08 Dec 1955
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1955
Page
1
The piece extols shopping in Graettinger to keep money in the community, noting savings, lack of metropolitan overhead, and four $75 street drawings on December 10 14 17 and 21. It contrasts farmer wage viability with labor aims and cites a rise in U S millionaires, highlighting local concentrations in Henderson County Texas.
Monona county reports the death of Karen Marie Nortensen aged 101 at her daughter’s home in Onawa. A native of Denmark, she lived a long life and was the county’s oldest resident.
Ole Madeson of Belle Plaine caught a 32-pound snapping turtle in the Iowa River near the Amana colonies. A lifelong hunter, he set a new record with the huge specimen. The turtle’s head measured about four inches wide.
A readable fragment lists individuals including Martin Thompson Lloyd W Frost Richard Miller Mrs Alice Yoch Dick Love Mercer Richter Jay Duhigg er J B Hyde Joe Joyce William Fogarty Wm McConnell A P Bicklefe Supt Co Home Matt Brown LE Smith Immaculate Conception Father E Maynard Methodist Church Rev John Amundsen First Lutheran Our Savior's Lutheran Rev Peal G Tele The text appears as an index of names and church affiliations with no clear event or narrative.
A missionary tale from a Chinese mud hill shows that neighborliness means active help beyond mere coexistence. The piece argues neighborly duty spans races and classes, asks how workers and owners may be neighbors, and poses questions about cooperation without enabling mooching, linking to Jesus’ Good Samaritan and applying it to a connected modern world.
The live stock raisers of the Graettinger area shipped hogs and cattle worth about $40,000. Sixteen rail cars were sent to Iowa Falls with the rest bound for Chicago, led by D. C. Barringer and the Graettinger Co-operative Live Stock Shipping association. The Legion plans a Christmas tree on Robins Avenue, with free candy for children. Also note moves, Thanksgiving visits, and a high school girls basketball win 23 to 12 paced by Evelyn Jones and Dorothy Fink.
City librarian urges careful book handling in rain or snow and promotes new and old Christmas titles. Read IN CLEAN HAY about Polish siblings and Nativity puppets, WHOSE BIRTH DAY IS IT, Christmas stories such as Snow Ball helped Santa, Old Mr Rabbit and wife, and over 50 more. Grownups may enjoy THE WORLD'S GREATEST CHRISTMAS STORIES collected by Posselt.
Recovering at Rockford, Roger Burnett an eighth grade student, is injury after a .22 revolver discharged during cleaning. The bullet entered his abdomen.
Five generations gathered for a Manning photo. The oldest, Mrs. Hans Moller, 97, and the youngest, Randy Jahn, two months old, appeared with relatives in a family snapshot.
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