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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1917
Page
6
A local notice from L A Tow of Wallingford Iowa promotes serving hot sale lunches at noon. Customers are invited to write or phone for prices and arrangements, promising satisfactory service and reasonable charges.
A sequence of city life scenes shows merchants planning to curb mail order influence after a banker requests 5000 drafts 5000 checks and 2000 letterheads. A town hall meeting then denounces mail order sales as treason to local commerce, with strong resolutions against leaving home merchants. An unrelated accident report follows.
Greater Iowa reports in 1916 crop data for Palo Alto and Emmet counties with yields per acre for corn oats and state averages. Palo Alto shows 37 bushels of corn per acre and 89 oats per acre. Emmet 37 corn and 421 oats, with state averages 35.5 and 37. Totals: Palo Alto 5,626,000 corn and 3,003,000 oats. Emmet 2,590,000 corn and 2,173,000 oats. Also listed are spring wheat barley rye flax seed potatoes and assorted hay and alfalfa yields.
Estherville Enterprise reports a puzzling medical case from last week involving Lewis Rodenborn a five year baggage man on the M and St L running between Estherville and Fort Dodge who met with an unspecified incident Tuesday evening leaving authorities and doctors seeking answers.
A town farming study of sixty seven farms asks if farms cover expenses and five percent interest plus wages. Results show some farms pay labor and leave hefty sums, others pay out or lose money. County agents note variation across Iowa and plan a Palo Alto County survey to identify factors linked to high or low labor income.
The superintendent of the consolidated school at Superior in Dickinson County secured four hundred bushels of onions to the acre on ground previously considered barren. This suggests a notable increase in yield for the local agricultural effort.
The ground was plowed in spring 1915, disked and harrowed at intervals, then planted to onions in 1916. Due to prior treatment the field was nearly weed free, reducing labor for onion care and enabling a highly profitable crop without manure.
A customer near Graettinger Iowa falls behind on a piano contract. The Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co of Omaha Nebraska declares the piano will be turned over to the first party who can pay the remaining balance, in cash or five dollars monthly. Robert Simonson, a live stock shipper, traveled to Chicago Saturday evening to stay a few days.
Woullingford notices report social visits and small events.Residents attend family and community gatherings. births, illnesses, travels, and visits are noted alongside several town residents visiting nearby towns and each other.
The couple Burr Oak News notes the newlyweds arrived home Thursday. Bertha Rokne assists at Otto Larson's. Their baby is ill. Several locals attended Fox's sale Tuesday. Mrs. 5. R. Young left Sunday for Des Moines to be with her mother who faces an operation Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larson visited Albert Christ Thursday.
Clarence Oleon John Johnson Olaf Wolden and Ted Thorson left Sunday for Ames to attend the Short Course. Ole Ressell and Max Soeth left Saturday evening for Ames for the same event. They stopped for a rover Sunday visiting Jewell. Oleson attended farmers elevator meeting in Sioux City last week. Ray Borg attended a sale near Gilletts Grove last week. Ole Olson and Jake Herram marketed hogs in Wallingford Saturday. Lost in Graettinger or between Graettinger and the N Gilbert place one fuel driving unit. Finder please leave at Times office or notify L A Larson.
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