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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1925
Page
8
Washington DC reports reveal 17 660 dollars allocated for municipal light projects. State officials note the association's directors held a regular session with limited dancing at Crag College of Fella capers. No further details provided.
Iowa General Assembly debates a three cent gasoline tax increase shifting from two cents. Governor Hammill's recommendations influence the amendment pattern. Bergman’s bill advances through the committee, with Fayette Representative Blake leading the House joint committee. Crawford County reports progress as lawmakers near adjournment.
A proposed bill consolidates road oversight under the highway commission for primary roads while county boards and township trustees oversee secondary roads. Contracts under six thousand dollars avoid commission approval, special assessments on primary roads are abolished, and all primary road costs come from the primary fund. The bill aims to finish primary work with 6,600 miles, improve secondary roads with drainage grading and graveling, and refund past special assessments within ten years. Estimated receipts for debt service total 8,832,473.91 with annual payments and a 2,627,500 annual average for refunds, leaving 5,824,973.01 for new construction after secondary road expenditures.
The Senate adopted the conference report on the postal rate increase bill after House action. The measure, which does not meet the full $8,000,000 revenue aim, now goes to the President who is expected to sign. Notable votes included Borah Brookhart Howell Norbeck Republicans and Bruce Dial George Class Harrison Pittman Swanson Underwood Democrats.
Indiana Democratic senators who fled to Ohio amid protests over a no gerrymander bill returned to Indianapolis welcomed by Lieut. Gov. Harold Van Orman and Republican leaders. They indicated Dayton talks showed the bill likely will not pass when the assembly resumes.
Governor Small appoints Charles 8 Deneen to fill the remaining term of Senator Medill McCormick who died in Washington. The move makes Deneen the junior senator from Illinois, as Senator Curtis of Kansas had urged. The announcement follows McCormick's death on Wednesday.
Stockholm reports former Swedish prime minister Hjalmar Branting has died at age sixty four from lung inflammation in mid December. Branting, a three time premier and active League of Nations statesman, resigned January 24 and remained in cabinet without portfolio under M Bandler.
Reported robbery aboard a Pullman car on the New York Central Western Express. Two crew members were tied up and the train sped toward Chicago amid the incident, with investigators seeking details and suspects.
In Atlanta the Stone Mountain Memorial Association dismissed sculptor Gutzon Borglum amid a long running dispute. Borglum allegedly destroyed models and working plans. The group filed a $50,000 suit for destruction and warrants were issued for his arrest on suspicion of mischief.
Abby Rockefeller to wed David Merriwether Milton, a young New York attorney with ties to the Rockefeller and Milton families. Mr Milton, 25, a Williams College and Columbia Law School graduate, served in the naval reserve in World War I and works with Satterlee and Canfield. Miss Rockefeller, 21, heir to the Rockefeller fortune, is the couple’s eldest child and the first to marry.
Edwards is named by President Coolidge as assistant secretary of the Interior. The Indiana representative John A Edwards, age, from Mitchell Indiana, is the appointee. The interior department home base is Washington with Mitchell designated as attorney general.
The readable parts are too fragmentary to identify people places dates or events. The item cannot be reliably summarized into a concise news card with accurate entities.
Berlin reports the death of Friedrich Ebert, first president of the German republic, after illness from appendicitis and other complications. Ebert rose from a workingman’s background to lead the socialist party, guide postwar Germany, and negotiate early in the republic while facing Bolshevik and socialist pressures.
Representative Nick Longworth of Ohio was chosen as speaker nominee by Republican caucus for the Sixty-ninth Congress. He defeated Martin Madden of Chicago by 241 votes, an action effectively tantamount to election with Republicans holding the majority. Madden would remain in place as chairman of the appropriations committee.
An advertisement touts Joint-Base and Joint-Ease as remedies for rheumatism and joint pain. It claims quick, lasting relief regardless of chronicity, and urges readers to use Joint-Ease for joint agony, marketed as a clean penetrating preparation recommended by druggists.
A garbled plea describes a choice between staying and facing mock punishment. The speaker mentions the mayor, fearing an effigy hanging if they run, while asserting a personal path forward. The fragment hints at social pressure and public sanction in a tense local scene.
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