The paper has been coming to our home since, my parents were married 68 years ago. Mother and I handled the Swea City correspondence for it from 1937 until her death twenty years later. I have never let the subscription lapse, and I never expect to attempt to get along without it.

Cordially yours, (Miss) Esther Charlotte Smith Box 43 Jan. 25, 1973 Algona (la.) Upper Des 5 Charles City, la. 50616 P.S. The young man in the old picture, standing at left on the rock, and identified as Ervin Tibbetts, is the late Charles Irving Tibbetts, father- in-law of Mrs. Phyllis Tibbetts of Algona.

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