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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
13
Closing the series on newspaper advertising, this piece argues advertising lowers consumer prices by connecting buyers with goods that enhance home life and health. It cites how advertising expands demand for merchants, boosts sales and profits, and elevates merchants from failure to success while fostering aggressiveness and wittier business insight.
Wanted land to list. Anyone with land to sell should see me and list it with me. Lewis Lippold, Graettinger, Iowa R F D 2.
Secretary of rice Redfikl urges farmers to convert every farm into a fishery using small water supplies. He argues fish farming is as easy as raising chickens and could help cut living costs.
The American Booksellers Association reports strong demand for serious literature while light frivolous fiction sees almost no takers.
A Women’s Liberty Loan Committee has been appointed by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo to engage women and women’s organizations in supporting the Liberty Loan drive.
Start Drive on Cutworm. Unusually numerous cutworms can be controlled with paper collars around stems using tar paper or cardboard. Lift shingles and kill daytime gathered worms. Use a bran poison mix with Paris green after sundown. Sudan grass and cane recommended to solve pasture shortages. plant sudan 10-15 lb/acre and cane 60-75 lb/acre for grazing or hay. Cultivation helps corn root lice.
The note advises turning stock onto grass and inspecting daily. It recommends using six pounds of sudan per acre instead of ten for cheaper, good results. It urges canning or drying rhubarb, and setting out late cabbage and cauliflower now.
Miss Alice Hausner of Estherville visits friends Lorene and Irma Sheffield. Miss Euelah Sandvick teaches parochial school at Ottosen and Lost Island. Mrs. Sam Roseland and Mrs. Ole Helvig host Lost Island Ladies Aid at the church June 21. Ruth Lande teaches parochial school at Lost Island. W M Williamson spruces up with tile in an eighty purchased this spring, work by H H Gjerde of Graettinger. Anna Berdin attends summer school in Sheldon. Grant Smith visits Sheffield home Monday. Mr and Mrs Ness Matsen and family spend Thursday evening with the Sheffield family. A nine pound baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Sam Sandvig on June 4.
Mrs. Chris Berdin spent Friday at the Hauge home. The Cairns Bros and their company, famed for the Megaphone Quartette, perform at the Big Tent Theatre in Graettinger on Saturday June 16, promising a genuine original act.
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