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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1956
Page
2
Various small notices show local business ads and personal thanks. Potter Insurance Agency offers coverage with evening hours. a Des Moines box ad seeks a credit manager for a sewing machine. Egg producer HY-LINE 934-A praises high yield layers. expressions of gratitude from Emmet Riley family and the Simonsen family.
Mrs Ora Brown becomes Spice office secretary in Ruthven while Frank Meyer relocates to Estherville at 421 South Tenth. Graettinger visitors visit Ann Girveson Mallard. Ted Christiansen winters in Hot Springs Arkansas. Various residents attend showers, dinners, and estate sales. Rev. Vance Knutsen accepts pastorate in Santa Clara California succeeding three and a half years at Elgin Iowa.
A promotional blurb highlights a piece titled I Tore Down the Red Flag in The American Weekly and its Sunday Chicago American tie in. It spotlights the revolt spark in Poland and Hungary as a contextual hook for the reader.
The 1956 Iowa waterfowl season ends one half hour before sunset on December 44. Tomorrow closes the waterfowl season and the December 15 close of the long zone quail season, ending all 1956 Iowa game bird seasons. Rabbit season runs through January 31, 1957, with continuous open seasons on red fox, gray fox, coyotes and crows.
Mr and Mrs Lioyd Simonsen announce a 7 lb 12 oz daughter Ronda Sue born Nov 28 at Palo Alto Memorial Emmetsburg. Grandparents Charlie Henningsen and John Simonsen. Also Karen Jean born Dec 3 to Mr and Mrs Charles Stillman Jr of Graettinger at Estherville Holy Family hospital. grandparents Charles Stillman Sr and Gene Murphy. Gerald Weber and wife welcome a daughter born Dec 9 at Emmetsburg hospital. grandparents James Mahan and family in Graettinger.
Mrs Leo Thompson identified last week's mystery farm as Marcus Geil. Mrs Albert Schealler won the free cash prize. Other correct guesses came from Frans Swanson, Mrs Carl Rasmussen, Mrs Jack Platter, and Fred Chris.
Hansen announces the Grachtinger theatre reopens this week and the weekly prize changes from correct identifiers to two free theatre tickets for the winner.
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