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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1939
Page
7
Mr and Mrs J J Sullivan and their children spent Sunday afternoon in Emmetsburg. Michael McCarty from Fort Dodge is staying a week with his brother D BE McCarty and family.
Farm for sale listed near Emmetsburg on a gravel road with 400 acres including 52 acres of alfalfa. Property is all tillable with good buildings and annual payments like rent. Small down payment required and a banehed feature included. Inspect it, qualify, and buy. Priced to sell now. write or wire for details.
Mrs C A Taylor of Emmetsbury mourns the death of her mother who died Friday after illness. Funeral services were held Sunday with interment in Evergreen cemetery. Mrs Wagner attended Hoff funeral in Mallard and Mr Kelly visited Emmetsburg Wm Kane. George Frick and the Misses Rita Margaret Mahan Dorothy Dubn are in Des Moines toway.
City warns owners and occupants to clear alleys and adjacent property of lashes rubbish and tin cans by May 6. If not removed, city workers will do the work and charge the adjoining property owners. Mayor Fred Spies signs the notice.
Otis Jorstad of Wallingford made a business call in Graettinger Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Jacob Brekke attended funeral in Emmetsburg for Mrs Taylor's mother. The Brekke family from Estherville visited relatives in Graettinger. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs George Larson on Monday April 10. The Times offers hearty congratulations. Misses Ruby Summer Mabel Weimer and Helen Bridger, teachers in Manson schools, visited friend Margaret Lancaster. Mrs Lars Larson of Kensett joined relatives in Graettinger for welding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Julius Sevdy. The Crown of Coyopan appears in The American Weekly. Lloyd Nene and children of Paullina visited Dr and Mrs Th T Nane in Graettinger. Nane then visited Mia Nane in Algona.
Ruby Jackson, a sophomore in Household Equipment at Iowa State College, helps prepare the Veishea range display. The festival runs May 11 to 12 with open houses and parades, hosting events from Home Economies units, Glee Clubs, bands, dances, fireworks, and performances by the Abu-Bekr White Horse Troop.
On Saturday May 27 Graettinger observes Poppy Day with Auxiliary volunteers distributing crepe paper poppies on the streets. More than 11,000,000 memorial poppies have been made by disabled World War II veterans in government hospitals. The flowers symbolize remembrance for those who fell in defense of democracy amid European turmoil.
Local leaders Clara J. Suss and Gertrude A. Nelson are noted in poppy memorial duties with the first public sale in Milwaukee in 1919 and poppy as national memorial flower in 1920. A county convention notice from April 2 1929 calls School Presidents to elect a County Superintendent and three County Board members at the courthouse on May 9 1929, per Iowa Code Section 4000.
American made poppies are produced by veterans in Minnesota and Des Moines veterans hospitals. Workers earn small stipends with typical pay around one cent per poppy and up to six dollars weekly, reflecting limited wages for this charity work across 46 facilities nationwide.
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