Local Hatchery Adverts and Community Notes
Pullets marketed at ten dollars per hundred with day old chicks priced at twenty dollars ninety cents. Green stamps offered. colored eggs and chicks for kids. Auto insurance rates advertised with 1950 Chevrolet full coverage plan. Cards of thanks express gratitude for hospital care in Des Moines and community cemetery appreciation. School lunch menu lists weekly offerings including scalloped potatoes, hot beef sandwich, beefburgers, Spam sandwiches, and baked beans with milk.
Weekend visitors and church circle meet in small town
A flurry of visits fills a Graettinger area weekend as Arleen Bisgaard stays with her parents in Sioux City while relatives tour St James Minnesota homes. Circuits of WMS members from South Walnut Lutheran attend Bethany Bethlehem gathering and many locals host dinners. Oscar Keidgard funeral in Walnut draws kin from Emmetsburg Ottumwa and beyond. Don Potter returns from Des Moines Veterans Hospital while construction of a new home west of Albert Jensen residence begins.
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Arleen Bisgaard
Sioux City
Arnold Bisgaard
Blanchard Jacobson
Aletta Jacobson
Oscar Levi
Tom Hermansen
St. James, Minn
Dr. Dawson
Elmer Masters
Dawson
Tugham Lake
Merle Suss
Harold
Reeves
Pearl Ann
George Nisely
Town Falls
Adolph Spies
Jim Spies
Creighton University
Calmer Jensen
Cynthia Ann
Austin
Minnesota
Annie Osher
Graettinger
Mrrs. Jensen
Cynthia
Earl ‘Bisgard
Ottumwa
Eliott Larsen
Mira
Bisgard
Donnie
Diane
Dan Miller
Wi. Luhman
Charlie Luhman
Bob Held
Forrest Sipes
Mya
Jack Platter
Henry Densen
Ralph Borchera
Everett Johnson
Palmer Cody
Clarence Howard
Emmetsburg
Howard
Orville Banwart
Linda
Cylinder
Stanley Dicken
Golene
Jerry Lorenzen
Malland
Arlene Newman
Gene Howard
Kenneth Banwart
Kathy
Burdette Petersen
Spencer
Walter Lareen
Omer Gjerde
Carol and
Bruce
Ole Gjenle
Rochester
Minn
Gunday
Ole Gjerde
Ernest Gjerde
East of Graettinger
Thomas Bratland
Gilbert
Gjerds
J. B. Sorermman
Viale
Gjerde
Earl Bisgard
Ottumaya
Hiner Bisgard
Earl
Don Potter
Veterans Hospital
Des Moines
Callender
Iowa
Lara Petersen
Petersen
Fort Des Moines
Mis
Connie Fycistul
Minneapolis
al Espeseth
Estherville
Sorenson
Andrew Christopherson
Carpenter
Art Albricht
Elliot Larsen
Ernest Brawner
Milford
Arnold Dodge
Langdon
Norman Bisgard
Ottumera
Walter Larsen
Jim Iverson
Witness for the Prosecution at Grachtinger Theatre
The film Witness for the Prosecution plays Saturday and Sunday at the Grachtinger Theatre under United Artists release. Also showing is The Forest Rangers a Technicolor action drama about U.S. Forest Service smoke jumpers returning Tuesday and Wednesday as a re release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egent
Grachtinger Theatre
United Artists Release
Forest Rangers
U. S. Forest Service
Paramount
Senior Class Play Friday May 15 Plot Details
Rehearsals for the senior class play The Thread That Runs So True are progressing rapidly, with emphasis on character development and stage timing as performers prepare for the upcoming Friday performance. Directors acknowledge brisk pace and growing confidence among cast and crew.
Rural Kentucky Teacher Faces Defiant Student in Play
The drama follows Jessie Stewart, a young schoolteacher who obtains a position in a Kentucky rural school and encounters obstacles from Guy Hawkins, a strapping eight-year veteran of first grade who aims to disrupt the teacher’s efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Stewart
Kentucky
Guy Hawkins
Weekend Sky Conditions Report in Local Area
Overcast skies dominated the weekend with no rain as a dry spell persists. Only one inch of rainfall this year and severe subsoil moisture shortage. Tuesday brought 50 mph winds with higher gusts and dust obscuring the sun. Temperatures remained unusually chilly most of the week.
Pirates explode with multi hit attack led by Masters
Pirates continued their page one showing as a nine hit effort with Chesty Masters Bruce Gjerde Jim Mahan and Jim Alger each collecting two hits. Masters added a home run to cap the strong showing for the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shire Battery
Chesty Masters
Bruce Gjerde
Jim Mahan
Jim Alger
Masters
Pirates Defeat Gruver 144 In First Round
The Grachtinger Pirates steamrolled Gruver 144 in a first round spring baseball sectional contest. The game ended by the ten run rule after five innings, with Pirates dominating on offense and securing advancement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pirates
Gruver
Grachtinger Pirates
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Ted Leduc
Packard
Russell Jones
DHL
Farmers Supply
Brooder House
Elze
Elmer Kunz
Glfalfa Hay
Edmund Herke
Grachtinger
Midwest Piano & Organ Co
Spencer, Town
Lloyd Cornelius
Clayton Duhn
Electrolux
Spirit Lake
Merrill B
Carnahan
Thoreson's
Howe
Wallingford
Apt
Hawkeye
Fred Spies
Maytag
Wogen’s
Extherville
Hamilton Hatchery
Bancroft
Town
Avith
Town & Country Cafe
Griettinger Insurance Agency
Trojan
Trojan Seed CO
Olivia, Mina
Don Pottier
Larry Lammers
St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
Tuesaday
D&E_ ELECTRIC
Cetsburg
Graettinger State Bank
Graettinger, Iows
Gary
Arys Barber
Western & Horse Equipment
Sam Watson
Jimmie’s Shine Parlor
Miller
Alois
Pere
Erickson
Clover Farm Peas
SWIFT
Weiners
Clover Farm
N. Dak
Golden Maid
Miracle
Eouart
Kinnard
Paka
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