From the Oct. 18, 1971, Kossuth County Advance

Musings on history and misadventures and such

Local Mental Health Therapist, Joleen Frideres, achieves Amazon best-seller status with “Against All Odds”

From the Editor:

We’re all in this together and we’re only as strong as our weakest link.

In this fast paced world full of challenges and surprises it’s easy to get lost, confused, stressed, anxious and depressed.

The Fifth Judicial Court of McPherson County, Spink County, Edmunds County, South Dakota has offered lowan’s a temporary reprieve by refusing to allow private industry to use public domain to claim land for the CO2 pipeline. We need to make this a permanent reprieve by pressuring Kim Reynolds and her hand-picked Iowa Utilities Commission to rescind all permits granted to Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC.

Buffalo Bill comes to Algona

150 Years Ago

San Francisco, Sept. 5, 1874 -- The town of Mokelumne Hill, California, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. [Mokelumne Hills is the capital and most important city of Calaveras County, California, and is located about sixty miles southeast of Sacramento. It has a population of about 1,600.]

125 Years Ago

Memory work

By Rev. Ben Dose, Senior Pastor- St. John's Lutheran, Burt and Trinity Lutheran, Algona

With September here it brings about the new academic year. With the new academic year brings new classes of Sunday school and catechesis or confirmation classes. Laura Langhoff Arndt writes this about memory work and its importance in the life of the Christian.

Reading Veterans stir imaginations

From the Algona Upper Des Moines 1981 archive.

Solar energy and community priorities – Let’s talk about it

By Luke Seaberg, Kossuth County Extension

ABOUT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Women now eligible for jury duty

150 Years Ago

I salute you-well some of you

I wrote a column last year in honor of Labor Day, and I updated it this year as an ongoing salute to working Americans who fuel our country’s economic engine.

I salute working Americans who take pride and satisfaction in a full day’s work, recognizing that anything less than 40 hours per week is a part-time job.

I salute working Americans who appreciate the satisfaction in feeling tired at the end of the day.

Near or Fear

By Pastor Dan Jordan- Evangelical Free Church, Algona

I was at a guided Soul Care retreat for pastors that began with a question, “What do you feel when you neglect time with God”? The responses were all negative: anxious, barren, weighed down, overwhelmed, alone, irritable, trapped, etc. Not one person had a positive experience from investing less or no quality time with God in His Word and prayer.

POP Quiz for 2024 Election

Letter to the Editor:

1: Who blocked Iowa kids from receiving $29 million dollars in Federal tax money returned to the state to provide USDA Summer Childrens Feeding Program ?

2: Who decided they knew best what our young people should read by banning access to 3,400 books in Iowa Public School Libraries ?

Whittemore woman picked up by a tornado

150 Years Ago

Some people make religion go a long way.  A good woman bought a lottery ticket the other day, accompanying the purchase with the soliloquy:  “The Lord knows how it ‘ll turn out.  It’s all in the hands of the Almighty, I s’pose.”

125 Years Ago

It’s time for school to start!

By Christy Peterson, Bishop Garrigan

The beginning of the school year can bring a mixture of excitement and anxiety for many students and parents.  Whether you are sending your child to school for the first time or beginning their final year, there are many tips that can help this be a successful year.