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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1909
Page
4
Our Special Correspondent reports on social calls and travel among Essen Zatechka Harvey and Leech families. Residents return from Marshalltown and Montour while school terms begin and roads slow mail delivery and horse handling due to bad weather.
Special correspondent Jacob Cole reports Dunbar residents hunting rabbits with mixed luck. Olson and Roseland individuals appear in town and at Marshalltown. Local civic updates include a school superintendent visit, a telephone company annual meeting, and a postmaster purchasing Johnston’s merchandise.
The town touts a mammoth ear grown by A L Plummer nine miles east of Des Moines. The ear measures nineteen inches long eleven and a half inches in circumference weighs about four pounds and was forced with water and pollen from the plant. Des Moines area growers issue a challenge to duplicate the feat.
A special correspondent reports residents and visitors in Marion Township. Harvey was a Marshalltown caller last Tuesday. Art Brock hauled hogs to Marshalltown Monday. John Shelton of Marshalltown dined with his son Ben Shelton Monday. Volace Asher of Fort Pierre Dakota visits his sister Mrs Will Dougherty. Mr and Mrs Weaver of Toledo visit their daughter Mrs Ed Wayhardé for a few days.
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