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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1913
Page
5
An advertising pitch extols Silver Creek Splint as the clean, high-heat coal for cooking with less stove chore. It claims it won’t stain stoves or pipes and urges men to buy for their wives’ happiness. Mentions West Virginia Split and Kentucky coals as heating options and promises plenty of hard coal.
Grandma Kent remains in poor health after a stroke on October 15 with little chance of recovery. Local work crews laid hog house foundations on the Moser and Jackson farm, while B F Lillard stores potatoes in a cellar room under Spies Bros. butcher shop. Kansas men arrive to work on farms as Iowa faces corn harvest with 4¢ per bushel picking pay and shrinkage concerns.
Lewis Hauge an out of town visitor at Lost Island. Lewis Peterson builds a porch at his home. Miss Larson returns from Rutley. Mrs. C V Ferguson of Emmetabure visits F Sheffield home. Rev Grevre conducts missionary meetings at Lost Island church. C H Berdin and family shopped at Estherville last week. Lewis Thorson to return from Heron Lake Monday after a successful appendicitis operation.
For sale notice offers a seven room house in a good location with easy terms. Inquire at this office.
For sale a good unimproved forty acre farm located three miles from town on easy terms. Inquiries at this office.
Two houses offered for sale with land blocks. One seven rooms with garage, well cistern and 42 fruit trees located one block from Main Street. Second six rooms two blocks from Main Street with land, cistern and well. Easy terms. Inquire of H. L. Jensen.
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