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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1939
Page
6
Official minutes record joint sessions of Palo Alto Pocahontas and related counties from 1839 through 1930 detailing claims approved, funds allocated, and duties assigned. The notes cite road and drainage district work, audits, bond approvals, and adjournments with multiple named officials and firms.
Oysters from southern waters show higher iron and lower copper compared with North Atlantic oysters, according to the New Jersey Department of Agriculture.
A vaccination school for hog vaccination permits was held in Emmetaburg June 29 with 42 farmers. Thirty three took the exam for permits, led by Dr. K W Studer Extension Veterinarian. The $30 cost is paid by permit recipients from the State Department of Agriculture. A county school requires at least ten farmers to deposit $8 and request the school before the Farm Bureau sets the meeting. Boys Back From Camp Foster. Thirteen Palo Alto County 4 H boys attended a two day Camp Foster. Norlyn and Jack Frohling earned pins for changing from sinkers to swimmers. Jim Aederson was considered for the star camper. 199 attended. Francia Martin served as Nature lodge cabin chief and Charles Saiven acted as cabin reporter and helped publish the camp paper. Saiven earned third high grade and will select 200 trees from the Forestry Department at Iowa State College next spring.
A miscellany of folksy maxims and village anecdotes from Rumpus Ridge. Jokes about euphemisms and philosophy mingle with tales of a girl granted weekend home, a lad named Hearcat, and everyday misadventures on Tomlinville’s shappy expeditions.
Two additional fertility demonstration plots were established in the county on the farms of Andrew Funk in Fairfield and Frank Ruppert in Ellington. Each plot tests fertilizer blends 0-0-50, 0-0-40, and untreated rows, using side-hesed application to compare corn yield and health, with collaboration from Bruck Kilpatrick of Iowa State College Extension Service and the Farm Bureau.
A Mount Ayr project opens a new one hundred acre lake inviting local contributions by Monday evening July 1 to the Mount Ayr Records News. Roy Nelson of Jewell features his water spaniel Brownie who homed 18 miles in three and a half days after being lost from the Nelson car. Emma Arnold of Adair and K A Kading of Casey report sons in California with two separate fatal shootings near Marysville and in northern California. Ramgell of Eldora escaped a doorway blocked by a beeswarm and walked through unharmed after lunch.
Exposition officials announced the seventh annual State Fair rodeo will open Thursday evening August 24 and run three nights through Saturday August 26. Nearly 100 top riders from the west and southwest are expected to compete with fresh stock shipped from Texas and Wyoming. The week also features open-air circus fireworks and a light festival to augment nightly events.
A two year old cull crushed Jerry Logan at Strawberry Point on June 19 as Logan tried to box the animal. At Brighton on the Chas Robertson farm a snake attacked a cow, prompting Robertson to kill the serpent after spotting it swallowing the animal’s tail. Three homing pigeons stopped in Dyeraville for refueling, two were aided by residents and released after being banded for a Chicago carrier pigeon club.
Bids are requested for the Pitt Gulleger estate comprising multiple parcels in Emmetsburg Iowa. Included are Lot 14 Block 24 Corbin and Lawler's Plat and several fractional sections with 80 acre tracts, railroad rights of way, and references to sections township ranges. Names Arthur Anderson and D Donovan appear on the notice.
Town residents face an Independence Day rollout as about 250 new statutes take effect without a publication clause. The move could raise concerns over legal clarity and citizen notice on July Fourth.
A science note explains that white flowers often emit strong scents to attract pollinating insects since white coloration fails to lure them. This scent strategy helps ensure pollination and reproduction of such plants.
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