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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1916
Page
8
Officials report a North Carolina case reveals a moonshine recipe for white lightning. The mix includes corn meal sugar lye tobacco pokeroot berries soda, yielding fourteen and one half gallons. Also noted are a Wisconsin farm sale teaser and a sawed stove wood rental item from Estherville.
Three horses include a mare seven years old and two geldings six and eight years old. About eight tons of good upland hay offered. Subscribing to the Times provides the news.
Henry C. Adams of Algona announces candidacy for Iowa State Senate District 47 in the June 5 1916 primary, urging economical state business practices. J W Jackson enters as Republican nominee candidate for Palo Alto County sheriff in the June 1916 primary.
L. O. Wigdahl announces his candidacy for representative from Palo Alto County in the Republican Primary scheduled for June.
A local 1916 notice bundle announces a sheriff candidacy subject to June primaries. It also advertises 1914 seed corn for sale from Spies Brothers and Wmple’s Early Yellow Dent with pricing and return policy. Public election details list Graettinger Iowa mayor and council races for March 27, 1916. Bank stockholders are informed of a wind up, sale of receivables to First National Bank, and dissolution plans for American Savings Bank with a May 1 1916 meeting led by J A Spies and J B Lambe.
Sealed proposals for a Graettinger Iowa school building are due April 6 1916 at 1 00 p m with three contracts A general construction B heating and plumbing and C ventilation and equipment. Project to be finished by Sept 1 1916 plans by Cox and Hardy Estherville Iowa.
Proposals require certified deposits of 600 for Contract A and 100 for Contracts B and CG, payable to the Independent School District of Graettinger. Deposits are returned to rejected bidders and to the successful bidder who enters into contract with a full bond equal to the contract price. If the contract and bond are not entered within 20 days after acceptance, deposits are forfeited. The board may reject all proposals. Graettinger Iowa, March 1, 1916.
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