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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1949
Page
7
Emmetsburg Boosters gathered April 20 at Paul and James Currang's home with 20 members present. Joe Anderson led the meeting, Ralph Ashby showed films, and lunch was served by the hostesses. Next gathering is May 18 at Robert Sampson's residence.
Robert Simonsen Prop Co runs a Graettinger Iowa advertisement promising the best in meats and groceries. It highlights fresh and cured meats, hams and bacon at low consistent prices, and a large stock of fruits and vegetables with service for special orders and Sunday dinners. Patronage is appreciated.
From Jacksonville Florida Dear Sullivans It is time again for the 2.50 enclosed find check. The Times notes Graettinger folk spent winter in California enjoying the smog and cold weather. Next winter plan Florida as winter vacation land. The past winter was the least on record. A few locals visited to enjoy it. Dr Osher and daughter and Harvey Petersen and wife from Belhondo stopped to see us on the way home. Tourist season was the best we have ever had. They arrived later but stayed longer. Business statewide holds up well. Home construction slows, commercial building on the upgrade. We feel well and ponder a summer trip up there but have not decided.
From Neillsville Wisconsin editor times report mentions grand spring weather trees budding and green scenery. It notes about four inches of Easter snow followed by rapid melt and oats seeding delays by about a week.
Hazel L Deery notes National Home Demonstration Week May 17 and reviews county extension activities. Fifteen townships held five lessons during 1948 49 including Frozen Foods Use Your Broiler and Windows Can Be Attractive with attendees around 99. Leaders praised as backbone of the program with clubs sharing lessons across communities.
The West Bend Homemakers form a county chorus praised by state chair Mrs. Roscoe Eliason after Rural Women's Day. New pocket song books from Iowa State College Extension Music Office feature Marianina Passing By the Golden Day is Dying and Old Woman and the Peddler. Food lessons spark more home freezers. Mrs Tom Naig led in Vernon Township with a chocolate ice cream roll. Family Nites thrive in Silver Like Booth and Highland townships with folk games. An Easter Bonnet Parade highlighted the April Great Oak meeting. Nevada Neighbors rotate recreation duties. Emmetsburg Wide Awake Club member Mrs. Lester Grace designs centerpieces for tea tables reflecting international study.
Bernard Solberge hosts a Fairfield 4 H meeting with 23 members present. Clair J. Miller of Medina Ohio will classify eight head at Hubert Campney farm at 10 00 am and eight more at Ronald Chapman farm at 11 00 am on May 19. Public invited to attend. The Lamb Feeding project shows a loss per pen averaging 5 40 with top feeders profitable, while Palo Alto feeders mirror state results. Iowa Farm Bureau backs the 1948 Act with strong parity and support measures for agriculture. Pike season opens May 15 adding walleye sauger perch and northern pike with frog season starting May 12.
Hubert Campney of Highland Township was elected chairman at the Soils District Commission meeting on April 28. He will serve a two year term with Chas. Stillman Jr. of Vernon Township and W. N. Baxter of Rush Lake Township as other commissioners. R. W. Ashby was elected Secretary. The meeting served as the organization meeting with David Dohrmann, Lester Clapp, and Joe Colgan aiding the group. An application for a District Charter was filed and oaths of office taken for all commissioners. The body plans surveys, a work plan, and formation of farmer groups to receive technical soil assistance.
Duck hunters killed almost 17 million ducks and geese in the United States last open season. Albert M. Day of the U S Fish and Wildlife Service notes a 27 percent rise in hunter numbers and days hunted, driving waterfowl kill up nearly 48 percent versus 1947. The typical hunter bag was about two birds per day and nine for the season, with about five days hunted on average.
Fourteen large carp and buffalo traps have been set on nine major Iowa lakes to reduce rough fish. Storm Lake yielded 82,000 pounds of carp and 10,000 pounds of bullheads in three days, while Hale's Slough at Spirit Lake produced 10,000 pounds of carp and 10,000 pounds of other fish in one night. The effort supports the Conservation Commission’s goal to ease pressure on game fish by supplementing seine methods.
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