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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1965
Page
4
The bulletin lists Mass times for Sunday 9 and 3.00 PM and 9:30 AM with rosaries beforehand. Weekday Masses at 7 AM. Confessions Sunday 6:30 to 6:50 AM. Saturday confession slots 3 to 4:30 PM and 7 to 8:30 PM.
Rev Ronald Swedberg leads the Methodist Church with a busy week ahead. Choir practice Thursday at 7 30 p.m. WSCS executive and general meetings Friday afternoon. Ice cream social Saturday at Our Own Home, store starting at 2 30, Golden Rule circle. Church school Sunday at 9 00, worship at 1 03. Official board meets Monday 7 30 p.m. Education Tuesday, evangelism Wednesday 7 30 p.m. Chair Thursday 7 30 p.m. Mission Commission 8 30 p.m.
Wallingford Lutheran Church posted an August 22 schedule with 9:00 am worship led by Loyd Handeland from Waldorf College Forest City and a note on time change. Bethel Lutheran Church announced August 22 Divine Worship at 8:00 and 10:30 am with guest Rev. Don Hamilton Spirit Lake, 9:15 am Sunday School, plus Youth Choir August 25, Luther League August 26, and Senior Choir at 8:00 pm.
Nearly an inch of rain fell Monday afternoon with spotty coverage and heavier bursts just north of town. Temperatures spiked to around 100 degrees on Tuesday and Friday, cooling over the weekend before returning humidly on Tuesday. Graettinger and nearby areas recorded light showers with limited totals.
The article explains a new ASCS rule for electing county officials with five top vote getters serving as chairman vice chairman and members plus two alternates. Three township committeemen will attend the county convention on August 28 to elect the county committee with staggered terms for members and alternates. Election of officers follows after the five are chosen. The township committeeman role is described as crucial for yields crop bases loans and grain handling at elevators and bin sites, shaping county farm program success in 1866.
Funeral services were held Monday for John H Fuhrman father of Frank Fuhrman of Estherville. He died Thursday at Mammoth Springs hospital of a heart attack after a brief illness. Survived by widow five sons Frank Estherville John Chicago a sister Mrs Ray Louise Underwood St Louis Mo and 15 grandchildren Susie and Tommy among them.
John J Martin 84 longtime Palo Alto county figure and former county treasurer died Sunday at Palo Alto Memorial hospital Emmetsburg after a stroke He had broad ties in Graettinger and visited old friends recently His wife Emmet Martin of New Upton survives with three grandchildren Sister Mary Suzanne Julie and John Wills wd of New Hampton Burial was at St Julia s cemetery Ale and services were held at St Thomas Church Emmetsburg
The Palo Alto County Board of Supervisors approved a bond for Boswell Contracting Corp. to fund work on First Street From Highway 18 to Madison in Emmetsburg. They also agreed to buy 10 acres in Walnut township from Ed and Ina Herke for 5000 dollars, the site containing a gravel pit.
Five counties Dickinson Clay Emmet Kossuth and Palo Alto report interest to Palo Alto county superintendent Wm H Young chairing the Area Study Group in examining a plan to establish an area vocational school for state approval A meeting of county superintendents will be arranged to set preliminary study arrangements.
The notice urges residents to take Sabin vaccine boosters, states two-dose completion for a full series, lists a $1.00 dose fee but promises free service for those unable to pay, and stresses large attendance to demonstrate belief in preventative medicine as Emmetsburg physician C. C. Moore comments. A separate item reports two cars demolished four miles north of Graettinger on Highway 17, with passengers aged 14 to 20 and no serious injuries.
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