01 Dec 1955
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1955
Page
1
Fragmented account recalls a late president who died at 18 and references a 14%R election year. It also notes a 62 40 victory by Coach Bob Held over Estherville and other scattered town notes about holidays, parades, and a local organ recital.
A church and community roster lists Bud Craven John DeVries Alan Herstoff Jens Kirkegaard Virgil Olesen BL Bargman Jee Jayce William Fogarty Wm. A. Bicklefe E. Smith First Lutheran Our Javier's Lutheran Rev. Paul G. The overview names multiple pastors and church affiliates across two Lutheran congregations in the area.
Lesson for December 4, 1955 stresses that Christian discipleship is not mere good will. It emphasizes learning from Jesus, deciding for and about Christ, and denying self as the crucifixion of the old life, so Christ may live in the believer.
The second annual American Legion play Kathleen was staged at the Hawkeye Theatre Friday and Saturday evenings. Attendance and receipts were strong, netting the Legion members a little over $50.
A sequence of school meal notes lists weekly offerings with a focus on buttered buns vegetables and desserts. Descriptions include chili on Tuesday, mashed potatoes cheese cubes vegetable salad meat sandwich cherry cake Wednesday, vegetable beef stew and fruit Thursday, and tomato with spaghetti carrot sticks salmon salad fruit jello Friday.
John G. Reidy of Chicago has accepted a position in the Times office and will start his duties this week. The note places his arrival on Tuesday at Vinton.
Thanksgiving gatherings and family dinners fill local schedules with relatives visiting Estherville Fort Dodge Ringsted and Northfield. Births visits illness and travel notes highlight a busy holiday period across Wallingford and nearby communities.
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