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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1939
Page
6
Community updates from Osgood and Wallingford include visits, family gatherings, school events, and health notes. Residents Merel Hankey, Pat Lambe, and June Brown are noted with trips, illnesses, and a tonsil operation. Local socials cover picnics, church events, dances, and a shower in nearby towns, with road work and public notices shaping weekly activity.
Community notes list residents visiting relatives across Sherman, Estherville, Emmetsburg, and Mallard with names including Gladys Elsenbast Alice Brown and Ruth Torkelson. Also notices public bids for Drainage Districts 5 and 160 in Palo Alto County announced by the Auditor with bid units and deadlines.
Dorothy Sampson and Inez Hatland spent Sunday at Anolds Park. The Luther League of Emmete burg met at S. J. Torkelson home with about one hundred attendees. The Misers visited at the Torkelson residence. Miss Sampson is Mrs. Torkelson’s niece. Happy Day Club hosted by Mrs. Leduc and Mrs. Elsenbast with Leater Martinson. lunch followed. Verona Stillman visiting Cedar Falls weekend. Stillman to teach first grade in Mallard. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Sunde and daughter Betty Estherville. Otto Herman Terril. Omundszon Graettinger. Ed Anerson home. Roy Burge family visiting Otto Ricks. Selma Winters and Annie Winters visiting from Des Moines and Algona. Names continue with further Graettinger and family ties.
A Detroit News writer notes the name of Superstition Mountain east of Phoenix Arizona. The tale links a flood biblical parallel to the Dutchman mine once owned by a Sonoran Spanish rancher. Jacob Walz known as Snowbeard murdered heirs and stole the mine then killed others seeking it. He died in 1892 without revealing the site. A bronze tablet marks his grave.
The text traces the origin of cigar and cigarette names to a Spanish custom of hosts gifting home-grown tobacco. The term cigarral meant an orchard or fruit garden, but outsiders heard it as the gift and shortened it to cigarra, then to the English cigar. Cigarette is described as a stall cigar.
O E Michaelson joined L T Lewison family of New Hampton for a Bay side Park picnic at Clear Lake Sunday. Visitors included Gordon Heindinger of Stickney South Dakota, John Morgan and son of Engle Grove, Pat Sorensen and four children of Goldfield, Andrew Tolheim and two sons of Thor, plus Helen Delores Evelyn a Halgrim relative, and others from Thor and Minooka.
A survey of historical military vanity notes odd uniforms and grooming rules. French soldiers wore eel stuffed pig tails for uniformity, while early eighteenth century cavalry used powdered wigs. Cavalry colonels ordered mustaches or horsehair lip adornments, Prussian grenadiers wore sugarloaf helmets with plaited pigtails, and British officers carried parasols on the battlefield. In 1815 French forces captured umbrellas from Hussars as privates faced rain.
The piece defines dry farming as crop production on arid or semi arid lands without irrigation, using rotation and moisture conservation. It notes rainfall under 20 inches, and describes methods to maximize scarce moisture through tailored crops and planting practices, citing the USDA on historical and modern practices.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Bryan and Kenneth drove to Arnolds Park Sunday for a family outing. Linuten Boecker began a Chicago trip with friends for a month. Arnold Thomipson Martin Helge son Norris ONeill left July 8 for southern and western points for an open ended trip. Ann Rasmussen a Decatur nurse returned home for a month with her parents. Estherville visitors Art Ranongon and Joyce spent Sunday with relatives. Elmer Olson Everett Fergeson and families from Grand Junction arrived at Jens Rasmussen Sr home. Mrs Kergegon and children plan extended visit. Fergeson homeward bound Sunday. Mrs Rolfe Lundgren of Osgood visited with her parents. Hashani children visited Elmer Nelson. Eleine Francine Levutson Ramona Resh Wallingford and Charlotte Howard Wallingford visited Arnolds Park last week. Alfred and Chris Yokumson called at Herbert Hrgan home Monday night. Olive Johnson of Woodward, daughter of Johnnie, is home spending a month with her parents.
Joseph Lester Hunt seeks absolute divorce from Hazel H Hunt on desertion grounds. Court warns defendant to appear by August 29 1939 to avoid default judgment. Property rights requested favor plaintiff with future acquisitions deemed his. Emmetsburg Iowa date July 7 1989.
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