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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1956
Page
4
Weekday masses at 7:00 a m with Confession on Saturdays 3 00 to 6 00 p m and 7 00 to 8 30 p m Sunday Masses at 8 and 10 a m Choir practice after devotions on Wednesday Reverend E 83 Maynard pastor listed for Immaculate Conception parish.
Church listings note services, classes, choirs, and events at Wallingford Lutheran Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran St Pauls Lutheran and local churches. Includes communion, Sunday School, YP and circle meetings, choir rehearsals, confirmation classes, and a Mother’s Day program. details of times and hostesses.
Estherville church notices invite women to speak and attend multiple activities. Junior chair practice at 4:00 p m Senior choir 7 30 p m Luther League 8 00 p m Ruth Centrele meets at Helen Birkland home 7 30 p m First Lutheran choir rehearsal worship services at Lost Island and First Lutheran on Sunday with Bible classes and Sunday School, Circuit Choral Union rehearsal Monday, and Bowing party trip to Estherville on Wednesday.
Payne and Potter families announce the birth of Jaynee Louise on April 13 at Emmetsburg hospital weighing 8 pounds 12 ounces. Grandparents listed include Graettinger and Pocahontas families. Separately a son named David Dean born April 16 at Holy Family hospital weighing 7 pounds with siblings Michael Norman. Rodney Ray Atkinson born April 16 in Cedar Falls weighing 8 pounds 1 ounce with brother Randy. Grandparents listed. Leonard Matheson family welcome a son born April 17 at Holy Family hospital. Also mentions Graettinger residents Grant Wilson and Melvin Kempf placing second and third in Emmet County DeKalb Junior corn acreage 1955. Scout training. local court fines for drunkenness.
Grauttinger school officials request information on children entering kindergarten next fall. Age must be five by November 15, 1956. Provide child name birth date home location parental details for kindergarten round up planning. Also notes road contract letting and Linnan Construction winning bid west of Spies Corner.
Last week readers identified the J R Brown farm east of Graettinger as the mystery farm. Mrs. Lester Martinson was first to phone with the correct identification, followed by Mrs. Punk Leduc who also won a free theatre ticket. Other callers included Ronald Graettinger Paul Joyce and Danny Brown the son of Mr and Mrs Wm Brown who guessed Alice and Toms farm.
Noeline Jensen an 18 year old cheerleader at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation School in Tishersville Virginia was pictured in Waynesboro News with six other wheelchair players. The group organized their cheer section after a boys game and stayed up until 3 am to prepare for the next day game while also playing in gym wheelchair games and learning shorthand typing and bookkeeping.
The Northwest Iowa Hereford Association will meet Monday evening April 28 at 7 00 p m at the Farm Bureau Building in Spencer. Secretary Henry Moore of Cylinder provides the details.
Gale like winds with gusts up to fifty miles an hour churned powder dry topsoil into dust clouds reducing visibility in spots. Seeded gate fields suffered as winds swept the area. Sub freezing temperatures accompanied the wind early in the week. Temperatures cooled Sunday to Tuesday nights then moderated Wednesday.
Parents and friends of autistic children can learn to form a county group at the Emmet County Association for Retarded Children meeting. It will be held in the Legion Room City Hall Exstheryfle on Wednesday evening May 2 starting at 8:00.
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