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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1897
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR text shows garbled phrases about eggs, but readable items include references to Butchers Stock and Bangy. No clear events, people, places, or dates are discernible from the readable portions.
Black and white prices at Kent Millinery and various town notices appear. Mr Bailey orders business Saturday, hats sold, school hats at 2 cents each. Hansen, Hans, and others in town for official business. Council failed to meet due to quorum. Seed flax for sale at 60 cents per bushel. Sunday crowds at Jost Island Lake, fishing. Local church and school discussions, graveside rites for Miss Reno and Mr Dubin’s wedding at Lost Island. The couple will live near groom’s stone, well known locally.
A large turnout attends a Rock Picnic and grand dinner served by local ladies at the church hall. The event funds a planned creamery cooperative, with a stock capital of 3000 dollars and 4000 dollars needed, while a preliminary meeting at Good Templar hall forms committees to organize shares and bylaws. A separate Friday gathering drew about a hundred from dairying and commercial sectors, with plans to rest or sell the current plant not acted upon.
Sealed bids for erecting the First M B church in Graettinger Iowa will be received until Friday June 18 1887 at 90112 p m. The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Church to be built per specifications in the hands of the building committee. Right reserved to reject any and all bids. Kent Groney McClune.
An old advertisement fragment promises one hundred dollars for proof of cures by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It references FJ Cheney and a Toledo drug firm, with promises of honorable business dealings and endorsements but reads as a damaged testimonial. The text mentions internal use and blood action, typical of 19th century patent medicine pitches.
Sunday in High Lake saw Julia Mathers Guyda Larson and Bessie Post complain of rubbish near the river bridge. John A Rierson bought a residence lot from Dalen and Anderson. Mrs Tunnegure of Milford visited Mrs E S George then returned home. Farmers Co operative creamery stockholders meet Saturday. Wall contract for M E church let to H E Johnson for 65 with July 16 completion. Louis Linn visited Spirit Lake. J Forthmitler left for the south Saturday. Reed Bros of Osgood arrived by wagon. Council ordered sidewalks to be built promptly. Hen Osher transacted business in the country Tuesday.
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