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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
4
Residents from Estherville and nearby towns, including Miss Lor and Mr. Conway, share social visits with relatives in Des Moines and Lyon County. A lone cottonwood near Rock Rapids draws attention as Lyon County’s first settler records its size. Guests from Sioux Falls and Minneapolis visit family while dances and band fundraisers energize community events.
A person went out and returned on Saturday to her home at Estherville, details of the trip not provided.
Miss Esther Paulsen spent last week with friends Lorena and Irma Sheffield Mrs Duus was a Emmatsburg visitor last week Mr and Mrs H H Sandvick entertained friends and relatives last Sunday for dinner Clarence Berdin was a Graettinger caller Saturday Mrs Sam Roseland and her mother Mrs Sandvick also Mrs T B Duus are visiting relatives at Story City and Roland Mrs Sheffield and daughter Ethel are home from a week with Story City relatives and friends Mrs F Sheffield was a Terris caller Saturday Miss Beulah Sandvick visited her friend Irma Sheffield Wednesday Mr and Mrs H V Brady and family were visiting at the Chase Miles home Sunday Miss Alice Brady and Eunice Miles were visiting with their friend Buedah Sandvick Mrs Sam Sandvick was Saturday caller in Graettinger Mr and Mrs Elmer Olsen are riding around in a fine new car Grant Smith went to Chicago Friday with a car load of cattle.
A reflection on the old farmer who leaves the land for town comforts. It contrasts frugal rural toil with rising urban bills, noting critics, changing fortunes, and the seeming paradox of gains turned to debt as once proud farmers struggle to eat and clothe their families.
The speaker laments modern progress’s hunger for spending, noting that a critic’s character, measured like a dollar, often lags behind the ideal of earning a dollar. He observes that even the retired farmer would see room for improvement as progress marches on.
The Kenyon bill to bar shipment of intoxicants into prohibition territory sparks fierce constitutional debate. Supporters cite state police powers and Supreme Court precedent. opponents accuse it of trampling the Constitution. The piece notes courts long upheld state control, while Congress has no power to interfere with state liquor laws, per Justice McLain’s early fifties decision.
On Wednesday around four o clock John Moltz living west of town stepped on a garden rake left in the yard. Teeth pierced his foot and Dr Hession dressed the wound then vaccinated him for lockjaw. Moltz is reported to be recovering nicely.
An auto crash killed three people and left Mr Bensoof badly shaken but alive. He suffered no broken bones and stood after minutes yet collapsed from shock. He was hospitalised in Walthill, unable to return home with the bodies of his loved ones.
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