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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1916
Page
6
The Ames Short Course and Farmers Week runs January 29 to February 8 at Iowa State College. It offers free instruction across agriculture engineering home economics with hundreds of lectures demonstrations and conferences daily. Thousands are expected with lectures, banquets, and ample housing and meals available on campus.
Lost Island residents visit friends and relatives across townships and towns. Names include Mr and Mrs Miles and family, Mr and Mrs Oscar Duca, Sam Roseland, Tom Thorson, Carl Holte, Nes Matson hauling grain, Florence Berdin visiting, board of supervisors visiting Lost Island township, Jos Nyborg and sister at Ruthven, Lewis Sandvig shelling corn, Martin Simonson entertaining Milo Housner and Lorene Sheffield, Sam Sandvig family visiting Emmetsburg, Mrs Sheffield at Holte home, Miss Bueleh Sandvig recovering, Miss Emma Johnson on vacation visiting Lars Johnson, Mrs Lewis Thorson visiting Andrew Lande, Miss Mable Hauge visiting uncle Henry.
Mrs. C O Ressell called at the J C Olson home Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Harry Hansen and the latter's sisters were Estherville callers Saturday. Roy Young recovering after city hospital operation in Estherville. Mr and Mrs L A Larson were at Estherville Saturday. Mrs Ole Olson and Blanche called on the Nels Johnson home Monday. Several from here attended the Fell sale Monday. Teachers from this vicinity attended Teachers' meeting Saturday. Mr and Mrs O Q Ressell and Olga spent Sunday at Rustads. Betten Ressell came home from Jewell to spend Thanksgiving at home.
Mrs Henry Lammers is improving slowly. Mr and Mrs Glen Shaver spent Sunday at the Fred Luhman home. The oyster supper and dance at Will Herke s was well attended. Miss Emma Luhman left Monday for Vinton and Iowa Falls to visit relatives. Miss Lucy Lammers returned home Thursday from Ayrshire where she visited Mrs Fred Stoltie. Mr and Mrs Jake Wildman spent Sunday with Henry Lammers.
Sad news from Wallingford as Robi Levell and a second man die in a cave‑in while working in a sewer ditch near Estherville. Rob Levell is brother to Chas Frank and Fred Levell and Mors Cushing. Funeral for Levell held in Estherville. Other items note a baby boy born Nov 22 to Mr and Mrs Henry Grodland, visits by H G Quammen, and local residents visiting, plus updates on health and errands of area families.
The Busy Bees meet at Miss Margaret George's home this Saturday. The Lutheran Ladies Aid meets at Mrs. Chris Jensen's home on Wednesday December 6 with a cordial invitation. The Danish Ladies Aid of Graettinger holds a bazaar in the opera house basement Saturday December 9 with lunch and sales throughout the day and evening.
W W Ettleman of Sidney extracted 4000 pounds of honey from one bee colony. A 468 acre tract near Waverly sold for 97200 dollars. Fires threaten north and west with a major blaze near Bellevue Iowa. Miss Cora Skinner of Logan, 23, claims she is Iowa’s champion woman corn husker after crimping 96 bushels in one day. A man’s body was found in a Davenport rooming house with a bloody razor left on the dresser. A Shenandoah man faces an opening through May 1 as part of a local matter.
In Iowa State news Elmer Wilbur of Shenandoah patents an electric typewriter while Northern universities report 146000 volumes in a state library. B Lazareetti fined in Minnesota for infractions as road and school reforms appear. Cornell students donate 2140 dollars for prison relief work in Europe. a local election asks the metropolitan public to vote tomorrow as citizens plan meetings.
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