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the high school in February, 1894, and with the exception of the school year 1902-3, she has continued to fill that position.
The growing population has necessitated the building of numerous school- houses, since the district became an independent one. The town school, as has previously been stated, for about ten years was conducted in the town hall. Men- tion having been made concerning those who taught in it during the very early days, it would be unpardonable to leave from the record a mention of the serv- ices of E. C. Miles, who taught in the hall during the winter of 1866-7 and the summer following, for he was a teacher of ability, and in theory and practice was far in advance of the times. The services of A. W. Osborn and his assist- ants, Mary Taylor and Janet Gilmour, are also to be remembered for their genuine excellence.
On a contract of $3,200 Jas. Henderson erected the first real schoolhouse in town. It cost nearly $3,500 when fully completed in 1867, and stood on the site of the present central building.
Miss Lucy Leonard and Miss Elizabeth M. Reed (Horton) were the first teachers to do service in the new building, the former being the "upper teacher" and the latter the "lower." Two wings were later added to this structure. These were donated for use to the Northern Iowa Normal School in 1887, when that educational institution was being established. The main building of the school- house was practically donated to the G. A. R. Post, and is still used by that organization at the corner of Dodge and Minnesota streets.
This old original 1867 schoolhouse, and the one that had been erected at the Milwaukee depot, answered the purposes for the independent district for some time after it had been organized. Three commodious brick school edifices have now taken their place. The central was the first of the permanent build- ings to be erected. It was completed in 1886 by the contractors, Shadle & McMurray on a bid of $15,797. The board built the greatest amount of room possible for the money at the time. It is a fine specimen of architecture up to the cornice, but the roof has always been considered top heavy in appearance for the rest of the building. That defect would have been remedied if the board could have had more funds at its disposal. The contract to erect third ward building was awarded to Jas. Cowan, in 1896, on his bid of $6,500. It is a handsome structure and is well arranged for the convenience of teachers and pupils. The Gross Construction Co., erected the high school building in 1899, the next year after that company had built the M. E. church edifice. It is known at the Bryant building, a name that suggests high ideals. Its symmetrical proportions and architectural design continue to illicit words of praise, not only from non resident visitors, but from many of those who have lived for years in its immediate vicinity. The constantly increasing attendance and the demand for new departments made it necessary for the board in 1912 to begin opera- tions to procure more room. A north wing to the Bryant was decided upon that should contain a commodious room for gymnasium work, a new and more spacious assembly hall and additional recitation rooms. Realizing the benefits that were to be derived from having such an addition built, the electors in March, 1912, voted for the issuance of bonds to the amount of $19,000, and in
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the following October, they voted to increase that amount by $15,000 to defray the expenses of building the structure let by contract to Shannon & Maxenier of Chippewa Falls, for the sum of about $24,000. A contract for the heating and plumbing and the remodeling of the main building, was awarded to Lewis & Kitchen, of Chicago. That feature of the improvement will cost somewhere about $10,000.
The present board of directors consists of J. W. Sullivan, president ; Howard Beardsley, secretary ; E. J. Gilmore, treasurer ; Dr. M. J. Kenefick, W. K. Fergu- son, T. P. Harrington and J. T. Chrischilles. The composition of the board is of high order, and such that the same number of men could hardly be chosen for that position who would excel them in efficiency.
The city schools are in a flourishing condition, and are the pride of the patrons and all other citizens. During the school year of 1911-12 the enroll- ment was 807, 427 representing girls and 380 boys. According to the census taken in June, 1912, there are 475 between the ages of 7 and 14 whom the law obliges to attend these schools.
The high standing of the schools is jointly due to the good judgment of the board, the efficiency of the teaching force, the support of the patrons and the nat- ural ability of the students and pupils. Superintendent Overmyer, who has been at the head of the schools for the last nine years, has been remarkably successful in working in harmony with his teachers and in having but little friction with the patrons. He works quietly, makes no display, says what he means and never assumes the attitude of a commanding officer. It is these qualities and others just as good that have made him a popular and valuable city superin- tendent.
There are others in the teaching force who have retained their positions year after year because of their genuine worth as instructors. Miss Coate needs no better recommendation than that she has been doing service as principal of the Algona High School continuously for the past eighteen years, with the ex- ception of the school year of 1902-3. With each succeeding year the value of her services is more and more appreciated. As a disciplinarian she is simply par-excellence. Miss McCoy is the right teacher in the right place and as the result has held her position in the high school for ten years with entire satisfac- tion to all. The development of the debating work under her supervision is only one of the evidences that attest her work as an instructor. Following are the names of the corps of teachers who began the school year in September, 1912.
J. F. Overmyer, superintendent.
BRYANT BUILDING
High school-Minnie J. Coate, principal, Latin; Louise McCoy, English, German ; Ula Purvis, English, Mathematics; Matilda Duus, Natural Sciences ; Mabel Waterbury, Mathematics; Ruth E. Reed, History, English; W. H. Wil- liamson, Physics, Agriculture, Bookkeeping; W. H. Stone, Manual Training ; Lottie Anderson, Music; Hazel Kellogg, Drawing, Writing.
Fourth Ward Primary, Lucia Wallace.
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CENTRAL BUILDING
Marie Kober, room 10, principal; Rose Foster, 9; Anna Reichert, 9 and IO assistant ; Blanche Stevens, 8; Mary Thompson, 7; Carrie Durant, 6; Ethel Myers, 5; Marie Mullarky, 4; Lila Wagner, 3; Elizabeth Miller, 2; Blanche Young, I.
THIRD WARD BUILDING
Vivian Baker, room 4; Ella Wegener, 3; Jessie Chrischilles, 2; Minnie Keunecke, I, principal.
THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
The Algona Free Public Library and its magnificent home have evolved to their present proportions from a small beginning. It was in the spring of 1889, while Mrs. W. H. Ingham was president of the W. C. T. U. and Mrs. Lizzie B. Read, the secretary, that the union began a movement to establish a public reading room, by giving a banquet on the 30th day of April, to raise funds for purchasing books to be put into circulation. By the first of the following January, a small library had been established and the books began circulating. This be- came possible from the funds raised by small donations and public entertain- ments. A librarian was appointed every three months to look after the circula- tion each Saturday afternoon and evening, the compensation for that period be- ing a "yearly ticket."
During the year 1893, the Algona Library Association was formed by the union of the W. C. T. U. and Reading Room Association, and then Miss Elsie Hunt was elected to take charge of the slowly-growing library. The association meetings were presided over in turn by various ladies and the minutes of the proceedings were recorded by Mrs. Flora A. Jones. Another change in the organization occurred during the year 1896, when it was dissolved into the Woman's Library Aid Society. This move was a most fortunate one for the library cause. More ladies becoming active in planning ways for the raising of funds, the future prosperity of the library was thenceforth much better as- sured than it had ever been before. Numerous business and professional men, becoming enlisted in the cause, gave their assistance and helped to bring into existence the present Library Association.
The Public Library Association was incorporated under the laws of the state, September 12. 1894, as the result of a meeting that had been held on the 16th of the previous March, which delegated the power to D. S. Ford, L. J. Rice and Dr. H. C. McCoy to draft the articles of incorporation. The object of the association was disclosed in article number two to be "the establishment of a public reading room and library in the city of Algona." The amount of capital stock was fixed at $25,000 and the stockholders required to elect a board of five directors. Those chosen for that position were Col. Thos. F. Cooke, L. J. Rice, Dr. H. C. McCoy, Mrs. Caroline A. Ingham and Mrs. L. K. Garfield. This board then elected the following officers: Col. Thos. F. Cooke, president ; Dr. H. C. McCoy, vice president ; Miss Mary Jordan, secretary and librarian ; and L. J. Rice, treasurer. Harvey Ingham, Mrs. J. W. Hay and the librarian were named as the book committee to complete the official working force.
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The library at the time contained a fine nucleus for a better one by the dona- tion of the books from the Library Aid Association September 1, 1894. Dur- ing the spring of the following year the Monday Club placed its library of over 600 choice volumes in the custody of the association, and these were imme- cliately put into circulation with the others.
The association through its president, Col. Cooke, June 8, 1897, tendered to the city of Algona, its library to be maintained as provided by law, on condi- tion that voters at the polls ratified the proposition. The city council sometime later submitted the matter at an election, but the proposition was buried in defeat. The very next year the issue was again fought out at the polls. This time the association won and the Algona Free Public Library became established as the result. This fortunate election occurred during the period when J. T. Chrischilles was mayor of Algona.
The Public Library was opened January 3, 1899, the entire property of the library association and the books of the Monday Club having been transferred to the city of Algona on the last day of the year, 1898. Rev. E. P. McElroy, upon being elected librarian January 10, 1896, infused new life into the work. His rare scholarship and love for the cause made his selection a fortunate one. He retained his position until ill health compelled him to retire from the work about the middle of December, 1902. During most of his official career he had had the assistance of Miss Jordan who had received special training for that kind of work. During his term of office the library was in the lower story of the G. A. R. Hall, which at that time answered the purpose fairly well.
After the resignation of Rev. McElroy the board chose Mrs. Elizabeth M. Horton as his successor, a position which she is still holding with entire satis- faction to all the patrons. Although the task is a laborious one, she continues the work with unabated zeal.
The board was enabled to materially increase the number of library volumes by the gift from George W. Schee, of Primghar, of $1,000 for a book fund largely for the schools. After the citizens had increased this amount $2,000, books to the amount of $2,500 were purchased with the utmost care in the selection.
How to get a better home for the library was the next problem the board had to solve. The enterprise began by the donation from Capt. W. H. Ingham of the beautiful site the building occupies, and by a $1,000 gift from Col. T. F. Cooke. Then Andrew Carnegie early in the year 1903, helped it along by do- nating the sum of $10,000, and the city's agreeing to raise by tax $1.000 each year for its maintenance. The plans were made by Architects Cotton and Miller of Chicago and having been approved by the board, the contract was let to A. M. Coan for the construction.
The formal laying of the corner stone occurred in the forenoon of Thurs- day, September 29, 1904, the ceremonies being a part of the semi-centennial celebration program. Mrs. Etta Call Ferguson, president of the library asso- ciation, in presiding introduced Attorney S. E. McMahon, who then told elo- quently of the origin and growth of the library enterprise. Col. T. F. Cooke, the liberal donor to the fund and a warm friend of the institution, next reviewed the history of the library movement. After Mrs. Caroline A. Ingham had read an appropriate original poem, Master Hepburn Ingham closed the exercises
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by striking the cornerstone with a trowel which James Cowan, the master work- man. had handed him a moment before. In the opening of the stone there were deposited copies of the three Algona papers, a list of the city officials, and programs of the meetings which had been held by the library association.
Mrs. Horton's report to the board for the year 1911, discloses some inter- esting facts concerning the circulation of the library volumes, of which there were 6.370 in number. During the year, 17,312 books had been taken out by the patrons, 11,625 being received by adults and 5,687 by children. Works on general literature had more readers than had any other kind, but they went largely into the hands of the more mature readers. The same class of readers also read twice the number of volumes of fiction as the children did in the same period. The children, however, received more works on religion and sociology than the older patrons. One day, 163 books were taken out, but on another only 11, the daily average for the year being 56.2.
The fete, in the interests of the library, at the fair ground, June 20, 1912, brought the association $550 above all expenses. It was the greatest success financially of any like event that has occurred in the county. This demonstra- tion, which was in fact a brilliant auto pageant, was the result largely of the untiring energy of the head officers of the W. L. A. S .- Mrs. Marie Murtagh, president and Mrs. Laura Chubb, vice president.
The present members of the board are S. E. McMahon, president; T. P. Harrington, secretary; E. J. Murtagh, treasurer; Lewis H. Smith, E. J. Gil- more, Rev. O. H. Holmes, Miss Louise McCoy and Mrs. Ada Rist, the vacancy caused by the death of Mrs. Caroline A. Ingham being not yet filled. The mem- bers of the book committee are Miss. McCoy, chairman; Mrs. Rist, Rev. Holmes and Mr. Gilmore. These members working in harmony with Mrs. Horton, the librarian, produce results that will be of lasting benefit to the rising genera- tion.
LODGES, CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS
The Masonic Fraternity has the just distinction for maintaining the oldest lodge organization in the county. Prudence Lodge, No. 205, A. F. & A. M., having been organized February 4, 1867, and the charter granted on the fifth of the following June. The charter members were: Lewis H. Smith, Enoch Wood, Marcus Robbins, Jr., Asa C. Call, G. M. Parsons, Albert Caulkins and John G. Smith. The first officers chosen were Samuel B. Califf, W. M .; Al- bert Caulkins. S. W .; J. G. Smith, J. W .; Asa C. Call, treasurer ; Marcus Rob- bins, Jr., secretary ; Lewis H. Smith, S. D .; G. M. Parsons, J. D .; H. P. Hatch, tyler. The list of pastmasters up to the close of the year 1912 is as follows : S. B. Califf. Lewis H. Smith. D. S. Ford, H. B. Smith, J. R. Jones, C. D. Petti- bone, E. S. Johnson, G. H. Lamson, S. Benjamin, Jas. Barr, M. F. Randall, W. E. H. Morse, F. H. Vesper. F. M. Taylor, Alex. White, A. A. Brunson, L. H. Millen. B. F. Crose, A. L .. Peterson, J. F. Overmyer, B. E. Norton.
The present officers (1912) are: William F. Nierling. W. M .; Chas. E. Chubb, S. W .; E. S. Glasier, J. W .: B. F. Crose, treasurer; C. H. Beardsley. secretary ; C. N. Stevens, S. D .; L. T. Griffin, J. D .; I. E. Dodge, S. S .; W. R. Laird, J. S .: J. B. Winkel, tyler; J. R. Jones, marshal. C. T. Chubb, A. I .. Bowen and J. R. Jones trustees : C. T. Chubb, Herman Wehler and I. E. Dodge,
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finance committee. The lodge has a membership numbering 146, and is in a flourishing condition. After making its home over the Robinson Bros., hard- ware store for many years, it became established in its present commodious home in the second story of the G. L. Galbraith brick building, when that structure was completed. Prudence Chapter, No. 70, R. A. M., is working under the charter granted October 21, 1874. It was organized during the month previous under a dispensation, the first officers being: J. R. Jones, high priest; H. B. Butler, king; H. B. Smith, scribe; C. E. Church, secretary. After the charter was received, November 9, 1874, the election of officers made J. R. Jones, high priest ; H. B. Butler, king; J. G. Smith, scribe; G. R. Woodworth, treasurer; and P. L. Slagle, secretary. There are sixty-seven members of the chapter and they had for their officers in 1912: F. M. Taylor, M. E. H. P .; C. E. Chubb, E. K .; Joseph Misbach, E. S .; Lewis H. Smith, treasurer; R. A. Palmer, secre- tary ; Herman Wehler, C. of H .; C. T. Chubb, P. S .; C. J. Pettibone, R. A. C .; A. L. Bowen, M. 3d vail; Fred Anderson, M. 2d vail; M. A. Winkel (deceased), M. Ist vail; J. B. Winkel, guard. The past high priests have been : J. R. Jones, Chas. C. Chubb, O. E. Palmer, J. W. Wadsworth, F. H. Vesper, C. E. Cohen- our, S. D. Drake and B. F. Crose.
The Order of Eastern Star, Algona Chapter, No. 68, has a membership of about 120, working under the charter granted September 13, 1888, and hav- ing for its 1912 officers: Mrs. S. E. Resseguie, W. M .; W. E. Laird, W. P .; Mrs. S. B. French, A. M .; Mrs. Stella Carlon, secretary ; Mrs. Elizabeth Bowen, treasurer ; Mrs. C. M. Stevens, cond .; Mrs. Fannie Nierling, A. cond .; Mrs. Net- tie Norton, Adah; Mrs. Della Laird, Ruth ; Miss Rhoda Crull, Esther ; Mrs. Net- tie Mesing, Martha; Mrs. Marion Patterson, Electa; Mrs. Lizzie Johnson, warder ; J. B. Winkel, sentinel, Mrs. Hattie Stewart, chaplain ; Mrs. Jennie Dewel, marshal; Miss Martha Dewel, organist. C. T. Chubb, Nellie O. Taylor and Mrs. Viva Petterson, finance committee; Mrs. S. E. Resseguie, W. E. Laird and Mrs. S. B. French, relief committee. The past matrons have been : Gertrude H. Woodworth, Mary E. Taylor, Salina M. Barr, Alice L. Randall, Polly A. Weaver, Viva B. Peterson, Nellie O. Taylor, Leota L. Brunson. Belle Glasier, Hattie Stewart, Della Laird and Fannie Nierling.
Earnest Council, No. 17, R. & S. M., had its charter granted October 8, 1902, and has for its officers during the year 1912: Chas. E. Chubb, T. I. M .; B. F. Crose, R. I. D. M .; J. W. Wadsworth, I. P. C. W .; Lewis H. Smith, treasurer ; R. A. Palmer, recorder ; C. J. Pettibone, C. of G .; W. E. McDonald, C. of C .; F. M. Taylor, steward; J. B. Winkel, sentinel. There are now forty-six mem- bers of the Council.
The Odd Fellows' Lodge did not always have have such a commodious and well equipped home as it now enjoys in the second story of the Cowles block. It began in the most modest way in a building near where the lodge is located now; then it located in Lamb's old Ark on State street; next it found itself quartered in the upper room of Durant Bros.' store, where it remained for ten years; then it jumped one block east across Dodge street and in the second story of the Heise brick block it remained nearly as long, before being settled in the Cowles block.
Algona Lodge, No. 236, I. O. O. F., was organized April 30, 1872, the first officers being: Geo. E. Clarke, N. G .; F. W. Butterfield, V. G .; J. F. Nicoulin.
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secretary ; J. W. Kenyon, treasurer; A. J. Bletso, R. S. N. G .; P. D. Rumsey, L. S. N. G .; William Quick, W .; J. R. Jones, C .; J. M. Pinkerton, R. S. S .; C. T. Williams, L. S. S .; J. F. Nicoulin, O. S. G .; A. E. Wheelock, I. S. G .; E. H. Woodward, R. V. G .; C. W. Townley, L. V. G.
The lodge was instituted by Clarke, Butterfield, Nicoulin, Kenyon, Jones and A. D. White who were charter members acting under a dispensation granted by G. M. Orlando McCraney of McGregor. During the winter of 1873, one brother living in Burt township, died and his body was taken to the ante-room of the Algona Lodge room to be made ready for conveyance to Charles City. The trains becoming snow bound so they could not arrive, the corpse lay for six weeks in that ante-room. In those days G. V. Davis, J. D. Shadle and John K. Fill, Sr., were active members and loyal to the cause of Odd Fellowship as were those whose names appear above. The 1912 officers of the lodge are: J. H. Peterson, N. G .; C. E. Matlock, V. G .; C. W. Hopkins, secretary ; F. A. Bronson, chaplain; Charles Kuhn, R. S. N. G .; Joel Taylor, I. S. N. G .; C. Herman, R. S. V. G .; W. E. Laird, L. S. V. G .; L. A. Miner, treasurer ; Albert Granzow, W .; Lloyd Mitchell, Con .; Chas. Magnusson, O. G. The fol- lowing are the names of most of the Past Noble Grands ; Geo. E. Clarke, F. W. Butterfield, J. F. Nicoulin, J. M. Pinkerton, J. H. Warren, A. E. Wheelock, W. A. Stevens, C. E. Heise, H. S. Vaughn, J. K. Fill, W. Quick, A. A. Brun- son, G. J. Adams, T. Earley, J. N. Weaver, R. W. McGetchie, W. P. Coolbaugh, O. C. Fill, R. B. Warren, L. K. Garfield, J. J. Wilkinson, C. H. Blossom, Geo. C. Call, E. H. Clarke, E. N. Benedict, Ed Blackford, S. S. Sessions, J. C. Black- ford, C. D. Creed, D. A. Haggard, Gardner Cowles, J. H. Edens, R. F. Hed- rick, B. F. Reed, E. S. Salisbury, F. L. Parish, H. A. Sessions, F. E. Smith, E. C. Tuttle, J. A. Hamilton, Jas. Orr, H. B. Mason, Geo. Simpkins, W. F. Laird, C. T. Chubb, G. C. Hudson, J. L. Moore, H. L. Kimball, A. R. Taff, C. Herman, G. J. Stebbins, S. C. Trumble, L. H. Millen, M. J. Walsh, W. E. Starks, C. C. Kuhn, J. P. Byson, J. G. Taylor, J. O. Paxson, W. A. Parsons, Lars Sorensen, L. E. Potter, J. M. Vinson, D. D. Paxson, C. Magnusson, L. P. Anderson, W. V. Carlon, E. Gregor, L. A. Miner, Chas. Mundhenk and Roy Tillinghast ; elective officers: C. E. Matlock, M. G .; C. W. Hopkins, V. G .; Lloyd Mitchell, R. S .; L. A. Miner, treasurer. In August, 1910, Ed Blackford was presented with the Veteran's Jewel for having been a member of the Odd Fellows' lodge in good standing continually for twenty-five years. It is needless to say that it is a rare treasure which he highly prizes.
The Algona Rebekah Lodge, No. 365, had its birth October 9, 1896, and became at once officered by Eva L. Lamson, N. G. Blanche Crose, V. G .; Mae Sessions, secretary ; Addie Avey, F. S .; Emma Hamilton, treasurer ; Myrtle Nicoulin, W .; Alice Blackford, conductor; John Hamilton, O. G .; Gusta Tiechen, I. G .; S. S. Sessions, R. S. N. G .; Ella Clarke, L. S. N. G .; Mrs. Paine, R. S. V. G .; Mrs. Nicoulin, L. S. V. G .; Margaret Conner, chaplain. During the sixteen years of its existence the membership of the lodge has mate- rially changed its personnel, as is evidenced by the following names of the officers for the closing months of 1912; Mae Pope, N. G .; Mae Gregor, V. G .; Carrie Wright, secretary; Estella Carlon, treasurer; Jennie Magnusson, W .; Eva Magnusson, conductor ; Mae Herman, O. G .; Lydia Worster. I. G .; Rose
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Anderson, R. S. N. G .; Blanche Matlock, L. S. N. G .; Kate Freeman, R. S. V. G .; Mabel Lund, L. S. V. G .; Emma Vinson, chaplain.
Kossuth Encampment, No. 160, was organized February 23, 1894, with the following officers : J. F. Nicoulin, C. P .; Ed Blackford, H. P .; T. H. Conner, S. W .; E. H. Clarke, J. W .; F. E. Smith, scribe; G. C. Call, treasurer. The camp is now officered as follows: C. E. Matlock, C. P .; F. Srouf, H. P .; F. A. Bronson, D. W .; J. H. Peterson, J. W .; C. Magnusson, scribe; and Joel Taylor, treasurer.
The Yeoman Lodge for the year 1912 has been officered as follows: D. J. Mitchell, foreman; Perry St. John, M. C .; G. J. Stebbins, M. A .; T. W. Rob- ison, correspondent; Mrs. Beckley, physician; Mrs. Geo. Hofius, watchman; Ed Collinson, S .; Charles Collinson, G .; Mrs. Thos. Collinson, L. Rowena; Mrs. Bert Cronan, L. Rebekah; John Wheelock, O. This local lodge was started about fourteen years ago and has had the following foremen: C. C. Samson, H. A. Paine, G. J. Stebbins, W. A. Ladendorf, W. J. Smith, Mrs. Frank Carey, J. B. Wheelock, G. A. Besha, E. S. Gorman, J. W. Speraw, and D. J. Mitchell.
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