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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1929
Page
5
Describes drowning risks and first aid. Advises cautions for swimmers, including avoiding overheat and polluted water, and outlines artificial respiration steps. Emphasizes immediate action, keeping the patient warm, and continuing rescue efforts until breathing returns. Also notes do not give fluids to unconscious patients and discourage whiskey or brandy.
A ragged panorama recalls Bodie California and other abandoned mining towns near the Nevada line once bustling with miners and gamblers. The piece notes ghost towns like Aurora and Rhyolite, mentions Yukon dust gold under floorboards, and recalls Noevaraville and others fading into ruin as prospecting wanes. A separate anecdote tells of a woman buying cigars, triggering a comic scene as a clerk struggles with a twenty dollar bill and a trap for trading stamps.
St Pauls Lutheran Church notes report Sunday school at 10 with no service, Ladies Ald society meets at Mrs Peters Duus home Wednesday at 2 30 p.m. South Walnut Lutheran also lists Sunday school at 10 with no service.
The Methodist gatherings start with an 8 18 p m service at the O R Gardner home Convert your car seats into church seats Gather with neighbors for an outdoor cook and worship Mrs Olene Jacobson will sing Bertha and Edith Gardner will perform a feature number The sermon will be A Sermon of the Soil The pastor is Rev Fremont Faul Sunday School reports near a hundred in attendance and invites all to services
Lutheran notes announce first Lutheran English service at nat 11 with Sunday school at 10 confirmands Saturday at 0 and midweek aid. Gleaners at Tom Helegson, Lost Island Junior Church English service 11 Rally 10. Invites for parents and children. Stereoscopic feature on The Life of Christ July 14 at Lost Island. Bible Institute Summer School opens July 14 at Lake Island Maple Plain.
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