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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1932
Page
5
Bancroft Register reports a sweeping tax act took effect Tuesday midnight raising trillions for next year. Citizens nationwide face levies on candy gum automobiles and yachts with a 1 cent gasoline tax increase and tax on bank checks in a campaign to fund government expenses.
A reader letter from Florida laments poor business and unemployment while urging more advertising. It notes surprising primary results, taxation debates, and political organizing. The writer mentions Bert Montgomery’s Democratic sheriff nomination and sends regards to Grad singer, signed J. P. Jenson, with a note about L. T. Lewison visiting Story City.
The readable portion shows shattered words and misprints about a collection and names. No clear event, date, or entities emerge. The fragmentary text lacks a coherent subject or outcome to summarize beyond indicating a suspended or unsettled collection note.
Members meeting in West Okoboji adopt a resolution urging the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to fund mortgage holders to ease high interest rates and renewal costs. They call for uniform extension of farm loans until conditions normalize and praise Governor Turner’s agriculture stance at Chicago. A committee will be formed to carry the effort in the Fourteenth and Twenty first Judicial Districts.
Fasetat of Mrs. Oscar N Olson held Saturday details a large family including Levi A Currie M Nelson Nina H Sevdy Nora M Olgon and eight grandchildren with a husband and four sons and daughters. The notice extols her devout Lutheran faith, devotion as wife and mother and neighborly kindness while offering heartfelt community sympathy and a brief epitaph of endurance and faith.
A group led by Lillian and Gertrude Halverson and Syvert Hendrick Rierson set out Wednesday on an extended motor trip through the Black Hills Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain regions. They plan visits with friends in Bowhells North Dakota Weatby Montana Denver and Boulder Colorado with a party of friends joining at Sioux Falls.
Dismantled heavy medium and light iron products including angle iron channel iron tea iron double U iron round iron square iron flat iron shafting gan piping and more suitable for corner posts bridge work concrete reinforcements and blacksmith uses plus many other items offered at hard time prices by G C Coolidge Graettinger Road.
Land owners occupants and persons in possession or control of real estate including public roads must destroy or cut all noxious weeds when in full broom by July 16 1982. If not complied with the weed commissioner will have weeds destroyed or cut at the land owner’s expense and any crop damage or logs will be charged to the owner under chapter 246 code of Iowa 1927 as amended. Weed Commissioner C J Lande signs official notice.
An advertisement for a billiards and bowling venue highlights pool and billiard tables, bowling alley, soft drinks, candies, tobaccos and cigars, described as a place of real enjoyment with prompt service. Proprietor A. J. Dubn promotes the business.
Listings promote P J McCarthy of Graettinger real estate and collection services, City Barber Shop with Bartleman Bros, Graettinger Bakery offering fresh baked goods, City Meat Market with groceries and produce. Ad copy highlights prompt service, modern equipment, and customer appreciation.
The Quaker Oats Co thanks patrons for past support and invites continued business. They advertise fresh flour in two grades Quaker's and Mother's, a full line of seeds and salt, Kentucky coal varieties Blue Diamond Curlew Orient Eye and Hard Coal, and urge customers to check grain prices. Manager J H Swift notes office and house phone numbers.
The Graettinger Co-Operative Live Stock Shipping Association urges farmers to support their organization and conduct businesslike talks. Meetings are held every second Wednesday of March May July September November and January under manager V L O Connor with yard and phone contacts.
Farmers Grain Company promotes its home built business selling grain feed flour and related machinery and supplies. Manager D B McCarty invites customers to buy locally, highlighting a large stock of feeds and quality flour priced on a narrow margin, urging use of the market.
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