Dan O'Neill 82 Dies Suddenly in Graettinger
Dan O'Neill 82 died suddenly Monday of a heart attack while downtown. Funeral two p.m. Thursday at First Lutheran Church with Rev. Paul G. Tolo officiating. He was a longtime resident, born Sept 8 1873 in Eddyville Iowa, survived by four children Ruth Ray Nortis Doris and six grandchildren.
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Dan O'Neill
Ted Christianson
Mr. O’neill
First Lutheran
Paul G. Tolo
Martin Funeral Home
Dan Kesh
Frank Herke
Fred Wolfe
Omer Gjerde
Ray Glazier
Quinten Jensen
Wm. Olson
Frank Christensen
Fred Spies
Willads Bragaard
Oliver Osher
Wv. L. O'Connor
Daniel Thomas O’neill
Eddyville
Iowa
Ottumwa
Emmetsburg
Nellie Norris
St. James Hotel
Fort Dodge
O'Neill
O’neill
Graettinger
First Lutheran Church
Ruth O'Neill
Maywood, Sr
Ray
Nortis
Bob
Medford
Oregon
Arnold
Doris) Blagaard
Notice of Hearing on Graettinger Light Plant Improvements
A public hearing is set for 2 p.m. September 6, 195 at the Graettinger municipal light plant secretary’s office. The Graettinger board of trustees will consider objections to plant plans and contract forms and will receive bids for the proposed improvements. See legal publication for full details.
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Municipal Electric Light and Power
Tinea
Graettinger Municipalight Plant
Board of Trustees
Library Story Hour Saturday at Three
Children from pre school through third grade may attend a story hour at Graetting Library Saturday afternoon August 4. Clara Suss will read during the program scheduled from 8 to 4 pm.
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Library
Graetting Library
Clara Suss
Milk Mow Available In Paper Containers
The B and K Dairy began delivering milk in paper containers in Gr ee ttinger after installing a Mojonnier Dawson paper packaging machine at Farmers Creamery. Milk price rose from 28c to 20c due to container costs, glass bottles unchanged. Homogenized and non homogenized milks stay available in paper, with daily pickup from farmers and processing at the creamery.
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B & K Dairy
Farmers Creamery
Graettinger
Black and White Show Tuesday at Spencer fairgrounds
The Northwest Iowa Holstein Black and White show will be held Tuesday August 7 at the Clay County Fair grounds in Spencer. Activities start at 10 a m with exhibits and judging contests all day. Prizes include 25 to each winning 4 H and FFA team toward a trip to the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo. Awards honor grand champion cow and bull with trophies from the Spencer Chamber of Commerce and Clay County Fair Association. Local entrants include Spies and Levi Norman Olson and Harold J Jorgensen.
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Iowa
Clay County Fair
Spencer
FFA
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
Spencer Banks
Spencer C. of C
Clay Co. Fair Association
Spica and
Lein
Graetlinger
Spies
Levi
Norman Olson
Harold J. Jorgensen
Reeves Girl Wins Free Bicycle at Erickson Store Contest
Donna Reeves daughter of Mia Marie Reeves was named winner of a free bicycle in the Glendale and Clover Farm label contest at Erickson store, the promotion ending that week with the prize awarded.
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Erickson
Donna Reeves
Mia
Marie Reeves
Glendale
Emmet County Fair Opens Next Week at Estherville Grounds
The Emmet County Fair runs August 6 7 8 and 9 in Estherville Iowa with new renovations. Vernon Fredericksen says drawings prizes a rodeo stage show midway and exhibits will draw crowds. Grand prizes include deluxe bicycles and household items. Estherville Saddle Club co sponsors a rodeo featuring top midwest riders. Main gate remains free. details in the ad.
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Emmet County
Estherville Fairgrounds
Estherville
Iowa
Vernon Predericksen
Emmet County Fair Board
Prishe
Batherwills
Fredericksen
Estherville Saddle Club
Midwest
Wair- Board
Cecil E Jones Dies at 44 in Spencer Former Graettinger Resident
Cecil E Jones 44 died suddenly at his Spencer home after a heart attack at 6 30 am Funeral services were held at Bethany Lutheran church Spencer He was born January 11 1912 in Cylinder Iowa and lived in Graettinger Algona Ida Grove and Spencer He married Helen Beck September 23 1938 and had children Terry David and Allen His survivors include his wife three sisters and three brothers He was a World War II veteran and served as a corporal in the army from 1942 to 1948
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Bethany Lutheran Church
Spencer
Cecill E. Jones
Earl Jones
Graattinger
Graettinger
Jensen
South Walnut Cemetery
Forrest Peterson Reynald Nage
Jack Wolfe
Bill Peters
Scott Fangen
Wm. Fangen
Cecil E. Jones
Cylinder
Helen Beck
Jones
Algona
Ida Grove
Fangen
Terry
David
Allen
Bennett
Evelyn) Thoreson
Rites Saturday For Thomas W Doyle
Funeral services were held Saturday morning for Thomas W Doyle 74 at Immaculate Conception Catholic church. Doyle died July 25 at Holy Family hospital from injuries after a fall at his home Monday evening July 23. Burial was in St Jacob's Cemetery west of Graettinger. Survivors include his wife two daughters and five grandchildren. Doyle was a farmer at the home place and remained active in farming operations.
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Thomas W. Doyle
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Mr. Doyle
Holy Famiy Hospital
Maynard
St. Jacob's Catholic Cemetery
Graettinger
Martin Funeral Home
Pall
John Carney
John Nolan
Wilfred McCarty
Raymond Tindall
Francis Flannegan
Hamlin Sanding
Thomas Willian
Doyle
Walnut Townrship
Anna Marie Graettinger
Immaculate Conception
Rohert
Elizabeth) Beck
Robert
Marie) Allen
Glendale
Arizona
Eleanor
Marthe
Billy Beck
Kenneth
Thomas Allen
Alster
J. M. Walsh
Great Falls
Mont
Grading 24 Mile Stretch West Of Town
Grading of a two and a half mile road segment from Spies corner west began this week by Linnan and Gibson construction of Pocahontas. The road will be graded to a 30 ft wide top and graveled soon after grading is completed.
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Spies Corner
Linnan and Gibson Construction, Company of
Pocahontas
Heavy rain douses area with 25 inches in 24 hours
Grachtinger reports 25 inches of rain in a 24 hour period from about 7 AM Monday to 7 AM Tuesday. An inch fell Monday morning, another inch and a half late Monday night and early Tuesday. A severe electrical storm accompanied the late downpour. The week’s rainfall arrived during corn ear forming, with totals varying across the area.
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Grachtinger
Rainfall Totals 16 Inches Since April in Graettinger
Rainfall from Monday and Tuesday added 2.5 inches to July total, reaching 6.7 inches far above the normal 3.5. The unofficial July total stands at 16.1 inches, well past last year's 10.5 as drought receded. April to July normal is 13.7, with crops currently showing top form for the year.
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Graettinger
Weather Agency
Graettinger men held on petty larceny charges
Two Graettinger men and two Graettinger youths were arrested Wednesday night by Sheriff Dick Miller on charges of petty larceny of tractor parts in Palo Alto County. The incident is continued on page 5.
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Emmetsburg
Graettinger
Dick Miller
Palo Alto
Legion Tourney Finals Slated Here This Weekend
Semifinals Friday night and finals Sunday highlight the eighth Legion district baseball tourney with Thompson vs Fort Dodge and Carroll vs Lake City in Friday action. Graettinger’s 15 year old and under entry lost 8 6 to Carroll as Carroll pitcher Chesty Masters fanned 15 in a dominant outing.
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Legion
Carrol Club
Masters
Carroll
Coettinger
Palo Alto ASC Committee Names Reelected Officers
Palo Alto county ASC committee held its annual convention in Emmetsburg on July 28. Wm Fr Brodersen was reelected chair, Walter Fisher reelected vice chair, Armand C Larsen named third member. Lawrence D Brennan reappointed office manager. Alternates named were Joe A Lynch and Jog Nyborg. All will serve a one year term from August 1.
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Wm. FR. Brodersen
Booth Township
Palo Alto
Joe A. Lynch
Ellington Township
Jog. Nyborg
Lost Island Township
ASC
New Soil Bank
Playground program ends today at Graettinger
The eight week Graettinger Recreation Playground program concludes today with children meeting at the school at 9 30 a m for a free swimming period at Estherville Pool on Wednesday and Friday mornings. Supervisors include Coach Robert Held Roger Henningsen Paul Kirkegaard with assistants Misa Jean Graettinger and Mrs Cynthia Vasey.
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Graettinger
Estherville
Robert Held
Roger Henningsen
Paul Kirkegaard
Misa Jean Gracttinger
Cynthia Vasey
Blacktopping Project Starts This Week in Cedar Rapids
The Hargrave Construction Company moved in equipment and staff at the start of the week and will begin work immediately. The project covers four blocks of new blacktop and resurfacing of several existing streets in the area.
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Hargrave Construction Company
Cedar Rapids
Pitcher
Soil Bank Contracts Signed In Palo Alto County
Friday July 27 closed signing for the 1936 Soil Bank Reserve in Palo Alto County. A total of 764 contracts cover 9,478 acres with farmers to grow oats beans or hay and take no crop on the reserve land. Payments to participants are around 297,158 dollars, with compliance checks starting soon and payments possible by late September or October per L D Brennan of the county ASC office.
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Soil Bank Reserve
Palo Alto Co
Palo Alto
L. D. Brennan
Palo Alto County
ASC
Mystery farm owned by Jamisons near Spies corner found
Last week's mystery farm is identified as the Maxwell Jamison property four miles east of Spies corner and half a mile south. The Jamisons moved there in spring 1950 purchasing from Donald Root, the farm once known as a Riergen farm. They remodeled the home, installed a water system, built a concrete feeding floor and improved the place. Mr Jamison, son of Mrs Linnle Jamison of Wallingford and Mrs Maxwell Jamison formerly Gena Iverson, married in Batherville in 1938. They have two sons Loren Dean and Jon Melvin who attend the Grastinger schools. The 120 acre farm grows corn, oats and beans with hogs, chickens and sheep as livestock. Mrs Jamison was the first Times reader to identify the mystery farm. Phillip Imon sen of rural Emmetsburg won a tree theatre ticket.
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Maxwell Jamison
Spies Corner
Mrs. Jamison
Donald Root
Jamison
Linnle Jamison
Wallingford
Weat Des Moines
Gena Iverson
Andrew Ivanson
Batherville
Loren Dean
Jon Melvin
Grasttinger
Lost Island
Theran Church
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Cecil Jones
Ralph Graettinger
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