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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1963
Page
5
The Ruthven boys and girls basketball teams visit Graettinger on Friday for a conference doubleheader. Girls tip at 7 pm. it's the first Graettinger home doubleheader since the holidays, with a large crowd expected. Next, Lincoln Central visits Tuesday Jan 15 for another local clash.
Week results show Farmers Creamery 53 23, Graettinger State Bank 50 26, Graettinger Libr 4 BL Graettinger Ins 38 38, Witt a Place 6B 40, Graettinger Coop 2 47. High team series Graettinger Ins 2539, high individual series M Nemmers 600, high team game Graettinger Ins 2930, high individual game I M Nemmers 222.
Circle No 1 of St Agnes Immaculate Conception plans a Sunday night card party starting at 8 p.m. in church parlors with chairladies Mrs John Nolan and Mrs Lawrence Thomson. Palo Alto County Association for Retarded Children schedules a meeting Monday evening Jan 14 at 7 p.m. at Bethel Baptist Church Emmetsburg inviting everyone to help in the work.
Graettinger town council held its first organizational meeting of the year and renamed and reappointed officials and committees. Mayor Peterson reappointed committee chairs for Finance, Streets and Alleys, Cemetery, Water and Sewer, and Playground. Millen named Mayor Pro-tem. Gilbert Stueve retained street commissioner and marshal duties. Chas Burg reappointed hight marshal. The Graettinger State Bank named depositary. Dwayne L. Lammers named town clerk. Bud Harris rehired for garbage removal. Nick Sherman rehired as city dump custodian. Russ Mesenbrink hired as manager of the Municipal Gas System for the coming year.
Jerry Galvin age 106 and Emmet County’s oldest resident died Sunday night in Estherville. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Estherville with burial at Eastside Cemetery. Born in New York City on August 8, 1856, he lived in Estherville 65 years and is survived by his wife five sons and two daughters.
The first of a series of adult night school classes will be held with the January PTA meeting on Tuesday Jan 22 at the local school. Classes run from 7 to 9 pm followed by the PTA meeting featuring Peter Kreppel an Estherville exchange student from Germany. He stays at the Deemer Lee home and speaks on history music and Ish. Night classes will be offered Tuesday nights this year with a slate including upholstery cooking business education typing bookkeeping law machines fitness sewing bridge arts and crafts photography refinishing knitting. A minimum enrollment of ten is required for each class.
Garth Logan a 1962 Buena Vista College graduate and former college laboratory assistant will join Graettinger High School as science and mathematics instructor starting January 21, marking expanded advanced math and science offerings. He and his wife Carla plan to move into the Richard Gray residence. his parents live in Havelock.
Public sale at the farm one mile east and a quarter mile south of Wallingford on Wednesday January 16 starting at 1 p m. Auction features farm machinery including 2 WD Allis tractors a combine and a corn picker. See sale ad in this issue.
The week opened with mild temperatures around 40s and 45 degrees after frost and slick roads. By Wednesday night colder air moved in and a light snow possibility was forecast, with daytime readings near 40 and nights dipping.
Agatha Christie fans can see Miss Marple on screen for the first time in Murder She Said at Graettinger theatre Saturday and Sunday. Margaret Rutherford leads as the eccentric sleuth with Arthur Kennedy and James Robertson Justice in key roles.
Hammerberg's Drug Store promotes a January Specials event this weekend with discounts on many items. See page three for full details of the sale and featured products.
Walter S. High of Emmetburg named chairman for 1963 at the Palo Alto County Supervisors organizational meeting. Lester Johnson acted as temporary chair. Alma Burns swore in High and William Bargman. County Engineer William Elingrod was reappointed with a $400 annual raise to $10,000. committees on finance and the poor were named with Bargman, Johnson, Petergon, and Ricklefs. Appointments to the board of social welfare included Himh, Bernette McCain, and Jorgen Larson. Margaret Calkins reappointed as Overseer of the Poor with mileage and $50 monthly for distributions.
Jim Oleson and Ron Baedke two Greeninger high students joined Mr. Warren Erickson for chair tryouts in Storm Lake. They were chosen to play in the Northwest Iowa Band at a Washington High School concert in Cherokee on February 2. Oleson won first chair baritone horn and Baedke first trombone second chair.
Palo Alto county officials publish two bidding notices in this issue. Sealed bids are due to the county auditor by January 15 for an extra heavy duty motor grader and a passenger car for the engineers office. Bids also due by 9 30 January 17 for painting and washing parts at the courthouse in Emmertown.
Mayor Roy T. Peterson announced that 1963 Graettinger city dog licenses are now available. Licenses may be obtained from Marsuis Gilbem Stueve, Chius. Licenses cost $1 for male dogs and $3 for female dogs.
Gracttinger's Saturday prize offers $25 at a 3 o'clock drawing in participating stores. Luther Herrick previously claimed the $25 Buck award last week.
The 1963 edition of the Farmers Tax Guide is now at the Palo Alto extension office per county extension director R. W. Ashby. It answers questions on farm income tax reports with examples of income, expense and depreciation items handled on tax forms. It explains the investment credit for machinery and equipment bought in 1962.
The Gracttinger Pirettes dropped both games at Albert City as the W Pirette team fell 55 to 39 and the B squad 50 to 37. Lorraine Reschorner led scoring with 17, Diane Felkey 12, Sharon Gray 5, Donna Suss 5. Hoffman scored 40 for Albert City-Truesdale. Coach Dorseth used the reserve lineup, exposing inexperience as a factor in the losses.
Kenneth Harding 63 of Estherville former Graettinger resident died Wednesday at Holy Family hospital after a heart condition. Funeral set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Estherville Methodist Church with visitation Thursday at Sandin Fuhrman Funeral Home. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Survived by wife Vesta Gardner, two daughters Marvis Lundgren of Ringsted and Helen Usher of La Verne, five grandchildren, one brother and three sisters. Further obituary details next week.
Emma Caroline Fossums Halver Peterson of Wallingford and Estherville died Saturday at Holy Family hospital after two months of failing health. Born March 6 1888 she taught rural school before marrying Halver H Peterson Feb 5 1914. Survived by one brother Arthur Fossum and many nieces and nephews. Funeral held at Estherville Lutheran church with burial in Riverside cemetery Wallingford. Pallbearers named.
The Graettinger Pirates totalled their season high points but Emmetsburg Catholic High’s quintet shot exceptionally and hustled to win 83 66. The Irish B team topped the Pirates 49 29 in the night opener while the Irish A squad dominated early 23 6 and maintained leads to a 66 37 third quarter, finishing with 60 points in each of the last three periods.
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