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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1939
Page
2
A travel narrative continues as the party moves from Banning through Phoenix and Miami Arizona into New Mexico and El Paso Texas. The writer notes desert heat, fixed roadways, encounters with locals, and impressions of Juarez Mexico. He describes towns, relatives, and contrasts between northern and southern regions, including climate and living conditions.
Graettinger Public School administrators replaced the forty minute periods with a one hour block across the Junior and Senior High in which three minutes are for supervised study and thirty minutes for recitation. The plan aims to focus study on the current class, with teachers supervising study time and providing individual aid as needed, while streamlining schedules and integrating seventh and eighth grades through four basic subjects taught with combined content. The program, now in its third week, has quickly won approval from teachers and students and seeks greater overall effectiveness.
A school column covers grade activities from first to sixth, notes on new library books and reading topics, and visits by Mrs. Sherman and Washington-based speakers. It documents community events, fairs, birthdays, a surgery absence, and a fire response, with mentions of locals like Anna McMahon, Charlotte, and the Luhman family amid a busy autumn scene.
In a schoolnote style issue the Junior High grades publish literary efforts with seventh graders composing poetry and eighth graders short stories. Ruth Frick is praised for humorous descriptive verse about a dog. Freshmen report a class meeting, sophomores discuss impromptu speeches, juniors elect officers, and seniors elect officers as well. The physics class measures results using the metric system. BAND NEWS notes beginners practice nine times a week under Mr. Buten with two hours per student and plans Wednesday night concerts plus six new pieces.
The article notes a travel unit in music earning songs about bias and travel. It mentions two members bringing an exhibit on music and travel money and outlines a second attempt at attracting members for a 86 1 group.
Unclear text outlines a scrimmage planned for Tuesday between two teams during a delayed practice season. Mentions possible improvement rate and upcoming Thursday night events in September. Specific names, dates, and places are unreadable in the fragment.
A blaze destroyed the house fuel shed and workshop on the Asa Hankey farm, located about one mile northeast of Osgood. Most furniture was saved though upstairs rooms burned. neighbors helped by containing the heat and preventing further loss. Local residents Asa Hankey and family had been visitors at Hastings Emmetsburg earlier in the week.
Notice: Sheriff to sell per court order for Frank Coleman debt to GC A Weeks. Property includes cattle, calves, heads of cattle, and other livestock. Dated September 6, 1939. Local notices mention visits by the Lundgrens, Carl Peterson, and Julius Gramenz, plus town council actions and station service charges.
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