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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1949
Page
7
Visiting around Iowa Cousin Ed shared a coal company calendar from 1950 and urged personal New Year resolutions. He remarked that many draft resolutions target others while neglecting self improvement, urging everyone to commit to a single broad goal for the year.
Meals listed for Monday to Friday at Legion Hall include ground beef and spaghetti with creamed peas and fruit cup. Tuesday features baked beans and potato salad with peanut butter sandwich and apple upside down cake. Wednesday serves creamed potatoes with cheese cabes and biscuits. Thursday offers baked potatoes with milk gravy and pigmented salads. Friday presents escaloped potatoes with green beans and cinnamon apple.
The reminiscence recalls the first Christmas gatherings 66 years ago in a vacant blacksmith shop, later Albert Suss Cabinet Shop, showing a transformed hall, Santa Claus, and a cold winter with a snowstorm in northwest Iowa. The narrative also notes weather, visits, and local events, plus a long list of past community payments and adjourned meeting actions.
The Watson Theatre lists December 29 screenings of We Were Strangers with Jennifer Jones and John Garfield, December 30 31 western Streets of Laredo with Mona Freeman, William Holden and William Bendix, plus January 12 The Stratton Story with James Stewart and June Allyson, and January 8 9 The Lone Wolf and His Lady with The Window.
A dense accounting page lists numerous individuals, households, and firms with allocated funds and services. Entries cover relief allowances, fuel, rent, clothing, labor, repairs, supplies, and mileage at county offices, with names like Ruthven Cream, A. Johnson, Me d, and Woodwards Store appearing amid various department charges and reimbursements.
Moved by Philips and seconded by Thompson to approve the County Home report for November 1949. Appointments include George H. Golden as Constable of Emmetsburg, bond approved. County Clerk’s report for Q2 and Q3 1949 approved. Personal tax adjustments for C. M. & Clara Haas totaling 225.00 approved. Cleanout of D. D. Nos. 8 and 159 authorized. W. A. Marley resignation as Justice of the Peace Walnut Township accepted. Board adjourns to December 16. Martin Thompson County Auditor W. W. McConnell Chairman.
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