Graettinger Park Hosts Three Tournaments This Summer
The Graettinger ball park’s facilities gain praise as three tournaments ran last week. Despite hospitalization, Charlie Henningsen chaired the summer recreation committee with Mrs. Henningsen and others keeping the program on schedule. Young people today seek to follow someone’s tire tracks more than footsteps.
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Graettinger Ball Park
Ball Park Association
Charlie Henningsen
Focal
Charlie
Spirit Lake Midgets Beat Graettinger In Tourney Semifinals
Spirit Lake Midgets scored four runs in the first inning to win 4 to 2 over Graettinger in the Iowa Great Lakes tournament semifinals. Graettinger led off with one run in the second after two hit batsmen and a walk. Ron Petersen crossed in the fourth on the locals' lone hit. Cornelius and Park were the pitchers for Graettinger, Scoft and Hall the winning battery for Spirit Lake.
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Spuit Lake
Graettinger
Iowa Great Lakes
Milford
Ruthven
Spirit Lake
Ron Petersen
Cornelius
Park
Scoft
Hall
Realist Thomas and the faith journey through doubt
The Realist Leases for July 30, 1961 discusses Thomas the Apostle as a realist who blends doubt with faith. It contrasts optimists and pessimists, uses windows as metaphors, and portrays Thomas staying with Jesus despite confusion and the fear of danger.
Grain crops and local notes fill Graettinger page
Thursday readers learn threshing activity with oats yielding 35 to 50 bushels per acre, lighter soils under 20. Two men escaped injury after a 32 foot scaffold fall at the Gib Osher farm. Sheriff Montgomery and Postmaster O Connor visit, Hamiltons lease a building for a recreation parlor, Biewer drowns at Spirit Lake, and a straw stack near town is burning as press time arrives.
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Louie Johnson
Ed Robison
Grachtinger
Graettinger
Bert Montgomery
Emmetsburg
Y. L. O'Connor
Des Moines
Leo
Thomas Hamilton
Emmersburg
Fritz Biewer
West Bend
Spirit Lake
Light Plant Proceedings July 10 1961 Town Meeting
The board met July 10 1961 with all members present and approved minutes as read. Bills were paid in full. An application to connect gas service to Graettinger Municipal Natural Gas System was signed. Transfer of 10000 from general fund to bond fund was approved. Myrtle Nissen salary raised retroactively from 160 to 180 per month effective July 1 1961. Meeting adjourned.
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Petersen
Erickson
Graettinger
General Fund
Myrtle Nissen
State of
Iowa
Graettinger Business Ledger Names Officials and Suppliers
A Graettinger Times page lists town suppliers and personnel including Glen F. Shaver Lars C. Petersen Earl Erickson and Myrtle Nissen secretary along with payments to firms such as Westinghouse Electric General Electric Graettinger Lumber Co Buds Super Service and Industrial Tower. The entry records financial disbursements to various companies and notes involved individuals.
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Lurp, Diesel Service Co
Motor Supply
Smith’s
General Electric
Industrial Tower & Uniform Service
Graettinger Lumber Co
Bud's
Super
Hammerberg
Rexall Drt
E. C, Andresen
Graettinger Times
Graettinger Telephone Master's Grocery
Chicago, R & 1, & Paciffi Railroad Co
Glen F. Shaver
Lars C. Petersen
Earl Erickson
Myrtle Nissen
Sec'y
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the Graettinger Times
P. T. Cody
Editorial Lasepeparig
Palo Alto
Emmet Counties
Fenton and Terris
Times
Albert Suss
Cabinet
State OF Iowa
Palo Alto County
Jens Flint
Francis E. Warren
Charles H. Barlow
Estherville
Orange City
Spencer
Hock Rapida
Sibley
Graettingee
Emmet
F. Goodrich
Ray’s U.K
C. A. Shiley
Iowa House
Armold Park
K. L. Johnson
Optometrist
Estherville, Iowa
Olene Jacobson, D.V.M
Ted Knudtgon
Bratland Jewelry
the Home of Princess Diamonds
Mayo
Tom Millen
Byron Rolfson
Franch
Police
Street Gilbe
Justice of Peac Gas System
My Municipal Mariner
Earl Lehigh
Ted Knudtson
Gerald Stueve
Scheallerte & Water Depts
Rt Stueve
Chas. Burg Dwayne Lammers
Leo Hughes Francis Heideckert
Wayne Potter R
Lenia Luchter Light Plant
Janean
G. F. Shaver
Lars Petersen
Directory OF County Officials
Francia Hughes
Alma Burne
Richard Miller
Alice Yoch
Jack Phillips
Charles Bartow
J. L. Coffey
J. E. Smith
Community Church Directory
Immaculate Conception
Father Clement Flannery
Lutheran
C. T
Wallingford Lutheran
Norbert Jolvette
Immanuel Lutheran
Benjamin Couvet
Chamber OF Commerce
Alan Hersleft
Woman's Club
Mary Alesch AM
Robert Dawson
Graettinger Res
Wallingford
G. H. Frye
A. H. Hobson
Metsburg
Terry I. Anderson
Ammet CO
Nherville
Gerald Steave
Pasper
Nelson Abstract
Emmeteburg
Legion and Auxiliary
Piremen
BIBL
Spi
Hose
Dr. Foreman
Thomas
Jesus
Bethany
Lazarus
Judas
sMpintse Sr Ehradse
D&E _ ELECTRIC
Internal Revenue Service
Iowa Public Employees Retirement System
Town Employment Security
Graettinger Mun, Light
Town Electric Supply Co
Shaver Mig. Co
Fairbanks, Morse, & Co
Farnham’s
Matt Parrott & Sons Co
Westinghouse Electric
City Librarian
City Library
Isak Dinesen
Africa
Hills Hundred-And-Half
Randy James
E. F. James
Richard Kuyper
Adrian Kuyper
RADIO
Frigmaire
Fairbanks Morse
Phono Records
Grein Electric
Polivicy
Noton
Borviog Records
Brook
Andi
Yjoyea
Ce Sas
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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