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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1925
Page
8
A late 1920s style column features wry observations and jokes on life, work, and society. It includes remarks about home life, missing spouses, automobiles, and the Navy, alongside stray ads and commentary from Thurday April 9 1925.
Church notes report a Lutheran service with holy communion in English at the Methodist church next Sunday afternoon at 2 30. Easter activities include baptism and reception of members at the morning service and a large class received Sunday morning. Evening services at 8:00 with sermons and musical offerings are announced.
J A Spica was a business caller in Emmetsburg on Wednesday. J A Mohan visited friends in Emmetsburg on Thursday. Charles Spies rode to St Louis Friday to visit relatives briefly. Bert Montgomery left for Pearin Niintis Monday evening to take a traveling salesman post with Harvey Bros Co. T J Hes sion mid sister of Dr Hesston is Peona branch manager. Miss Poor Noble returned to Mt Vernon Monday after Easter with Cornell college ties. Mrs Charles Jones and Philip Rough visiting Graettiner relatives. Mr and Mrs L A Schumacher and children were guests of Mallar relatives near town. Olive Noble returned to St Paul after visiting her parents. she teaches music there. The ladin is only twenty three and the crop of static it has raised.
A truck farmer selects soil with a candy component and gains frost protection by using sandy loams, keeping land well drained, and avoiding excess moisture and weeds, which reduces damage from severe temperatures per the United States Weather Bureau.
Extensive three year trials in the experimental gardens at Town State College identified flowering plants best suited to lower conditions. About a hundred varieties were studied including climbing, trailing and dwarf annuals with recommendations from BE C. Volz horticulture specialist.
The readable lines describe various flowers and plants with unclear spellings and mixed typography, listing items like tobacco poppies and scarlet varieties. Entitites include town references and possible plant names, but much is garbled, yielding a vague, partial inventory rather than a coherent notice.
A digest of names, visits, and market activity featuring Jomson and Boxakt with cattle, Amos Taylineen hosts, J C Wiel’s yard tour, potatos delivered near Greatlinger, and attendees including Mrs. Fred Kiuse and Mrs. Joe Bosold at the Kenneth McLean home in Estherville.
An appreciation message thanks the people of Graettinger and vicinity for their patronage during the years I have beer in Graettinger. I hope you extend to my successor the same kindness and courtesy that was previously shown.
The Graettinger Town Council disbursed funds on April 6 1925 to Times Printing Co for 1.44 dollars Qurker Oats Co for 6.05 dollars Farmers Grain Co for 12.05 dollars and P J McCarty for rent and mayoral items totaling the listed amounts.
A jumble of names and figures lists payments for repairs, salaries, and services. Entries include $16.00 for M Woernholzner, $40.02 for Tacob Zittevick, $10.18 for W C Foster, and various other small sums, with references to innuendo like interns and dogs, suggesting a municipal expense roll.
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