Timely Notes From Farm and Field On Iowa News
A baroque set of rural items covers farmers in Iowa, from Arnold Larson threshing 11 bushels of timothy seed on six acres to Norvel Jensen dusting potato fields with a plane. Fire tips, speed-trap removal, a lottery complaint, a funeral theft, a bull snake rescue, corn factory activity, a Forest City airplane as farm implement, a sewer ditch collapse, and a doctor’s car mix up surround everyday life and curiosities across towns like Postville Knoxville Pella Forest City Sheldon and Harlan.
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Forest City
Norvelensen
St. Aansgar
Elmer Hass
Graettinger Local Notes and Births Amid Busy Week
Local paper highlights visits from residents and visitors including Mr and Mrs Ben Boecker and Miss Agatha Craven plus Quinces at Graettinger. Birth announced for a McNew child, hospital care noted. several travels to Des Moines Sioux City and Chicago mentioned. traffic incident near Lanyon recounted with a fatal sink pin event.
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Potter’s Gruettinger
Ben Boecker
Dubuque
Gaard
Cylinder
O. L. Thoreson
Agatha Craven
Waterloo
Oscar Craven
Lillian Boecker
Chicago
Kenny Thompson
Hen Boecker
Wm. Boecker
Grover
Doris Webbe
Redwood Falls
Minnesota
Bernard Borman
Ford
Fort Dodge
Graettinger
E. J. Mitchell
Mankato Commercial College
Mankato
Minn
Edward Westfuil
Mary ‘Margaret
Des Moines
Francis Schuller
Ruthven
Edward Sullivan
Trinity College
Sioux City
O. L. Thoreson and Marie
Lewison
Wm. Rasmussen
Paul McNew
Babe
Caleman Hospital
the Times
Donald Bartleman
Donald
East High
Edward
Trinity, College
American Weekly
Sunday Herald and Examiner
Gilbert Knutsen
Percy Stone
West Bend
Kuhn
Rodman
Ole Knutsen
Depew
Beloit
South Dakota
Knutsen
M. J. Reidy
Helen
Helen Sullivan
W. Bisgard
Albert
Nora
Martin Norris
Merlin
Walnut
Atlantic
Harlan
Earl Bisgard
W. E. Reinseh
Margaret Ann
Marion
Iowa
Roy Lundgren
Winner
Reinsch
Lundgrens
Social Items from Doreas Society Meet Next Tuesday
Community notices list events at Mrs S K Simonsens home and with Mrs Hans Sandvig. Birthday celebrations for Martin Norris at the State Park and Mrs Ole Sorensen’s 90th birthday draw readers and relatives. Card showers, bake shop ads, and Junior Sewing Club meetings fill August social calendar with hostesses named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doreas Society
S. K. Simonsen
Martin Norris
Ole Sorensen
Sorensen
Calesular
Carmelita Sevdy
C. A. Jensen
Beverly
Phyllis Jones
Valois Ann Jensen
Doris Sandvis
Madge Jacobson
Carolyn Maurstad
Frances Herke
Lenora
Deloris Celmenson
Margaret Cameron
Lois Kerr
Emmetsburg Visitors Noted in Graettinger Week
A. A. Adams of Emmetsburg acted as Graettinger caller early in the week. He spent a brief reunion with his old friend John Drew. Dr. John A. Greenlee of Emmetsburg also visited Graettinger Friday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Adams
Emmetsburg
Graettinger
John Drew
John A. Greenlee
Graettinger M. E. Church and Lutheran Services
Local church notices list Graettinger M. E. Church Sunday School at 10 AM and Morning Worship at 11 AM, noting the year’s end and blessings. Also details Lutheran services at Sotes Kirsten and Lost Island churches, with confirmand enrollments, Ladies’ Aid dates, and Evangelical meetings, plus a Pauls Lutheran Church schedule for August 27 and a missionary society event August 29. A Bible-based appeal urges guardians to enroll children in Sunday school.
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Graettinger
Min
Lutheran Church
Kirst Lutheran Church
Confirmands
Lost Island Church
Lost Island L
Divine Worship
Frida Ladies’ Aid
J. 3
Stump
Minneapolis
la Crosse
Wis
N. W. Lutheran School
Seminary of
Sil, Pauls Lutheran
Town
Walnut
The
Missionary Society
KK. Simonsen
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Arnold Larson
Postville
Paul Applegate
Knoxville
Coralville
Ladora
Iowa City
Highway Six Association
Harry Scroggins
Wayne County
Viola Kammlade
Matlock
Sheldon
Passesway
Frank Boot
Pella Farmay
Claretee Stone
Jim Ross
Clarence
John McDowall
New Hampton
McDonald
McCarty & Olson
Jack Sprat Food Store
Malaga
Lanyon
Lloyd Carlson
George Lonergan
Reinbeck
Lonergan
Donald Horen
Tuskalooga
Roosevelt
Nova Rett
Seymour
C. R. Kelley
Yan A
Ible Bros
Home Mission Society
Sandiig
Home Mission Society of
Lost Island
Hans Sandvig
M. E. Ladies’ Aid
M. E. Liadies' Aid Society
Earl Law
Jake Zitterich
Dave Huntley
J. P. Mahan
Catholic Ladies’ Aid
Catholic Laisies’ Aid
Amolt Doerning
Albert Schealler
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Aris
Gat Our Jumbo -Bread
Adplat Erickson Insurance Agency
Eather
Coxydol
Wheaties
Royal Lumber. Co
R. Maurstad
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