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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1958
Page
4
Rev E S Maynard pastor announces weekday Masses at 7 am and Sunday Masses at 8 am and 10 am Confession Saturday 3 to 6 and 7 to 8 30 pm Thursday choir practice 7 30 pm and weekly thereafter Catechism class Saturday 9 11 30 am
Sunday School at 9 45 a m Morning Worship 10 15 a m Evening Services 7 30 p m Friday 7 00 p m Weekly visitation Thursday 7 30 p m prayer meeting
Thursday Luther League at 6 p m. Saturday Confirmation class at 1 L a m. Sunday school at 10 a m worship services at 11 a m The text lists church program times across Thursday Saturday and Sunday and notes the sequence of classes and worship.
Lost Island Lutheran Church led by Pastor T. Fjelstul holds worship at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. Thursday Ladies Aid meets at 2:15 p.m. Mary Christianson leads devotions with Christine Norris. Hostesses Sylvia Jensen and Alice Simonson. Ruth Christianson in dining room.
Rev. Benjamin Coutvet, pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Monday Bible Study 8 p.m. Wednesday choir practice 8 p.m. Thursday Bible study and prayer fellowship 8 p.m. Saturday confirmation classes 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Sunday worship and Sunday school are listed with times and speakers and a guest from Henderson Settlement Frakes Kentucky. Activities include Commission on Membership and Evangelism Friday at 8 p m Senior choir Thursday 7 p m Junior choir Wednesday 4 Intermediate MY Sunday 7 and Saturday junior confirmation and Sunday senior confirmation. The program features Waldorf College students with hostesses listed and weekly choir rehearsals.
Irvings Petersen, Pastor, lists services and activities for St Pauls Lutheran IL includes confirmation classes at 9 30 a m and 10 40 a m junior class Sunday school and Bible class 9 15 p m and 10 30 a m divine worship Midweek events: Thursday 8 00 p m senior choir 8 00 p m Brotherhood meeting 7 00 p m church council Married Couples hosts to senior choir for appreciation supper Luther League to visit shut ins and give a program
Sheriff Linn Fed erberg and Estherville firemen retrieved a body from frigid waters near the ice using a bobber line, a boat, and a grappling hook. The operation began after a call to the sheriff and involved moving the boat to the ice edge and pulling the victim onto the surface. No ice break or skid marks were observed by Herke.
A missing plane crash near a Palo Alto county farm prompted a three hour search led by Sheriff Dick Miller. Pilot Whorley of Emmetsburg and passenger McEwan, a farmer northeast of the city, died in a subfreezing field, their bodies showing multiple injuries. The wreck, with engine pushed back and wings detached, suggests a vertical impact. Surviving family members and local residents recalled the fox spotting flights as routine.
The article profiles Methodist A. Evans, longtime missionary and superintendent at Henderson Settlement in Kentucky’s Cumberland Mountains. Founded 1925 by Rev Hiram Frakes, the settlement grew from a 13‑student one room school to 700 acres with 22 buildings serving 40 to 50 resident children. It emphasizes aiding hungry or mistreated youths, not a reform school, with many alums becoming community leaders.
Used clothing from Methodist groups across many states reaches the mountain settlement. The goods are rarely free and a small fee is charged, though the article's value likely exceeds the price.
Extension Service named as official judge for the contest making it the third year Mr. Dyes aids the local PFA Chapter. Fifty weed and grain seed samples will be identified with trophies for top team and individual, ribbons for top finishers, and sponsorship from the Gracttinger Chapter. Attendance requested Saturday morning from nine to noon. The text also notes equal day and night on March 21 and September 23 and a heartbeat interval of eight tenths of a second.
Mrs. Robert Carter and Mrs. Ernie Andresen named co chairmen for Gracttinger Heart Fund campaign with Orville Wilson as county chairman. Plastic heart containers placed in stores. volunteers to assist in February solicitations. Heart Month aims to cut deaths from heart and blood vessel disease, which affect about one in 16 Iowans. Seventy five percent of contributions stay in Iowa. 25 percent supports American Heart Association programs. Advanced solicitation planned in business district and a Heart Sunday drive on February 23.
Over the past week temperatures fell to zero and slightly below in the area and then moderated by Wednesday morning. No precipitation was reported during the period.
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