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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1956
Page
4
A compact notice sheet lists weekday masses and confessions, Sunday masses, choir practices, Lenten devotions and services, and various church group meetings at multiple congregations. It includes Methodists and Wallingford Lutherans with times for choir rehearsals, youth fellowships, dinners, and midweek services.
Community church notices list services, meetings, and events for First Lutheran and Lost Island Lutheran. Pancake supper tickets cost 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children under twelve. Weekly activities include World Day of Prayer, adult instruction, confirmation class, worship services, Sunday School, choir practice, and mid weekly Lenten services with a shared theme A Time to Listen. Neighboring St Pauls Lutheran hosts joint midweek services with Pastor Sorengen and South Walnut Church attendees invited.
Arthur W. Sorensen leads worship at Paul’s Lutheran with morning services at Town Church 8:30 and 11:00, Sunday School at 9:45, and adult Bible classes. So Walnut Church offers 9:45 service and 10:45 Sunday School with classes. Circles canceled for World Day of Prayer. Jr. Choir meets Wednesday at 4:15. mid week Lent services 7:30 jointly with Lost Island and First Lutheran featuring The Passion story.
Price support for 1956 crops shows Iowa at 81 percent of parity for corn, about $1.40 per bushel, with 1955 at 87 percent and $1.58. Barley, oats, rye, and grain sorghum remain 70 percent, with flaxseed and soybeans rising. Wheat support set at minimum $1.81 per bushel. commercial counties differ from noncommercial areas.
Iowa State College agricultural report shows 1955 corn yields varied from near zero to very high, with John Greig Estherville and Harold Howe Bricelyn posting the state’s second highest top averages. District eight near Tama saw 1–3 bushels higher. stands averaged 88 percent, some fields 96 percent. Harvest was two weeks early and corn was drier due to dry conditions.
Prayer across more than 184 countries unfolds in over a thousand languages as people donate money and goods to ease suffering. United Church Women sponsor in the U S with ministries funded worldwide, honoring American Indian leaders from Cook Training School Phoenix. The circuit starts in Fiji and Tonga as the sun hits the world with a message of oneness.
Hybrids tested in 1955 Iowa trials totaled 293, with estimates covering about two thirds of state acreages. In district two Greig and Howe, top yields reached 118 bushels per acre for DeKalb 406 123 DeKalb 627 119 Tomahawk 43 United UH 32a Holden H72 and Iowa 4645. Pioneer 8371 117 Pioneer 347 116 Turner T36 Moons 6060 and Pioneer 362 averaged 115 bushels per acre.
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