Photo memory spans 1887 school days in rural area
Roy Young found an old photograph from about 1887 showing his mother Jen nie Hightower teaching a country school south of Spencer with 14 students. The image, cropped to a moment in time, hints at early rural life and youth, including two boys with moustaches. A Minneapolis Star photo note features Minnesota's first regional library in west St. Paul and Lynne Lancaster, five, in the children's room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Young
Jennie Hightower
Spencer
Minneapolis Star
Minnesota
West St.Paul
Lynne Lancaster
Granddaughter and relatives tied to local names in Minnesota notes
Mr and Mrs Herbert Lancaster of St Paul are linked to Lynne as the granddaughter of Mrs Margaret Johnson of Graettinger. Graettinger Postmaster R T Nase and clerk Clara Thoreson wear new postal uniforms under updated rules. Editor Morris of the Bricelyn Sentinel ponders a reader’s Abigail problem about family ties and a potential marriage amid troubling relatives and a printer brother.
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Alvin Johnson
Wallingford
Roland Wikert
Graettinger
Herbert Lancaster
St. Paul
Lynne
Margaret Johnson
R. T. Nase
Clara Thoreson
Morris
Bricelyn Sentinel
Abby
Drivers License Exams Set for Iowa Towns by Day
Social Security announces a district office schedule with exam and contact locations. Estherville City Hall sessions run 1:00 to 2:30 on Tuesdays December 4 and 18, and Emmetsburg Courthouse hours are 10:00 to 12:30 Wednesdays December 12 and 19. Appointment letters direct to Fort Dodge district office.
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Social Security District Office of
Fort Dodge
Emmetsburg
Estherville
Directory of Graettinger Officials and Local Churches
A compact directory lists town officials Roy T. Peterson H Bargman Walter High Lester Johnson Russell Peterson and others, plus pastors for Bethel Lutheran Methodist Grace Baptist Wallingford and Immanuel Lutheran churches with listed pastors C J Reitz C F Curtis Clarence Shipley K E Glaser Benjamin Colivet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graettinger
H. Bargman
Walter High
Lester Johnson Russell Peterson
Targotee
A. P. Rickles Rintendent
Understanding Love through Action and Unity in Faith
The piece argues true knowledge of love comes from living it not just reading about it. It contrasts love with hate and death, cites Saint John Paul and Jesus, and highlights love as deeds in truth over words. It praises examples of selfless care for children and urges confessing that such love remains rare and surprising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr, Foreman
Fifeguard
John
Cain
Abel
Apostle
Paul
Peter
Lord
Minneapolis boxing card and local notices
Groner aGnse a FY Page and CS Verne Trickel participate in an eight round main go in Minneapolis on Monday evening with Red Schultz of Mill City as opponent. Large crowds enjoyed pancake and coffee at Thompson Grocery and hot dogs at the D X oil station grand opening. Milch cows hit 100 dollars at Hensloff auction. Merriman of Minneapolis, former Graettinger Times publisher, visited. Sullivan returned to Trinity College in Sioux City. Tompkins move to Fred Spies residence on M E Church block. Graettinger markets show corn 39 oats 24 eggs 21c butter 43 heavy hens 13 light hens 11. Old King Winter grips northwest Iowa with subzero mornings. Elwood Hyatt and Dorothy Leone Olson wed at Methodist Episcopal.
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Verne Trickel
Graettinger
Minneapolis
Red Schultz
Mill City
Thompson
Hensloff
E. B. Merriman
Graettinger Times
Edward Sullivan
Sioux City
Trinity College
Charles Tompkins
Fred Spies
M. E. Church Block
Scarlet fever closes Ayrchive area schools and church notice
A local notice states that the Ayrchive schools are closed on account of an epidemic of scarlet fever. A few cases exist in the surrounding country and the disease has not yet struck the community. A church service is planned for Wednesday at two p.m. in Terris.
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Ghurch
Terris
Ayrchive
Grachtinger
Bridge to the Sun by Gwen Terasaki at Down Library
A review of the non fiction work Bridge to the Sun tells the true story of an American woman and Japanese diplomat married in 1931. They travel from Japan to China Cuba and Washington during the war years with Pearl Harbor looming. The account, though wartime tragic, emphasizes warmth humor and cultural ties.
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Gwen Terasaki
Tennesee
Pacific
Japan
United States
China
Mariko
Cuba
Washington, D. C
Pearl Harbor
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the Graettinger Times
P. T. Cody
Iowa
Asgb Fain Eae Ae
Palo Alto
Emmet
Fenton and Terris
Albert Suss
Cabinet
Orange City
Enmetsburg
Rock Rapida
Spirit Lake
Sibley
Raettinger
Ness
BUSI
C. A. Shiley
Office of Home
K. L. Johnson
Optometrist
6Th St
Fuhrman Funeral Home
Olene Jacobson, D.V.M
Ted Knudtson
GLASS
V. G. Rients
Bratland Jewelry
Princess Diamonds
Phon
Emmemary Hl
Roy T. Peterson
Tom Milton Byron Rolfson
Gilbert
Mar Municipal
Kenneth Jensen
Pupt
G. F. Shaver
Lars Petersen
Earl Erickson
Wayne Potter
McDonald & Water Depts.t
Stueve Chas
Burg
Dwayne Lammers Lea Hughes “Ranch
Heidecker
Lenis Luchter Light Plant
Directory OF County Officials
Francis Hughes
Alma Burna
Richard Miller
Alice Yoch
Jack Phillips
Charles Barlow Or, J. L. Coffey
E. Smith
Community Church Directory
Robert Dawson
Hea
G. H. Frye
A. H. Hobson
Scimetsburg
Terry S Anderson
Emmet CO. Bank
Lost Island Lutheran
Harald Bestul
Beelene
Bethel Lutheran Church
C. J. Reitz
Rev
C. F. Curtis
Emmetaburg
Immanuel Lutheran
Benjamin Colivet
Directory of Graettinger Organizations
Carpeer
CAP
Nelson
Dateo Legion and Auxiliary and
Tuseday” of ‘Monthblete Chay
THE
IRS Ibesas
Fela
Groner
Old King Winter
Mercury
Elwood Hyatt
West Point
Nebraska
Dorothy Leone Olson
Leon Olson
Methodist Episcopal
D&E_ ELECTRIC EMMETSBURG
City Library
Times Advertisers
Dail
Graettinger Or
F.p.I.c
Pak Ca
Aetna
FDLC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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