Local Notes and Student Elections in Gratingtes Iowa 1931
Graettinges Iowa September 15 1931 reports student government elections with names for senior junior and freshman offices and a record enrollment of 327 with 126 high school students and 201 grade students. Also notes football schedule and local incidents including a boy's accidental death in Ringsted kidnapping near Swea City and a price comparison feature from Fenton and Algona merchants along with tax notice updates in West Bend areas.
Why Not Work in Gral t Tinger
A letter questions President Roosevelt on Graettinger neglect and proposes CCC projects in the town. It argues for machine labor where profitable and free labor for painting and repairs, funded by government, state, and county, to stimulate recovery and paint materials demand. Miss Bertha Grady spent Monday with friends at Emmeteburg.
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Gralttinger
Roosevelt
Graettinger
CCC
Worth
Bree Aon
Eac
Ploebe
Graetz
Bertha Grady
Emmeteburg
The Secret of Power Meant The Secret of Poker
A humorous column notes grandma's curiosity finally satisfied after forty years. Inflation is joked to burst a tire. Short skirts warned for slim ladies and their husbands. A nearby editor moves his press, and Mrs Catt’s popularity is lampooned. A minister’s sermon topic becomes The Secret of Poker due to a typesetting error.
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Hag
Ear of corn hoax exposed as baked play in museum tale
Local papers report on a famed ear of corn touted by the Smithsonian as the world's oldest, later revealed as a cleverly molded baked piece. Also noted are visits by Spencer travelers, a stolen car recovered, a man arrested for assault, and notes from Emmetsburg, Graettinger, and West Bend about community events, a hospital transfer, and a new teacher hire while the high school enrollment grows.
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Smithsonian Institute
Peru
Ayrshire Chronicle
Classified Ads for Sale and Help Wanted
FOR SALE Cabbage can fill all orders A H Mills Gracttinger FOR SALE Holstein cows and helfers Farmers Supply Co WANTED General house work Write Dorothy Stevens Gracttinger Furniture Repairing See Ted Leduc in Furniture Repair Shop FOR SALE New and service batteries left from stock standard brands at a price to sell A C Christiansen ESTRAY Hereford calves Jost, strayed or stolen from Milwaukee stock yards Emmetsburg night of Rept 4th and Sth Reward for the formation H L Thompson FP D Gracttinger dx
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Standard Branda
A. C. Christiansen
Milwaukee
Emmetsburg
H. L. Thompson
Gracttinger
1400 Sheep To Ruthven Shipments Incur Feed Plans
1 400 sheep from the western states were shipped into the Ruthven vicinity last week and are expected to be fed under local contracts. The Ruthven press notes there were 1 400 sheep in the shipment. Married At Swea City LeVerna Songren owner of a Curlew grocery and Miss Aline F Trow of Curlew wed at the Baptist parsonage in Swea City. Brench Bank For Mallard Mallard branch of Central Savings Bank opened for business this week with A H Stell named manager in the old Mallard Trust and Savings Bank building. They Forgot To Pay The Printer The printer’s bill is paid but subscriptions and rent left unsettled as critics speak of corn show money and delayed payments. Overhead Pass Is Delayed Plans to build an overhead bridge across the Milwaukee railroad on Highway 18 between Emmetsburg and Ruthven are not among this year’s state highway projects. The drought region could receive priority funds. Kogsuth Farm Selle For 120 Per Acre A highly improved farm near Sexton was sold to Chris Jensen at about $120 per acre. The Murtha 189 acre farm west of Algona on Highway 18 moved from Northwestern Mutual Life to Jensen who plans to take possession in March.
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Ruthven
Ruthven Ree Press
Brench Bank
Mallard
Central Savings Bank
A. H. Stell
Mallard Trust
And
Savings Bank
Emmetsburg
Milwaukee Railroad
Emmatsburg
State Highway Commission
Weat Bend
Kogsuth
Kogsuth County
D. L. McDonald
Chris Jensen
Sexton
Murtha 189
Al‘ona
Jensen
Mareh Ist
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co
Milwaukee
Wis
Algona Upper de Moines-Republican
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Graettinges
Iowa
Marie Doyles
Kortih Jensen
Harry Fink
Florence, Conway
Robert Dapbon
Evelyn Elsenbast
Sophomora
Wikert
Norman
WAH
Fostball
Eninetsburg Oat Ame
Atril
Milford
Gilmore City
Ocheyedan
Swea City
H. Harrold
Peterson
Clay Counyp
Owax
LeMare
Aorta
Fenton
Algona
Algona Furniture
Cap Nelson
Kimmeraburg
Dr. Nelson
Ayrshire
de Ensen Auto Co
Leedt
Grandma
Spencer
Mra
Jaynea Bunda
W. A. Beager
Fort Dodge
Miller Laman
Harvey Reese
Booth Township
Farmnee
Iowa City
Reese
Graecttinger
Rex Moore
G. A. Grow
Nona
Hos Way
Misa Louise
Ed Hodge
Lewla Grady
Grasttinger
Weat Bend Adda
Supt
Cilsa
West Bend Journal
A. H. Mills, Gracttinger
Dorothy Stevens
Ted Leduc
Oliver Tractor
P. L. Johnson
Farmers Supply Co
Farrow
Carl T
Erslefp Welding
Wallingford, Town
Loveall Hotel & Cafe
Meala
R. H. Loveall
Shiley
Pere Simonsen Meat Market
Dappen Eterinarian Variabens
Graettinger, Iowa
J.P. McManus
M. D
Lewison
Lewison Furniture
Th. T. Naar
An Dawsky
Physi Oftlee Heute
Olen 13
Favor Bon
Graetfinger
Bantaman
Bhof Ladiea
Price Hotel & Cafe
Hentleman Bros
Ai-J. Duhn
Swen City
LeVerna
Songren
Curlew
Misa Aline F. Trow
Baptist Parsonage
Herald
Iso
Electric Company
Iowa Public Service CO
Zitterick Farm
Hampshires
Hayes
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