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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1959
Page
4
Rev E S Maynard, Pastor lists weekday Masses at 7 am and Sunday Masses at 8 and 10 am at the Immaculate Conception. Confession Saturdays 3 to 3:30 and 7 to 8:30 pm. Catechism class Saturday 9 to 11:30 am. New Year’s Day Masses at 3 and 10 am east of Circumcision services.
Grace Baptist Church presents Watch Night Service Wednesday from 9 to 12 with singing testimonies and Bible message followed by The Lord's Supper. Sunday School at 9:43 led by Stanley Miller, competent Bible teaching. Morning Worship at 10:45 and Evening Gospel Hour at 7:30.
The notice lists Wallingford Lotheran N. I. Jolivette as pastor and provides service times. Thursday 8 p m mid week Bible study. Saturday 9 a m junior confirmation 10 a m junior choir 10 30 a m senior confirmation. Sunday 9 30 a m worship 10 45 a m Sunday School.
Church notices list services and meetings for METHODIST HALPH Grote and ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN with divines at 8 and 9:30 10:30 a m, Sunday school at 9:15 and 10:30, Junior Missionary Society, Bible study, council and Ladies Aid events, Luther League, and an annual congregation meeting postponed to January 20. Also SOUTH WALNUT LUTHERAN outlines worship and Sunday school timings plus January 8 and 20 meetings and classes.
The parish outlines upcoming activities including the Woman's Society Study group meeting January 8 at 2 p m, choir cantata at 2 p m, church council gathering January 6 at 8 p m, Ladies Aid January 8 at 2 p m, and the congregation annual meeting on January 13 at 11 a m.
Immanuel Lutheran church presented a cantata directed by Mrs Olga Christian with twenty members including college students home on vacation and many relatives visiting from Estherville Graettinger Ringsted Ruthven Dolliver Sioux Falls and Moorhead. The event featured junior and senior choirs singing carols at multiple local homes and care facilities followed by a lunch.
A compact derecho of local notes lists May 8 sectional win by the Pirates, new school faculty members and valedictorian picks, a Canton motorcycle fatality, May 22 honors, and June through August civic changes. It records appointments, deaths, openings, elections, and community happenings in Graettinger and nearby towns with scattered misprints.
A yearly chronicle lists deaths, openings, races, fairs, fire calls, sports wins, and community happenings. Notable items include deaths of H Raleigh and Leonard Marxen, labor day crowds, state fair events, opening grid season for Pirates, homecomings, school and church activities, a regional drought note, and pre Christmas promotions.
Catherine Westfall a nursing student at St Joseph School of Nursing Sioux City visited from Tuesday to Sunday at her parents home Mr and Mrs El Westfall. Mr and Mrs Wilfred Witt and family spent Christmas with Mrs Witt sister and family Mr and Mrs Ralph Boecker at Des Moines. They visited Mrs Witt's parents Mr and Mrs Ernest Lovrien at Ellsworth Minnesota on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Leroy Paulsen and family of Topaka Kansas and Mr and Mrs Jorgen Paulsen were Christmas Eve visitors at Mrs Paulsen's mother Mrs Carrie Halverson in Lost Island township with Mr and Mrs Mac McKean Maple Hill and Mr and Mrs Orville Lufkin as other guests. Mrs Archie Atkinson and children of Waterloo spent the holidays with her mother Mrs Esther Simonsen. They were Sunday guests at Mrs Carrie Halverson home. Beas Hamilton was a Christmas holiday visitor at the home of her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Owen Cook at Spencer.
Four Graettinger youths plan to attend the Seventeen TV show at Ames next Saturday after noon at 4 30. They include Brian Petersen Phil Johnson Kathy Hartung and Patty Watson. The program spotlights Iowa teenagers enjoying rock and roll and is billed as a top national acts show. In other notes Christmas day guests and family visits are listed for Graettinger and nearby towns.
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