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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1941
Page
2
Advertisement from Graettinger Iowa Grain featuring manager Jorgen Andersen, listing coal flour feed and general appreciation for business. Includes contact telephone 63 and promotes continued patronage.
Local report fills a page with assorted short items. A group of Elkader men tussled chasing a badger aided by Chuck Wagner and the Martins. George Petersen found a “petrified turtle” in LeMars gravel pit now in the University of South Dakota museum. Miss Kathryn Beimers replies to an England egg note. An Englishwoman’s letter arrives after a packing mishap. Hawaii visitors pause at Lenox for a Iowa meal corn on the cob draws their interest. Mrs L B Allen, first white child born in Sheldon, dies in Kenosha Wisconsin.
The Graettinger Town Council will meet in the Town Hall Council Chamber at 7:89 P M on August 4 1941 to hear a proposal to issue electric revenue bonds totaling 95000 payable solely from net earnings of the municipal electric light and power plant for the cost of establishing a municipal system.
Mrs. W. D. Beswick of Stockport was talking on the telephone when lightning struck the line. She received severe burns to her feet and temporary deafness. Her hearing is improving.
Social items cover upcoming meetings of the First Lutheran Mission Society on Friday August 8 at Mrs Wesley Levdy home and the First Lutheran Ladies Aid on August 6 at church parlors with named hostesses and cordial invitations. Also notes Two Table Bridge Club high score and Methodist Ladies Aid event August 7 with hostesses, plus young folks parties for soldier Bernard Doerning at J A Doerning home and a surprise birthday party for Rier A Halverson with a list of attendees.
The Times extends congratulations to Mr. Henry Halverson on a milestone birthday with 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild. The newspaper wishes him many more happy anniversaries.
Immaculate Conception Church schedules Masses at 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. church services, Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m., and evening services with a quarterly conference at 8 p.m. Rev D K Hurley, pastor, requests attendance. St Pauls Lutheran details August services, Lake Okoboji Bible school August 8 to 10, Rev Verner N Carlsen, pastor. Okoboji Lutheran Bible camp July 28 to Aug 3, price 7.50, bring Bible and notebook. Lost Island Lutheran worship times and activities listed, Ladies Aid and Lutheran Brotherhood dates noted. The Camp Call quote by Rev M Mandsager appears at end.
Divine worship at First Lutheran Church on Sunday at 11 A M with no service in August. All are welcome to attend the meeting at Okoboji Bible Camp next Sunday. Bring a picnic dinner and stay for an all day program. Visit the camp this week.
Mr and Mrs Charly Burg and family of Cylinder and Mr and Mrs Ed Herke and family called on Albert Schealler. Jeanine McConnell visits Emmetsburg relatives. Mrs John Hicky visits Charley Hicky. A Bradly family reunion at Soper Park draws 58 attendees including F Brown P Andrea W Currans A Clasing M Bradly Ed Bradly B Bradly L Schumacher J Mahan John Luke. Dorothy Aylward of Grant-Petnster visits. Mary Lambe of Dubuque stays with Mrs Pat Lambe. Jerry Smith Warren Farr Daphne Davest Betty Fish spend weekend with M O Smith. M Q Smith drives to Storm Lake. Ardyce Smith stays home. Nell Malen of Glidden dines with M C Smale. Albert Schealler and family and Jim Mahan visit Emmetsburg Friday. B F Bradly spends weekend with Will McConnel.
Mrs Andne Ness and Mrs Iver Ness visited Bert Maaland home near Ruthven. Gerald Larson, back from his uncle's, has tonsillitis. Alvin and West Bend visitors saw Bert and family. Local farms Neilson Radne Ness Mossback sold to Palo Alto county buyers. Carl Larson returned from grandparents with measles. Gilbert Osher first to thrash locally. Relatives celebrated Mrs Osher's birthday. Farm Bureau met at Joe Brinkman home. N R GG 4 H Girls served lunch for club treasury. Lewis B Larson of Roland visited his brother C B Larson en route to Dickey North Dakota. Mrs Bob Winters hospitalized for appendicitis, improving. Mrs Sherman Gunderson and Mrs Le Roy Gunderson visited Estherville.
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