Set Dates For Midget Baseball Meet In North Town
Robert Held, coach of the Graettinger Bridgets, announced the 1953 North Town Invitation Midget baseball tournament dates August 1 to August 7 at Evergreen Park. First round games start Monday and Tuesday. semifinals Friday. final and consolation Sunday Aug 7. Graettinger, defending champions after last year’s 13 0 win over Bancroft, sponsor the event.
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Robert
Graetfinger Bridget
North Town
Evergreen Park
Graettinger
Bancroft
Graettinger Park Association
Rites Held At Spencer For Robert Johnson Grandson Of Schangs
Funeral services were held at Sacred Heart Church in Spencer for three year old Robert Alvin Johnson son of Mr and Mrs Alvin Johnson of Dickens. He died from burns after a fall into scalding water. The Mass was led by Father Wendell with Angela and children's choir. Burial followed in a Ruthven area cemetery. Survivors include his parents a three week old brother and grandparents Leo Sechany Gract linger and Art Johnson.
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Spencer
Robert Alvin Johnson
Alvin Johnson
Dickens
Robert
Spencer Hospital
Ruth Schany
Leo Schany
Ruthven
Harold Hagedorn
Richard Higgins
Ayrshire
Leo Sechany
Gractlinger
Art Johnson
Jacobson Tosses No-Hitter in Peterson Victory
Danny Jacobson pitched a no hitter for Graettinger as the Peterson baseball team was routed 13-1 in Sioux League action. He fanned 12 and walked seven in his first start of the year before a sixth inning run broke the shutout with a steal and infield error.
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Danny Jacobson
Peterson
Graettinger
Diamond
Jacobson
Prizes Claimed in Wednesday Drawing
Walter Mammen claimed the 15 prize as the only prize claimed. Kay Thiel drew 10 dollars, James Lee Odom 25 dollars, and Elwood Hyatt withheld a weekly prize of 160 dollars. Next draw prizes include 10 15 60 and 200 dollars.
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Walter Mammen
Kay Thiel
James Lee Odom
Elwood Hyatt
Big Moment for Private Duhn Prepares Parachute Jump
Private Richard P. Duhn son of Mr and Mrs 5 W Duhn Gracttinger Indiana ready for a parachute jump with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg North Carolina. He wears a main parachute reserve parachute combat pack rifle in canvas container as he completes five jumps from a C 118 aircraft. The event ends three weeks of training and will qualify him as a parstreeter. Duhn serves as a F D C Radio and Telephone Operator with Battery B 18 Airborne Field Artillery, a unit of the 82nd Airborne Division America s Guard of Honor.
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Richard P. Duhn
5. W. Duhn
82Nd Airborne Division
Fort Bragg
N. C
Pvt. Duhn
F.D.C
Airborne Field Artilery
B2nd Airborne Division
America’s Guard of Honor
Elected President of Iowa Vocational Agriculture Teachers
Don Rix, Graettinger School vocational agriculture and FFA advisor, was elected president of the Iowa Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association at Des Moines last week. He previously served as district president, state secretary and treasurer, and state vice president, and will attend a regional meeting of the National Association of Vocational Teachers in Alexandria, Minnesota this weekend.
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Don Rix
FFA
Graettinger
Iowa Vocational Agriculture Teachers’ Association
Des Moines
Rix
Rix Wil
National Association of Vocal
Alexandria
Minn
Mrs Benton Curry Opens Clothing Sale at Graettinger Home
Mrs Benton Curry announces a sale at her northeast Graettinger residence featuring new and used clothing along with dishes shoes handiwork and various miscellaneous items she has converted two rooms in her home for the business.
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Denton Curry
Benton Curry
Graettinger
Funeral Held Saturday For Ted Olesen 68
Ted Knute Olesen of near Wallingford died Thursday morning July 7 at 10 45 at Holy Family hospital after suffering three strokes. Funeral services were at St Pauls Lutheran church Graettinger with Rev Arthur Sorensen officiating. Burial followed in South Walnut cemetery. Pallbearers listed,Olesen brothers and relatives. Martin Funeral home in charge. He was born December 29 1886 in Walnut township. Survived by widow three brothers a sister a stepson three grandchildren and three great grandchildren. He was preceded by two plater.
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Ted Knute Olesen
Wallingford
Holy Family Hospital
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Graettinger
Arthur Sorensen
South Walnut Cemetery
Virgil Olesen
Melville Olesen
Clarence Olesen
Donat Olagon
Dayton Allen
Oscar
Olga Kronlund Halsten
St. Paul's Lutheran Parsonage
Lutheran Church
American Legion
Cecil Halaten
Reseda
Calif
Ole Olesen
Oscar Olesen
Albert Olesen
Eugene
Ore
Vina Raepe
Platers
Emmeteburg
Estherville
Ruthven
Pocahontas
Eddie Jo Tindall Breaks Leg In Tractor Mishap
Eddie Jo Tindall nearly 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Tindall, broke his left leg when a tractor tipped into a ditch late Saturday. The tractor pinned his leg. passerby John Studer and others freed him and he was taken to Holy Family hospital after initial care at Dr. Green's office. Another rider, Donna Lammers, suffered a shoulder injury but was not hospitalized. Eddie remains hospitalized for several weeks. his mother asks friends to write.
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Eddie Jo Tindall
Edwin
Brick) Tindall
John Studer
Eddie
Henry Lammers
Studer
Roy Nissen
Jimmy Christensen
Mr. Studer
Ruthven Midgets and Swea City games scheduled
Upcoming football week at Evergreen Park includes Ruthven Midgets with games set for Friday July 15 and Friday July 22 featuring Swea City Midgets. Mrs Wayne Potter opens the Potter Insurance Agency in Graettinger at the rear of the Graettinger post office handling all insurance types for Hawkeye Security and Allied Mutual.
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Evergreen Park
Ruthven
Wayne Potter
Hawkeye Security Insurance Co
Allied Mutual Insurance Co
Graaettinger
Potter Hag
Graettinger
The
Potter Insurance Agency
Warning Issued To Swimmers Over Osgood Pit
County health authorities declared the Osgood pit unfit for swimming for about ten days until July 25 after recent serial insect spraying killed fish in the pit. Signs have been posted warning swimmers of the condition.
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Osgood
Doctor John T. Ryan obituary in Emmetsburg
Dr John T Ryan retired Emmetsburg optometrist died Tuesday morning at his home after a long illness He became ill over two years ago and his illness forced retirement from practice of optometry.
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John T. Ryan
Emmetsburg
Ryan
Hig Jllness
School Urges Kindergarten Pupil Information By July 22
School requests data on kindergarten pupils to be submitted by Wednesday July 22. The page notes disruptions with local shops and haircuts, and announces Dr. Cirven’s office vacation in mid July. Emergency calls will be answered by Dr. Powers of Estherville.
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Wed
Don
Grauttinger
Iail
Manchester
Enlistments Move U S Air Force Cadets Harlan Hanson Dick Wikert
Harlan Hanson and Dick Wikert have enlisted as Air Cadets in the U S Air Force. Both are Graettinger High School graduates of 1954 and attended Morningside College. They drill with a National Guard unit in Sioux City and plan two weeks of training at Casper Wyoming followed by further Air Force base training.
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Harlan Hanson
Howard Hanson
Dick Wikert
C. C. Wikert
U. S. Air Force
Graedttinger High School
Morningside College
Harlan
Sioux City
National Guard
Casper
Wyoming
Air Force Base
Child's Story Hour at Library Saturday Reader Named
Mrs. Paul Tolo will read at the public library Children story hour this Saturday afternoon from 3 to 4 PM.
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Library
Paul Tolo
Public Library
Dairy tax reminder on milk ticket sales
Bud Hamilton urges dairy patrons to remember that the new 2b percent sales tax also applies to milk ticket sales. The notice outlines tax amounts for various quantities of milk tickets and prices, urging cooperation under the new tax rate when purchasing milk tickets.
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Bud Hamilton
First Lutheran Ladies Aid Ice Cream Social Planned
The First Lutheran Ladies Aid announces an annual Ice Cream social on Wednesday July 20 in Thorogon's Hardware basement. Serving begins at 3 p m with barbecued Ramburgers baked beans pie cake ice cream coffee and Kool Aid on offer. Your patronage is appreciated.
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First Lutheran Ladies Aid
Thorogon's Hardware
Mystery Farm No 6 Tale of the Olson Family
Mr and Mrs Levi Olson have farmed two miles east and two north of Graettinger for 40 years on a 160 acre tract later known as Bergeson land. They married in 1918 and their daughter Avis Paulson and granddaughter Orland live nearby. The farm now yields 67 acres in corn 40 in oats and 30 in beans with milk cows and grand son Orland raising purebred Yorkshires and Hereford steers for FFA at Graettinger High School.
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Times Mystery Farm
Levi Olson
Grachtinger
Olson
Be, L, Wick
Cedar Rapides
Bergeson
Olgona
Olsons
Emma Axelton
Ole Axelton
Roland
Wallingford Lutheran Church
Avis Paulson
Orland
Graettinger High School
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Robert Johnson
Pvt
Richard Duhn
Army
Iowa Vocational Agriculture Teachers
Bon Rix
Ted Olesen
Webbrn
Peterson Town
Swea City Midgets
Francis Beschorner
D. C. Burringer Lake Farm
Grinettin Ker
Beschorner
Toe Mira Barter
Jensen Bartet
Chitlei
U.S. Air Force
Bronth
Norman Anderson
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