Local Notes Highlight Visits and Socials in Graettinger Area
Mrs L B Crim hosts a Rochester visitor while Myr Shettler the postal inspector called Friday. Rev Faulsrud of Randall visits relatives. many townsfolk attend Young People meeting. Outing trips to Spirit Lake and Mason City. several residents travel for holidays and work. Lost Island Ladies Aid hosts around 100. Beulah Sandvig completes parochial school term. Overland car owners show pride.
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Wallingford News
L. BE. Crim
Rochester
Minn
Myr. Shettler
Rev. Faulsrud
Randall
Lakes
Wilson of
Rawall
O. D. Olson
Spirit Lake
Lyman Frazer
Melvina Burns
Mason City
Frank Irvin
Minneapolis
E. L. Sorenson
Rock Island
Toronto
Hankley
Jackson
St. Paul
John Jackson
Odean Wee
Estherville
Misener
Oscar Myhre
Bloomquist
John Peterson
M. S. Sevatson
Ryan Lake
Frazer
Ruthven
Anna
Sheldon
Lewis Hauge
W. M. Williamson
C. W. Weir
Story County
Overland
L. Sheffield
Ernest Peton
Arnold’s Park
Salma Selmengen
Sioux City
Lewis Landing
Milo Housner
Lost Island News Social Roundup From Missing Details
Mr and Mrs H H Sandvik hosted Sunday guests from Jackson Minnesota and Estherville while Lewis Sandvig and family with Mrs Sam Roseland returned from Vining Minnesota. Reports note crops in several areas needing rain. Chris Norris and family hosted Friday afternoon guests and Ole Norris visited Graettinger later Friday.
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Lost Island News
H. H. Sandvik
Jackson
Minn
Harem
Estherville
Lewis Sandvig
Sam Roseland
Vining
Chris Norris
Halvorson
Ole Norris
Graettinger
Chris Berdin
The Kaiser's World Dream Composed by George T The Jodore
Fort Madison Iowa composer George T The Jodore gifts a playful tune titled The Kaiser's World Dream. The piece features a cheeky royal line about conquering the world for fun.
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the Kaiser’s
George T. the Jodore
Fort Madison
Iowa
der Kaiser
Crown Prince
Clash of Nations and Garden Watering Tips
A vivid World War I era verse ricochets between Kaiser and Teddy Roosevelt style bravado and demotic taunts as a mock confrontation. The piece shifts to practical farming advice from Iowa State College on conserving soil moisture and effective watering methods for gardens using sprinklers, hoses, and tin can irrigation.
Be Careful With Coal Storage And Fire Risk
Advice urges careful coal purchasing and storage to prevent heating and fires. Avoid large quantities of fine slack coal and bulky piles. Store in small piles, dry, away from heat sources, with even distribution and aged coal used first to prevent center dust buildup.
Timely Farm Tips For Week From Extension Agent
Timely guidance covers storage of cream and fruiting cane pruning in berry patches. Advice on raspberry tip management and using a silo as a water tank tower. Techniques to reduce winter kill in wheat include well drained land early seed bed prep and hardy varieties. Do not topple onion tops as it harms yield per extension man. Sweet clover seed harvest when pods are straw colored and two thirds mature.
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Imes
Formalin Sales Signal Agriculture Push in Floyd County
Gnarled OCR reports that Floyd County druggists sold 585 pints of formalin this spring, up from last year amid a county agent oat campaign. The stock could treat 21 000 bushels of seed oats. seed state abounds for the farm crops meeting at State college. Three city workers flailed seed by the right of way, earning cents an hour for 43 hours. $24 worth of seed was gathered. Farmers elsewhere could follow suit, seeding fields and selling or using the harvest.
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Floyd County
State College
Sweet Clover Profit Seen By Northwestern Foreman near Ames
A section foreman on the Northwestern railroad near Ames reported earning twenty dollars last year from sweet clover seed gathered by boys along the railroad right-of-way. He had been ordered to remove weeds but noted sweet clover as more than a weed and observed fields where workers collected seeds.
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Northwestern
Ames
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Vevaruere
F. Streit
Cylinder Rudolph Miller
Pete Eees
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A. Needham
Wees
Ruthven Ij
IF. Morave
Curlew L. Luddington
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W. F. Moran
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Ole Solberg
Gene Kane Tee
A. McGinty
Bend
John Spolon
Cee
J. M. Snider
Harry Wiggle
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Hanson
Ruthven O
Nelson Fasaencans
Ed Griggs
Twee Emmetsburg
L. C. Jensvold
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Clint Berdieck
Fred Wolfe Steed
Manuel Newgard Weetre
Joe Weinzil
James Murry
Henry Rierson
Leo Mimbach
L. L. McClair
Wee Ewe Ee
Peewee
John Lugland
John Higgins
John A. Berg
Ruthven Cc. A. Pringle Sae
John Finnestad Teas
Fenton
John Bondhus
Jorgen Andersen
V. L. O’connor
Farmers’ Grain Co
V.L. O’connor
Paris
Treasties
der Belgins
Teddy Rosenvelt
Mars
Cross the Sea
Iowa State College
Lewis Lippold
Towa
T. Sullivan
Ford
Strube Bros
Opera ‘House
Soo
Ton Fahnestock
E. S. George
Skow
City
F. E. Schurmann
Dr. Lindsey
Hatherville
NWI
Lost Island Township
Lars Johnson
M. E. Church
Epworth League
J. H. Gammon
Charley Jensen
John Jackman
Prop
T. D. Collins
Sherwin-Williams
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