150 Years Ago

CHEESE FACTORY. ---- William Ward has his cheese factory up and enclosed. He expects to make the first cheese about the first week in June. The prospect now is, that he will have sixty-five cows.

125 Years Ago

How many breadboards in your kitchen?

How many breadboards does a family need? The answer is more than one, apparently.

In my childhood home, we had one breadboard, and I vividly remember it. Not because we cut a lot of bread or other things on it — although, we did — but because it was a familiar object on birthdays, used playfully on our rear ends for “birthday spankings.”

Summer is…almost here!

By Ben Dose, Senior Pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, Algona

May 2024, the DAR Algona Chapter celebrated their 100th Anniversary.

As the 100th year closes in May 2025, the chapter reflects on their history.

For the past 100 years the Algona Daughters of the American Revolution has worked hard to serve, improving people’s lives, donating to Veterans, volunteering, collaborating with other organizations and growing partnerships.

This article was published 19 years after the chapter’s organization.

Of a flight mishap averted and a lovely wedding

To the Editor:

As another school year comes to an end, I want to take the time to thank public schools throughout the U.S..

Thank you to the school board, administration, teachers, para educators, teacher associates, custodians, kitchen crews, volunteers, etc., and all those who are substitutes for them. You are all vital components to public education and our communities.

Honoring our Heroes: Memorial Day services and cemetery decorations

By Rick Murphy, City of Algona

Purchasing Alaska was a good deal

150 Years Ago

The Cross

By Russ Jacobson, Pastor at Algona First United Methodist Church

I hope you know the beauty of God’s complete forgiveness that is offered to you through faith in Christ’s life, death and resurrection. Let me blunt: Is your view of salvation simply a “get out of jail forever card?” Or do you see salvation as including an invitation to a new way of life?

From the St. Michael’s Catholic Church book celebrating 100 years published in 1989

Photos below:

Eighth grade girls, 1920 Left to right: Cecelia Gengler, Emmaline Walsh, Teresa Kollasch, Augusta Haag, Hilda Fandel, Dorothy Besch, Gertrude Elbert and  Julia Everhart. Anna Besch and Anna Zita not pictured.

Dear Editor:

Will the state of Iowa abuse the constitutional Rights of Iowans?

Just run them over

Just put your head down and plow forward. That was the advice I got from my eighth-grade football coach, Keith Christie. I didn’t get the opportunity to run with the football very often, and when I did, I apparently tried to get too fancy with half-hearted jukes and uninspiring spin moves that didn’t result in much positive yardage. Barry Sanders, I was not.

150 Years Ago

Meeting of Agricultural Society.  A meeting of officers of the Society will be held in the Co. Recorder’s office on Saturday, May 29, 1875, at 2 o’clock P. M., for the purpose of making out a premium list for the fair of 1875.  A. A. Brunson, Sec’y.

125 Years Ago

Is yours a family of faith?

By Tamara EnTin, Co-Pastor at the Algona First Presbyterian Church

Of the month of May and childhood misadventures