Graettinger November meeting approves appointments and permits
Graettinger Iowa City Hall minutes show Mayor Potter appointing Thomas Millen to the Light Plant Board for six years. The council donates 100 to the Graettinger Businessmen s Club for Christmas decorations and issues water sewer moving and building permits to residents. Fire District talks include transferring an old truck and tanker with upkeep costs.
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Potter
Spies
Stiles
Torrence
Hansen
Petersen
Thomas Millen
Graettinger Municipal Light Plant Board of Trustees
Potters
Graettinger Businessmens Club
James Jensen
Public Employees Retirement System
IPERS
Fica Graettinger State Bank
Federal
Public Safety Fund
Rasmussen Standard Service
Graettinger Hardware
Brown Supply Co
Graettinger Co-op Telephone
Graettinger Freight Line
Shaver Manufacturing
Siren
Gilbert Stueve
Gas & Oil
Graettinger Sand & Gravel
Masters Grocery
Graettinger Man
Raines & Associates
Graettingey Times
Eddystone Light and cowcatcher origins explored
A compact overview traces the Eddystone Lighthouse at Plymouth built 1757 by John Smeaton, its predecessors, and a French king’s remark to freed prisoners. The cowcatcher invention by Isaac Cripps in 1831 is explained as a V shaped iron safeguard on locomotives. Saccharin and other synthetic sweeteners are described, including a free booklet offer from Martha Glauber Shapp.
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Eddystone
Plymouth
England
John Smeaton
John Rudyerd
Rudyerd
Louis Viv
Isaac Cripps
New Jersey
Candyroaster pumpkin weighed 76 pounds in Reinbeck
A giant Candyroaster grown by Louie Heideman weighed 76 pounds and measured 52 inches around, promising many pies. The report notes the vegetable’s size and potential use in holiday baking amid city financial details and a 1969 budget amendment resolution.
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Louie Heideman
Reinbeck
Thanksgiving Guests and Moves Across States
Local families welcomed visitors for Thanksgiving and related holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Kay Carter hosted relatives from St Paul and St Ansgar, with Gerald Haisman from Raleigh visiting the Haisman home. Bennett Thoreson from Missouri and Robert Reeves family joined the celebrations. Wm Spear and family left Ingham Lake to run a Boulder motel after relocating.
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Kay Carter
St. Paul
C. V. Carter
Gerald Haisman
Raleigh, N
Carolina
Frank Haisman
Mrs. Bennett Thoreson
el Dorado Springs, Mo
Wm. Spear
Ingham Lake Area
Boulder, Colo
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Masters
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FICA
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Street Fund
Martha Glauber Shapp
The
New Book of Knowledge
Cripps
Putnam Valley
New York
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the Graettinger Times
Graettinger, Iowa
NSU
Robert Berryhill
Central National Bank
Bonds & Int
Des Moines National Bank
Northern Natural Gas Co
Town of Graettinger
Employment Security Comm
Central National Bank & Trust Co
Councilman
Wayne Potter
Lloyd C. Petersen
Vv. F. W
Estherville
Robert Reeves
Julie and
Christi
Oakland, Iowa
Floyd Christiansen
Gilbert Reeves
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