Gracttinger Times clock rumor and local notes
An amused afternoon scene near Times Street yields boys misreading the Gracttinger Times sign as a clock shop while a desk-bound observer recalls high school football prep, a Lost Island lake fishing catch of channel cat, rising auto collision costs from 1958 to 1959, and a quirky remark about green apple season and disappearing salt shakers.
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Times Street
Gracttinger Times
Times Office
Jack Platter
Lost Island Lake
Asaid
Lost Island
Local items and aviation chatter mix with farm quips
A quirky wash of notes covers pilot slang about jam frequencies during training, a Wallingford Coop manager receiving a free Kansas City weekend trip from the CCA, and a string of playful farm sayings about de tailing lambs and de lambing tails, reflecting rural humor and everyday chatter.
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Cliff Thomas
Wallingford Coop
Kansas City
CCA
Barber Tyers Long Career Ends At Tabor Shop
Art Tyler opened his banker shop in Tabor on March 15 1022 and served his first customer Beno Clapper. After 47 years he has retired with Beno Clapper as his last customer.
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Art Tyler
Tabor
Beno Clapper
Tyler
Drivers License Exams Move Across Iowa Counties
Drivers license exams are scheduled Mondays in Estherville and Orange City, Tuesdays in Emmetsburg, Wednesdays in Spencer, Thursdays in Hock Rapids, and Fridays in Spirit Lake with additional sessions in Sibley mornings. A social security representative will attend Emmetsburg courthouse on the first and third Wednesdays from 10:00 to 3:00 and Betherville city hall on the second and fourth Wednesdays from 8:30 to 12:00.
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Estherville
Orange City
Emmetsburg
Spencer
Hock Rapids
Spirit Lake
Sibley
Social Securit
Social Security
Emmetsburg Court House
City Hall
Betherville
Ruth as God's Extra in Everyday People
A compact reflection on the Book of Ruth highlighting its simple charm and sociological lessons. It contrasts Ruth with heroic Judges figures, stresses God’s care for humble people, and notes Boaz’s kindness to a Moabite woman. It ends with praise for in law devotion and overlooked treasures in ordinary relations.
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Ruth
Lincoln
Congregation” of Israel
Mahlon
Boaz
God
Viet-Nam
Czecho-Slovakia
Thailand
Marriages and local happenings in Estherville area
July 18 1954 report recalls a 1934 marriage of Marvin Grebe and Bertha Gardner in Estherville. Also notes a windstorm damage at Paulson-Simongen block, talks of liquor store plans in Estherville, discontinuation of the star route mail between Emmetsburg and Estherville, a Graettinger horse sale drawing crowds with top price over 40 dollars, corn shelling economics, and a kitten ball game incident at Emmetsburg with Graettinger players reacting to lights off during the last inning.
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Marvin Grebe
Chris Grebe
Norfolk
Nebraska
Bertha Gardner
O. R. Gardner
Grachtlinger
Estherville
M, EL Parsonage
Ortmeyer
Paulson-Simongen
Estherville Daily News
Iowa
Emmetsburg
Graettinger
Olson & Oskvig
Grodland & Reeves
Messia, Olson & Oskvig
Emmetaburg
Hammetsburg
Creas
Shastily
Grachtinger Fhoys
Board Proceedings Palo Alto County Bridge Bids Opened
The county board with Wm. Bargman presiding opened bids for eight precast bridges under Projects 58-7 8-13 and 50-22. Members Drenent Van Sandys Rickioff Cody High and McConnell reviewed four bids including a likely bid by James H. Merryman on all bridges.
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Falo Alto County
Hueatay
Tang
Smetshurg
Aenaion
Amerbers Drenent
van Sandysman
A. P. Rickioff
Arthur Cody
Walter High
Wm. McConnell
Wm. Bargman
James H. Merryman
County board awards bridge contract to James H. Merryman
After bids from Yorge-Bloaser Const Graven Const Faber Const for all bridges and Project No S-22 were opened and compared, the board awarded the contract to James H. Merryman for 45 950 23 and ordered refund of certified checks to bidders. The meeting adjourned to June 29 1950 with Bargman as chair and Thompson as auditor.
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Yorge-Bloaser Const
Graven Const. Co
Faber Const. Co
Ricklets
Cody
James HH. Merryman
Ant
Guerrilla Wife by Louise Reid Spencer
Louise Reid Spencer recounts the Philippines during World War II with her engineer husband Spence and companions. They join guerrilla bands, endure hiding, hunger, and danger as Japanese forces advance, then flee to safety and welcome a baby born in Brisbane after a submarine evacuation.
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Louise Reid Spencer
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Spencers
Louise
Binth
Laulée
Bataan
Correghdor
Corregidor
Spence
Australia
Brisbane
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Graettinger Times
P. T. Cody
Graettinger, In
Asébchar
Palo Alto
Emmet
Fenton and Terris
Tom
Boecker
Pirates
Sioux City
Iowa Conservation Commission
Albert Suss
J. H. Riley
Farmers Bank
C. R. Kitchen
North Str
C. A. Shiley
Graettinger, Iowa
Arnold Park
K. L. Johnson
J. Emmett Martin
Olene Jacobson, D.V.M
Ted Knudtson
Woman's Club
Bebbe
Thomas Thomsen
Leo Hughes
Alan Hersleff
Roy Nissen
John DeVries
Jens Kirkegaard
Virgil Olesen
Albert Jensen
Gilbert Stueve
Dwayne Lammers
Francis Heldecker
Wayne Potter
Melvin Nisesn
G. ¥. Shaver, Fres
James F. Hansen
Lars Peterson
Distasi
Community Church Directory
A. M. Conlon
First Lutheran and
Lost Island Lutheran Rev
C. T
ST. Paul's Lutheran and
South Walnut Lutheran
Rev. H. Irving Petersen
Grace Baptist Church
Wallingford Lutheran
Norbert Jolivette
Robert Dawson
Ofice
Graettingee
A. N. Kruse
Optometrist
Weat Main St
G. H. Frye
GRAE
Nger, Iowa
A. H. Hobson
Terry I. Anderson
Optometrist Emmet CO
Gerald Steuve
Raone An
Immanel Lutheran
Benjarin Colivet
Chamber OF Commerce
Jim Iverson
Womans Club President
Legion Auxiliary
Henry Jomaca
Casper
CAP
Nelson Palo Alto County
Legion and Auxiliary
Internatenal Unitas Vesday School
Laesore
Enka
Mnese
W. H. Bargman
Martin Thompson
Silver 60
Marsha Olegsen
Two-Hundred Club
Janis Witt
Wilfred Witt
Inger
Eval
Aesti Ned
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