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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1922
Page
15
For sale or rent a large store building at southeast corner Main Street Graettinger featuring stone basement glass front electric lights furnace heat cement walks telephone connection and more. Preston Fahnestock Graettinger. Estray Notice A small black pig with white spots has strayed from my place in recent days. Finder please notify Mrs. le Rudd.
A New York boy dies after a dare to jump into a deep river showing risks of bravado. The piece urges caution, contrasting courage with unsafe acts, and warns of lifelong harm from foolish bets. It also reports Iowa State College guidance on pushing spring pigs in summer, pasture use, and practical rations to maximize growth while avoiding crowding.
Dairy cows must be given grain and other feeds as pastures dry in midsummer to maintain milk production. A McCandlish of Town State agricultural college urges a grain ration for a month after cows are placed on pasture to sustain yields.
The article outlines animal feeding in drying pastures with grain, corn silage as preferred succulent feed, and a five to four to one mix of cracked corn oats and cottonseed meal. It reports a Spencer narrow escape at the Milwauker tracks, Everly robberies, a big fish catch in Lake Calhoun, and advice on dry mash for hens to prevent molts and maintain egg production.
Weather observer War ren B. Laird notes June was unusually dry with 2.32 inches of precipitation, 2.14 inches below 1920 and 0.12 inches under last year, while temperatures ran warm including a 93 degree day on the 15th and a low of 45 on the 2nd. Across the state conditions were hot with low rainfall, and general weather wisdom predictions hint at further rain with various atmospheric signs.
Public notice to landowners and occupants in Palo Alto County Iowa of the proposed Drainage District number 147 including lands in Lost Island and Walnut Townships. This notice details petitioners Bondhus and Graettinger and engineers plan, hearing date August 22 1922, and deadline August 17 1922 for filing damages claims with the County Auditor.
An Eagle Grove firm had a Fort Dodge sign company erect a sign for them in Clarion city limits provoking strong local opposition. Clarion merchants criticized the move as ill advised and poor business courtesy and some called it damp hoolishness. The Fort Dodge firm later removed the sign.
The Eagle Grove company has filed a $6,000 damage suit against a Fort Dodge firm over sign removal. The plaintiff asserts the signs were valuable and their removal caused significant harm, echoing a parable about sign boards outreading newspapers.
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