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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1919
Page
10
A patchwork of 1920s Iowa clippings reports price shifts for potatoes and lumber, a $100 tobacco fine, a $200 reward for automobile thieves, and a missing Homecoming event. Notes on editor spills, building material rises, and a Chicago wedding anchor the locally flavored summary.
A compilation of brief items across multiple papers notes a large fish on display at Baker’s near the M. and St. L. rail line drawing attention, along with varied civic notices. Reports cover school lunch service and staff, kite safety near high tension lines, and car sales in Fort Dodge area with Overland Fours.
Sheriff Moulds of Algona praised for tracing and recovering the stolen Jacobs auto. He aided in exposing a large gang of thieves active across Iowa, with much loot recovered at Perry and several gang members captured. More arrests expected soon. Estherville dairymen quit due to milk shortage.
In Satherville Vindicator an editor rails at Pierce of Des Moines and allies opposing statewide road improvements. The piece denounces their actions as devilish and claims they defeated prepared road proposals in several counties, hindering progress.
Ringsted Dispatch reports farmers along the Malta to Maple Hill road petitioned supervisors to grave this stretch as part of the secondary road system. The Estherville Democrat notes the hold up case with Sheriff Nivison and a bankrobbery gang being identified in Uint city. Ayrshire Chronicle covers a Milwaukee railroad crossing accident near Dickens killing Wade Harris and Elmer Eye. Fenton Reporter notes cooperative stock shipping growth in the Middle West and Minnesota’s leading role. Spirit Lake residents plan pave their streets. Buffalo Center fundraisers create a club room for veterans with a public banquet and button sale.
The Emmet County Marin Bureau plans a drive for new members on October 27. John G. Smith is appointed Estherville city clerk, succeeding Alex Johnston who resigned to join Oransky. Local notes cover a war wives group forming the American Leionettes, beets said to aid influenza, a recent frost history, and rising bank interest rate expectations amid loan shifts.
Residents report visits and family gatherings across Emmetsburg Estherville and nearby towns. Mrs Bosold and daughter Milas visiting relatives. Ida Lee of Estherville stayed with local friends. Floyd Fleming hosted Emmetsburg friends. Father Kelly joined forty hour devotionals at Whittemore. Ames College enrollment 3700 with 1200 veterans.
A fragmentary class ad page lists items for sale including a mare and colt stock, cabbage, hay, cattle, two-year-olds and Jersey boars. Lost items include glasses with a name Nina Olson. Contacts and dates appear scattered across notices from local residents and farms in Gractinger area.
Several Chester White boars from old stock offered for private sale. Stra weighs about 600 pounds. If unsold, they will be offered at Market Day sale in Graettinger by Henry Schmit, west of Graettinger.
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