Town Named By Coin Flip Grinnell History
The town of Grinnell owes its name to a coin flip between Grinnell and Phelps settler families. A 1941 incident added to local lore when a piece of airplane wing fell on Ulrich's Garner farm, later identified by C. W. Heinselman as an aileron fragment ripped off in strong winds, not hindering the landing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grinnell
Phelps
Garner
Ulrich
C. W. Heinselman
Army Air Corps
Heinselman
Local News Items Fill Week’s Social Happenings
Local notices list residents visiting relatives and traveling to cities across Iowa Minnesota and Illinois. Highlights include Joy Abel and James Sanding at home trips Grace Anderson visiting Jensen family in Clear Lake and Minnesotan trips by Mrs. A W Richardson Mrs Chris Sevdy Nellie Millen and others enjoying Sunday visits and vacations while family events mark a birth and medical travels.
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Joy Abel
St. Paul
James Sanding
University Hospital
Iowa City
Gwendolyn McWilliams
Lake Park
C. A. Jensen
Minneapolis
Jensen
Grace Anderson
Clear Lake
A. W. Richardson
Colorado
Clyde Salven
Newell
Iowa
Chris Sevdy
Leo Scang
the Times
Helen Bestentehner
Vanity Beauty Shop
Alpena
Glenn Shaver
Jean
John DeVries
Karen
Sac City
R. M. Young
Los Angeles
Elmer Simington
Ruthven
John Hansen
A. H. Mills
Nellie Millen
Fort Dodge
D. F. McCarty
Michael McCarty
Beaver Dam
Wisconsin
Edgar Grein
Chicago
Grein
Detroit
Omaha
Helen Gilbaugh
H. E. Fink
Arnolds Park
Charles Nolan
John
Wm. Hughes
Estherville
Bennett Thoreson
Our Own Hardware
W. BR. Petersen
Thelma Thoregson
A. R. Maurstad
Lakefield
Minnesota
Adelaide
George Wiggins
Goldfield
Arthur Wiggins
Clarion
Junior Fuss
Francis Jensen
Deloris
Jackson
Mary Sorensen
Andrew Duus
Graettinger
Ted Knutsen
Slidell
Louisiana
American Weekly
Chicago Herald-American
Social Items Highlight Local Meetings and Entertainments
Community notices detail Lutheran and church circle meetings at Knut Sorensen and Miss Cora Christopher on August 7 with August 5 parlor gathering hostesses named. Embroidery club tea hosted by Mrs Geo Frick. Okoboji dinner for school officials and wives. Mrs J P Jensen honored by Mrs A J Johnson. Coal caution warns stock up before winter amid transport shortages. Swallows banded after chimney flight from Memphis and Gainesville to Iowa.
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Sorat
Ierv
Raethoge State Bank
Lowa
Udy Ulrich
Wiitchell’s Food Market
S. G. Peaches
Kraft
American Aid
White Eagle
Glaser
Weiners
Bologna
Pillsbury
McCarty’s Grocery
Luther League
Knut Sorensen
East Side Circle
Cora Christopher
First Lutheran Ladies’ Aid
Wm, Rasmussen
E. Knutzen
Arnold Bisgard
Wm, Herke
Ee Ae
Embroidery Club
Geo. Frick
Graettinger Embroidery Club
Adolph Spies
Okoboji
J. P. Jensen
A. J. Johnson
Jacksonville
Florida
Ed Bray
Bedford
Bray
Iowa State Conservation Commission
Memphis
Tennessee
Gainesville
VanCamp
Sunshine Grahams
Folger
van Camp
Vegas
Anderson Grocery
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