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Local News Briefs From Graettinger Area
Local notes report a clothing drive to be held next Monday with drop spots at church basements and Red Cross rooms. Several residents travel, visit, or plan moves, including Ole G. Olesen and son Melville heading to California by car in 7 to 10 days. A December 26 birth is announced at Holy Family hospital, Graettinger, with congratulations extended. Multiple families welcomed guests and discussed military service, college plans, and holiday visits, including Luther College student Otto Appel and twin Hans being called to service, and Drake University student Michael Hagen’s birth announcement. A restaurant in Emmetsburg reopens, and local residents return from cities for holidays.
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Red Cross
Fred Jacobsen
Ole G. Olesen
Melville
Graettinger
California
Arnold
Girres
Holy Family Hospital
Motherville
the Times
Ek.t. McCarty
Jack Whitley
Tom Sullivan
Spirit Lake
Henry Appel
Otto Appel
Decorah
Luther College
Bother
Hans
Hilmer Larsen
Wallingford
Grachtinger
Martin Graff
Chicago