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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1943
Page
7
Wartime dispatches detail Harris C Ropness stationed at Lincoln for basic training and other service updates. Letters describe sailors, chaplains, and recruits visiting from California, with mentions of Navy training, air stations, and cross country postings as war news shifts perspectives.
The Graettinger drive asks every man woman and child to invest at least one dollar toward the Shangri La project a giant carrier designed to carry bombing planes to Tokyo. Graetlinge quota is one thousand dollars for the town and the national goal is one dollar per person across the United States.
St Pauls Ladies Aid met at church parlors on Wednesday July 14 with hostesses Mrs Hamlin Sending Mrs Henry Westergar y Peter A Petersen Mrs Francis Heidecker Mrs Gus Baedke and Mrs Gib Reeves. the public was partially invited. A miscellaneous shower at St Paul Lutheran church honored Pfc and Mrs Leland Knutsen with a program and lunch. gifts were given. A shower for Mrs Leland Knutsen was held at Mrs Harvey Nitchern's home for their daughter Ruth who wed Pfe. neighbors and friends sponsored the event with a program and lunch and many nice gifts.
Mrs. Lloyd Roney delivering lunch to her husband saw a bee enter the car and cause a crash that sent the vehicle down a 20 foot embankment into water. She escaped by sliding through a window and wading to the bank. Her purse containing a $50 money order and letters remained intact.
Sunday worship at 7:50 and 11 with preacher D K Wurley. Next Sunday theme An Exalted Name. Members and friends invited to Methodist church at 11. Sunday school 10 to 11. High school group party at Miss Vivian Lundgren’s home Sunday 8. Pauls Lutheran Church Ward Hanson Student Pastor July 1 10 morning worship at Graetinger.
Morning worship at 10 45 at South Walnut. Luther League gathers at Graettinger church. Program features disse rse questions for Wednesday July 24 at 2 30. Graettinger Ladies Aid meets. Three Cornil family members from Waverly graduated from different schools in one week. Marine finished at Wartbury college. Jack graduated from Dubuque Theological Seminary. Paul graduated from St Pauls Lutheran School eighth grade in Waverly.
Community notices show Oswood Sunday School holding a picnic in Monnersburg Park and several local families visiting relatives. Lloyd Eneraml and family attended services at South Walnut Lutheran while Mr and Mrs Clarence Mofitt and others traveled from Auburn for visits with Mrs M A Stiles and daughter Helen.
Concrete Products offers a full line of concrete goods including silos building blocks drains tile and well tile. Inquiries invited with an invitation to visit the showroom for details and availability.
Graettinger residents hosted visiting friends and relatives during the Fourth of July week. Miss Helen Stiles and Miss Leone Kinnett called on local families while Mrs Herbert Meyer of Cylinder visited the A. C. Hankey home. The Bohi family picnicked at nearby state park with Osmoat Sunday School. Leona Kimmetz visited the Tensels of Oliver. Lea Kinnety and family spent Sunday at the Red Litabs near Fenton.
The Independent School District of Graetlinger Walnut Township Palo Alto County Iowa will meet July 20 1943 at 8 00 PM at Adolph Spies office. Taxpayers may speak for or against the proposed expenditures for the year beginning July 1 1948 with a detailed receipts and disbursements statement available at the hearing.
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