. The Algona Bee : a story of newspaper beginnings. reader feel as he glances atthose faces that he was lost in the wildness of a new and barely sur-veyed frontier ? The then editor of the Chicago Tribune was was even more of a certain sort of Vet up and get in the fron-tier settlements of Iowa than there is today. It was a venturesome lotof young people who were stirred by the spirit of the times to go to theunexplored and romantic new world, lured by prospects such as alwayshave lured the venturesome. After all these years, and with all the im-provement of the mechanics of newspa
. The Algona Bee : a story of newspaper beginnings. reader feel as he glances atthose faces that he was lost in the wildness of a new and barely sur-veyed frontier ? The then editor of the Chicago Tribune was was even more of a certain sort of Vet up and get in the fron-tier settlements of Iowa than there is today. It was a venturesome lotof young people who were stirred by the spirit of the times to go to theunexplored and romantic new world, lured by prospects such as alwayshave lured the venturesome. After all these years, and with all the im-provement of the mechanics of newspaper making, the press associationsof a whole state might worry to present as many faces of intelligence,force of character, and capacity as were represented in the editorialstaff of the little manuscript paper that for two years was published inthe lop; cabins of Algona, which, wdien the boom broke, was almostlost in the abandonment of the times, and was only rediscovered twentyyears later when the railroads had come and the grasshoppers had MRS. J. E. STACY (HARRIETTS TAYLOR) The first musical instrument in Algona was a melodeon brought byIlarriette Taylor when she came a year after Father Taylor had begun hiswork, July 25, 1S57. It was usee! on many public occasions. For year*,however, Father Taylor led lie singing in his church with the old familiartuning fork. Miss Taylors voice, like her fathers, was well trained andmusic was made much of in the early day meetings. In one of the issuesof the Bee Dr. Franklin McCoy reports that he had received a free ticketto a symphony of sacred music both vocal and instrumental at the residenceof and conducted by the Rev. C. Taylor and daughter. After commentingon the vocal music with enthusiasm Dr. McCoy adds, As to the charminginstrumental music executed on the Seraphine by the still more seraphic MissTaylor to say the least, was certainly exquisite. In another issue of theBee is announced a singing school as follows: Singing Sch
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