Graettinger wedding and community notes highlight local events
An Armstrong area report covers a Saturday Graettinger wedding with details on the ceremony, attendees, and future residence. It also notes local school activities, debates on government ownership of railroads, upcoming plays, teacher study centers, and community club events amid holiday season planning and fundraising efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graettinger
Mias Henningsen
Hig School
Miss Christopher
Johnson
United States
Minnie Henningsen
Clarice Berdin
Thelma Thoreson
Stella Birkland
Yva
Gardner
Mable Anderson
Miss Ryan
Daugherty
Fullerton
D. Daugherty
Mullerton
R. D. Daugherty
Independent Society auction to aid soldiers linked with Red Cross work
The Independent Society urges support for soldiers through a December 22 auction organized by Auctioneer Grodland with Banker Vincent Kelly as clerk. Proceeds will fund comfort bags, Christmas boxes, and Red Cross relief, with donations accepted at First National Bank basements and Johnson Jensen Implement House. The piece highlights community effort, Red Cross leadership, and plans for additional attractions and donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defense League
Sogietica
Bfe
Soldier Boys
Grodland
Vincent Kelly
Insles
First National Bank
Johnson& Jensen
Woigman
Thompson
Algo
Independent Society
Mitchell
Congress
Davison
Reg Cross
Women OF America
American Red Cross
Serbian Relief Commission
Serbia
Red Cross
Davis
Red Cross Convention Tent Returns After State Event
Fragmentary notes describe a Red Cross convention with attendees and timing details unclear. The readable bits reference a tent, a state event, and a possible American Red Cross involvement.
Red Cross Notes From Graettinger Branch Xmas Boxes
Graettinger county Red Cross reports twenty Christmas boxes sent to the 1917 Santa list. Substantial donations from local residents funded the effort as Palo Alto county fulfills its full share. Merchants contributed supplies at cost. a purchasing committee organized, packing held at Mrs. Lona Christenson’s home. The Red Cross aims to furnish a Christmas box to every man in uniform and calls for more volunteers to produce surgical dressings for France month after month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americanated Cross
American Red Cross
Central
Chicago
Iowa
Allen
International _ Red Cross
Red Cross
Pershing
France
Davison
Roumania
Graettinger
Palo Alto County
The
Knudson
Oscar Craven
Mike Bradley
Peter Fell
Sam Roseland
Joe Gabrielson
Theodora Peterson
Vincent Kelly
Preston Fahnestock
O. C Torgeson
J. A Suss
Harry Olson
H. Leslie Wildey
CG. IF
Walden
Joe Bigley
John Jertson
Harry Dickey
Mitchell Bros
H. N. Os
Lona Christenson
Whittemore
Es‘therville
Graettingerg
Houge
Local Legal Advisory Board aids WWI registrants
Under new selective service regulations the National Army registrants will soon receive a printed questionnaire from the local board. The Palo County Legal Advisory Board and associates, including county lawyers and laymen, aid registrants in understanding the law, preparing true answers, and ensuring orderly administration. The board will be available at all times. questionnaires are available at county banks and associate member names will be published later. Dated December 3 1917 EB A Morling E B Soper D G McCarty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National
EB. A. Morling
D. G. McCarty
Ames 16 year old wins Palo Alto 6 corn club prize 1917
Draman a 16 year old boy from Ames wins the Palo Alto 6 corn club prize for 1917 with a yield of 100.2 bushels per acre dry basis in an Iowa State College extension contest. He will travel with about 150 other county and state club winners to Chicago and Milwaukee, visiting stock yards and packing houses, with a special sermon for the winner by Dr Frank Gunsaulus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Palo Alto
Parcelre Extension Department
Iowa State College
Bert L. France
Snd
Chicago
Milwau
Kee
Frank Gunsaulus
Eugene Dugane
Kingsley
Mouth
Sak Jfonghiy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sgraettinger
Eggy Bartos
N. Kettelaen
Port Ee
Thi TS
Gwendolyn ‘Jensen
Dorothy
Marie
Thoreson
Carnationa
Peande
Eadrnationa
Smilax
Myhre Rena
Inger
Will
Hettinger
Dakota
Grom
Rige
OS Sande
Hattinger
North Dakota
Staten‘Island
Nae
Poe
Jane Senin
Robert Wilson
di Ted
Wallie Stephens
Oto
I Pel
Ole
Tilly
Opera House
Schurman & Show
Santa
Frank Ome
Guthoyie
H. W. Jenson
the Oaks Lavoning
Hennifan
Armatrong
Rae McIntyre
Tom
Ems
Arry
Cial
Clarissa Christensen
Loraine Dunn
Saster
Tha Brekke Slough
Thorn Brekke
Clarice Bordin
Armstrong High School
Britt High
Culbertson
Nane
Culbertgen
Lulu
Hurbert
Jond Odelin -Loewenberg
Riverside Club
L. L. Lindsey
Ton'l
Lutheran Ladies’ Aid Society
E. M. Cathcart
Lost Island
Grachtinger
Hoping Red Cross Society
Independent Society Notes
O'Rourke
Hatherville
Herp
A. G. Herke
Pene
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