Local People Travel and Visit Across States and Cities
Local residents and relatives are shown visiting family in Minnesota Iowa and Illinois. Attendees include Mr and Mrs Olaf Michaelson at a relative’s wedding in Callender Iowa Miss Virginia Carlsen visiting from Des Moines while Byron Rolfson and Bert Rolfson enjoy a northern Minnesota fishing trip Albert Bisgard returns from Camp Warren Cheyenne Wyoming and is on leave Mr and Mrs Ira Beaver visiting from Phoenix with Jensens in Graettinger and many others are noted visiting relatives friends and attending events across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olaf Michaelson
Callender
Lloyd Nace
Mankato
Minnesota
Nace
L. G. Wolcott
Wisconsin Lumber Co. Sells
Virginia Carlsen
Des Moines
Byron Rolfson
Bert Rolfson
Wm. Herke
Bay Park
Cedar Lake
Herke
Farmers Hybrid
Seed Corn Co
Fred Walden
Wallingford
California
Loren
A. R. Maurstad
Albert Bisgard
Camp Warren
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Albert
Field Artillery Division
U. S. Army
Ira Beaver
Phoenix
Arizona
C. J. Tompkins
Dorothy Swift
Tompkins
Los Angeles
Pasadena
Alys Thoreson
O. L. Thoreson
South Bend
Indiana
Bendix
Harry Piltingsrud
Clarence
Harold
Leed
North Dakota
John Helvig
Graettinger
Piltingsrud
Helvig
Iowa
Graettinger News Roundup Of Visits And Local Happenings
Local residents and visitors share weekend visits across Graettinger and nearby towns. O R Gardner of Estherville hosts, Frank and Mrs Dobberstein visit Superior, Joy Knutsen stays with Sandvig grandparents, the Olson family gathers in Ringsted and Graettinger. Verna Hampson returns from Ostrander to spend vacation with parents, Edith Wells returns to Afton, and Harry Fink Jr. visits his Ames home before heading back to college. Jack Phillips and children visit Graettinger from Deadwood, revisiting former residents. Elmer Feldman and Robert Starkey plaster the Leon home and later work on the Milford Motor Inn. Markusons of Kenyon and granddaughter La Mae Markuson stay with Rev. and Mrs. Mandsager, then return home. Mrs. D E McCarty and son Ted accompany others to Des Moines for a weekend visit, while Miss Kitty McCarty joins them afterward. Margaret O’Connor returns from Mangum for a relatives’ visit. Robert Hoxie and Alta Jows visit Postmaster Wolff for a few days. The Hoxie farm family from Graettinger hosts guests, and a local birthday celebration for Hiram Pintey notes his June birthday. A Primghar concert features Kari L. King with Port Dodge pianist and composer Tama Som. Chicken-eating contests and a tale of a Lake Mills widow are mentioned, alongside Grinnell wage news amid wartime scrap drives and Harvest apple tree curiosities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. P
Carl Herman
Kansas City
J. P. Wagner
Herman
Wagner
Jack Wolfe
Richard
Karen
Algona
Wolfe
Storm Lake
Harry Linn
Valeria
Iowa
James Anderson
John Wilson
Harvey Scott
Glendive
Montana
Steve Barringer
Bertram
Minnesota
D. C. Barringer
D. M. Parton
Cora
Longmonte
Colorado
Earl, Petersen
Carl Rosburg
Mr. Petersen
Earl Petersen
Eddie
Petersen, Graettinger
O. R. Gardner
Estherville
Frank Dobberstein
Superior
D. EB. McCarty
Joy Knutsen
West of Graettinger
S. EB. Sandvig
Wm. Olson
Ringsted
Olson
H. ©. Fink
Ames
Iowa State College
Jack Phillips
Deadwood
South Dakota
Graettinger
D. E. McCarty
Phillips
Elmer Feldman
Robert Starkey, Jr
New
Leon
Roy Luchter
Luchter Decorating Co
Milford
Feldman
Motor Inn
0. Markuson
la Mae Markuson
Kenyon
Fred Lippold
Des Moines
Lippold
British inventors and frontier Indians noted in Alaska
A garbled collection of phrases mentions British inventors in iron and steel, Indians in Alaska, and a botanical note about celestial fig trees bearing in the third year after planting. The text blends science, exploration, and demographics without a clear narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Botanista
Rural and Small-Town Anecdotes From Sumner and Beyond
Meandering local notices recount a switch from horse ties to modern life in Sumner, a mislabeled Guthrie County atlas prompting deed correction, a Bancroft fisherman's ducking from a collapsing chair at Spirit Lake, a Waukon trough repurposed as a bird bath, a Hamburg driver saved from a 16 foot ditch, and neighbors aiding Fritz Pierce and Pat Jensen families before a Wisconsin trip, with all parties departing Algona two hours later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mel Falkenhainer
Vic Parsons
Fritz Pierce
Pat Jensen
Wisconsin
Pierces
Jensens
Falkenhainer
Parsons
Algona
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gracttinger,Iowa
Wheaties
Nash Coffee
Glass J
Electric Park
Ruthven
Margaret O'Cannor
Mangum
Robert Hoxie
Alta Jows
Wol. Onpatyr
Hoxie
Graviiinger
Hiram Pintey
Red
Pineley
Pyilay
Primghar Municipal Sami
Selethans
Kari L. Kine
King
Internationaly Tamasomposer
Comdacton
Port
Dave Kinen
Eadie Ambrosar
Lake Mills
Amboner
Jack See
Sugete
Grinnell Cay Bamg
Snowe
Thas
Grinnell
Lawrence Hoover
Belle Plaine
Alasks
Alaska
MicCarty’s Grocery
Angel
S & Boys
C. A. Jensen
Sumner
Fred Hill
Osceola
Guthrie Center
Guthrie County
Khen
C. P. Todd
Bancroft
Todd
Spirit Lake
Waukon
Carl Smith
Hamburg
Smith
Carl
Anderson Grocery
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