Local News Highlights From Gratinger Area
J Sullivan publisher notes three mayoral candidates in a lively Gract city race. Provident Trust to pay four percent dividend. LeRoy Brandt farm near SW destroyed in a blaze. Jenswold death not mentioned in this issue. Road HI a talent production planned for March 17 and 18 at St Mary’s in Emmetsburg High School auditorium. Livermore threshing in full swing. I M Hansen of Jackson Minnesota killed in coal wagon accident at 42. Elmer Olson’s daughter Iyma to begin nurses training at Park Hospital in Mounds City.
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Mayster
Provident Trust
Therville
LeRoy Brandt
Swas
Brandt
J. J. Sullivan
Rotmerstinggm
Galleger
Emmetsburg
Livermore Gazette
I, M. Hansen
Jackson
Minnesota
Elmer Olson
Iyma
Munsori City
Park Hospital
Mystery car found burned on K road north of Swea City
A burned 1929 Chevrolet coupe was found six and a half miles north of Swea City on road K after an accident in a ditch. No license plates, engine number tampered with, and no claimant. Constable Wm Blomster removed the vehicle to a nearby farm. The report appears in Our Weekly Visitors in Swea City Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swea City
Wm. Blomster
Local notes from Ringsted and Ruthven reflect town news
Ringsted Dispatch reports mill managers in Armstrong division of Central States Electric meet to seek a rate cut to help mills compete with traveling rivals. Emmeteburg Democrat notes Thos H Rierson and son Albert of Ruthven visit town, Rierson recovering from car crash while wife died shortly after. A five year old Austin girl faces bleak heredity odds as mother Edna Figi serves jail time for forging checks. brother and other relatives also in custody or reform school, Sheriff Myhren Alber Len house the girl while mother remains jailed.
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Ringsted
Armstrong
Central States Electric Company
Farmers Elevator
Waya
Emmeteburg
Democrat
Thos. H. Rierson
Albert
Ruthven
Rierson
Freeman & Johnson
North Dakota
Lost Island Township
Capital City Commercial College
Des Moines
Ringsted Dispatch
Austin
Minnesota
Edna Figi
Alder Lea
Ing Cleeks
Fort Madison
Anamoas Reformatory
Ov Ffere
Helmor Myhren Albert Len
Blade Matthews
Rochester
Crima
Finnie Duff Too Muchs Enough A Regular Feature
A reader says these Graettinger notes are read by two. A poultry tip says chickens live on three cents daily, yet not in Graettinger. Oklahoma dunked corn pone pot likker this year, due to hard times. A Carnegie professor notes women write better English than men. No married Graettinger or Emmetsburg woman doubts her husband is a prize in marriage. A film director jokes about dying on stage for life insurance. Credit is praised as a high business compliment. Old timers recall past life in Graettinger with lanterns, wagons, mud, and wash tubs, suggesting we grow older and weariness eases demand to argue less.
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Graettinger
Ray Membey
Parda
Congress
Lost Island News Items Shows Weekend Visits Across Town
Local notes list weekend visits from Mrs. Clinton Coffin of Cincinnati and Mr. and Mrs. George Peters of Renwick to Seth Smith’s home. Several residents move within area farms while social events include a fathers and sons banquet with 150 plates and a Lost Island quartet performance. Names and places span Langdon Brainerd Ruthven Emmetsburg and Lake Center with multiple family and neighbor exchanges.
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Lost Island
Clinton Coffin
Cincinntti
George Peters
Renwick
Seth Smith
Velma Johnson
Rock Rapids
P. J. Johnson
Harry Sampson
Clarinda
Barney Sampson
O. L. Thoreson
Tyer Oppedahl
Roy G
Norway
Maydean Christianson
Floyd Smith
Floyd
Brainerd
Minnesota
Melvin Bratruil
Art Duhn
Grgettinger
Joe Jackson
Fathers and Sons
Ruthven
Rev, Pruit
Emmetsburg
Prof
Hoon
Lake Center
Ralph Smith
Pister
Braineral
James Smith
Harald Smith
Alda Jensen
Tony A. Jensen
Anna Rierson
Eatherville
Mar
Henry Riergan
Kermit Lunde
E. Gallamore
Jean Olson
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Turday
Black Watch
Tarzan, the
Tiger
Graettinger Times
J. Sullivan
GOCAL
St. Mary's Athletic Association
Farmers Co-Operative Creamey Co
Wallingford
West Bend
E. Walker
McFarland & Walker
Ben
Ben Walker
B. E
Tess
Finnie
Duff
W.O
Oklahoma
Carnegie
Tyra Brother
Farmers Supply Company
Lowa
Charley Jensen Graettinger
Iowa
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