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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
6
Footwear for ladies men and children featured with gifts for Christmas. Display includes games, toys and dolls for kids, plus handkerchiefs handbags gloves silk stock, fancy work, dishes, cut glass, stationery. Menswear offers shirts neckties gloves socks and smoking sets. Offer holidays shopping assistance.
A folk lyric asks if ever one wonders at life when corn costs twenty cents and a Buick or Reo is imagined. The piece blends verses about hard times with a Laurel Nebraska mailing label and a long list of local names and weekend visits from a small Nebraska town newspaper page.
A fragmented plea about new soles and rubber heels promising comfort and happiness. Disconnected lines mention a Christmas dinner and urging action before it is too late, with references to shoes and footwear as a central motif.
Local notes report visits by Pearl Lee and sister, Rev Mekkelson at Thorn ton district church conference, and Reward Turner with Redman family. Socials include Afternoon Card Club with 500, Norwegian Lutheran Ladies Aid bake sale, Riverside club party for Mrs Molison, and various visits to Emmetsburg Estherville Graettinger and Windom Minnesota. Weather described as ideal with no snow, holiday season near, and multiple community events noted.
Clarke county farmers have placed lime on clover and alfalfa fields after buying four cars of lime. Tests show soil acidity across most fields and the Iowa State College soils department urges lime when alfalfa is grown. Application is possible in winter if the ground is driveable, with land testing guiding the correct lime amount.
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