. The Algona Bee : a story of newspaper beginnings. THE FIRST COURT HOUSEIn consideration of Kossuth county devoting unto the American EmigrantCompany all the swamp and overflowed lands of said county, the ^aid com-pany agrees to make and erect at its own cost and expense, furnishing its ownmaterials, $1,000 worth of any kind of public improvement for which the saidswamp land fund may he devoted and the hoard of supervisors may order,the same to be done in good, substantia] and workmanlike manner.—CountyBoard Proceedings, July 19, 1S62. The Upper Des Moines. MRS. LIZZIE B. READ Mr. Call, speak
. The Algona Bee : a story of newspaper beginnings. THE FIRST COURT HOUSEIn consideration of Kossuth county devoting unto the American EmigrantCompany all the swamp and overflowed lands of said county, the ^aid com-pany agrees to make and erect at its own cost and expense, furnishing its ownmaterials, $1,000 worth of any kind of public improvement for which the saidswamp land fund may he devoted and the hoard of supervisors may order,the same to be done in good, substantia] and workmanlike manner.—CountyBoard Proceedings, July 19, 1S62. The Upper Des Moines. MRS. LIZZIE B. READ Mr. Call, speaking at the semi-centennial of the sale of the Pioneer Press,says that his brother Judge Call wrote to him from Indiana that he had apurchaser, and so the sale was made and in July Dr. and Mrs. S. G. A. Readarrived in Algona and later assumed the management, the name of whichthey changed to the Upper Des Moines. Mrs. Read once wrote: The first issue of the Upper Des Moines appeared in August, 1865. It wasprinted on an old Washington hand pre->s. The paper was brought in awagon from Cedar Ealls, and was several days on the road. During the summer of 1S66 ;he printing press stood in an open boardshanty, where the rains descended and the winds beat upon it at their ownsweet will, so that it was sometimes impossible for the presswoman to flvthe friskel in a workmanlike manner. The typesetting was done in tie house. At a banquet of the Cpper Des Moines editorial association, Mrs. Readadded this item of personal experience: Perhaps you will regard with m
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