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Ten Pages. AL(K)NA IOWA, AUGUST 31,1932 VOL. 12 KOSSUTH COUNTY TO HAVE FARM HOLIDAY KOSSUTH COUNTY FAIR STARTS MONDAY Henry Field and Louis Murphy to Speak Before the Grandstand Audiences. THREE DAYS OF DERBY HACINGr, Daredevils to Come from State Fair. Spectacular Revue for the Night Shows Baseball Games.

Kossuth's fair program this year is the most varied and interesting in the 74 years'history of the fair. The program ranges from Ponies to gymnastics to dancing girls, and everyone, young and old, can enjoy every day to his heart's content. Five big days, September 5-6-7-8-9. Field and Murphy. Republicans will want to hear Henry Field on they should not miss Louis Murphy, Field's democratic opponent for the U.

S. senatorship on Thursday. Democrats will hear they should also hear Field. Both are attractions of highest class, for their message in these 'days wiU be of special inter- Grey Hound Races at Country Club. The people of Kossuth county and surrounding territory Will have the opportunity to witness one of the largest and fastest grey hound racing events of the season.

The meet is to be sponsored by the Algona country Club and will be held on their grounds September 25th. This is the first meet to be held In this section of the state and the committee in charge has secured the fastest greyhounds from all parts of the country. There will be three dogs that ran in the national meet at Selden, Kansas, last spring and other dogs from Minneapolis, Des Moines, Waterloo, Fort Dodge and two, kennels from Kansas have written for entrys. There will be twenty-four races on the afternoon program. Each race Is between two greyhounds and a live Kansas jack rabbit.

They are shipping about fifty of these Kansas jack rabbits up here for these races. So there will be plenty for matched races after the main event. The park will be fenced in and there will be room for 3,000 people to witness these races without crowding. The spectators will be assured of one of the most thrilling and exciting afternoons they ever had. Bad Liquor Kills Rake Farmer.

Andrew Osland, prominent Rake farmer, is dead, and two others are seriously ill, as the result of imbibing too freely of Mexican "hootch." According to reports the trio started celebrating sometime Tuesday of last week and about midnight Mr. Osland passed away. The other two were reported in a serious condition for a time but after a phys- ican was called, their lives were saved and according to latest reports are of danger. Osland was a wety known and highly respected farmer living near by a'wile County Fair Edition. -child- vile- stuff 'in the Center communities lor months.

Buffalo several be the and "Lotta Fun Harry" in gymnastics and apparatus work, the Three Larconians with a merry mixture of gingeriz- 'ed gymnastics, and the dainty and precise Toyana Japanese Troupe. In the afternoon shows, Joe Marion's Revue stars will give specialty acts of several kinds, and in the evening the hig Revue Shows, with dancing girls and singing novelties will he given. This is 1 111 fUlViajfi UUUAlVAtVfc WiX tnat WOUla COSt two dollars formerly Isabel-Hutchison. Mrs. Theo per seat in any hig time theatre.

The Algona Military hand will furnish the music Archie Hutchison i is All Smiles. Archie Hutchison was going aronud town last week with a grin all over his his grandchildren were here to visit him and his wife. Attorney and Mrs. Donald Hutchison and two children were from Cedar Rapids. They left for home Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hutchison and children were here from Iowa where Theodore is taking a law course and they will be here until school opens up about September 8th. Mr. an Mrs.

Qulncy Drummond and two chile ren of Chicago came and they will sta until Friday. Mrs. Drummond wa two City Dates of the mammoth County fair are September 5-6-7-8-9. Everybody should attend and see the greatest fan- ever put on in Kossuth county. Algona Dilg Chapter Picnicked at Rapidan.

The Algona chapter of the will H. Dilg conservation league held its sec- Rapidan, CHEAT FEATURE IS ADBEDTOCO.FAIR The foHowlhg'priees were Plkle mlnnOw to Loyd Weilendorf for the best wall eyed pike; 100 yards ol fish line- to Gordon Ogg for the best bass; Torkel Hill, now of Story City, A. W. Amundson and Bill Hawcott were given daredevljlets for. having the best strings, of Gordon Ogg also won, a daredevil for landing the best pickerel.

ALGONA GRAYS LOST TO WODEN 4 TO 3 Defeated Fenton a Week Ago by Score of 12 to 11 in Extra Innings. ALL LOCAL PLAYERS ON ALGONA TEAM. Do Not Get the Support They Should From the Town. Are Play- Ing for Nothing. The Algona Grays lost a thrilling ball game to Woden on the Home grounds Sunday.

Algona scored two runs In the second inning to take the lead until the eighth when Woden put across two runs for the victory the final score being 4 to 3. The pitching of Junior Kelly was the feature of the game. The visitors collected but five hits, three of which came in one inning, They scored the first run on one of Algona's two errors. Bruns drove in two runs with one of his hard hit singles. The hitting of Pearson and Junior Kelly was also outstanding.

A week ago Algona played at Fenton winning in the tenth inning by a i score of 12 to 11. The score was tied six and six at the end of the ninth. In the tenth both teams put on a hitting spree with Algona having the better of it by scoring six runs to Fenton's five. In this game Junior Kelly pitched all the way striking out six men in the first three innings. Fenton used three pitchers, Kuecker, Wander Mlttag.

This game was featured on the.local side by the hitting of Eddie Butler who knocked out five hits in six times at bat. one be- Algona Won, and Lost at M. C. Tourney. A kittenball team from Algona attended the tourney at Mason City two days last week and gave a fine account of itself.

The team was composed of members from the various teams in the city league here and had not played together previous to the tournament. The Mason City Globe-Gazette gave tht following accounts of the two games played by the local team: "Algona loomed as a possible dark horse in the tourney by its 4 to 0 shut-out of the Atlas club of Mason City in the third game of the even ing. Three runs in the first frame and one in the third told the story. Arent pitched for Algona and struck out eleven men. "Kensett nosed out Algona In the final game after the Algona club had gained a 2 to 0 lead in the first frame when Gregson scored on Rising's homer.

Steiger scored Rosleln on a single and Steiger scored on a fielder's choice in the second. Rlerson scor ed on an error in the same frame for the winning run. Rosleln hurled for Kensett and struck out 15 men during the game. Public Meeting to be Held at Court House Friday Evening at Eight. SPEAKER FROM DES MOINES COMING, Garfleld Township Organlied Prominent Men at Head.

Everybody Invited. With and have contracted Moore Iowa's leading cor- netist, to assist each afternoon and evening. Mr. Smith will also do some solo work on each afternoon. Daredevil Day.

Friday is Daredevil Day, with the World's Congress of to Algona from the state fair. The features of this great act come when the Great Early drives a motorcycle through a board wall. The cycle goes at 70 miles per hour, and Early guides head first Into the board wall, splintering the boards right and left as he goes through. Then there are motorcycle races, auto polo, the ash can derby, and an auto head-on These are in addition to the other platform attractions which are repeated afternoon and evening. Baseball Gomes.

Baseball fans can see Fenton and Titonka play Tuesday, Swea City and Bancroft on Wednesday, and Thursday the Mason City Bats vs Corwlth Nighthawks. Anyone of these games will be worth the price of admission to the entire fair. Variety of Entertainment. The Kossuth county fair this year is the biggest bargain to amusement and entertainment ever offered in the county. There is variety, exhibitions of trained skill where the slip of an instant might mean death, the beauty of a dancing and singing chorus, the thrill of the bat against the ball as a clean single cracks out, the sudden flash of humor that makes the grandstand crowd rock with laughter, the exhjleratlng feeling that comes with a crowd, for the fair this year will be dore Hutchison is also visiting he parents, Mr, and Mrs.

C. B. Murtagh Cattle Loan Company Formed in Algona The Algona Cattle Loan Compan was formed in Algona August 22 fo the purpose of lending money to cat tie feeders at an interest rate of sta and one-half per cent instead of th usual eight per cent which they have been paying. The company is capital lized at $25,000.00 with $10,000.00 paid up stock. The officers are N.

A. Smith president; H. L. Gilmore, secretary- treasurer, and directors, L. E.

Llnnan R. H. Miller and P. Haggard. They wiU rediscount the paper with the Federal Intermedaite Credit Bank of Omaha and a representative of the bank must approve of the loans.

The company 'was formed under the Agricultural Credit' Act of 1923 and can loan only up to ten times the amount of paid up stock. crowded Derby Short Circuit at Municipal Plant. The municipal light plant had a little trouble Saturday evening whjloh caused the lights to go out over town for a short time. The trouble was caused by water running into a cable box which was located under the new cement floor. The new cement was being kept wet so that It would not dry out too fast and the water worked its way into' ftie box causing a short circuit on one of the machines.

No material damage was done and the trouble was rpalred In a short time the same evening. And-all three days of racing will be derby days with running races. There an? three running races Tuesday, four Wednesday and three Thursday. There IB the thrill that draws hundreds of thousands to the tracks on single flay to aee the finest twees and Jockeys straining every muMlfl to crow tbe finish line ahead There ia only one 0JMBMSB, to them running races, BMk Algonians Stopped by Sioux City Pickets, Floyd Eggert returned to work Monday at the Helberg gftrage after a week pf vacation which he spent at LeMars and Sioux city, visiting his sister. He was accompanied by his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Ed EggeVt. En- route to Slaux City they were stopped three times, by the who searched their car to see if they were carrying njfQduoei jn somp places flie jjjSSew hapTbjg tubers across the ftont traveling lore should be As soon the Bert Pecks Left for California. Mr. and Mrs.

Bert Peek and son, Arlo Munch, left Tuesday for Long Beach, California, after spending about two months in Algona and Fort Dodge visiting friends and' relatives. The Pecks have been living in Long Beach for the past three years. They are taking the southern route back having come to Iowa over the northern route. Arlo Munch is entering the University of Southern California this fall! having won a scholarship for his prowess in heaving the discus while attending Polly high school in Long Beach. He is also a fine track man end his Algona friends hope that he will be taking part in the Olympic games in Berlin in 1936.

Cretzmeyer Tells of the Olympic Games. Dr. c. H. Uretzmeyer was a guest at the Rotary club luncheon Monday and Stave a very interesting talk upon the Olympic games which he and his son, Charles recently attended at Los Angeles, California.

The doctor stated that they went west on the Milwaukee and returned over the same route as they had free transportation over this road. The opening of the program was very impressive and he stated that Senator Dickinson who sat at his side during the lunchon, with his flowery low of oratory could have found words to truly express the scene and program. Over 120,000 people filled the grand stand the first day. He told of several of the main events and the sev- ral errors that occurred in the pro- tram and said the United States was he only notion that had entered ne- groes. Nearly every civilized nation in the world was represented and a large majority of the athletes who won hon- were from the middle west.

He said he did not like California, nd would not give a plugged nlckle or the whole, state. God made he sea shore, man made the rest. They ave to eat but no water and he aid his is that is the greatest trouble In hefi. to 'Crash 'Through Wall on Motorcycle. MOTORCYCLE RACES WILL BE OPEN.

"Ash Can Derby" Attracting Attention. Auto Polo and So Forth to be Featured. Another great feature has been added to-the Congress of Daredevils program to be run at the Kossuth County Fair at Algona, Iowa, on Friday, September only. The new feature is Jack Early, nationally known movie stunt man, who will crash through a double, board wall on a motorcycle going at 70 miles per hour. Early has proven to be the most sensational outdoor attraction of the year.

He builds his two one-inch walls from lumber bought in the city in which he shows or will allpw a local committee to select the lumber and build the wall. The motorcycle races in connection with the thrill show will be open competitive eveiits and it is expected that at least ten Iowa drivers will compete against thoke of Minnesota, Illinois and Nebraska. The Ash Can- the world's worst automobile race for cars valued at not more than $50 is attracting a great deal of attention and many are entering the event. Auto Polo, Auto Push Ball, Somersaulting autos and Roll Over cars are all on what is promised to be the best program of the fair. All entries should be mailed to B.

Ward Beam, care of Kossuth County Fair, Aleona, Iowa, and are open to the world. All Local Players. The' Algona team is composed of all local'players. In other years Algona has had to V.ty on outside men in order to have any kind of a team. Now it 'Is hoped that this team will be one of the best in this part of the state In.

another year. The lads ere working hard and playing good ball. They, are actually playing as good ball as some of the professional teams. Among the players are on- three who have reached majority in years. The youngest, Omer Kelly is but fifteen.

However, there is not one who can beat him out of his position at second base. There are four other boys that are still in high school. There has been a number of other players who have tried out and played but due to lack of their willingness to sit on the bench and take their turn have given up in disgust. Only nine men can play at once but they seem to have the idea if they cannot play they will not get out. This Fourteen Tons of Hay Burned Friday.

Fourteen tons of hay belonging to Spear McVay, contractors, were totally destroyed by fire about midnight Friday. The hay had just been put up on the lots owned by Joe Cosgrove on North Jones street and was for the mules owned by the contractors. The fire department was called but could do nothing. A barn nearby In which mules were kept did not.catch on fire. It is not known what caused the fire but some of the neighbors stated that a number of drunken rowdies were running around the neighborhood about that time and they have started the fire.

Cossuth Farmers Won at State Fair. Kossuth county farmers again show- ci that they are the best corn grow- rs in the noVthern section of the when they won all the prizes for its section at the state fair at Des The awards were: ten ears, first, Rome, Robinson, Irving- on; sesjjfcd, Arthur Look, LuVerne: Agpon ateuusy, LuVerne; irvington. Ton R. Mawdsley, AjfctW i iofifc to Have all Day Ford Salon. A Ford open air salon Is to be held Saturday on the lots east of the Kent Motor Company.

For the first time there will be a display of all fourteen of the new Ford body types. The cars win be on exhibition from eight o'clock in the morning until ten o'clock at night. Visit the salon and avail yourself of the opportunity to ride in and drive one of the new Fords. A cutaway will be on display to show all the working parts of the car. There will be talking pictures and special exhibits which will show many of the new features.

The exhibition is similar to the display of Ford trucks which was here during the past year. An advertisement for the Ford open air salon appears elsewhere in the paper. However, the salon will be open from eight o'clock in the morning until ten 'at night and not merely during the hours stated in the ad. attitude makes it hard for the management to have any substitutes. It has had to rely on some of the Junior League players to fill in this role.

Attendance Small. Another thing that makes it difficult for the manager is the attendance. Last Sunday, at one of the best games here in years, there were only twenty-one paid admissions. This brought in around five dollars which divided with the visitors and the ground rent taken out left hardly enough to buy one baseball. This is very typical of all games.

i One of the Junior League players said to his coach, "What's the use of us playing anway nobody comes out to watch us?" And it is the truth. Season tickets have been sold to these games in advance. Even this does not draw the' people. Some say they cannot afford to go. But where the tickets are already sold it just seems a lack of interest.

Well, the boys on each team are Been Spiked, There been a rumor around the city for the past few days that the town marshals had raided an Algona residence one night last week for liquor and had failed to find any. It was also stated that another person who had no authority whatsoever had obtained a warrant and had gone to this place a little later and found three gallons of liquor. This is absolutely without foundation and should be corrected. No one can make a raid without having the authority and when the officers make a raid they generally get what they go after. Community Drive Started in Algona.

The various lodges and service clubs in are sending representatives around to the houses soliciting different kinds of canned goods and cloth- Kossuth county farmers are invited to attend a meeting to be held at the court house Friday evening at eight o'clock for the purpose of organizing a Farmers' Holiday. The meeting Is" called by the Garfield township committee consisting of Herbert Balgeman, Merle Holt, Mike Heiderscheidt, Fred Hanselman and others, the above named being the men who called the first meeting. Ottosen Closed. The committee picketed the roads to Ottosen and the creamery, business houses and elevators are dosed so far as farm produce is concerned. 1 No Violence.

Merle Holt, son of the well known, farmer and pioneer, peter Holt, was.a caller today and placed an ad in this paper, calling attention to the meet- Ing. Mr. Holt stated that everything will be done to prevent violence and only earnest persuasion will be used to influence farmers to Join in the movement that is hoped will increase the prices of farm produce. Roads leading into the towns will be picketed by farmers and if, possible the Importation of sympathizers for picketing avoided. These men are in earnest in their convictions and- will ask the cooperation of business men and others in their venture.

Everybody is Invited to attend this meeting. Hnmbnldt County. Farmers who started for Ottosen on Monday morning were stopped by the plcketers at the edge of the town god were turned home and. It is reported did so or else hauled their cream and produce to towns that were not picketed. ing which will be distributed this winter to the poor of Algona.

The town has been apportioned off in districts. No collections are being made at this time but the committees take down the names and the amount offered and the lists are given to Miss Antoinette Bon- stetter, chairman. The lists are to be given in by six o'clock, Friday even- Ing. This is a worthy caurse and everyone should do all In their power to help. New Bakery to Start in Algona.

The Qalbralth building formerly occupied by H. Slvackelford harness business, is being remodelled and A. canton of Bancroft wfl) open up bakery there. Mr, Gonlon js running a bakery at Bancroft at present. George and P.

L. Miller we the remodeling. out there working hard and some day you are going to see a local name in the. box score of some big league team. Bancroft did the same thing two years ago that Algona is doing this year.

Make a team of young home bnv 'id Bancroft has this. Algona needs your moral support in this matter. Baseball Is the greatest sport on earth and every lad should be encouraged to take part In it. The Grays will play a pick up team cf local boys in a grudge game Sunday at the local park. Algona Dutch Band to Play at Bancroft.

The Algona Dutch Band composed of ten members of the local band, will attend the Bancroft Festival this evening. The boys have secured regular Dutch band music and plan to cover the town singing under windows and on the street comers. The members of the Dutch band are T. Lar- sojn, Glen Raney, Raymond Wehler, Rudy Guderian, Maurice Bartholomew, Fred Bartholomew, Lawrence Gillespie, Frank Ostrum, T. T.

Herbst, director of the Algona Military Band, and L. L. Lease of Wesley. Eclipse of Sun is on Today. While scientists labored to secure data about the eclipse and made painstaking efforts to gain further information about the sun's corona by photography, the unscientific scoured alleys for bits of glass and broken beer bottles to blacken with smoke so that they might see the shadow on the sun caused by the moon's passing between the earth and the sun.

As these lines are being written the eclipse is nearing its greatest height. Athough the sun is shining the light is only about as bright as on a cloudy day. Early In the afternoon less than one third of the sun was obscured by the moon, but -about three o'clock the in but about three o'clock approximately half of the sun was hidden from sight. The eclipse is complete in the United States only in the east. Lan Kuhn called this office during the eclipse to recall a total eclipse, which he as well as many, others witnessed about sixty years ago when it became so dark that the chickens went to roost In the middle of the day.

Petitioning for Court House to be Closed Labor Day. The court house will be closed all day Labor Day, September 5. Pheasant Season, Deputy Game Warden H. A. Holmgren, formerly of Ruthven but now of Algona has been circulating petitions around town asking the State Game Warden to have an open season oa pheasants for two days between ember 15 and December 1.

The petitions ask that the limit be set at three male birds per day for each hunter. Last year the season opened up about November 1. but they want it later this year so that the farmers may have time to get their corn picked and in this manner there will be no danger as the farmer will be out of the fields. The petition is to be signed only by land owners and fann- ers. -was start Friday morning at the close 'of the fair.

Webster County. All and numerous other roads leading into Fort Dodge were blocked by groups of picketers armed with red flags and. where cars would not stop at this signal, heavy logs and nail-studded planks were thrown on She highway. Highway 169 north of j'brt D'odge was blocked'near the Havland orchards and all cars stopped and investigated. Usually the drivers stop tood naturedly but in some cases haoT Feeling has resulted and the cars have- speeded through the lines at high- speed.

The leaders of the strike say they want no violence and hope thafr quiet persuasion will bring about an- understanding lalnd results. These- roads are reported as being picketed day and night. A'iVeste be Made. Mrs. R.

M. Wright, widow of the late Judge Wright, accompanied by her sister and another aged lady were returning from the Humboldt fair and were caused to stop. Mrs. Wright took exceptions to the procedure and swore out a John Doe warrant for the arrest of the plcketers. She said according to the Messenger: "I am past seventy years of age," said Mrs.

Wright today. "My husband a district judge in this community for years and I have lived here for forty-two years. When it comes to such a state of affairs that two women traveling along the highway in a law abiding manner cannot do so without being held up, it Is high time something was done. Logs were thrown in front of my car. forcing me to stop.

The men engaged in such outrageous conduct seemed to regard it as a joke is malicious mischief and those who did it should be punished." Accidents Occur. Several serious accidents have occurred as a result of the picketing near Fort Dodge. Paul Rlchter, a picketer, stepped in front of an outgoing car east of the city and was knocked to the pavement in an unconscious condition. Elmer Grunther, a mafl carrier accompanied by his mother and a granddaughter of his mother, BettyJean Nichol was driving on the gravel road near Riverdale when his car struck a log that had been placed on the road and was thrown into the ditch Mrs. Gunther was seriously injured it is said.

Numerous other minor acd- dents were reported. The town of Lehlgh was picketed and the sheriff and several deputies were on duty near that place to ward of? trouble. One farmer, who opposes the strike, stated that the leader in that section had worked all night to haul off his hogs before Joining the strikers. Snenopr is said to be thorouRhlv picketed and it is reported that Emmetsburg is also in the strike. Webster County Officers.

The board of supervisors in Webster county authorized the sheriff to deputize as many men as he needed to protect motorists entering the city but Tuesday he stated that he had not found it necessary to put on extra men. The county attorney notified the picket captains that it is unlawful to throw nnythine in front of an automobile and the practice must be ceased. Sheriff Waldburger stated to the pickets that the law is absoluetly on the side of the motorist and he had no choice in enforcing the law. He reminded them that anyone convicted of obstructing: (Continued on Back Page.).