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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1914
Page
3
In Graettinger Iowa editor J B S Merriman notes subscription rates and post office status while flagging rising costs from gasoline and hides. He references Rockefeller generosity for European war orphans and comments on rural delivery contracts and Democratic fiscal policy with local store chatter about market days and noncompetitive dealers.
A lengthy critique argues government stamping and monopoly practices harm local printers and publishers. It cites envelopes, postal messages, and fire insurance as targets, noting big firms profit while home shops lose wages and business. The piece compares this to broader “square deal” concerns and urges abolition of the monopoly to keep printing local and fair. It also reports a stray local incident about a horse left overnight and a note on railroad gift shipments to orphans after the European war.
The author notes box alder bugs invade dooryards when frost delays. Usually scarce, they flourish when winter freezes fail to arrive on schedule. They are beautiful yet numerous, likening the nuisance to endless insects if Iowa residents move to warmer states.
The gentleman forger Emery Salyards linked to a Des Moines office and the Leslie Judge company forged a Des Moines bank instrument. He fled to Denver after passes in Tacoma and a $5000 check. Detected by Des Moines, he was sent to Washington state prison for up to twenty years. Born in Lake Park, he once clerked in Reinbeck and married Gladys Bogart of Reinbeck.
Leslie Dietz son of John E. Dietz known as the outlaw of Cameron dam gathered millions of signatures to a petition pleading for his father's pardon from President Wilson. After an 11,000 mile trek and visits to every state, Dietz crossed from Jersey City to New York in one night ending a twenty two month journey. He seeks clemency for the life convict held at Waupun prison in Wisconsin for murder while presenting himself as a determined, soft spoken 40 year old with a tramplike appearance but steadfast nerve.
Dietz, surviving family tragedy after 1909 attack, walked 11,000 miles seeking a pardon for his father John Dietz who was jailed for life in 1910. He mailed a petition to President Wilson from a post office, stating he found work when funds ran out and that the land dispute stemmed from lumber barons. He carries letters to Washington from congressmen and governors, vowing to continue the trek until an official grant is received.
The Undertaker will conduct his bodies to the cemetery in an auto hearse built on a Buick chassis with a four horsepower engine. Northwestern Casket Company of Minneapolis designed it. The vehicle will run from one and one half to twenty miles. The undertaker plans to drive it to Minneapolis when completed, avoiding rail freight of about $65. Estimated cost near $3,000.
The first acre of corn in the $1,300 Blackhawk County contest, billed as the greatest event of its kind in America, has just been husked.
The article notes a corn yield of 93.7 rushely and claims it will be surpassed by others in the county. Delores A. Ge Largan, near Gerla Walls, scored top in a corn show linked to the Waterton Dairy Congress. Fire marshal Zimmerraag had a colored man detained for questioning over fires. after cross examination the man was released for lack of evidence.
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