P C Fogde Dies After Illness In Gractinger Town
Peter C Fogde died Friday afternoon in Gractinger Town after a two week serious illness. Born in Fyen Denmark March 22 1864 he immigrated and worked as a carpenter and cabinet maker before studying at a Copenhagen technical school. Funeral services were held Sunday at two o'clock at the home and then at Danish Lutheran church. Interment followed in the parochial cemetery with pallbearers John Bondhus Chris Berdin Chris Jensen Jorgen Anderson John Simonsen and Jacob Brekke. He died of cerebral poisoning at age 67 years 4 months and 2 days. Continued on Page Five.
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Peter C. Fogde
Hiatheme
First Lutheran Church
M Mandzager
Unter
John Bondhus
Chris Berdin
Chris Jensen
Jorgen Anderson
John Simonsen
Jacob Brekke
Fyen
Denmark
Gracttinger
Europe
Copenhagen
Emmetsburg Tops In Kitten Ball Tournament
Emmetsburg captured the kitten ball tourney crown by beating Graettinger 8 to 8 in the finals amid a hard fought title clash. Graettinger and Emmetsburg had edged rivals to reach the championship, with West Bend and Ruthven dropping in earlier rounds.
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Emmeteburg
Emmetsburg
Graettinger
Grachtinger
West Bend
Ruthven
Grimeraburg
Oil Man Saved Injured Farmer Near Armstrong
Vern Strong, a farmer near Towa Laka close to Armstrong, was badly hurt during harvest when a binder ran over him. He attempted to free the tractor, slipped, and the bull wheel struck him. He crawled a half mile home before the driver heard him and stopped to help.
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Vern Strong
Towa Laka
Armstrong
Waas
Nol
Creamery Reports Forty Percent Drop In Milk Output
The Times notes the local creamery has seen milk production fall by forty percent during the drought. Milch cows are affected as pastures failed, prompting concern among butter merchants and dairy workers about supply through to July.
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Oral Bonstead
Palmer
Mery
Drouth
Drowned Man Found In East Okoboji Mystery
A fragmentary East Okoboji report describes a drowning near Humboldt with unclear details. The note mentions a gravel company and a wife named Hig, but many words are garbled, leaving key facts uncertain.
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East Okoboji
Humboldt
Mercury Sees 103 Degree Heat Marker In Grachtinger
The warm spell peaked Monday with the temperature reaching 103 in the shade at Grachtinger. A steady breeze accompanied the heat as Saturday and Sunday stayed hot too. The dry period likely damaged corn crops, and residents hope for rain to save the corn.
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Grachtinger
Father Kelly Vacation Trip To New York
Rev Father Kelly travels to New York and New Jersey on a vacation starting Sunday August. He will visit relatives here and abroad and meet his nephew Rev John Kelly D D who has been ordained for the Sioux City diocese. John Kelly begins his first mass at Ayrshire on August 19 and may celebrate in Immaculate Conception church on August 28.
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John Kelly
New York
Ayrshire
Father Kelly
New Jersey
England
Rome
Ireland
Enat
Immaculate Conception
Sioux City
Valher Kelly
Leo McEvoy
Ruthven
McEvoy
Grasshoppers Ravage Emmet County Crops
The Daily News and the Enterprise report a grasshopper invasion across southern Emmet and northern Palo Alto counties, with first reports of crop damage at the east edge of Jack Creek township. Officials hope the reports are exaggerated, attributing heat and coffee to the concern.
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The
Daily News
the Enterprise
Emmet County
E Emmet
Jack Creek
Emmet
Palo Alto
Lakesouting Draws Many Grachtinger Residents
A large group from Grachtinger spends the week at the Lakes for an outing. The camp offers a sample of favorable weather ahead, drawing many residents to the area for leisure and recreation.
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Woeka
Graettinger Kitten Ball Team Beats Ruthven In Road Match
Graettinger 12 Ruthven 10 in a Thursday evening game as Graettinger’s squad travels to Ruthven. Ruthven started softball this year. Spies rapidly trained players and led Graettinger to victory with strong hitting and fielding.
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Graettinger
Ruthven
Ofte Spies
Graettingar
Drought Shrivels Crops As Town Faces Water Shortage
A prolonged drought since July 11 threatens corn and potato yields while lakes, rivers, and wells run low. Des Moines river and Swan Lake drop, city water use curbed. Graettinger mayor urges conservation amid looming crop damage and heat. Rain needed soon to avert bumper yield loss.
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Gracttinger
Lou Iverson
Nest
Groettinger
High Lake
Mud Lake
Twelve Mile Lake
Des Moines
Wallingford
Grachtinger
Spies
Graettinger
Dreath
Towa
Armstrong
Swan Lake
Mrs. Lancaster Recovers After Quarantine Notice
The home of Herbert Lancaster was quarantined Monday after Mrs. Lancaster showed infantile paralysis symptoms. She fell ill last Saturday, remained weak, but by Monday could rise. Her condition improved today and her right arm regained near normal function, pleasing many friends.
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Herbert Lancaster
Leo Hamilton Struck by Stacker in Haystack Incident
Leo Hamilton of the Gracttin ger cast sustained injuries when knocked from a hay stacker last week. His right wrist was relocated, lower lip cut, and head wound treated. He returned to work shortly after. Dorothy Larson Underwent Operation for Appendicitis in Estherville Hospital. Chicago family visiting relatives at Arnolda Park when illness struck eight year old daughter.
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Leo Hamilton
Cast of
Gracttinger
Dorothy Larson
Dorothy
Henry Larson
Chicago
Estherville Hospital
Mra. Larson
Arnolda Park
Local tennis players trim Tri-Ment stars
Graettinger’s tennis team won 4 to 1 against Tri-Ment on Graettinger court. Lanse and Frahm won doubles for Tri-Ment while Quentin Jensen, Merklin and Graettinger players dominated singles. The blazing sun and upcoming Spencer match mark the team’s busy schedule.
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Trim Tri-Ment Stars
Graettinge
Graettinger
Tri-Mont
Triumph
Monterey
Minnesota
Lanse
Frahm
Graettinger Brothers
Quentin Jensen
Butz
Jensen
Merklin
Reikling
Ralph Gracttinger
Estherville
Mallard
Terri
Spencer
Graettinger Beats Wallingford 10 to 7 in Overtime Batting
Graettinger defeats Wallingford 10 to 7 as Ditch Thompson pitches for Graettinger with Bert Montgomery catching. Louie Segatson hits a home run, and a Wallingford player makes a dramatic seventh inning catch on a lob ball to the school roof.
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Focal Kitten
Wallingford
Jacobse Sevalson
Graettinger
Ditch” Thompson
Bert’ Montgomery
Kurt Spies
Bennett Thorson
Wesley Sevdy
Edward Sullivan
Sam Reynolds
Delmar Allen
Oral Bonstead
Quentin Jensen
Louie Segatson
Local Boxer Len Schottterback Breaks Arm Chasing Fly Ball
Len Schottterback, nephew of Ben TF. Reeves and local boxing talent, broke his arm Sunday while chasing a fly ball at Cylinder. He struck a fence and is recovering with friends' sympathy. M. E. Rape is recuperating after sinus surgery and hopes to return to work soon.
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Len Schottterback
Ben TF. Reeves
M. E. Racpe
M. 3
Rape
Love Shattered Husband’s Suicide in Rear Alley
Louis Hamlow, a young married man, shot himself twice with a 32 caliber revolver in the alley behind his home while his wife and two children slept. He died in the car, leaving a stunned household as the town marshal's son reported a man watching him. The investigating officer found the body the next morning.
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Louis Hamlow
Old Timers Honor Guests At Emmetsburg
Emmetsburg marks the 1866 founding of a nearby colony with a 4 PM picnic at Assumption church grounds on August 15. A noon dinner, refreshments, rides, sports, and a dinner then an anniversary program hosted by Representative P H Donlon and Mrs Alice Libert, followed by a reception. St Mary’s Athletic Association sponsors an evening dance with Pete Kuhl’s orchestra for old settlers and descendants.
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Emmetsburg
Assumption
P. H. Donlon
Alice Libert
St. Mary's Athletic Association
Pete Kuhl
Ninepiece
Hopper Plague Threatens Corn Crop In Iowa
Officials in Iowa plan war on grasshoppers threatening the corn crop. A $70,000 corn borer fund will be moved to grasshopper control for poison deployment across growing fields and along highways to curb rapid hopper multiplication.
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Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Register
Winner
Fremont Faul
Grarttinger
Six Cylinder Love at Hawkeye Theatre Saturday night
The Hawkeye Theatre presents the talking picture Six Cylinder Love this Saturday evening with Our Gang as a second feature. Admission is 26 cents for adults and a family ticket for 50 cents covers all under sixteen, promising a full crowd.
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Hawkeye Theatre
Our Gang
Hawkeye
Barney Hassel to Meet George Deck in Main Event Friday
Barney Hassel of Graettinger battles George Deck of Estherville in a main event at Arnolda Park Friday. Hassel will weigh 225 pounds and Deck 196. Deck is a seasoned fighter with several prior matches. local supporters expect Hassel to win big Friday night.
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Barney Hassel
Graattinger
George Deck
Estherville
Arnolda Park
Barney
Deck
Aged Lady Lost Last Night Near Wallingford Found
Mrs. Oddson, aged resident living east of Wallingford with her daughter in law, wandered from home during a timber walk. About 100 searchers from Wallingford and Graettinger scoured corn and grain fields until she was found unharmed along the Oddson farm edge after nightfall.
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Mra. Odison
E. A. Oddson
Wallingford
Oddson Farm
C. F. Walden
Graettinger
Oddson
Miss Mary Mahan Visits Graedttinger from Salem
Miss Mary Mahan of Salem Oregon arrived in Graedttinger for a visit with her brother J J Mahan and other relatives. She stayed at Mrs J L Mahan’s home over Sunday and praised Oregon’s climate while noting the Iowa heat and cold. She had visited Crookston Minnesota Lemberg and Winnipeg Canada and Armstrong Iowa and plans to stay a couple weeks.
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Mary Mahan
Salem
Oregon
Grachtinger
J.J. Mahan
J. L. Mahan
Miss Mahan
Iowa
Crookston
Antone Guerdet's Son Injured In Binder Accident
The eight year old son of Antone Guerdet was badly cut on both legs Tuesday of last week. He was near a tractor and binder when kerosene fire from a carburettor adjustment spread. The child, thinking his father stopped to weed, was struck by the sickle and received several shallow cuts but no severed cords. The injury is expected to heal rapidly.
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Antone Guerdet
Armstrong
Selmar Nelson Home Again After Mayo Hospital Stay
Selmar Nelson, buttermaker at the Fallow creamery, has returned home from Rochester after a three week stay at the Mayo hospital. He is rapidly recovering from a long illness that kept him from work since March fifth, with an assistant handling the creamery duties in the meantime. Nelson will assist with bookwork and lighter tasks for now to regain strength.
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Selmar Nelson
Fallow
Rochester
Mayo
Mr. Nelson
Sacred concert at St Pauls Lutheran Sunday Night
A Danish choir will give a sacred concert at St Pauls Lutheran Church on Sunday evening, August 2, with members preparing a full program. The church notes indicate a complete program, including works from the Danish choir.
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St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Diair
Gevernl
Wedks
Timag
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P. C. Fogde
Okoboji
Creveessaadertaaresdioness
Leghorn Springs
jCornaan
Mercury
Mrs. Lancaster
Stacker
Graetlinger
Fame
Laurens
Pest
Mennee
Gradlinger
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