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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1931
Page
3
Palo Alto County club members sold 23 baby beeves at the Clay County Fair auction. The 23 calves averaged 9.60 per hundredweight and 961 pounds, with John Canham’s Angus calf leading at 10.25 per cwt and first in its class. Total receipts for the group reached 1926.00.
The Painted Desert showcases the Old West romance of pioneers and the plains. Filmed in Dinosaur Canyon on Arizona’s Indian Reservation, it features mule team hazards, a five hundred steer stampede, and a mine blast that flattens a mountain.
The following business men make the 10c and 20c prices possible. Wolf's Cafe George Frick C. A. Jensen Henderson Furniture Co. Osher's Dept. Steve Thompson's Grocery Charley Jensen Baumgartner's Farmer's Supply Co. Graettinger Times Wilbur Price First National Bank Dr. Dappen A. G. Barber.
Palo Alto County youths led the 4 H club show at the Clay County fair securing top honors. John Canham of Feedom township won first in a 61 calf Angus class and earned reserve grand champion over all baby beef. Merritt Giffin of Independence township entered two Holstein dairy calves, with the second year heifer crowned Palo Alto club’s champion Holstein calf and later claimed the same title at Spencer. Nearly 300 baby beeves represented eight counties in the district show.
The Iowa State Department of Health notes that diseases of the heart, blood vessels, and kidneys now top death lists, overtaking tuberculosis. Epidemics are controlled by authorities, but cardiac disease is influenced by individual actions. Early heart disease signs can be detected with care and often arrested, though stroke may be the first indication in some cases.
Town council approves various payments including Charley Jensen supplies 22.98 Iowa Public Service Co power for September 18.32 State of Iowa water testing 1.00 Henderson Furniture Co supplies 10.50 Wisconsin Lumber Co material 87.68 James Wolfe labor 0.90 P J McCarty clerk salary postage 52.00 P J McCarty town clerk and others such as Ray Glazier meals for firemen 1.65 and John Paulsen night watch September 5.00 M O Grodland liquor license refund 37.50 plus street light and street work costs and other minor entries recorded for the period.
An old advertisement claims Adlerika cures indigestion and gas by cleansing both upper and lower bowels. It features user Henry Dodd who reports relief and better sleep. The ad emphasizes a German doctor’s remedy marketed by Frick Drug Store and urges readers to try Adlerika today.
Sheriff W. G. Gordon of Emmet County was shot through the abdomen during a midnight visit to the Otto Buysman pool hall and confectionery in Grover. Deputy Merrit Brown was outside and six witnesses are being held as material witnesses while a suspect remains at large. Gordon is recovering at Coleman hospital and officials fear complications.
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