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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1925
Page
18
Fragmentary classified notes list items with small prices such as 12 and 90, including references to hogs and fowl terms. The readable text is inconsistent but shows short price pointers and miscellaneous goods.
The Times reports M O Grodland and family traveled from Graettinger to Minneapolis on June 5 to attend the Norse-American centennial. They visited Ren ville and Fred Jackson family, found the centennial hard to describe yet highly instructive and entertaining for the children, then fished at Green Lake Spicer with Pete Tolberson and family.
Reporter notes heavy rain and widespread floods in southern Minnesota as travelers stop in New London for a brief visit with Jack Bolatad. Weather conditions contributed to significant field inundation and elevated water levels in the area.
The Ringsted Dispatch reports wolves killed two sheep for Welsh and Sons in Jack Creek on Tuesday. Wolves are numerous in the area this spring, but nearby farmers cannot approach them. Andrew Olson located a wolf den in his field and killed the animals. Another farmer lost fifty small pigs this spring, unsure if wolves or thieves were responsible.
Graettinger and Estherville baseball teams played at High Lake. After seven innings Estherville led 7 to 6 when rain forced the game to be called. The Farm Bureau picnic program was described as splendid and very successful.
A major rain event Thursday night dumped three inches from 4 p.m. to 7 a.m., the heaviest in years, aiding crops with moisture after two prior downpours. The frontal storm brought lightning and a tornado in northeastern Iowa, hail damage southeast of Grachtinger, and a cloudburst near Emmetsburg as Thursday’s rain spread widely.
The third annual joint convention of the 1. O. O. F lodges in districts 21 and 74 and the fifteenth annual Rebekah convention in the same districts were held in Graettinger on June 10. A morning storm dampened attendance but 100 delegates registered at the Odd Fellows hall and 184 at the Rebekah hall. A joint parade, afternoon programs, degree work, and talks by W. I. G. Saunders and Supt. Avery highlighted the day. The event featured performances by local orphans and music by the Dickens band.
A long list of visitors attended the Norse-American centennial in Minneapolis, including M. D. Grodland Merle Verna T. O. Thompson A. L. Herrem Ole Bondhus Lars Egesos C. B. Anderson Jacob Brekke Carl Holte T. J. Brekke Chris Jensen Alexander Arlton Andy Axelton H L Hauge Bertha Louis Berg and daughter Rev Hansen from Wallingford and others. many lodges represented and praised for the event.
The Hawkeye theatre presented The Hunchback Of Notre Dame on Friday and Saturday, drawing hundreds of film fans. Set in France as America was discovered, the tale centers on a deformed man in Notre Dame and a romance involving a guardsman and a noblewoman.
After abundant rain, the ad touts rock bottom prices on cultivators. It lists bargains including 2-Row Cultivators, two John Deeres, two McCormick-Deering units, a bailer, an Emerson, a used John Deere, and a Tower surface plow. It also advertises Single Row Cultivators and several Deeres, plus a three hamock seat Deere used model.
Farmers Supply Company notes describe Hawkeye management staging high class attractions. The Hunchback drew full houses with tickets at 15 and 35 cents, two nights per show, filling the opera house and cathedral fortress setting described as spectacular.
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