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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
17
Miss Margaret Sullivan spent Saturday at Emmetsburg. A troop train passed through Graettinger Friday night. Locals reported rain and hot weather, with farm activity including potatoes at Ames and oats yields nearby. A Buick Six rollover near Superior injured seven, with four in hospital and one skull crushed. Reed siblings among victims.
Graettinger reads of Labor Day plans and local travels as residents report visitors from Emmetsburg Spirit Lake and Des Moines. Shippers and buyers move hogs to Chicago while Sears Roebuck catalogs arrive and local farms discuss crop troubles and rainfall.
D Wren, two business callers in Estherville on Saturday. Peters family son home on a thirty day Camp Dodge furlough. J A Spies traveled to St Louis Monday evening to tend his affairs there. Peter Stromme of Estherville visited relatives Mr and Mrs Bergum Monday. Mildred and Catherine Mahan staying with aunt Mrs Currans at Ruthven. Mrs John Jackman spent last week in Hawarden with friends, one friend enlisting as army nurse. Oliver Iverson party visited L Iverson and Miss Quale of Jackson Minnesota and Miss Brown of Idaho at L Christopher home Sunday. Maude Montgomery at Estherville Saturday. L Christopher rode to Sibley Monday evening. Rose Bergum rode to Wallingford Saturday. Mrs Frank Briggs and Mrs John Wikert left for Crawford Nebraska Monday evening to attend funeral of their mother aged about 78. Sympathy sent from Graettinger friends. C A Vanney resigned from Rock Island at Estherville and now works for Great Western Railroad in Clarion dispatch office. Family to remain in Estherville for now.
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