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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1958
Page
5
In Ruthven next Monday night at 8 30 p m the Gradtlinger Pirates will face Cylinder in the first round of the Palo Alto county boys basketball tournament. The 1937 58 Pirates are shown above with Jim Chri as part of the lineup.
The Graettinger Pirettes meet Ayrshire in the Palo Alto county girls basketball semifinals at Mallard Friday night with two games scheduled: Mallard versus Ruthven at 7 p.m. and Graettinger Ayrshire at 6:30. Admissions are 65 and 35 cents. The Pirettes advanced 54-47 over Cylinder. Ruthven beat West Bend 75-31. Ayrshire defeated Rodman 41-31.
Lucille Elsenius resigns as deputy auditor per County Andhtor Martin Thomp. A successor has been chosen but not named. Elsenius will pursue undisclosed future plans.
Unseasonably mild temperatures dominated the week with daytime readings in the forties and nights near freezing. Foggy conditions persisted Monday morning and rain on Tuesday gave way to light snow later in the day with minimal snowfall overall.
State Conservation Officer Verl E. Holmes of Lake View is appointed conservation officer for Palo Alto county and will begin duties February 1. This ends shared coverage by Harold John Johnson who has served Palo Alto and Emmet counties.
Emmetsburg resident Harry Hauber recently began work at Del’s Farmers Supply after Navy discharge. He and wife Delores Conway Hauber, formerly of Graettinger, reside with their six month old daughter Debra in the north part of town.
Jack Welle was elected president at a special meeting last week in Graettinger. Myron Sinn named vice president and the executive board includes Lloyd Fetonsen, Dr. Robert Dawson, and P. T. Cody. Wolfe succeeds Del Bekep.
Graettinger hosts Armstrong on the local court Tuesday night at 7.00 pm Curtain-raiser features the second team game followed by the first team game.
Gun Glory shows at the Grachtinger Theatre Sunday and Saturday January 17 and 18 in CinemaScope and Color. Starring Stewart GrangerRhonda Fleming Chill Wills with Steve Rowland James Gregory Jacques Aubuchon. Based on Philip Yordans Man of the West.
Graettinger Telephone Co stockholders will hold their annual meeting Monday afternoon January 20 at 1 p m in the Legion hall. Officers for the coming year will be elected, yearly reports presented, and other business acted upon as needed.
Funeral services for G. dH. Harold Stearns aged 63 of Estherville will be at 2 p m Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church Estherville with Rev Robert Karsten officiating He died Tuesday morning at his home of a heart attack Stearns born Sept 10 1888 in Beaver Creek township Minn son of Charles B and Mary Engle Stearns He retired in 1956 after 49 years with Rock Island Railroad Survived by wife Ruth five sons Robert Tom Robert James and Joseph one daughter Ruth Van Hoven five grandchildren one great grandchild one brother Robert Burial in Oak Hill cemetery Burial will be in Sternberg Funeral Home through today noon. Stearns was well known in Graettinger area index of relatives and railroad work
Wm. Voigt Sr announces a closing out sale of farm machinery and items at his farm four miles east of Jack Creek corner and one half mile south. Bartonville and Brown are auctioneers and the Graettinger State Bank will clerk. See ad in Times later.
The First Lutheran Ladies Aid will hold a bake sale at Thoreson’s hardware on Wednesday afternoon January 22. Your patronage will be appreciated.
Grace Baptist Church of Graettinger will hold its formal organizational service Sunday at 3:00 PM. Rev. F. W. McKnight of Estherville will speak, with student pastor Carroll Onstott of Owatonna, Minn. assisting. Visitors from Baptist circles are expected. the public is invited. Services began in November after the church building, south of the Legion hall, was purchased.
The Iowa Conservation Commission announced the 1958 59 fishing rules with changes only for five species north and south of U S Highway 30. Catfish daily limit rises to 16 with possession at 16. bass seasons run May 24 to Nov 30 north of the road, continuous south. Walleye and sauger pike seasons differ by region, with daily limits five and possession 10 inland and eight and 16 in boundary waters. Bullheads see new inland limits south of Highway 80, none north, and a statewide continuous season remains for bullheads.
Palo Alto county representative Arley Barringer of Ruthven has informed the State Democratic committee he will not be a candidate for reelection. The Ruthven Free Press reports this recent news item and notes Barringer’s decision ahead of the coming election.
St Catherine s circle No 1 of the Rosary Society meets at Immaculate Conception church parlors on Wednesday Jan 22. A business session at 2 p m followed by lunch from 3 30 to 5 00. Chairladies Miss Zeta Richardson and Mrs Alfred Lammers invite all.
Four Graettinger High School students will attend the Northwest Iowa Band Festival in Cherokee on February 8. Susan Shiley, Kathy Hartung, Jaren Wolfe, and Bob Fanning earned top chairs at the Storm Lake auditions held Saturday in January, with Shiley first chair clarinet, Hartung first chair clarinet, Wolfe second clarinet fourth chair, and Fanning first chair sousaphone.
Funeral services were held January 7 in Emmetsburg for Henry Beck aged 78 who died January 5 at his home. Burial followed at Evergreen Cemetery with pallbearers from Ruthven. Survived by wife Christine Young Beck and six children, sons Robert Grad- Unger John Peterson and Tom Custer and daughters Mary Diehl Margaret Bigger and Christine. Born September 7, 1879 in Clear Lake. He farmed near Lost Island and Emmetsburg before moving to Emmetsburg and retiring two years ago.
Henry Buck won the $100 Jackpot in the Wednesday drawing held here this week and Wea ley Sevdy claimed the $10 prize Norma Clemensen did not claim the $15 award Next week prizes are set at $10, $15 and $25.
Northern Natural Gas of Omaha Nebraska filed an application with the Federal Power Commission proposing natural gas service for 80 additional towns in Iowa including West Bend Ruthven and Whittemore. The 1957 application covers 90 Iowa towns and may include a severance motion being heard before the commission.
Graettinger State Bank stockholders held their annual meeting last Thursday at the Legion hall. Directors reelected were C. A. Jensen, George Graettinger, Mike Weinhalzer, H. A. Elgenhast and Francis E. Warren. At the reorganizational meeting Jensen was reelected president and George Graettinger vice president. Also reappointed were H. A. Elsenhast cashier and Francis Warren assistant cashier.
The 1958 Palo Alto county grand jury filed its annual report in district court on January 7. Members include foreman John Thompson and jurors from Mallard Ayrshire Laurens Rodman Ruthven Cylinder and West Bend. The panel commends the county farm steward Riley Smith for neat premises and notes needed repairs to cellar stairs. It urges the board to use Palo Alto Memorial Hospital for county patients whenever space allows and tax funds are involved.
Myrtle Simonsen and Delores Fisher resign as switchboard operators at Graettinger Telephone Company per manager Keith Myers. Myrtle takes a long distance operator job with Bal Telephone at Estherville and Delores becomes manager of Murray Variety store. Dorothy Helmiek and Mrs Don Kabrick hired as switchboard operators by the local company.
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