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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
5
T. D. Collins offers drugs medicines and choice perfumes and toilet articles along with comics celebrated paint oils painter supplies wallpaper and school books stationery druggists sundries and related items in a broad retail display.
Eight cattle available including two heifers and six steers offered by Taquire of Jacob Gruis. Contact Jacob Gruis for details and pricing.
The document states that O. Anderson disclaims responsibility for Hans N Andersons debts or obligations and will not collect his earnings, dated March 6, with time designation. This public notice formalizes separation of financial ties and duties.
A newspaper asks readers in arrears over one year to remit promptly to avoid suspension of delivery at second class rates. The notice explains the Post Office Department requires stopping weekly newspapers for long overdue accounts and urges early payment to support the editor and reader.
Ordinance No. 28 authorizes repairing the pump house in Graettinger Iowa and installing a twenty horsepower gasoline engine and pump to deliver about 25 gallons per minute. It covers purchasing pipes and mains, funding via bonds up to 1400, and pledges the town’s credit with mayor and clerk empowered to issue bond anticipation notes. interest at i percent and future levy for interest and principal.
In Wallingford the Creamery meeting is noted among a string of local items. Residents travel, visit, or return from Estherville and Graettinger while several family and school connections are listed. a large barn on the I. O. Butler farm burned Sunday afternoon after a lightning strike, with heavy losses including hay, grain, and machinery, horses saved.
Sunday’s Childrens Day events drew a large crowd as a well rendered program showed the children’s hard work. The church was nicely decorated and several local residents were noted in attendance or visiting during the day. The Ladies Aid set a June 22 meeting with Mrs Mowitt, amid changes due to the Woodmen Picnic slated for Emmetsburg. Other locals, including Russel George and Miss Lara Fergeson, were mentioned in passing as visiting or helping on farms and at homes around Graettinger Ringsted and nearby towns.
An early report describes a new oxygen helmet to protect London fire brigades from ammonia fumes. Philadelphia tests showed the helmet let two firefighters enter burning rooms to rescue victims. London brigades also compete yearly in trials evaluating hose handling and drill under wet and dry conditions.
A Pennsylvania girl named Katie Frick shows rapid learning despite being deaf, dumb, and blind. Her education, funded by the Keystone State, emphasizes tactile communication and counting with blocks, culminating in her first letter home.
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