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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1946
Page
4
Local notes list numerous visitors and residents returning for Easter vacation from St Olaf College Graettinger Waldorf Forest City and Des Moines among others. Family visits include McCarty and DeLawyer families with hospital news and military travel plans. Also mentions historical trivia and civic notices from Postmaster O Connor and Knoll.
A writer in Pearson's London Weekly explains the pupil’s round opening is colorless not black. The eye appears dark because light enters the dark chamber behind the pupil, like looking into a dark room through an open door. The iris, a round muscle, surrounds the pupil and regulates light.
Mr and Mrs Forrest Perdue were guests in Waterloo. Miss Janice Petersen of Omaha visits Graettinger grandparents. Mrs Bert Twite and Mrs Chester Anderson of Wallingford visited Graettinger. Mrs Geving of Lake Mills visits O L Thoreson family. Mr and Mrs John Thoreson of Glenwood Minnesota visit Thoresons in Graettinger. They left for Florida Monday. Miss Janett Show of Los Angeles visiting parents J J Skow. employed in LA and home until April 24. Miss Melen Gilbaugh to return from Des Moines for Easter with parents Roy and page Gilbaugh. she is a student nurse. Mr and Mrs Jack Doyle and Nancy with Des Moines guest Mr Ferguson visit West Bend grotto. A son born to Mr and Mrs Earl Rouse of Havelock at the Sim mersburg hospital on April 17 1946. Congratulations to the family and grandparents Wesley Levy of Graettinger. Miss Beverly Jones home from Mason City for weekend. GHS seniors attended Cylinder for senior play with Earl Jones and Mary Ann McManus. Ex-mayor Henry Perkins Leon received two wrapped gifts at city hall on April 2 a Reynolds pen and a leather billfold from the city. John Lunstrum Britt shares a new use for a popcorn machine after his newborn son’s homecoming. The baby cried till a warm 80 degree cradle was prepared in the machine.
The week brought ideal April weather with some cool days and a warm windy yesterday. Allison grade school teachers struggle to address twelve cases of misaddressed students. Six pairs of twins attend, two pairs from the same family. Roy Conaway, a Corydon government wolf trapper, displayed a young female wolf captured in a trap, with its jaws wired shut as a precaution.
The piece argues for purchasing EE bonds as patriotic and smart. It shows a $1,000 EE bond maturing in ten years, with year values rising from $756 in year one to $1,000 in year ten, illustrating steady appreciation each year.
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