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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1921
Page
5
Want ads list farm staples and livestock for sale including a red bull and seed potatoes. Local note items cover visits, births, remodeling, fishing plans, school programs, road improvements, weather effects, and a veteran reunion among former Great Northern soldiers.
Land to list wanted. Lewis Lippold seeks listings in Graettinger Iowa for quick placement. Also available: truck hauling, poultry chicks, farm animals, pasture for rent, geese eggs, brood sows, and washing services. Executors named Peter Johansen Paulsen and Johannes Paulsen announce probate actions for Paul Paulsen estate.
A card thanks neighbors for kindness after a bereavement and for flowers. A long poem pleads not to wait for the coffin to show sympathy, urging ongoing comfort for the dying and bereaved as a model of love and faith. The verse reflects Victorian sentimental tone and family names such as Mrs. Dora Mull and Mrs. Petersen.
The senior class play Nothing But the Truth will be staged Friday May 15 at the Hawkeye with a modern, humorous plot about a broker who claims he can tell the truth for twenty four hours. Seniors won top honors Monday with Margaret George first Lloyd Gardner second and Mark Thompson third. The Graettinger base ball team lost 14 to 1 at Mallard last Friday and returns to Graettinger next week for a rematch.
A New Yorker recounts travels from Juneau Alaska including the bustling steamship era economy politicians and mines at Treadwell and Douglas, the hospital needs as the railroad to Fairbanks expands, and vivid impressions of harsh geography. He describes lodging a Ford taxi ride up a mountain, a shipboard soak, tides, and ship repairs while hoping for letters home and fresh garden soil.
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