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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1957
Page
4
Weekday Masses at 7 00 a m and Sunday Masses at 7 30 and 9 30 a m. Confession on Saturdays 3 00 to 5 00 p m and 7 00 to 8 30 p m. Thursday choir practice at 7 30 p m and each Thursday evening thereafter.
Rev Benjamin Coutvet pastor leads Sunday School at 9 30 a m and worship at 10 30 a m Monday Bible Study at 8 p m and Thursday choir practice at 8 p m with weekly sessions in the church calendar.
Ralph O. Grote, Pastor conducts Sunday School at 9:30 for all ages and Morning Worship at 10:30 a.m. Subject titled Living By Holy Discip lines. There will be opportunity.
Baptism notification for MYF Thursday at 7 30. Men's Retreat set for August 23 24 25 at Clear Lake. Official Board meeting Monday evening August 26 at 8. Wallingford Lutheran N L delivette Pastor 9 30 a m Worship Services with Mr Tom Natterstad preaching. Wednesday 8 30 p m Adult Choir Brotherhood. Sunday School resumes September 1.
The notice lists H Irving Petersen as pastor delivering 9:00 a.m. Divine Worship. Donald Wahlgren, missionary to Nigeria Africa, will preach at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. Luther League meets Thursday at 8:00 p.m. Women of the Church meet Tuesday at 2:00 p.m.
First Lutheran announces worship at 8 30 a m pastor C T Freistul leads. Wednesday September 4 Ladies Aid gathers at 2 p m with hostesses Marie Reeves Clancy Anderson Eddie Peterson Arnold Sampson Ole Solheim. Dining room hostess Myron Fogde.
Pastor C T Fjelstul led worship at Lost Island Lutheran at 10 a m. An auto left a country road south of Osgood, damaging a 1955 Ford station wagon. Driver Loren W Agan of Ottumwa and passenger Cliff Agan, owner of the vehicle, escaped injury. The crash occurred about 3 p m on a country road near the Geo Laubenthal farm.
Local families from Des Moines to Ottumwa and Spirit Lake hosted visits and hosted relatives. Notable events include Dr. Frank Meyer, formerly of Graettinger, admitted as patient at University hospital Town City. Barbara Renee Norris welcomed as Martin Norris family’s granddaughter. multiple trips to Worthington, Sioux City, Detroit Lakes, and Minneapolis. World Lutheran convention attendance noted.
A summary of town notices includes Mrs Anna MacDonald traveling to Des Plaines Illinois to spend a day with her son and family. Atty and Mrs Clayton Donald, A K Olson of Graettinger and Clarence Sorum of Estherville returned from a two week Lacombe Canada trip. Several residents plan moves and visits, including Pauline Murray leasing her home to A I Langehough, Claude and Bill Hansen relocating, and Judy Thorson visiting from Washington DC. A main interest is a forthcoming cinema release in August featuring Anthony Kimmins CinemaScope Technicolor with Ralph Richardson and others touring the local theatre, based on Moore Raymonds novel about a boy in New South Wales.
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