Emmetsburg Democrat Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa Wednesday, March 30, 1904 Additional Local News J.J. WATSON has sold the old E.D. MORRIS farm in Vernon township to some Illinois party for $55 per acre. Mr. CROWLEY, who had the place rented, will move onto the FERGUSON farm in the same neighborhood. The demand for telephones among the farmers of the county is constantly and rapidly growing. One farmer who was in town yesterday said the if improvements in phones continued that it would not be long until the tillers of the soil would have them attached to their plows, corn planters, binders and mowers. They are truly time savers. J.K. MARTIN returned from Montana Thursday evening. He reports his sister, Mrs. P.J. NOLAN, much better. He is highly elated over their good fortune in their mining deal. He found deep snow in parts of Montana and across North Dakota but not so much in Minnesota. He says Montana is now passing very stringent laws against crime. A man was hung a short time ago for killing his wife. Such a penalty was not imposed several years ago for a tivial offense of this kind. Mr and Mrs Robert WARREN, formerly of the Algona Upper Des Moines, are the guests of Mr and Mrs J.C. BENNETT, of this city. They spent the past year in Des Moines. Mr .WARREN having been engaged in the Register-Leader office. They will start for Deadwood, South Dakota in a few days where they intend spending the summer. The newspaper boys are always glad to meet Mr. WARREN, who has for thirty years or more been one of the leading men in the profession in this section of Iowa. The LUND estate at Algona is not paying a very large percentage of the claims of its creditors. The Courier says: "Clerk of Courts DEWEL has on hand for distribution $3385.80, or about two per cent of the claims against the LUND estate, but the fund cannot yet be distributed until the court gives further directions.The sum of the claims filed against the LUND estate is $148,179.20 and interest amounting to $9,000 a year has been accumulating on that for nearly eight years. Cathy Joynt Labath Palo Alto Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~iapaloal/paloalto.htm