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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
7
The Times lists four deaths from the past week including Mrs Charley Christianson of Lost Island and Frances Paulson of Wallingford. Obituaries note Christian faith, long community service, marriages, children, and surviving relatives. Funeral details cite Lost Island Lutheran Church Des Moines hospital and River Site Cemetery with local pallbearers and family tributes.
Peter Hansen 67 of Britt died at his son Victor’s home on Wednesday November 27. Funeral services were held Saturday at the Danish Lutheran church in South Walnut with Rev. Verner N. Carlsen officiating. Interment was in South Walnut cemetery. Pallbearers included Art Rasmussen Carl Hansen Carl Hansen Victor Hansen Ollie Johnson and Jerry Brownlee. He was born February 8 1878 in Denmark and married Marie Jorgensen in 1898. The couple later moved to the United States settling in Palo Alto county before moving to Hollendale Minnesota then later to Britt. He leaves six children five living Ruthven Terril North Platte NE Sutherland NE and Britt with one infant death. The Times extends sympathy to the family.
A patriotic appeal urges collective action in the tuberculosis fight, praising Christmas Seals as a universal means to fund eradication. It notes 1,600 state and local associations uniting nationwide under the cause, urging citizens to buy seals to protect families and aid the helpless. In Palo Alto County Iowa a divorce petition requests the end of desertion, with the next term set for January 6 1941 in Kimmatsburg.
H B Musser urges Christmas Seals support and notes Iowa seed import cuts affect forage prices. He highlights white clover alfalfa and sweet clover as viable cash crops for Graettinger area with testing plots advised and pollination by local apiaries. The writer shares past white clover honey yield and urges garden protection now for roses and fruit trees against pests and cold.
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