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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1944
Page
4
The Burmese smoke huge all day cigarettes measuring one to two feet long and two inches in diameter. Collier's Weekly notes these oversized sticks are heavy enough to supply a family from morning to night and even used as defensive weapons before noon.
St Thomas once called the Gibraltar of America and home to bay rum industry. Edison held more than 1100 patents at his death. Local notes list a series of socials and visits from Emmetsburg to Kalona and Ammetsbure, with births and congratulations from The Times.
Mrs. Anna Henningsen visits Marmersburg for a few days. Miss Caroline Myhre stays with relatives at Netherville. John Franger and son visit his aunt Mrs. Wm. Boerker in Graettinger. editor Gil Knutson of Emmetsburg was a business caller there. Olen Anderson of Wallingford called on Graettinger. Mrs. R. W. Vasey and daughter Gloria go to Des Moines. Gloria plans to work there. Gus Augustine and family arrive from Burlington to visit relatives. Mrs. J. C. Warner returns from Mallard after a week with Supervisor T. C. Tracy. John Wikert, from Santa Ana, Calif., plans to return west after his mother’s illness and death. Mrs. W. C. Foster and Idetla Fleming attend a football game in Motherville. Jolene Foster, Foster’s granddaughter, leads the 60 piece band at halftime. Jolene is in her senior year. Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Jensen visit with Mrs. Jensen’s mother Mrs. H. N. Osher and with Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Henningsen on Mrs. Osher’s 71st birthday. The Times extends congratulations.
Eleven banks in Palo Alto and Emmet County will suspend operations Saturday November 11 for Armistice Day. The legal holiday prompts full-day closures for customer service and banking duties.
Market notes list corn oats soybeans and livestock prices from Graettinger on November 2 1944. Listings include butter leghorn chicks hogs and roosters with prices per unit and references to various local sellers and farms offering hay mills elevators typewriters and real estate. Several sale and rental listings appear from Adolph Spies J J Skow H A Elsenbast Sam Watson Martin Norris Henry Whitford Olen Anderko n Wallingford Ruthven and others.
A collage of short notices including SPINET piano for sale, Berkshire boars offered, stray pig claim, furniture and paper box listings, livestock feeds from Marleys, thanks notes for fire department aid and funeral sympathy, community gratitude, and a historical note on Seminole leader Sam Jones plus an Albanian bride market feature.
The text defines Stardust as coumla dust a fine meteoric particle constantly falling from space onto Earth. It mentions meteorite derived matter and implies a celestial origin for the dust accumulating on the planet.
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