23 Jul 1953
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1953
Page
1
Subscription rates listed for Palo Alto Emmet Counties and Fenton and Terris. One year costs $2.75 within the above territory and higher rates apply outside the area.
At Evergreen Park on Sunday night the country Gals beat the town women 9 to 7 in a charity style game amid a full crowd. Park board president Bill Herke praised participants and fans as injuries limited both sides and a rematch is hinted.
Approximately 214 cars counted leaving the park after the event, with some departing before the men's game ended, suggesting high attendance. Subscribed readers Fred Wolfe Jake Zittersch Alfred Westergaard hint at details. motorists urged to use caution on country roads during corn harvest. Other notes cover a tame crow named Hjalmer near Graettinger, Power sisters hitting home runs in a softball game, neighbors meeting at Blackwater Lake, a seven year old swallowing a key, and Frede Keating marking 50 years as pressman for Montezuma Republican.
From the Files OF THE TIMES reports Mr Ernest P Knutsen and Miss Hannah M Sandvik united in marriage at Our Savior s Lutheran church in Lost Island township on Thursday evening July 12 at 8 o clock Rev 5 O Sande of Fenton officiated The ceremony united the couple for life Enid Oleson dies at eight years old after summer flu doctor says
A concert program on the street precedes notices of Camp Fire girls chaperoned by Mrs. M. C. Grodland leaving for Spirit Lake Monday. Families Higgins Siggler and Huntley attended a birthday at Mrs. Zitterich’s Claude Howell home near Osgood. Mrs. Martin Strand of North Dakota visited her uncle Joe Gabrielsen. Relatives gathered for Frank Johnson’s seventy second birthday at the Phillip Johnson home. Earl Jones bought a new Whippet Six. The ElsAnbasts left for the Black Hills for a two week trip. Mrs. A. H. Henningsen entertained Ruth Schooley of Newark, N J. in town. The Jensens and companions motor to Wisconsin. Martin Jacobson and Misses Holice and Bernice Anderson visited R. A. Halverson. Bertha and Myrtle Halverson returned home with them.
Swirling flood waters in Mill Creek near Paullina unearthed a massive tusk believed to be from a prehistoric mammoth. The specimen measures 67 inches long and about five inches in diameter at the base.
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