To the Editor:

Our community has been raising questions of how we can keep the Fenton Library from closing it's doors due to lack of the County Board of Supervisors budgets support?

How can we help?

Ku Klux Klan meets at Titonka

150 Years Ago

Job Printing! --- Come to the Upper Des Moines Job Printing Office for Plain and Fancy Job Printing. --- Cards, Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Circulars, Posters, Etc., Executed in the Best Manner. --- GOOD PRINTING! At Reasonable Prices! ---- Orders Solicited!

125 Years Ago

Listen

“Listen.” It’s a simple word. Six letters. Two syllables. So simple, yet so complicated. As the saying goes, “If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.” Clearly, we are not.

Encouraging words

By Pastor Chris Burtnett, First Congregational United Church of Christ in Algona

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.