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Graettinger Times

Location

Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 23, 1959

Page

8

Graettinger Municipal Light Plant minutes April 13 1959

The Graettinger Municipal Light Plant board met April 13 1959 with all members present. Motions approved last meeting minutes paid all bills and adjourned. Administration and local vendors listed include wages taxes pensions utilities and supplies from multiple Iowa firms and entities.

State of Iowa Northwest Iowa Municipal Power Group White Diesel Engine Division Sebastian Diesel Iowa Electric Supply Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities Western Union Great Western Laboratories Industrial T & A Service Lyman Auto Supply Standard Oil Cooper Petroleum Shaver Mig Graettinger Municipal Light Plant Lars C. Petensen Elsbury Farm Equipment Thoreson's Theatre Fund Masters’ Grocery the Graettinger ‘Times Graettinger Telephone Co Rasmussen Standard Hansen's Del's Farmers Supply Bud’s Service White Service Station Grein Electric Graettinger Lumber Co

Palo Alto Farm Bureau Bosses Farmer Business Banquet

Palo Alto County Farm Bureau sponsors its annual Farmer Businessmen dinner on Tuesday May 5 at the Assumption Parish hall in Emmetsburg. Serving begins 6 30 p m with LeRoy Getting state senator guest speaker on What Is Our Goal. Tickets available at the Farm Bureau office and from board members for two tickets per member.

Palo Alto County Farm Bureau Farmer-Businessmen’s Assumption Parish Emmetsburg LeRoy Getting Farm Bureau Farm Bureau Board

Social security representative schedules offices in two towns

The social security representative will be at Emmetsburg courthouse the first and third Wednesdays monthly from 10:00 to 3:00 and at Estherville city hall on the second and fourth Wednesdays from 8:30 to 12:00.

Emmetsburg Court House City Hall Estherville

Sunday Oil Station Woes and Northbound Caribou Offer

A quirky column reports Sunday gas shortages in Sioux County as residents press for open stations. Eskimo Point offers to meet near Churchill with dog team, 300 to 400 miles round trip. Other notes include a future dish washer tech, grocery items with price contrasts, union strife, Japan-US relations, migrant birdsIllinois ducks and storks trials, and a fish hatchery observation about a boy watching trout.

Sioux County Eskimo Point N. W. Ter Churchill

American ingenuity with trout in trousers and tropical fish decor

A boy pulled trout up inside his jeans using a fishline, sneaking home with the catch. A newspaper woman in the Northwest Town bought a large aquarium for tropical fish, while a keeper notes the oddest residents are people who poison animals, including strychnine.

Northwest Town

ASC Office Urges Check Up On Farm Storage Space

Palo Alto county farmers were advised by the county ASC office to check up on their grain storage space. Joe A. Lynch, chairman of the county ASC committee, explained that the government price support program means nothing to farmers who do not have adequate storage capacity.

Palo Alto County ASC Joe A. Lynch

Storage facilities and price support for farmers

The article explains storage requirements for price support and notes loans through county ASC offices to help farmers finance on farm cribs and bins. Loans cover up to 80 percent of cost at 4 percent interest, repayable in four annual installments. Information is available at Palo Alto county ASC office in Emmetsburg.

ASC Palo Aillto County Emmetsburg

Weekly Community Meeting Schedule Across County Towns

Residents are informed of recurring sessions held Mondays in Estherville and Orange City Tuesdays in Emmetsburg Wednesdays in Spencer Thursdays in Rock Rapids Fridays in Spirit Lake and Saturdays mornings in Sibley. Each venue hosts morning gatherings in Sibley.

Estherville Orange City Emmetsburg Spencer Rock Rapide Spirit Lake Sibley

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