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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1955
Page
8
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Henderson announce the marriage of their daughter Macil Reusch to Lorne Leeds of Cherokee. The ceremony takes place Sunday May 29 at 2 30 PM at the Central Church of Christ in Cherokee, with a reception to follow. Phone Times 152 for printing.
Palo Alto county women attended a district Farm Bureau meeting at Primghar on April 20. The gathering included Mrs. Chris Larson Mrs. Wm Stillman Mrs. Leroy Higgins Mrs. Joe Dunn Mrs. Vic Hansen and Mrs. A C Krueger among others. Nearby visits featured Mr and Mrs Tom Luitjens and family seeing Alvin Davis and family at George Iowa and Tom's mother in Sibley.
The piece promotes warm season crops like squash cucumbers and beans with variety suggestions. It highlights butternut squash noting its buff color bottle shape about 10 inches long and 4 to 5 inches across with orange flesh and high quality.
A column emphasizes thrift through family budgeting and responsible youth involvement in selling and saving. It cites a mother guiding her daughter Ellen in meal planning and budget balance, a boy in Boy Scout sales, and a eight year old who trades toys to teach money values, plus a cautionary road safety tale about tailgating and fatal consequences.
A set of gardening notes advises testing Topcrop beans for canning and freezing, applying fresh seed each year, and spacing lettuce and radish sowings for succession. It explains rhubarb harvest timing, recommends delaying heavy harvest until two years after planting, and outlines rose fertilizing and mulching practices using complete fertilizer and crushed corncobs.
A family article describes teaching money literacy to a teenager through a summer budget. A Brown family daughter, 16, participates in a planned weekly allowance tied to meals. Parents estimate the budget from current food prices and monitor spending to foster financial responsibility.
A YOWA public safety report recalls a long tale of a reckless man who would ignore signals for a chance at money, a negligent owner whose property decayed due to lack of care, and a hurried city driver tied to a fatal sequence, as the patrolman described.
Albia authorities designate petunia as the city flower marking the first official choice. The decision elevates a popular floral emblem to city status, reflecting local horticultural appreciation.
Adel announces a 250000 gallon water tower to begin operation early in May. Officials urge protecting young evergreens by mulching windbreaks with wood chips. Merion bluegrass should be planted in a prepared seedbed, alone or with Kentucky bluegrass.
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