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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1923
Page
4
Iowa State College’s A. Piester warns pruning practices cause peeling and loss to shade and lawn trees, offering simple, tool free techniques. He prescribes two cuts on falling branches, near the trunk, with care to avoid peeling and disease. remove entire branches and prune dead wood to boost foliage growth.
C J Myers of Iowa State College Engineering Extension Department reports coal costing less than oil per gallon based on a test. Illinois coal at 11 dollars per ton equals oil at 8 cents per gallon. He notes oil heating is more convenient but costlier, with gravity burners costing 75 to 125 dollars and full systems about 450 dollars. Myers advises arranging oil supply before equipment order and that cheapest burning oil yields best economy.
The agricultural engineering department at Iowa State College conducts tests to determine how much a horse can pull for short periods versus steady long work. E. V. Collins oversees the trial, with teams working at two and a half miles per hour in two four hour periods to study efficient loads, workday length, travel speed, and rest effects.
Wayne Dinsmore centers a Horse Association of America trial using a test wagon to measure animal condition under light and heavier loads. The study aims to help horsemen gain more work from fewer animals while maintaining health and to influence draft horse breeding. The college will share farmer focused results upon completion. Pythian Sisters meet on the first and third Tuesdays at Woodman Hall. Royal Neighbors hold lodge nights on the second Tuesday each month.
M W A Lodge holds sessions on the second and last Monday each month. E S George serves as Clerk and F C Wiegmann as counsel. Miss Anna Rierson visits and returns home at Pequot. Several local residents, including Mr and Mrs Matsen and others, entertain and recoveries noted.
Mr and Mrs H H Sandvik and daughters along with Mr and Mrs Ole Reismess were entertained for the Sandidy dinner at the home of Mrs Ed Ellingsen in Graettinger Iowa.
In Grandin North Dakota on December 18 1922 G H Peterson sends a check for renewal of his paper. He defends the Nonpartisan League its goals and methods contrasting it with socialism and discusses state owned elevators mills a state bank and other reforms. He notes Iowa may benefit and cites J M Baer the cartoonist and a Times article about the Ku Klux and Catholic issues.
Catholic Brookhart era echoes in North Dakota where a vendetta style letter was pushed as coming from J F T O'Connor but is blamed on Theodore Nelson of the TV A. The goat of the affair is Wili Lempke, nominated for governor, as the writer closes with New Year wishes.
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