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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1932
Page
10
Local high school notes recount student fundraising for a notional event, exams postponed, improved attendance, and a wrestling title. A sermon-like column discusses unemployment concerns, Bolshevism fears, and calls for labor capital cooperation to ease economic tension. The piece weaves school life with broader social commentary from Lutheran pastors.
Gertrude Caher moves to country schooling while Will starts first grade there. Miss Hazel Suss aids mornings. Most first graders return after flu illness. Washington pictures brighten the second grade bulletin board. Fifth graders study U.S. and draft geography booklets. Lincoln and Washington life posters fill fourth grade boards as chicken pox absences continue but decline.
A garbled dialogue features Miss Dyan and Bernard D discussing culture with misheard phrases and playful mockery. The exchange includes quirky lines about arriving with a bent finger and a bank bandit failing to escape on rough terrain, creating a surreal, humorous vignette.
The notes outline Sunday services and gatherings at multiple churches. Methodist entries invite attendance with classes at 10:18, worship at 12:09, Epworth League at 6:40, and Luther League program details including hymns, readings, and duets led by Mrs. Sam Sandvig and others. Paul Lutheran Church lists services at 9:45 and 11:30, Graettinger with Sunday school at 10:15 and sermon on Living the Life of Jesus, inviting members and friends. Catherine (Latherine) Lutheran notes mention services, confirmands, cradle roll class, and Lenten services. A missionary note from Mrs. Norms mentions Bololt children’s home needs food and grain donations.
The Weather and Crop Bureau reports farm tenancy rising in 1920 as owner operated acreage falls by 1 percent to 16,405,077 acres while tenant holdings rise to 18,707,944 acres. Owners controlled 46.2 percent of farms and tenants 53.8 percent, with tenancy gains spread statewide but declines in parts of the northwest and southeast counties.
The piece argues silver stabilization to boost global commerce, noting historic cycles of inflation and deflation. It tracks postwar supply disruptions, European recovery, and a shift from rising demand to a surplus that cooled consumption, warning many spent beyond their means in prosperity.
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