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Graettinger Times

Location

Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 24, 1944

Page

7

Boys in Service From Graettinger Area News in England and Stateside

Graettinger residents are noted as being in England and the United States in military service. Names include Russell Carnes Carney and family visits at hospitals. Others report sailors home from Pearl Harbor and Des Moines physicals for Navy duty. A nurse, Lt Anna Rasmussen, visits her brother in England, while comrades share letters from overseas and the 34th Army unit.

England Graettinger Boys Energland John Mills Kenneth Johnson U. Ss, Navy Pearl Harbor Oahu Island Omaha Graettinger Eaghind Annal K. Rasmussen Red Crags Cpl Carl Rasmussen Pfu Howard Noble the Times Cpl Rasmussen State Island New York Carl Car 34Th Africa North Africa Sicily Anna K. Rasmussen State Island Hospital Schick General Hospital Clinton Iowa

Discover Your Hidden Talent With Army Work Corps

Have you a hidden talent Join the WAC and learn you can be trained for one of 239 vital jobs The Army offers full details at the nearest recruiting station or by writing The Adjutant General Room 4415 Munitions Building Washington DC

WAC Army U. S.S. Army Adjutant General Munitions Building Washington, D. C

Social Items From Lost Island Community Notes

Social items recount meetings and celebrations across Lost Island. Activities include library fund tea, Embroidery club luncheon, 4-H Walnut Merry Maids program, birthday and anniversary observances, and various bridge and dinner gatherings with hostesses named and dates noted.

War Bonds Message from a U-Boat Victim

Amid the Battle of the Atlantic a U-boat sinks and Sparks, the radio operator, sends his last call as lifeboats drift away. Millions of dollars in food, supplies, and munitions bought with War Bonds vanish with the wreck. The piece urges harder work, greater savings, and more frequent investments in War Bonds.

What You Buy With War Bonds and Navy Size Change

The piece notes Pearl Harbor prompted a one ocean navy of about 350 ships and an expanding shipbuilding program. It argues for greater War Bond purchases to fund hundreds of Liberty ships and auxiliary craft in a five ocean war, urging continued support of U.S. Treasury bonds.

Pearl Harbor U.S. Treasey

Family heirlooms from historic wars on display in Decorah

Mrs. Burt Hemme of Decorah possesses a collection proving her family’s wartime involvement. Items include a flatiron used in the Revolutionary War, dramaticks from the Civil War era, and large knives wielded in World War I. Wilbur Davis, Henning’s brother, serves in the current war and is stationed in Milan.

Burt Hemme Decorah Wilbur Davis Henning Milan

Church Notices at Immaculate Conception and South Walnut Lutheran

Multiple church notices outline Mass times confession and Sunday school at Immaculate Conception and South Walnut Lutheran, with details on Lent services led by Rev. Julius Masted, confirmations, and upcoming dedications and observances. Activities include Luther League, Dorcas Mission Society, and Men’s Fellowship with sermons on immortality and Easter themes.

Luther League Lars Thomsen Dorcas Mission Society Ray Glazier Julius F. Masted South Walnut Lutheran Church Julius FF. Masted Cintreh School Men’s Fellowship Club

First Lutheran Church Confirms and Holds Services

Readings from First Lutheran Church and Our Saviors Lutheran Church outline Saturday confirmation at the parsonage and Sunday services at 11:00 a.m. with divine preaching by Rev. Julius Master. Midweek Lenten services, chorus practice, and Ladies Aid events listed with dates and hosts.

E. A. Grefthen Milford St. Paul's Lutheran Church Hewin Clemitson Arnold Bisgard Jens Rasmussen, Jr Ole Thoresan Home Mission Society Amd Karl Holte Floyd Eaton South Walnut Church

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