Supervisors Plan Gravel Highway To Emmetsburg Day Meet October 28
Supervisors announce road work from Emmetsburg north to the old town site and toward Ruthven with gravelling from Emmetsburg to Graettinger and Whittemore next year. Contracts let at 46¢ and 29¢ per yard with additions for half mile units. Travel will be possible during gravelling. more roads planned for winter. Corn pickers scarce as local farmers face variable wages from 4 to 9 cents per bushel amid downed corn north and east of Graettinger.
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Emmetsburg
Ruthven
Graettinger
Whittemore
W. D. Donovan
Dan Kelly
L. D. Rankin
Ayrshire
Washington Corner
Clay County
Foster Reed
Whittemore-Algona
Pocahontas
Timmers ‘Burg Democrat
Gracttinger
Noa Hard Coal In Graettinger
No hard coal has been received in Graettinger so far this season. The anthracite miners are hard at work, however, and they may get a fair supply to us before the severe winter weather sets in.
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Graettinger
What People Read in an Iowa Morning Paper
Frank Miles notes readers on a Des Moines street car fixate on a sensational front page about an Indian woman exposing a paternity dispute. Five readers praise the front page tale, while a sixth remarks voters miss the Cummins-Asch law versus Ship Subsidy bill distinction.
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Frank Miles
Iowa Legionaire
Iowa Morning Daily
Des Moines
Bear Injures Girl at West Bend Park
West Bend park visitors witnessed a bear named Dick grab a Storm Lake child’s arm in a Sunday incident. The arm was badly torn and the child was taken to Algona for medical treatment as doctors were unavailable locally. officials plan to chain or kill the bear.
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Storm Lake
Dear
West Bend Park
Wax
Algona
West End
Emmetsdam Democrat
Storm Luke
Old Dick
Givens
Look Out I Might Fall Four Year Old Boy Falls to Death
Warren Patterson age four clung to a granary ladder on his father’s farm Sunday evening and fell twenty feet to a cement floor, dying. His sister witnessed the accident and a neighbor reported the boy warned, Look out I might fall. Local notices: hog sale at O R Gardner & Son yielded average $30.75 with Otto Larsen buying top hog for $60. Nessen family mourn infant son. funeral held. D N Luse spoke at a Republican meeting in Lost Inland Township Center school. Basket social set at Kelly school Friday October 27 with a prize food tie and Esther Royn as teacher.
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Warren Patterson
Burt
Warren
Yount
D. N. Luge
Lost
D. N. Luse
Emmatsburg
Col. Brookhart
Center School
Tost Island Township
Kelly
Groete Tinger
Esther Royn
Big Day at Emmetsburg For Prize Workers
Emmetsburg to host a county fair day on October 28 featuring pig club entries with 35 pigs from county youth, grain and farm product exhibits, and judged livestock. Prizes include trips to Ames short course, cash amounts, and assorted ribbons. County Agent Freil Clarke urges broad cooperation to boost Emmetsburg’s first competitive judging effort and countywide participation.
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Palo Alto
Pig Club
Emmetsburg
Bureau
Ames
Paulo Alto
State Mall
Town Bulletin On Street Oiling And Lighting Topics
Town State College engineering extension offers free bulletins on surface oiling of streets use of road signs ornamental post lighting and city zoning. A basket social Friday Oct 20 at Center School Twelve Mile Lake wp four miles southwest of Wallingford features Miss Susie Heorke music and dancing.
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Engineering Extension Department of
Town State College
Center School
Twelve Mile Lake
Wallingford
Helke
Susie Heorke
Toricher
Gracttinger Market Reports and Price Drops
Market notes from Gracttinger dated Thursday October 19 1923 show Ford Cary with a $50 price drop and a fast market pace in juices. Others mention corn oats hops and roosters with scattered prices and parties involved in local transactions and a foreign missionary society collecting funds.
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Ford Cary
Tenry
Bush
Ruthven
Foreign Missionary Society
Witblar
Gardner Brothers Buy World Champion Poland China Hogs
O R Gardner returned from Huntie Iowa after attending a Poland China sale. He purchased two of the finest hogs, sired by Ci cott e, the world champion, with Rainbow land Rainbow as the dam of Pathfin ew grand champion. The acquisition, part of a growing Gardner herd, follows a successful sale last Thursday and signals plans for a large future sale.
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O. R. Gardner
Huntie
Iowa
Cicotte
Rainbow
Pathfinew
Messrs. Gardner
Gardner
An Appreciation From Mr and Mrs Jorgen Anderson
A note thanks neighbors and friends for help during construction and for acts of kindness. The Andersons also acknowledge a settlement from Palo Alto County Farmers Mutual Insurance Co amounting to 1900 for buildings and 122 for cattle, hogs and grain. St Marys of Emmemburg defeated Terris High School 89 to 0 in football with even scoring across four quarters.
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Jorgen Anderson
Palo Alto County
St. Mary’s of Emmemburg
Terris
Mrs. Douglas to Speak at Hawk Eye Theatre Friday
Fort Dodge Democrat candidate Mrs. Douglas will address Gradinger citizens at the Hawk Eye Theatre Friday Oct 20 at 8 p m. Several county office candidates will attend and give short talks. a large attendance is anticipated.
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Douglas
Fort Dodge
Graettinger
Tenth District
Grachtinger
Hawkeye Theatre
Basket Social And Dance At Leonard School Friday
A basket social and dance will be held Friday evening October 20 at Leonard School District No 2 one mile west and one mile south of Graettinger. Ladies bring baskets and everyone is welcome. Pearl Masters, teacher.
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Leonard School
Graettinger
Mias Pearl Masters
Sophomores Welcome Freshmen With Ghostly High School Party
At Gractinger High the sophomores staged a campus reception for about seventy five freshmen and teachers. The festivities included games, fortune telling, a ghost story, and a mock wedding with Ray Taylor and a freshman girl. Refreshments featured pumpkin pie a la mode wafers and home brew. Basketball practice notes follow as the team prepares for early season games with two dates removed from the schedule.
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John Reidy
Grachtinger High
Times
Malou
Miss Wells
Iaa Harrington
Ray Taylor
Reno
Haakon Thorson
Arthur Simonsen
Gracttinger High School
Minnesota towns spared by forest blaze in surprise surge
F P Sullivan reports Minnesota towns narrowly escaped destruction as a forest fire swept near communities. Attor ney General Gibson spoke in Des Moines on Tuesday at a Republican rally held at the Hawkeye theatre in Grachtinger with John Go. Jertson presiding. County Attorney Nelstead and J. J. Martin of Ayrshire offered brief remarks. Charley Jensen advertised a 127 pound squash display prize from Helvig seed crops. Ladies Farm Bureau club to meet at Mrs Jullas Show's home south of town Thursday October 26 at 2 pm. all members invited.
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Gibson
Hawkeye Theatre
Grachtinger
John GO. Jertson
Des Moines
Nelstead
J. J. Martin
Ayrshire
Clifford Mayne
Péha
Charley Jensen
John Helvig
West of Town
My. Jensen
Mr. Helvig
Ladies Farm Bureau Club
Farm Bureau Club
Jullas
Pein
Huge Forest Fires Threaten Northern Minnesota Towns
Frank Sullivan of International Falls Lumber reports severe forest fires across northern Minnesota with smoky air and limited breathing space for days. Rain aided firefighters, preventing total devastation to Big Falls and nearby communities. Peter Miller corrects last week’s mistaken report about a hay stack fire and admits an error regarding a single boy seen near the stack.
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Frank Sullivan
International Fails Lumber Company
Minnesota
Big Falls
Times
Peter Miller
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T'O
Bear
Little Girl
Kossuth County
Gardner & Son
O. R. Gardner & Son
Poland
Otto Larsen
Messrs. Gardier
Reeves & Reuter
Reeves
Nesaen Family
John Nessen
Thos. Helgeson Place
Farm Bureau
Ruthven Gertlemen
Choice Porkers
Atlantic
Northwest Town
St. Mary’s
Tervil High
Mrs. Douglas
Times Reporter
F.P. Sullivan
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