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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1914
Page
5
Was at Ruthven M Grodland the Graettinger auctioneer was over Saturday advertising the Labor Day celebration. Grodland is a good booster for his town and did advertising work through the country the two weeks proceeding Labor Day. Free Press and Appeal.
Minnesota corn now matures in 104 days down from 120 days six years ago. Experts predict a hardy variety could reach 90 days in coming years. Yield rose to 125,000,000 bushels this year, up 25 percent, with forecasts of production near 0?000,000 bushels in the state.
Chas Duhigg is constructing a barn and hog house on the Sadderns farm and a barn on the Bradford place. He has rented his southeast adjoining section to Fred Work. D A Link, who has farmed there recently, will move to his own farm north of Swea City.
A department specialist urges farmers to select seed corn in autumn when seed is most abundant and vigorous. Waiting until spring reduces vitality, so choosing seed in autumn is advised to ensure a profitable crop for the next season.
Louis Anderson and his bride arrived from Chicago on Wednesday to the local station and visited the groom’s parents Mr and Mrs Hans Anderson before settling at their home. They plan to move to a farm next spring and will reside here for the time being.
A county editor replies to a reader asking next month’s weather with a cheeky line that it will resemble the reader’s subscription. The inquirer later revisits, puzzling over the word unsettled before settling accounts.
A fragment reports the Champion editor and his wife taking a short trip north to Armstrong where Ted Tierney runs the county’s only great newspaper. An auto office inquiry notes Tierney’s arrival soon, described with overcoats and a shotgun in his camp on a subscriber dispute, amid a murky scene with no show of men or plans.
The screen door at a restaurant was torn away and intruders entered through a back window leaving muddy footprints. Five dollars in cash were stolen from the till after the no charge key was pressed while ice cream and fruit were sampled. Bert Miller's barber shop also shows tampering but no money was taken. The rear window was forced in.
The Des Moines Tribune cites Mr. Hamilton of Cedar Rapids as the archetype of a no electrolier figure in a campaign. It notes he opposes new proposals to enlarge or improve, valuing daylight business and sagacity. The piece imagines choosing such a governor amid Iowa’s rising activity and wartime leadership.
Prof W J Kennedy of Ames, a state fair horse show judge, said hog cholera losses are down in the corn belt during 1914. Serum demand is high, now produced under government supervision in Iowa with ample supply. Price cut from 214 to 1½ cents per cubic centimeter. Treatment costs about 50 cents per head, with single and double serum plans yielding improved results.
A humorous old pamphlet claims 31 rules for simplifying spelling, each more amusing than the last. The narrator notes a Linotype operator fretting at such reforms, fearing it would derail his work and give him the “willies” at the typesetting job.
John Tingstrom a Boone township pioneer farmer died last Friday in a runaway wagon accident near Thrall. He rode the lumber wagon while the cement wagon followed. the team with cement crashed into him as the lumber wagon overturned near the Northwestern railroad tracks. Witnesses from a approaching freight train aided his fatal injuries. The Humboldt Reporter notes his death.
The Gravel Pit school opened on Tuesday September 8 with Marie Christensen as teacher and nineteen pupils enrolled. Several local families and students, including Estherville connections, were noted visiting or attending events and others headed to fairs in Minnesota and North Dakota.
North Vernon notes record residents leaving for home and travel plans. Misa Clara Sandall returned to Story City after visiting during the Labor Day Picnic. George Henderson of Raleigh Ta and others departed after visiting friends and relatives, with several names and fragments indicating illness and social visits.
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