Services Here Monday For Bert Rhoades
Bert Rhoades died early Saturday in Faribault Minnesota from complications of advanced age. Funeral services were held Monday at Graettinger Methodist Church with Rev. Ronald Swedberg officiating and burial in Evergreen Cemetery Emmetsburg. Fuhrman Funeral Home arranged the services. Pallbearers were Wm Leduc Donald Mortland Dwain Mortland Darrel Sloniker Jerry Sloniker and Elroy Kutow. He was born December 16 1877 in Sigourney Iowa and married Emma Fleming February 17 1901 at Walnut Iowa. He farmed in Pottawattamie Wayne and Palo Alto counties. Surviving are five daughters Gladys Leduc Emmetsburg Elsie Sloniker Emmetsburg Goldie Rucker Iowa Falls Louise Mortland Faribault and Lelah Rhoades Iowa Falls one son Eldon Rhoades Cylnder 22 grandchildren and 50 great grandchildren and one sister Lessie Hermann Omaha Nebraska. He was preceded by his wife parents four sisters and three brothers.
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Bert Rhoades
Faribault Manor
Faribault
Minn
Graettinger Methodist Church
Ronald Swedberg
Evergreen Cemetery
Emmetsburg
Fuhrman
Wm. Leduc
Donald Mortland
Dwain Mortland
Darrel Sloniker
Jerry Sloniker
Elroy Kutow
Bert Eldon Rhoades
Sigourney
Iowa
C. C. Rhoades
Emma Fleming
Walnut
Pottawattamie County
Wayne County
Palo Alto County
William (Gladys Leduc
Graettinger
Harry
Hlsie) Sloniker
Goldie Rucker
Iowa Falls
Lyle
Louise) Mortland
Faribault, Minn
Lelah Rhoades
Eildon Rhoades
Cylinder
Lessie Hermann
Omahy Neb
Christmas Season Mailing Tips From Post Office
Post Office urges solid packing and use of local and out of town bands to speed mail. December 4 is the deadline for out of town packages and insure parcels. Address on one side with ZIP coding to avoid misrouting and guide safe delivery.
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Post Office
Gracttinger
Naac
Mild Thanksgiving Gives Way to Cold Weekend Weather
Temperatures were mild on Thanksgiving but winter arrived Friday with blowing snow and near blizzard conditions for about an hour. Graettinger reports about an inch of snow. Weekend lows dipped to five above Monday morning and two above Tuesday morning, with slightly warmer conditions midweek, then milder again into Wednesday afternoon.
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Graettinger
Ruthven Cagers Open Weekend With Twin Bill
Ruthven hosts Graettinger Friday night in a Corn Belt and Palo Alto County doubleheader. The Diraties and Pirates aim for fourth straight win while the Pirettos seek their first conference victory. Saturday they travel to Cylindsy for a Palo Alto County twin bill.
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Graettinger
Diraties
Pirates
Ruth
Palo Alto County
Pirettos
Loval Cagers
Palo Alo County
EOA Applies For Research Grant
Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc has applied for a 41005 grant to study welfare resources and programs. The four county EOA committee sent six applications to Kansas City and four to Des Moines. If approved, the project will inventory resources, evaluate welfare programs, hire a director in Emmets King, and serve Pocaheon tes Emmet Kossuth and Palo Alto counties. Representatives Hart Flint Rudgers Pilcher will attend the Community Action Panel. Gracttinger reps Poland and Bablit serve Palo Alto. Charity should not breed more charity, says Hart.
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Upper Des Moines Opportunity, Inc
Four County Economic Opportunity Act Committee
M. Peter Hart
Kansas City
Des Moines
Hart
Emmets King
Pocaheontes
Emmet
Kossuth
Palo Alto
Walt Flint
Ben Rudgers
Mary Pilcher
John Poland
Gene Bablit
HOA
Baedke Wins Musician's Prize in Minneapolis Competition
Ronald Baedke, son of Mr and Mrs Martin Baedke, won the $100 prize and a Manhattan School scholarship in a tie at the Women’s Association of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra young artists contest. Twenty six top musicians from Minnesota Iowa South Dakota North Dakota and Wisconsin competed at the auditorium in Minneapolis. The association spokesman hailed the event as keen and the award well earned from this field of advanced instrumentalists. Baedke is a Graettinger High School graduate and a student at the State College of Town in Cedar Falls.
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Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Ronald B
Manhattan
New York
Smortheup
Mineapelis
Thaursyiy
Minnesota
Iava
South Dakota
Norta Dsota
Wisconsin
Women's Association
Romnald
Martin Baedke
Graettinger
Graettinger Hligh School
State College of Town
Cedar Falls
Notice To Motorists On Parking Cars During Snow Removal
Graettinger town urges motorists to move vehicles off Robins Street between 2:30 and 6:30 a.m. to facilitate snow removal per the current notice.
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Robins Street
Graettinger
Petersen Bros sale listed for December 14 near Graettinger
The Petersen Bros will hold a chasing out farm sale on Tuesday December 14 on the farm one mile east and two and a half miles north of Graettinger. Items include 30 goats stools cows and a full line of farm machinery. Brown and Bortiit auctioneers and Graetting State Bank will clerk. See sale ad next week.
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Petersen Bros
Graettinger
Brown and Bortiit
Graetting State Bank
Rain totals in Graettinger for 1965 growing season
Graettinger recorded 27.65 inches of rain from April through November 1965, slightly above regional averages. The wettest month was September with 8.05 inches. Yearly totals compare 1965 to 1964’s 37.59 inches, and note totals from 1961 to 1963 ranged from 21.3 to 24 inches.
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Graettinger
KICD
Charley
Viola Henningsen
Stray Misses Winter Schedule at Conception Church
Father Vincent Beacuin announces the winter schedule for Stray Misses at Saint Conception Church. Services and gatherings are set for Sundays at 10 a.m. at the Smaculate Conception retreat hall and related parish events during the season.
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Vincent Beacuin
Smaculate Conception Church
I. m
Graettinger Merchants Double Stamps Tuesday
Graettinger merchants offer shoppers double stamps on cash purchases Tuesday as local sales drive. The note mentions seasonality and nearby events while noting a separate community drive and local notices.
Double Stamp Day Boosts Graettinger Shoppers
Graettinger merchants invite shoppers to a special Double Stamp Day on Tuesday December 7 offering double Graettinger trading stamps on cash purchases. The event aims to help fill stamp books for Christmas gifts and features a pre Christmas drawing using back pages of redeemed stamp books. Local stores participating include Bonstead Hardware Christy Drug City Meat Market C A Jensen Lucky's Super Market Masters Grocery Miller's Clothing Murray's Variety Our Own Panake.
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Chaimas
Graetlinger
Graettineger
Graet Unger
Graettinger
Bonstead Hardware
Christy Drug City Meat Market
C. A. Jensen
Lucky’s Super Market
Masters’ Grocery
Miller's Clothing
Murray's Variety Store
Panake
Gracttinger
Municipal
Johnson Brothers in Vietnam Sons of Yerril residents in service
Robert J. Johnson servir with the 1st Infantry near Saigon while Alfred Paul Johnson serves with the MOth Transportation Co. in Vietnam. Addresses list Spl Robert J. Johnson US50735738, Hg. Co. 1st Engr. Bn. 1st Inf Div, APC San Francisco 96345 and PFC Alfred P. Johnson US35800460, Truth Transportation Co, APC San Francisco 96307.
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Robert J. and
Alfred Paul
Alfred Johnson
Yerril
Viet Nam
Oelobur
Robert
1St Infantry
Paul
Moth Transportation Co
Saigon
Spl
Robert J. Johnson
Hg. Co
Engr
Inf
APC
San Francisco
Calif
Alfred P. Johnson
Truth ‘Transportation Co
Graettinger Plans Free Movies and Drawings Before Christmas
Graettinger stores install decorations and stock gifts as the pre Christmas shopping season begins. Local businessmen sponsor two free movies for children on December 11 and 18 with Santa visits and candy. A street drawing on December 21 offers 150 in gift certificates, plus a December 23 drawing for ten 52 U.S. Savings bonds from Graettinger stamp books. Stores extend evening hours from December 20 to Christmas Eve.
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Graettinger
Gracttinger's Saturday Buck Prizes At 3 PM
Gracttinger's weekly Saturday afternoon prize will feature free $20 Buck prizes at three blocks in participating stores. Ervin R. Wilkert Yom Brown and Mrs Jim Demek received 125 Buck prizes last week. Mabel Eaton and Avery Starkey were not on hand to claim their prizes.
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Gracttinger
Ervin R. Wilkert
Yom Brown
Jim Demek
Mabel Eaton
Avery Starkey
Corn Belt Conference picks honor Pirates players
Greg Hoekstra senior Pirate back earned a Corn Belt all conference selection while Mark Reynolds guard made the all conference second team. Everly Sioux Rapids West Bend and other towns placed multiple first and second team members with Hoekstra also receiving honorable mention on the all Northwest Iowa team.
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Greg Hoekstra
Mark Reynolds
Everly
Sioux Rapids
West Bend
Sioux Valley
Graettinger
Mallard
Ruthven
Marathon
Richard Hughes Enlists in Marine Corps at San Diego
Richard J. Hughes, 20, son of Mr and Mrs Bill Hughes of west of Graetlinger, left November 17 to begin basic training with the Marine Corps in San Diego California. He is assigned to PLT 2025, 2nd RT BN MCRD San Diego.
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Wil Lingimes
Bill Hhughes
West of Graetlinger
Marine Corps
San Diego
Calif
Richard J. Hughes
R.T. Bn
MCRD
Beef Producers Annual Meeting Next Thursday
Palo Alto county Beef Producers hold its first annual meeting Thursday evening Dec 9 with Edwin Draman presiding. Gerald Parks of Iowa State University will speak on the organization’s incorporation and by laws. tickets cost 1 50 from board members or the Extension office in Emmetsburg.
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Palo Alto County
Edwin Draman
Gerald Parks
Animal Science Department
Iowa State University
Ames
Association
Ammetsburg
Jodlwin Driaman
Arnold Alesch
Dannie Fogarty
Bil Baxter, Jr
Maurice Drew
Lloyd Simonson
Ray Montag
Kenneth Kassel
Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers meet in Chicago
Adolph A. Spies and Jim Spies of Graettinger attended the 1965 winter meeting of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers November 23 to 30 at the LaSalle hotel in Chicago. Nearly four hundred professional farm managers and appraisers from across the United States were present.
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Adolph A. Spies
Jim Spies
Graettinger
American Society of Farm Managers and
LaSalle Hotel
Chicago
United States
Mada
Young Lovers film stars at Gravtiinger theatre
Nick Adams Sharon Hugueny Peter Fonda and Deborah Walley star in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Young Lovers showing Saturday and Sunday at the Gravtiinger theatre. The drama was produced and directed by Samuel Goldwyn Jr based on a novel by Julian Halevy.
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Nick Adams
Sharon Hugueny
Peter Fonda
Deborah Walley
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Gravtiinger Theatre
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr
Julian Halevy
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Earl Lehigh, Jr
Pueblo, Cola
Christy
Ruthven Cagers
EOA
Ron Baedke
Minneapolis
State Conservation Commission
Das LO
FUA
MHA
Missouri
Lawrence (Vlanche) ‘Thoresan
Marionville
Agrerit Mo
Wisarpa
Graeitinger
Grachtinger
Johnson Brothers
U.S. Savines
Corn Belt Conference
Richard Hughes
Beef Producers
Graettinger Cub Scouts
the Legion Hall
Dan Christensen
Wayne Hall
Tima
Christy Drug
Beena
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