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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1923
Page
3
A poem extols Iowa as the best land and corn state, urging honesty in conviction that Iowa is the banner corn state. It lauds broad fields, unchanging landscapes, and ends with a sales note from C E B Howard, a salesman.
An advertisement for a pig worm expeller product claims an oil and powder treatment that guarantees expulsion of worms with an individual dose per pig. The copy offers a two ounce dose with a first order incentive and cites Liberty Oil Co. Des Moines Iowa representatives Bartel Geil Chris Christiansen Louis.
Church notes list multiple June events at South Walnut and neighboring churches. Included are Sunday School at 10:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. English services, a Young Peoples meeting, confirmation class, American Ladies Aid meetings, mission meetings, and Bible study. The Methodist notes mention sermons on The Supreme Purpose and Christian Brotherhood and a Wednesday Bible study.
Sunday service in Lost Island at 10 30 a m and in Graettinger at 3 p m both in Norwegian. Sunday school and Bible class at 9 30 a m and Luther League with one program and Bible reading at 8 p m in Graettinger. Special meeting with Sunday school in the schoolhouse by Ole Wicks about 6 p m. Rev S O Sande, Pastor.
Victory notes maturing May 20th stopped bearing interest. Holders urged to exchange at once for U S S Treasury Savings Certificates to earn interest for five more years. Denominations 25, 100, 1000. Registered in one or two names, payable to survivor. Can be cashed anytime before maturity. Obtain exchange details at the post office.
E J Meinhardt the truss expert from Chicago will be at the Gardston Hotel Estherville Ia on Friday June 8 for demonstrations from 10 a m to 4 p m The Vacuum Shield promises rapid rupture closure with no surgery and cautions against old style understrapped devices The visit is single day only and targets large post operative cases seeking relief without prescriptions or injections
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