Community notes on local safety and hospitality
Readers comment on traffic safety at dangerous intersections and urge actions such as trimming corners to improve visibility. The column applauds umpiring in a recent baseball tournament and warns cyclists to watch pedestrians downtown. A visitor from Alabama recalls southern hospitality and a fire survivor recounts a burnt dollar found unharmed on a refrigerator. The piece questions activities for girls in the community versus existing youth programs for boys.
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Graettinger
Quilter Lydia Adams Celebrates 101st Birthday in Buchanan County
At Fairbanks in Buchanan county, Mrs. Lydia Adams, a lifelong quilt maker, turns 101. She has spent all but her first four years in the county, marking a century of residence in the town she calls home.
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Fairbanks
Buchanan County
Lydia Adams
Coons Invasion Sparks House Rescue At Eldora
In Eldora Jake Bottema fought a raccoon that entered his home and crawled into his bed. He chased the animal outside and killed it with a club. A serious fall left 10 year old Bernard Mulder near Rock Valley after landing on a broken pitch fork handle that pierced his back about four inches.
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Eldora
Jake Bottema
Mr. Bottema
Bernard Mulder
Rock Valley
Discipline and Self Control in the Christian Life
The essay argues Christians must discipline themselves to grow in body and spirit. It compares life to a race and army, stressing pruning, effort, and self-control. It condemns unrestrained living and excessive alcohol, urging sobriety, humility, and readiness to aid others.
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Paul
Foreman
Appointment as Executor for Lorenzen Estate
Notice in Palo Alto County Iowa that H A Elsenbast has been appointed and qualified as executor of the Johanna Marie Lorenzen estate. Creditors are asked to pay immediately and claimants to file with the district court clerk for allowance. Burt and Prichard serve as attorneys. Dated July 28 1954.
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State OF
Iowa
Palo Alto County
Johanna Marie Lorenzen
H. A. Elsenbast
Burt & Prichard
Fragmented OCR list of local professionals and church notices
A jumble of names and addresses appears to span medical dental and optical practitioners, police streets department officials, school superintendent Matt Brown, and various church pastors including Immaculate Conception Maynard Methodist First Lutheran Sevier’s and South Walnut. The fragment lacks coherent narrative or events.
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Immaculate Conception
Father E. 8S
Maynard Methodist Church
R. B. Hodgkin
Our Sevier’s Lutheran
Paul G. Telest
Feul
Lutheran
South Walnut
Arthur W. Serense
Graettinger News Highlights Air Interest And Local Growth
Grain traffic stays heavy as threshers and elevator crews work nonstop. Graettinger gains an air map presence with a new hangar funded by local business leaders and a landing field at the Snyder farm. City council discusses a brick fire station while High School roofs and flashing are updated. Real estate sees three transfers: Petersen buys near Graettinger at 150 an acre from Gus Anderson. Duus buys Bondhus land at 100 an acre. Olson acquires Moore farm east of Wallingford at 195 an acre.
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Waco
Spirit of Graettinger
T. Sullivan
Graettinger
C. A. Jensen
Ben Petersen
Gus Anderson
Spencer
Alvin Luke
Pete Duus
John Bondhus
B. Elsenbast
Ordene Olson
Emmet Moore
Wallingford
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Howa Press
J Association
National Do Cengs Association
the Graettinger Times
P. T. Cody
Elasa
Palo Alto
Emmet
Fenton and Terri
Beit
Albert Suss
Cabinet Shop
Vnstovists
Stanley Young
Jack Poland
Elmo Coleman
Ralph Masters
T. I. V. Hancock
Montgomery
Alabama
Orval Peterson
Fred Nissen
Bedfellow
Srotine Thians
Mrs. X
Emmetsburg
Estherville
Emmet County
Don C. Green
C. R. Kitchen
Optometrist
North 8Th St
Phase
C. A. Shiley
KE. ‘L. Johnson
Gardaten Hotel
Bidg
J. Emmett Martin
R. W. Cameron
Insurance Town & Farm
Lene Jacobson
D._V
Graettinger Organizations
Kranda
Woman's, Club
Mre
Wayne Ziegler
Am, Legion Auxiliary
Sanaa
Thomas Thomson
Leo Hughes Sullivan Coan
Bud Craven
John DeVries
Alan Hersleff
Jens Kirkegaard
Virgil Olesen
Police—Streets Dept
Lee Countey
Albert Jensen
Jos Grady
Directory OF County Officials
Diet
JR Hyde
Bargman
Joe Joyce
William Fogarty
Wr. McConnell
W. M. Rode
Grachtinger
Casper
CAP
Nelson Palo Alto County Abstract Co
Emmetsburg, Iowa
DR. A. 1. Hobson Broadway
BE Adappen
G. H. Frye
Veterinarions
Telephone
Graattinger
Supt. Co
Matt Brown
County Superintendent of Schools
J. E. Smith
Terry I. Anderson
Optometrist Emmet CO
Wallingford Lathersn
C.R. Gundersen
Ted Knudtson
American Legion
George Drewn
Wayne Diegler
the Times
Robert Simonsen
Strong Bank
Car Buyer’s Pocket
State Bank
Grodland
Bortvit
BROWN
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