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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1909
Page
7
Graettinger area residents and visitors are listed with travel notes and community updates. Names include Grier Lara Dggodes Carl Ingvold Mrs Olson and many others visiting, returning from Des Moines and Emmetsburg, plus labor day events and picnic attendance.
Miss Emma Bergum sustained severe injuries after a wagon driven by her group backed off a Carney bridge embankment when a Selz Shop sign frightened the team. She was unconscious for over an hour, later treated by Dr. Anderson and Dr. Nuac, with a broken arm found and internal injuries ruled out. She was moved to her parents in the city and is recovering.
School opened with a parade and order, then classes began Tuesday. Staff listed includes Maurin Pingery principal Elia Bergum assistant principal Emma Ressell grammar Elizabeth Flood intermediate Leng Orcutt primary. Enrollment totals: High 30 Grammar 39 Intermediate 49 Primary 31 total 148. Also noted: Wil Hollenbeck signed with Bt. Lews for next year. A traveler from Larchwood reports a farm sale at 125 per acre, with local land values rising from 20 to 26 per acre in six months.
A Sac City farmer delivered 24 dozen ovens to a Lae merchant, seventeen dozen bad. Inspector Hingnew pursued arrest, fined the farmer five dollars plus costs. In another item, Joasie Greenwood was found dead near Swea City on the Rock Island line after being killed during the night while intoxicated, leaving a wife and two children.
Linet Tuesday a horse driven by Migsea Vira and Ziln Doolittle became frightened by an automobile and ran away near N. A. Miller's residence. Miss Vira's shoulder was badly bruised and Miss Bay had her face badly cut. Basidia was badly bruised. The newspaper notes the accident was not more serious.
A dairy farm near Darthon reports a fatal heat tragedy as twenty nine cattle fattened for Chicago market succumbed to heat. Investigators say extreme temperature caused the herd to collapse while resting in the shade, cattle piled upon each other in the sunlit field.
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