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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
6
Local notes record visits and illness among Osgood residents and kinships across Emmetsburg Graettinger Estherville and Wallingford. Numerous relatives drop by for dinners and Sunday gatherings while others travel to funeral services. Scarlet fever quarantines and patients in Des Moines Scranton and Parker are mentioned amid community news and club activities.
Vernon News itemized social visits and callers around Emmetsburg with names such as Miss Jean Shaver Miss Thelma Anderson Mrs L H Garber Helen Ted McCarty and Carl Lilvik. Visits spanned Mallard Ruthven West Bend and Okoboji with trips to Chicago and a St. Joseph nurse Norine Brown. The Royal O T O camp at Lake Oskood closed July 32 with a social, business meeting, and lunch.
Gladys Larson visited relatives at Waterloo last week. Mr and Mrs Otto Hanson attended a reunion Sunday at Webster City. Janice Kent of Estherville visited James Jensen at his home last week. Donald Young visited Dolliver at W G Melliwraith’s. Lloyd Larson and family stayed at a lakes cottage. Alvina Clementson of Graettinger visited B L Larson’s home Wednesday. Elizabeth Turner of Chenango Illinois visited L F Kamp’s home last week. Gladys Egertson of Petersburg visited Henry Bgertson’s home last week. Mrs C P Jackson hosted her aunt Mrs Linda Bakku of Roland last week. Nels Osher was hospitalized last week with appendicitis. Blaine and Francine Sevatsan and
A string of visitations and health notes from Emmetsburg area families fills the local column with visits among the Hildreths Andersons Jacksons and Welches. Also listed is a district court filing for an absolute divorce by Joseph Lester Hunt against Hazel M Hunt with future property relief requested and a court date in August 1959.
Emma Ressell attends Mrs S W Bury funeral at Gracttinger Methodist. Remarks on licenses issued by Lester Orcutt and a Pontiac funeral visit by Mrs Oliver and her mother. Local gatherings include the Nu Gee Ro Girls Club, reunions at Turtle Lake, and Sunday callers in Swea City. Fire incidents touch Gilford Osher home and Walter Subin farm. seismograph crew jokes about Rhode Island red rooster watering charts. Iowa farmers show weekly paper subscriptions. old Rock Island landmark in Brooklyn torn down. Independence tractors tire incident noted.
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