Emmetsburg Local Notes and Social Routines
Local news items from Emmetsburg note P J McCarty making a business call and multiple social visits. Attendees include Mrs Vincent Kelly at a funeral, Ardith Anderson and Melvin Wallingford visiting grandmother Mrs Jane Triggs, and Mr and Mrs M J Reidy with Rev Father Gillespie from Keokuk. Danish Lutheran Ladies Aid to meet at Mrs Shirley Jensen in Graettinger. Embroidery Club hosted by Mrs John Jackman with guests. Card club gathered for Five Hundred. refreshments served. Residents report trips to Minnesota and Minnesota visits. A 100 acre farm sale at Belmond set for August 17. Col K E D Smith to cry the sale. Various local shopping and travel notes, birthdays and school ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. J. McCarty
Emmetsburg
Farmers Grain Co
Vincent Kelly
Ky O'Toole
Farmers Grain CooAdv
Ardith Anderson
Melvin
Wallingford
Jane Tri
J. A. Spies
Johnna
J. T. Michaela
Minnesota
Tom Hurd
St. James
Butterfield
Ben F. Reeves
Guilford Paulsen
Fairmont
New Ulm
Belmond
Col. EK. D. Smith
Ayrshire
A. H. Jenningsen
Chicago
Osher Department Klaze
Joseph Galleger
J. J. Suullivan
J. P. Gallever
Louis
Osher Department
FR. J. Mitchell
Blanche Hester
Des Moines
Mercy Hospital
Local items mix of notices and curiosities in small Iowa town
The column reports a range of brief items from Fenton Ayrshire schools hiring a new superintendent to foreclosures near Gibson and a sale of land at $405 per acre. It notes a moonshine arrest in Story City, a peeper nuisance, a snapping turtle at Interlaken park, rail crossings and autos, stripping seed in southern Iowa, and a pair of hip fractures in Mason City. It also mentions sports trips, seed sales, weathered auto mishaps, and local social visits with several named towns and people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Glitst
Fenton
Ayrshire
Vol
W. Tink
Curlew
Anamoka
Spencer
Lutheran Church
Gibson
Kelly
Hvs
Lotts Creek
Ady
N. Ekness
Story City
Free Press
Ruthven
Jack the Peeper
Interlaken Park
Milford Baldas
Ford
Buldus
Life
Liberty
Iowa
Union County
Harding
Mason City
Ro Harding
T. Sullivan
Charley Jensen
Fairmont
Ed Arnette
Lakefield
C. L. Simmons
Livermore
Emmet County board orders removal of roadside signs
Emmet County Supervisors demand all county roads cleared of advertising signs by August 6. Mrs. John Goetseh of Fenton dies in Spring Lake Minnesota at 65 from heart failure while visiting her daughter. A Terril area section farm sells for 275 dollars an acre and a 220 acre tract near Laverne goes for 200 dollars per acre. Iowa corn acreage this year 10,122,000 versus 10,889,000 last year with crop condition at 21 on ten year average. Nowa yield estimate 31.5 bushels per acre. J A Suss visits Ayrshire. A malady causing dizziness and double vision progressed to paralysis and death of iw. B Williston, 82, hardware merchant of Northwood, dies after physicians in several cities fail to diagnose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Heights
Waterloo
B'Gosh
Joe ‘Hal Seo Ua
Nicholas Schumacher
Elington Township
Henry Fister
Elmer Iverson
Carroll
Minneapolis
R. A. Rierson
Wast
Town
Pete Tyeman
Ruthven
Graettinger
Estherville
Livermore
Joker
Conte
John Goetseh
Fenton
Spring Lake
Minnesota
Lews
Nowa
B. Williston
Northwood
Reichester
Albert Lea
Iowa City
Mason City
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Prince Albert
She Coffey
SUI
C. A. Jensen
General Merchandise
Palo Alto County
Des Moines Sunday Register
Wiegmann’s
McLaughlin
Omaha Maid
Beens
Delmonte
C.wiegmann & Son
Ron
Retailers Commercial Union
United States
R.C.U
Rockford Hose
Osher
Board of Supervisors
Emmet County
Terril
Laverne
J. A. Suss
Farmers Supply Co
Hart
Tradi Bark
Pat Off
Schaffner
Marx Thes
Hart, Schaffner & ‘Marx
Reimer
Tylees
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