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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1925
Page
13
A Graettinger Times item notes an auto accident in which a driver sustained a broken arm believed caused by a mosquito bite. The column spares no detail on social mores, fashion, and modern life insights, reflecting the era’s ironies and daily concerns.
Hardin county farmer Wm Eckles near Eldora shows via four years of cow testing that pure bred Holstein sires raise daughters with far higher butterfat than their Shorthorn Hereford beef dams. Dams with fat records around 198 to 304 pounds produced half-blood Holstein daughters yielding 408 to 840.7 pounds fat. feeding and management also contribute, but sire influence is key.
A round of social visits and small-town events fills the week. Albert Thuman travels to Rochelle for a relative’s funeral while Mrs. Eaton stays guests at Ed Murphy’s Estherville home. Father McNerney visits Emmetsburg and Kelly’s place. T. W. Milles spends Sunday at P. J. and D. B. McCarty homes in Fort Dodge and Bert Anderson with two children visit Estherville. Jordan Erickson visits from his uncle in Sioux Falls. Mildred Mahank stays with Mrs. George Jenkins in Denison. Gleaners set next meeting at Elmer Olson’s on Tuesday October 6. Larsen and Petersen attend Sioux City live stock fair reporting a large crowd. Margaret O Connor hosts Afternoon Card club with Five Hundred and lunch. Roy Young returns from Town City for eye treatment with more to come. vision improving. Mrs. Robert Schooley and two children visit from St Louis. husband in Los Angeles with Pinkerton. A disputed agreement exists between principle and practice as polar as North and South. A man is jailed for hurling an alarm clock through a fireman’s window.
Free Methodist Church notes announce revival meetings in Ruthven Iowa led by Rev E Ballenger and wife with services nightly at 8 and two on Sundays. Meetings run until October 18 with Sunday School at 10 and no morning worship. Evening service begins October 11 a half hour earlier. Bible study Thursday at Jess Weming home on St John chapter two. social night with Women’s Home Missionary Society Friday at 8 with Mrs Ps J Paulsen hosting.
The Danish United Lutheran church announces a span of services next week at South Walnut and Graettinger churches. Danish and English services alternate through Friday to Sunday, with a Friday dedication, a new minister ordained on Sunday morning, and installation in the afternoon, featuring church officials.
Bert Montgomery spent Sunday with his parents in this city. Miss Myrtle Allen traveled to Emmetsburg Wednesday forenoon. Mrs. J. L. Johnson attended a funeral in Roseville Illinois Sunday evening. Louis Knutson has recovered from rheumatism and pleurisy. Stephen Hester returned from Bigelow Minnesota and plans to farm next year. Royal Neighbor lodge card party with Five Hundred and lunch at Woodman hall. G C Love visited Grover neighborhood. Mrs John Howard attended Estherville style show. Alma McCarty and Kathryn Hagerty returned from Fort Dodge. Maria Jaesbaen from Starkweather ND, after threshing work. Mrs EF Green held a suction sale. mission services at Norwegian Lutheran church with a Sunday noon banquet. John Clemmensen back from Starkweather with a successful threshing season and record pace.
Listings include a five month old calf for sale by Mrs J A Zitterick. Holstein cows for sale from C J Lande near Terril with a farm eight miles west of Graettinger. a residence for rent near Rock Island depot. a formal notice of appointment of executor Peter G Paterson for Andrew Peterson estate in Palo Alto County dated September 14 1925. Maple sugar flour feed and grain sale notices from Farmers Grain Co and Parmers Grain Co. a three year old breeding bull with progeny from Ludvig Larsen & Son Wallingford Iowa. and Spotted Poland China hogs for sale by C I Skattebo Wallingford Iowa dated 9 17 346x.
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