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

Change the world

Dear Graduates:

I am here to apologize to you.

Under the oversight of my generation, you have been raised in an era that emphasizes the importance of your feelings and your right or even responsibility to protest when you don’t get your way. It’s unfortunate, if not shameful, perhaps disastrous, really, what your forbearers have wrought in our society.

K/PACEDC prepares for Summer Intern Program

By Tod Faris, K/PACEDC

Wettest April in twenty years

150 Years Ago

BUILDING GREATER. --- The increasing demand for more room has compelled our friend Bongey to build an addition to his hotel south of the Public Square on Thorington Street. He will put up an addition 22x36 feet, with 18 feet posts. He thinks this will satisfy the present demand.

125 Years Ago

Save that brown paper grocery bag

In the days before plastic bags were the go-to choice to have groceries “sacked” in, we relied on brown paper bags. We appreciated how neatly they folded. We didn’t appreciate how easily they ripped — and the pickle jars crashing to the ground. Those little paper handles were certainly not reliable.

Because Jesus is Risen

By Dan Jordan, Pastor at Evangelical Free Church, Algona

Finish this sentence, “Because Jesus is risen, …”

Your response may be lengthy or just a few words. Jesus died on the cross and three days later resurrected to life are historical events, but why do they matter?

From the Aug. 16, 1938 Algona Upper Des Moines newspaper archives.

The St. Cecelia Academy parochial school building was constructed during the years 1920-27 and opened September 6, 1927.

Its initial enrollment was 120 pupils and has since grown until 300 students were registered during the school years 1937-38. At present there are twelve members on its faculty.

High Hawk combines mystery and romance

High Hawk

Amy Frykholm

University of Iowa Press

ISBN 978-1-60938-973-4

$19.00

To the Editor:

A billionaire budget boondoggle

When lawmakers return to Washington, D.C. from their April recess, I don’t have a good feeling about what’ll come next. They’ll begin the process of budget reconciliation, and it doesn’t bode well for rural America. Just look at the budget resolutions they passed before leaving town.

For the birds

Bird-watching. Yes, bird-watching. I never thought the day would come. But, it has, and I am enjoying it. And with National Go Birding Day just around the corner (April 26), the timing to come out of the cage seemed right.