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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1923
Page
8
The Graefstinger Times presents a weekly market report noting that highest prices are published for grain and butter, with dairy, egg, and poultry prices varying by market. The piece muses on newspaper work, hypocrisy, labor unrest in the Northwest, the I. W. W. strike, and social commentary on nurses, war, and European trends, closing with a tongue in cheek remark about winter’s end.
Strawberries can be grown across wide regions and soils. Iowa State College extension agent CC Holsinger recommends 200 plants per farm family, with 15 to 18 inch spacing and rows 3 to 4 feet apart. Remove flower spurs and runners for two months, replace beds yearly, and plant as soon as soil is workable with careful fertilization.
I B Paddock advises beginners to trap bees from old tree or house using a staged transfer. Cut the tree, locate brood, remove frames, place foundation sheets, and use smoke to guide bees into the new hive. Seal all but one opening with a wire trap, erect a scaffold, set the hive level with the trap, and lure the queen to complete the transfer in four to six weeks.
Town council of Grasttinger approves diverse bills from WW Schurmann salary to dogs killed and interred and utility charges. Entries include salaries for March April and April 1928, office rent, gas, material, lamp lighting, and supplies from local businesses. Total items reference WW Schurmann Henry Westergard Foster McCarty Gammon Estate Northern Town Gas Electric Co Glacttinger Telephone Collins Drug Store Community Service Station HJ Mitchell W Reeves V Reeves Rubiak entities.
One third of a teaspoonful of so da ip added to each quart of water used to soak beans cuts cooking time to about one third of the usual period, per the division of home economies at Town State College. After soaking, drain the beans, rinse, and add fresh water for cooking.
Miss Jessie Shannon of Lowe State College argues play is a universal instinct, not just for children, and should be pursued by all ages. She notes adults like businesspeople and laborers enjoy baseball or golf with same enthusiasm as youths, promoting health, fairness, loyalty, and mental relaxation.
In Estherville township residents oppose joining the Thidle pendent School District, fearing higher taxes and jeopardized education. The note mentions a mock threat of a press error and a separate wedding report adds a minor correction about refreshments.
A reflective piece extols a hometown newspaper for chronicling births marriages graduations and essays while boosting city progress and free advertising. It lauds readers for supporting the paper and notes a local humorous aside about a tired feeling and a doctor’s visit with dated regional quips.
Fragment discusses a marriage reference and hints at garden issues with elm scale. It mentions washing dishes and a plan to spray trees with lime sulfur and water to control scale. Details are garbled and names or dates are missing.
Farmers Grain Co offers sale notices for potatoes and farming equipment including a 10-foot John Deere tandem disc a four-wheel John Deere drag almost new one John Deere bottom tractor plow and a Ford touring car in youth condition. Maplesota flare car tusk received and Peed price details.
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