Bible School Themes Outlined by First Congregational Church
Rev. Edwin J. Arnold announced Vacation Church School themes for each department. The kindergarten unit God and His World includes farm tours, nature treasure items, churning, and lemonade. Primary studies The Earth Is Full of His Riches feature pottery, farm tours, and Alaskan Indian articles. Junior work and worship center on construction site tours, daily dramatic projects, and Indian outreach in Minneapolis and St Paul. The Congo Grocery simulates a store with daily fundraising for Indian work.
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First Congregational Church
Edwin J. Arnold
God
Don Torgerson Farm
Norma
Carl Kehrer
Ann Elizabeth Taylor
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Congo
United Church Committee
Baby Sitter Falls Injures Back in Sunday Incident
Carol Hansen eighteen of 1609 16th Street Southwest is in satisfactory condition at St Olaf Hospital after a fall on steps while babysitting at a home early Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Hansen
16Th St. SW
St. Olaf Hospital
Austin to Bid State Eagles 1960 Convention
Austin will formally invite the Minnesota Eagles to hold their 1960 convention. Mayor Baldy Hansen and several aldermen attend the League of Minnesota Municipalities meeting in International Falls, then Hansen flies to East Grand Forks to outline benefits of hosting in Austin and make a formal bid for citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota Eagles
Austin
Baldy Hansen
League of Minnesota
International Falls
Hansen
East Grand Forks
Eagles
Butman Speaks on Livestock Care at Ram sey 4H Meeting
Dr L J Butman spoke on livestock care when the Ram sey 4H Club met Thursday at the Gus Wendorf home. Jim Blahnik demonstrated simple camp equipment. Plans were completed for a July 9 tour. Mrs Wendorf and Mrs Edna Stern served lunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. J. Butman
Gus Wendorf
Jim Blahnik
Wendorf
Edna Stern
Twenty six Austin Jehovah’s Witnesses to attend Des Moines convention
Twenty six members of the Austin Congregation Jehovahs Witnesses will attend a four day convention at the Iowa State Fairgrounds Des Moines June 25 28. Edwin B Perkins presiding minister will head the delegation and about 12000 are expected. The purpose is to provide additional Bible instruction and apply principles in daily life with the theme Awake Ministers. Morning afternoon and evening sessions will include Bible talks discussions and practical demonstrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Jehovah's Witnesses
Iowa State Fairgrounds
Des Moines
Edwin B. Perkins
Presiding
Minster
Perkins
Rev Foster to Enroll at State U in Minnesota Conference
The Rev William F Foster, pastor of the Dexter Brownsdale parish for three years, was assigned to Ashton Sunday during Minnesota Methodist Conference sessions at Hamline University. He will serve near St Paul while studying rural theology at the University of Minnesota. His background includes Cornell College and Boston University Seminary. he led the Southeast District Town and Country Commission and studied church buildings in Minnesota. New appointments take effect July 1 with other area pastors unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Foster
Dexter-Brownsdale
Aston
Hamline University
St. Paul
Harold Hawkins
Wykoff
Austin Fellowship Church
William J. Campbell
First Church
Immanuel Nielsen
Elsie Hartmann
Lansing-Blooming Prairie
Mary McNichol
Spring Valley
Mrs Fuller Named City Court Clerk
Bernice Fuller, 28, of 204 S. Kenwood, named clerk of Municipal Court effective June 22. Judge Kenneth K. McMillan announced. Fuller succeeds Edna Earl who recently married. Fuller has been a sales clerk at Marvin's for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Fuller
S. Kenwood
Kenneth K. McMillan
Fuller
Edna Earl
Mrs. Fuller
Marvin's
Navy Nurse Lt Ellen Graves Returns From Coast
Serviceman Lt Ellen Glee Graves daughter of Mr and Mrs Galen Graves Riceville arrived Saturday from Oceanside California where she has been stationed with the Navy Nurse Corps. After several weeks visit she will report July 19 at Seattle for a year’s duty in Adak Alaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Glee Graves
Galen Graves
Riceville
Oceanside
Calif
Navy Nurse Corps
Seattle
Adak
Alaska
X Ray Seminar Held at King's Wood Hotel
Dr. Earl A. Rich chaired a 14 hour roentgenology seminar at King's Wood Hotel with attendees from the Minnesota Chiropractic Association Southeast District. He highlighted diagnostic roentgenology using 37 000 X rays on file at Lincoln Chiropractic College. Austin participants included Drs W F Gray P E Morreim A J Schaub A Barret and R Stolola Morreim served as seminar chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl A. Rich
Lincoln Chiropractic College
Indiaapolis
King's Wood Hotel
Minnesota Chiropractic Assn
Rich
Austin
W. F. Gray
P. E. Morreim
A. J. Schaub
A. Barret
R. Stolola
Morreim
Dexter Telephone Co Sells After 50 Years
After five decades of service the Dexter Telephone Co is sold to Marshall County Telephone Co with approval from the State Railroad and Warehouse Commission. William Baucher handled the deal for Dexter as Lewis Larson and Arnold Arntzen led the firm. Sale occurred May 22 with conveyance starting last Friday. Dexter served 39 subscribers. Marshall County operates about 6,000 phones from Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dexter Telephone Co
Lewis Larson
Arnold Arntzen
Marshall County Telephone Co
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
William Baucher
Austin
Dexter Com
Dexter Company
Minneapolis
Two From Here Get Degrees at ISU
Quenten Wilkes son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Wilkes and William Alley son of Mr and Mrs Walter Alley received degrees from Iowa State University Iowa City June 12 Alley earned a BS in commerce Wilkes graduated with honors John C Beran son of Mr and Mrs James Beran was among 21 students receiving the award recommended by deans of various departments He received a $300 agronomy scholarship for 1959 60
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riceville
Iowa
Quenten Wilkes
Ralph Wilkes
William Alley
Walter Alley
Iowa State University
Iowa City
Alley
Wilkes
John C. Beran
James Beran
St Ansgar Board Elects Miss Lavonne Matern
St Ansgar Iowa Miss Lavonne Matern of Thorton has been hired by the School Board as vocational homemaking teacher. She recently received her degree from Iowa State College Ames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Ansgar
Iowa
Capt. Grace Receives Maryland University Degree
Capt. Har ley Grace, son of Roy B. Grace, was among 2,678 graduates receiving degrees June 6 at the University of Maryland in College Park. He and his wife and two children arrived in Riceville from Fontainbleau, France, in May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riceville
Iowa
Harley Grace
Roy B. Grace
University of Maryland
College Park
Mrs. Grace
Fontainbleau
France
Two Austin youths face Louisiana burglary inquiry
Two Austin youths aged 18 were held for investigation in Louisiana after being arraigned in Municipal Court for simple assault stemming from an April 5 brawl that left a Hayfield man hospitalized. Police said the pair were picked up in Louisiana and are being questioned on a burglary charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Asault
Louisiana
Michael O'Hearn
Ron Johnson
Walnut
Austin Acres
Louisana
Albert Lea Woman Charges Assault Case in City Street Incident
An Albert Lea woman accused Arnold Wrolson of simple assault after reporting her blouse ripped off during a street confrontation at Water and Railway. Both appeared to miss municipal court. Wrolson was ordered to appear Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Lea
Arnold $. Wrolson
Water and Railway
Wrolson
Woolson
License holders urged to apply for city licenses
City Recorder John Weiland urged license holders to file renewals this week before the July 1 expiration. About 115 cigarette licenses and a similar number of food licenses are up for renewal and will be acted on by the City Council next Monday. Applications must be filed by Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Weiland
Pearson Explains Grange Program for Local Meeting
William Pearson state master explained the Grange builder program and legislative items at the Lyle Grange gathering held Thursday night at the Harry Lenz home. Four membership applications were read and guests included Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Meister and their son. Meister serves as grange deputy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Pearson
Lyle Grange
Harry Lenz
Pearson
Melvin Meister
Meister
Grange
Five day forecast for Minnesota Iowa and Wisconsin
Minnesota shows near normal to 5 degrees above normal with warm start then cooling north and south midweek. precipitation 0.5 to 1 inch via scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms through Thursday. Iowa: temperatures about 5 degrees above normal with warm start then cooler by Thursday. rainfall 0.5 to 1 inch north and 0.5 inch south in scattered thunderstorms through Thursday. Wisconsin: temperatures about 4 degrees above normal with warming Tuesday and Wednesday. cooler Friday or Saturday. precipitation 0.5 to 1 inch in scattered showers mainly north Tuesday and Wednesday and later in the week statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
First Entertainment Schedule Tonight at Bandshell
The first of a series of performances under the musicians' performance fund will be at the Bandshell at 7:30 tonight featuring Henry Charles' band with rock n roll and old-time numbers. In Riceville Iowa the Rev Herschel Hans and family attend the Free Methodist Camp meeting and conference at Camp Winnebago Minnesota from June 14 to 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Musicians’ Performance Fund
Henry Charles
Riceville
Iowa
Herschel Hans
Camp Winnebago
Minn
Seven vehicle collisions reported to police weekend
Seven crashes were logged over the weekend with drivers tagged in two cases. Incidents occurred at Sterling Shopping Center and Highway 16 E among others, involving parked cars, truck movements, and improper turns, with damages ranging from 35 to 125 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy E. Ginther
Rochester
Ginther
Main
Wirona
Fred C. Requa
S. Main
Roger T. Jennings
Cleveland
Airport Drive
Louis J. Dudycha, Sr
W. Grove
Lyne
Kenwood
Helen J. Shatek
Bauman
Shirley A. Kunze
Shirley Kunze
Pitcock Leaves for Basic Training
William H. Pitcock Jr. leaves Austin to begin Army basic training at Ft Leonard Wood Missouri after enlisting in Austin. He will attend administration school at Ft Benjamin Harrison following basic training. he is a June 4 Austin High School graduate.
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William H. Pitcock Jr
Dolly Mae Pitcock
Main
Ft. Leonard Wood
Austin
Set
Tom Richards
Pitcock
Austin High School
Ft Benjamin Harrison
Emergency Money Bill Being Drafted
An emergency appropriation bill to sustain state government operations for the first quarter of the 1959 fiscal year is being drafted for introduction at the legislature’s 5 p.m. session. The estimate ranges 35 to 45 million dollars for the three month period starting July 1, with no fixed figures in the bill. Rep. William Shovell of St. Paul chairs the House Appropriations Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
William Shovell
House Appropriations Committee
Firemen and Engineers Seek 14 Percent Raise
The 90,000 member Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine-men asked U S railroads for a 14 percent wage increase. H E Gilbert international president said the wage notices were served on individual railroads and the union seeks a revised escalator clause and higher daily earnings guarantees for road service engineers and firemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, Ohio
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
H. E. Gilbert International
Brotherhood
Eisenhower May Take Fight Directly to People
President Eisenhower may campaign directly to the public to push key parts of his legislative program. Republican national chairman Sen Thruston Morton said at the White House the president could appear on television and radio to press for foreign aid and labor legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Thruston B. Morton
Kentucky
White House
Two Minnesotan Delegates Named to Synod Parley
John Lawrenz of Holy Cross Lutheran Church and the Rev Paul Friedrich of Trinity Brownsdale Our Saviour's Lansing St Luke's Churches will serve as delegates to the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod convention in San Francisco June 17 to 27. They join as official visitors and assist in public relations for the Minnesota District. Sessions open June 17 at 10 am with about 2000 delegates and visitors expected from the U S Canada South America and other missions sites. The rally theme Meet Your Synod accompanies a mission pageant on June 21 led by president Dr J W Behnken and the synod counts over 2 000 000 baptized members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lawrenz
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Paul Friedrich
Trinity Lutheran Church
Waltham
Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church
Brownsdale
St. Luke's Lutheran Church
Lansing
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
San Fran
United States
Canada
South America
J. W. Behnken
Synod
Mrs McCue Retires Today From Kinsman Florals After Long Service
Mrs Mabel McCue ends a 200 year tenure as designer and manager at Kinsman’s floral shop. She joined in December 1938 from Des Moines where she led a major floral shop for five years. Her career bridged weddings, funerals, and special occasions serving Austin customers.
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Kinsman's
Mabel McCue
Des Moines
Austin
Peters receives ELC scholarship for Luther College study
Robert Carvin Peters of Lyle Minnesota has won a $150 Lutheran Educational Aid Fund scholarship to attend Luther College Decorah Iowa. The award is one of 60 grants this year funded by the Women's Missionary Federation and ELC auxiliary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Women's Missionary Federation
ELC
LeRoy High School Graduate Enlists in Air Force
Alan L. Tapp, son of Mr and Mrs Lloyd E Tapp, has enlisted in the Air Force. He is at Lackland AFB Texas undergoing basic training per Austin recruiter Sgt Wendell Kizer. Tapp is a 1958 Le Roy High School graduate.
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Alan L. Tapp
Lloyd E. Tapp
LeRoy
Air Force
Lackland Afb
Texas
Wendell Kizer
Austin
Tapp Is
LeRoy High School
Patients May Soon Wear Paper Gowns
SAN ANTONIO AP patients in hospitals may sleep in paper gowns on paper sheets while doctors and nurses wear paper uniforms if tests at Brooke Army Medical Center prove successful. Maj. Gen. William E Sham bora says the Army Quartermaster Corps conducts tests to see if paper items help when laundry facilities are scarce and during emergency shortages of cloth equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Brooke Army Medical Center
William E. Shambora
Army Quartermaster Corps
Grange Youth Talent Winners Named at Dexter Meeting
Margaret Hodson and Esther Hyland were announced as youth talent finalists at the Mower County Pomona Grange gathering in Dexter. Margaret won second solo and third in a duet with Esther. Summer and district events are set across July and August with meetings, picnics, craft judging, and a Wa-Tan-Ye scholarship awarded to Harold Shaw.
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Margaret Hodson
Esther Hyland
Adams
Mower County
Pomona Grange
Dexter
Margaret
Esther
Lansing
Frankford Grange
Elk River
A. R
Klouse
Harry Lenz
Claude Back
Granges
Sumner
Christgau to Head Alumni at 22nd Reunion
Thirty-five attendees marked the 22nd annual reunion of the Southern Minnesota Normal College and University of Southern Minnesota in the Austin High School Cafeteria. Officials elected included A E Christguan president Roy Rolfson vice president Isabel Jones treasurer with Mary F E Jicha-second vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Minnesota Normal College
University of Southern Minnesota
Austin High School
A. E. Christian
Roy Rolfson
Isabel Jones
Arthur Johnson
Mary FE. Jicha
Jake Barwind
City Women Sisters of Accident Victim
Two Austin women who are sisters of a car crash victim killed near Willmar Minnesota Saturday noon left Sunday to be with the victim's family. Mrs. Lloyd Seiver and Mrs. Howard Thomson are sisters of Mrs. Arthur Teterud of St. Cloud the accident victim. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon in St. Cloud.
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City Women Sisters
Austin
Willmar Minn
Lloyd Seiver
Harmon
Howard Thomson
N. 7Th
Arthur Teterud
St. Cloud
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William Redman
St. Olaf
James Bratten
A. L Swenson
E. C. Reinertson
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Ister
St. Olaf Church
Mount Carmel Church
Wauwatosa
Wis
Gerald Hindemuth
Bible School
State Eagles
Dr. Butman
Dad
Parker
Nilan Printing CO
W. Maple
Foster
State U
Methodist Con
King’s Wood
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Dexter Phone Company
ISU
St. Ansgar Board
Miss Matern
Capt
Grace
Maryland U
Nea Ylew Herald
Sterling Shopping Center
Sandy Noble
Austin Rt
Dale P. Hubbard
Eddy Paper Corp
Guernsey
Orite Grocery Store
Biren
Ike
Cisco
Lutheran Churches
Friedrich
Lawrens
Robert B. Hamp
St. John's Lutheran Church
Mrs. McCue
Mahlon Anderson
W. Allegheney
Anderson
Russell Samuelson
Robert Peters
Luther League
Christian Education Department
LeRoy HS
Harold Shaw
Clayton F. Meyer
Dial
Clayton F. Meyer Insurance
Sterling Theatre
State Farm Fire & Casualty CO. Home Office
Bloomington, II
Seaburg’s TV
Christgau
Richard Rahilly
Pioneer and Historical Bldg
0. G. Christgau Freeborn
Edward Graskamp
Fountain
Agnes Beck
Elizabeth McCormick
Art L. Johnson
A. F. Christgau
Lillian Christgau
Edna B. Lane
Steve Kloeckner
Ida Drummond
Ephraim Magnuson
Laura Finbraaten
Grace Leonard
Mae Fielding
Mildred Wilder
Eva Felch
M. E. Daley
Mary E. Jicha
Ray Rolfson
George Woodring
Owatonna
Edward D. Groeskamp
0. G. Christgau
Freeborn
Ethel Aanonson
Ner
Albert Hopte
Folger’s
Can
Austin Super
West Mill
Penney’s
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