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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
5
Robert Schooley rides to Estherville while Loretta Mahan returns to Emmetsburg. Show Brothers win Graettinger creamery contract. Emmetsburg visitors include Fred Spies C C Larsen and J A Suss. Community notices cover garden care themes and social visits as Graettinger seeks school-board support and Ringsted faces power delays due to wartime material shortages.
Local items include visits from Miss Mary Larsen and Rev and Mrs Cuthbert, Emmetsburg residents on business, and family news. Sports note reports Lost Island Giants beating Capital City Giants 5 to 0, and a14 inning win over Omaha 2 to 1 with games in Emmetsburg and a fundraiser for YMC A and Knights of Columbus. Also mentions price changes for coal and crop outlook with Iowa wheat yields cited.
A mixed set of items from northwest Iowa: hogs sold for 17 cents a pound in Chicago Friday while local business caller Oscar Hauge visited Emmetsburg. A Gatling gun remark notes long war usage since 1862. Aaron Anderson returns home from Cedar Rapids on furlough. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gammon attend Civilization in Emmetsburg. Winders Alm install a 225 dollar meat cutting machine in Emmetsburg market. Ollie Noble attends a Mason City house party. Spencer plans a 100000 dollar new school building to replace a fire destroyed facility. Gasoline scarcity predicted next summer. Fully 75 percent of pleasure expenditure likely to be taxed. The Geving Thoreson wedding guests return to Lake Mills. Spencer Herald notes rising costs for newspaper production and editor upkeep. Editor Sperbeck and family mourn the death of their three year old son in Swea City. Grover Yaberg arrives from Wideaux Montana, reports drilling ten wells in seven weeks with 150 foot water depth on average. He served in the first draft and seeks transfer to the Thirteenth division.
Emmetsburg notes report E A Boss visiting Graettinger friends on Thursday evening. Weather warms boosting crop prospects as agriculture targets wheat and rye yields. Miss Lily Suss visits nurse Miss Louise Ingvolden from Flandreau. Mrs. Brick nearly drowns at Lost Island lake but is rescued. Poll tax exemptions extend through war end for June 5 registrants. Redfield frost noted. C F C Lange, Waldemar Lange, and writer travel to Graettinger to see Ole Olson farm herd gains. Philadelphia war supplies firm seeks 1000 workers for ten months under guard in a secret invention. Ringsted Auto lists sold cars. Mr. and Mrs. Lane visit Sioux City. booming business and a new million-dollar hotel. Paul Hocke sells Windom land to Ed Anderson for 21000. Winds of crop promise around Windom. Arrests in St. Paul for shooting a policeman. Warren married at Spencer then worked in Emmetsburg. Heinbaugh captured next day. third bandit at large. Heinbaugh had worked at EB Walker's barber shop. he was a paroled convict.
Envelope and writing paper days noted with Miss Mitchell and Mrs Jones travel. visits by Tom Kirby and Emmetsburg men. baby born to Mr and Mrs J M Robinson. Plans for a creamery, corn samples, farm finances, and a steel post demonstration announced. obituary for James Pender. Labor Day theater to feature Kidnapped For a Million by Eugene Perry troupe.
In Ida county 183 men passed draft exams. 131 filed exemptions, six failed to appear. Chautauqua events noted in Fenton and Ceylon areas. Local civic activity included Royal Neighbors meeting and a play at Hawkeye Theatre. Visits from relatives and attendance at Methodist meetings reported. Graettinger Tile Works secured $100,000 in contracts for Winnebago and Kossuth counties. Elevator project at Emmetsburg to feature cement tanks and mid-section machinery.
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