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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1934
Page
7
A string of local visits and family gatherings appears in Grnottinger reports. Residents from Emmetsburg Ustherville Beaver Dam and Waterloo share visits and trips as editors family members travel to McGregor Minnesota Wisconsin and beyond.
Local report covers visits and travels of residents including George Gradlinger with a new Chevrolet and trips to Minneapolis and Granville. Mentions family news, illness cases such as Mrs. Henningsen with flu, Vivian Kelly’s appendectomy recovery, rheumatism affecting a Sioux Rapids youth, and a Lake Crystal trip with Brekke family. Includes social visits with Mahan and Jenkins families and notes on hospital and surgery outcomes.
Postmaster V J O Connor was a Puamhoe caller at Emmetsburg Monday. Numerous families from Emmetsburg Ruthven West Bend Graettinger and nearby towns visited relatives and friends over the weekend. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Ray Loveau Mrs J T Michaels Mr and Mrs Joe Lyons Mr and Mrs Charles Spies T W Doyle Mina Marie Doyle Mr and Mrs Beck Mrs Carter and family and many others sharing meals calls and neighborhood goodwill.
Corn is selling in Graettinger for zero cents a bushel today. M L Murphy was a business caller in Emmetsburg Monday. I J Hayes will succeed A L Hakieman as Rock Island superintendent at Estherville. Thieves broke into the Estherville library and stole $1.50. Ross Gilboough is painting buildings at the county farm. George Singer A J Johnson and D C Barringer were callers in Omaha Monday. Mrs Kaserman left for Mayberry Nebraska for a visit. Roy Donovan of Emmetsburg looked after business in Graettinger Friday. Legion Auxiliary members attended a West Bend meeting. Mr and Mrs E Barber of Whittemore spent Sunday with local residents. J A Spies left for Chicago Wednesday to view the Century of Progress. Mr and Mrs J P O'Brien of Chicago visiting J J Sullivan and family. Dale Allen four son of M C Allen near Milford was killed when struck by a falling board. Miss Myrtle Haugen of Blue Earth Minnesota and Miss Nellie Helvig of Plover visited Olaf Michaelson home. An epidemic of typhoid fever at Crookston Minnesota requires boiling all drinking water says Tom Sullivan. Mrs M S Sandvig and two children returned to Independence after visiting Esther ville and Graettinger.
Paul O. Sill argues in the Thompson Courier that Dillinger is not the nation’s top public enemy. He faulted bankers and politicians as public enemies No 1, arguing they exploit the law, cause bankruptcy, and inflict greater harm than Dillinger.
Land owners occupants and those in possession of real estate in TLest Island Walnut and Vernon Townships are warned to destroy or cut all noxious weeds in full bloom. If not complied with the weed commissioner will destroy them and costs will be taxed to the land owner with crop losses borne by owners per chapter 246 code of Iowa 1927 as amended. J LandER weed commissioner Lost Island Township Oscar Craven Walnut Township Fred Hurlburt Vernon Township
Miss Mildred Baumgartner returns to Chicago after visiting her parents in Graettinger. Ray and Mrs Andrews of Frankfort South Dakota visit relatives in Emmetsburg and discuss hard conditions on his 400 acre farm. Henry Larson of Chicago and his family plan three weeks in Minnesota, with return trip home forthcoming. James Towers of Graettinger, age 20, sent to University Hospital Iowa City for examination after niwnail injury last spring. Friends hope for improvement as health remains poor.
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