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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1910
Page
3
Local notices praise free meeting advertising and in advance post rates while urging voting conscience. Items include shipwreck recovery funding, farming tips on green potatoes, and editorials on political endorsements amid 1912 era discourse.
An article in Good Roads cites a Wayne County Michigan road engineer explaining nine foot wide concrete pavement flaring to eleven feet at the base and eleven inches thick, costing 66 per acre per quarter, with recent experiments using all mixed concrete and a mile laid last year. He notes plans to pave ten more miles this year using a single mixture of one part cement, three parts gravel.
A historical proposal explains financing eighty eight miles of paved country highway via special assessments and district taxes. It details levy structures, impact on farm and town properties, and predicted land value boosts from improved road access, arguing $54.60 per year per quarter section to fund the project and noting expected property value increases along the route.
Last week the Tipp family disposed of their farm on the town outskirts and held a farewell reception. Mr and Mrs Tipp and daughter Bernice left Thursday for Cedar Rapids to make a new home, leaving behind long standing ties and friendships. Granttering School enrollment for 1910 lists Primary 42, Growing room 59, Intermediate 56, High School Ninth 15, Tenth 9, Eleventh 7. The Tanners have organized their annual reel, with officers and duties noted, while other local notices and pupil activities are listed.
Frigk Hazen and Anna Hagen wed March 16 1910 in Morhorna Mo in the Vom Tasrelal Hotel parlors with invited friends present. The ceremony featured carnatons and ferns, Roy Alexander of the first Baptist church officiating, and guests showered the couple with wishes as they departed on the 11 18 train for their future. The bride wore a blue traveling suit. groom wore black. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Lew Fliven and is praised for grace and good qualities. the paper offers warm congratulations.
Two youths aged 9 to 16 from Spirit Lake Herald area slipped away on a wild west journey Sunday. They wandered when short of food, returned hungry Monday, faced court Tuesday morning, were admonished and placed on probation.
The Times warns every subscriber to settle a due amount within a year or more. The postal law demands it and the paper will endure. Nonpayment may delay briefly but loss will come in the end. Whether rich or poor, subscribers must settle now or face official action.
The ad offers Dr Miles' Anti Pain Pills for various pains including rheumatic headaches stomach and back pain. It cites Henry Courlen of Boonton New Jersey praising their effectiveness while warning about ineffective imitations and urging purchase from druggists.
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