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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1920
Page
9
A garbled report notes a federal case tied to Emmetsburg involving a supervisor Gardner and Louis Jori rook. The fragment hints at agents accusing someone of using the railroad to raise prices by charging 88 cents for beef, with Wilson & recently connected.
Reports from Ringsted dispatch and various Iowa papers note ongoing strikes increasing daily. Fenton and Algona observers mention land sales near Whittemore at about 800 dollars per acre and local sports funding. Humboldt notes Father Dobberstein donates bear cubs for John Brown park with a concrete den planned under his supervision.
City Herald notes sixteen million dollars spent on roads and bridges and culverts, described as the only visible items. Fenton Reporter reports Alex Radig sold the John Wabben farm after owning it a week to I Lich near Lone Rock for about eight hundred dollars per acre. the farm changed hands three times in a month.
Milford Mail notes H A Stillwell of Spirit Lake sold the Gus Detbner fifty acre Spirit Lake area farm to Chas Peterson of Redwood Falls Minnesota for a little over 525 dollars per acre. The Whittemore Champion says this is the county’s highest farm land price.
Terris Tribune reports the Kiddy Kollapsible Commode Company launching a special advertising drive using Mothers' Magazine. The firm notes steady growth and day by day increasing shipments nationwide across the country.
Bige the high grade Belgian stallion will stand at Graettinger on Saturdays in April and on Wednesdays and Saturdays in May and June. The balance of time at the breeder’s farm. Terms 15 dollars to insure live healthy cost 12 dollars service fee. Care given but not responsible for accidents. Bige weighs 1800 pounds and is in working order.
Bancroft to get nearly a complete sewerage system by 1921 after the city council met in a special session and signed a contract with Buell Engineering Co of Sioux City to survey the city for a full sewerage system and disposal plant. Emmetsburg Reporter notes a wolf pup litter found by Wm. Jackman in an open field near a residence. The Brotherhood of Taterway strikers demand wage rises from 41 to 91 percent, a minimum of 160 dollars monthly, overtime, and paid break times, criticizing lack of pay during sleep.
Whittemore Champion reports Ly HL Wegener has sold eighty acres east of town near the cemetery to a Titonka party at 3800 dollars per acre. The tract lies north of the Milwaukee railroad with no improvements. Swea City Herald notes council discussions on a new sewer and possible condemnation over a disposal plant site.
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