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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1915
Page
3
A collage of stray quotes and anecdotes on politics crime and local life. Topics include temperance talk linked to Harding, Mexican banditry, mosquitoes as electricity carriers, a method to exterminate them with bichloride, Clay County road gravel bargain with farmers, a Cherokee preacher joked about, and local editorials on education and cartoons.
In a critical column T R argues Harding uses the road question to gain farmer votes while backing special paving districts that shift costs to farmers. The piece contrasts Iowa bankers and lawmakers backing county bonds with Harding’s favored local assessments and notes Iowa lags in road paving compared to Wisconsin and Illinois.
A St. Joseph, Missouri man, cited as a "model young husband" in a divorce case, recounts eight years of exemplary domestic behavior. He saved $600 before marriage, raised four children, provided nightly care for infants, did house chores, walked two miles to work, and supported wife on a fixed allowance, while maintaining almost perfect office attendance and a single weakness baseball.
County seat reports paint a dim view of the Orleans fish hatchery. Visitors find the grounds uneven and unfinished, with grassy overgrowth and ill kept cages. Workers trim weeds, but coops and pens look neglected, dampening expectations for the new grounds.
Mae Rann Dann a sixth grade teacher at Clarion public schools was found dead at County Superintendent M. L. Howell's home where she roomed. She hanged herself with neckties, the chair placed under the door knob. She had been ill and nervous, missing school the previous afternoon. age about 40, daughter of Mr and Mrs George Dann of Eagle Grove.
The obituary notes her first term as a teacher in Clarion and previous positions at Eagle Grove and Chicago. She was regarded as one of the finest ladies of her home town.
The report describes a condemned man in Jackson County who was to be executed at the old courthouse scaffold. Prisoners were moved to Fairmont, and Deputy Sheriff Dunn was to act as hangman until the board of pardons commuted Dunn’s sentence to life imprisonment at Stillwater.
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