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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
1
Mrs. E. W. Breffle of Osgood died Sunday after a brief illness. Funeral at home Tuesday at three led by Rev. Brereton of Emmetsburg Congregational Church. Remains sent to Lake Park for burial. She was born Feb 16 1878 at Primghar and married Dec 23 1896. Survived by husband and four children.
Farewell for Mr and Mrs Peter Boysen who are moving to Tyler Minnesota drew a forty five guest audience at their home after a day with P J Paulsen. Relatives neighbors and friends arrived uninvited to honor their upcoming departure and presented a silver knives and forks set as a token of respect.
A Thursday evening crash north of Spencer involved Milford and Mil ford figures. Jack Marchand, employed by Nell May, drove the May car with Mr. and Mrs. Will Dewey and several Misses in the party according to the Mail.
A. M. Deyoe reports Iowa has invested seven million dollars in new school houses over three years. Some districts build at least five thousand dollars, while the largest project cost 285 thousand. Average per building runs about 37 thousand. yearly district investment averages 2.883 million in buildings and equipment. There are 145 consolidated districts, up seventy in a year, with growth continuing at about two million annually.
Transient vendors from Kansas City held a three day wreck sale in Town Walls. Local merchants allege deceptive advertising and fraud, testing if goods labeled all wool met stated standards. County Attorney Bryson represented merchants before Judge C M Wheeler, with a decision to be announced.
The report details multiple farm sales across Iowa with high prices. Gus Anderson buys a north Rossie area farm at $250 per acre, West Union records another $172.50 per acre on a 200 acre parcel, and numerous deeds show prices around $180-$400 per acre. Notes include buyers from Clermont, Osage, Knoxville, Shenandoah, Des Moines, Mount Vernon, Manchester, and Ne well, with parcels ranging from 60 to 200+ acres and transactions totaling tens of thousands.
Elsie Marie Sorensen born in Thorstrup Denmark on December 4 1857 died at sixty one in Ackley Iowa after illness. She married J C Christianson April 22 1885 settled on Siver Dale Farm Lost Island township. Survived by husband seven children five living two sisters in Denmark an aunt and uncle nearby. Burial at Walnut Danish church cemetery with pallbearers named.
Margaret Roberts, a deformed and paralyzed infant born November 23 in New York City, died Thursday in a babies hospital. Doctors debated whether to operate to save life and intellect, but a committee of physicians decided against the operation and the child died.
A diner recounts enjoying Rene and venison meals with bear and deer meat. The writer thanks Lewis Lippold for the meat and praises Mr Lippold as a keen hunter and fisherman who recently spent a month in Minnesota woods.
The auction set a price of 208.25 dollars per acre with 659.50 dollars cash due March 1 and the remaining balance payable in slight years.
The Graettinger Times invites children to send letters to Santa Claus for publication in the December 23 issue. Last year about twenty five letters appeared and Santa was satisfied with the requests. Send letters to Santa Claus in care of the Graettinger Times or bring them to the office.
A. N. Anderson traded the hotel Windsor to a land company for Florida land. Schurmann and Skow purchased the hotel from the land company and will remodel it into first class condition. The Anderson family left for Florida Monday night to start anew.
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