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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1898
Page
5
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Funeral attracted 1500 in Ft Dodge as Corporal Jatin Webb Rifenbary, a Hispano American War veteran, was honored by veterans, militia, and townsfolk. Rev Cochran and Dolliver delivered tributes, with Woodmen announcing Friday pictics. community crowd. residence on Second Avenue South.
A fragmented column records Monday travel for Mr. Welsh to Sistherville and J. W. Joyce resuming cashier duties after vacation. Others visit Twelve Mile Lake, Spirit Lake, and Emmetsburg while townsfolk attend a Good Tem plars meeting and a figure expert estimates farm work distances for forty acres of corn. The piece also notes a chicken industry fact and stray editorial-like musing about education and rural life.
Readable fragments describe summer activity, building updates, stockkeeping, and a robbery near a town street. Mentions include a farm purchase, a new sidewalk, a dormitory, and a boy struck by a vehicle or object. Details are incomplete and names are unclear due to OCR.
In Graettinger the 1st Annual Road Race was run in extreme heat with 17 entrants in the handicap event and 44 starters overall. The ten and a half mile course from Graettinger to Os goods yielded Hans Jensen of Graettinger as the winner with a time of 31 minutes 34 seconds.
B N Meredith sells oil meal at low prices while town booms. Livermore Gapotte notes 10 acres near that place sold at 132 dollars per acre. Jas A Cox, architect of Matherville, in town drafting plans for a brick hospital. Plans submitted for Estherville hospital. The 52nd Iowa Regiment mustered out by McKinley. J W Doyen plans 100 acres southeast of the Catholic church for 75 residence blocks with monthly payments. Aims to create a substantial addition to Hminotseburg.
A misread ad notice describes how Siblay Herdid of Allendarft posted an advertisement in the twin city papers seeking a housekeeper. Mrs Mabel Galloway, a widowed resident of Minnaa por Ma, replied, leading to a formal agreement. The parties Bibley Clark McCullum and others responded, with a joint arrangement concluded last Saturday and a house married pair involved.
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