West Point Honor Crowned Paul Kirkegaard Leads Parade Honor
Cadet Paul Kirkegaard of Company F-2 West Point earned the year's Best Company honor and was presented to President Kennedy during the academy's nationally televised graduation. His parents traveled from Chicago to Idlewild and then to West Point for the ceremony amid plans for Kennedy’s address. Local residents also note summer band concerts begin next Wednesday.
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Paul Kirkegaard
West Point Military Academy
Kennedy
Academy
Paul
West Point
Iowa
Jeng Kirkegaard
Son Paul
Chicago
Idlewilde
New York
Thoreson Wedding at Little Brown Church Nashua
Curt and Clara Thoreson attended their son Orland's wedding to Lana Fank on May 29 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. The event marked a long awaited family reunion at the church and mirrored the couple's own earlier marriage there on that same date years ago.
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Curt
Clara Thoreson
Orland
Lana Fank
Little Brown
Nashua
Thoresons
Orland Thoreson
Thoreson
Revelation 2 3 messages to Asian churches analyzed
The article discusses why Revelation chapters 2 and 3 matter for today. It rejects the view that seven churches map seven eras and argues every church displays both virtues and vices seen in Ephesus Smyrna and Laodicea. It cites Winter s suburban captivity thesis and notes Laodicea s lukewarm, middle class clublike traits while stressing God loves but may not approve all churches.
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Asia
Ephesus
Smyrna
Laodicea
America
Winter
Suburbia
Rs Country Club
Nate
Fourth Grade Boy Severely Cut in Park Fall
Wayne Franson, a fourth grader at the Elliott School, suffered a severe cut to his hand and arm after falling on a broken pop bottle while playing in a local park.
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Wayne Franson
Elliott School
Social Security Schedule Announced for Fort Dodge District
The Fort Dodge district office announces social security contact stations in Emmetsburg courthouse and Estherville city hall. Emmetsburg meetings run 1 to 3 on Wednesdays June 6 13 and 27, Estherville sessions 1 to 3 on Tuesdays June 5 and 19. Appointments to see a representative may be obtained by writing to Fort Dodge district office.
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Social Security District Office of
Fort Dodge
Emmetsburg
Estherville
Directory of Graettinger Town Officials and Local Churches
Official roster lists Roy T. Peterson and others as town officers including auditor clerk sheriff recorder treasurer attorney coroner and supervisor across districts. Also shows Bethel Lutheran Church interim pastor Grace Baptist Wallingford Lutheran Immanuel Lutheran with named pastors C F Curtis Norbert Jolivet and Benjamin Colivet.
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W. H. Bargman
Walter High Lester Johnson
Russell Peterson
Po Ricklefa County
Wallingford Lutheran
Norbert Joliveatte
Immanuel Lutheran
Benjamin Colivet
Marriage and school news from Graettinger era
In Graettinger Iowa region weather is described as excellent with 95 percent of corn planted though some delayed by rain. The article notes highway survey work on Highway 17, the June 1 1937 wedding of Woodrow Wilson's son and Verna Ruth Grodland in Graettinger, changes at Windsor Hotel & Cafe run by Mrs Nettle Fisher, an eighth grade commencement May 21, and Graettinger high school class of 1937 diploma ceremony May 27 at Hawkeye Theatre with 25 graduates listed.
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Woodrow Wilson
J. E. Wilson
Estherville
Verna Ruth Grodland
M. O. Grodland
Methodist Episcopal Church
Melvin Sampson
Windsor Hotel &Cafe
Nettle Fisher
Algona
Trent
Berniece Gilbaugh
Morris Dalen
Bonnie Raepe
Genevieve Anderson
Harvey Montgomery
Betty Swift
Janiece Amdahl
Charlotte Howard
Gloria Vasey
Norman Luchsinger
John Reeves
John Mills
James Hayes
Leo Young
Dorothy Sandvig
LeRoy Paulsen
Stanley Bartleman
Alice Strath
LeRoy Wikert
Catherine Graettinger
Floyd Christiansen
Madgell Conway
Alice Herke
Ruby Jackson
Clarine Jensen
Virginia McDonald
Russell Jones
Frances Knutson
Virginia Leonard
Eva
Down Library Lane and New Fiction at City Library
Local notices announce library hours on weekends and Wednesdays at City Library. New fiction features Sheila Burnford’s The Incredible Journey, detailing three pets crossing 300 miles in Canada and their impact on people they meet. Also notes new club members and an Airman Thoreson reassignment to Japan after armament tech training at Lowry Air Force Base.
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Sheila Burnford
Linda Lammers
D. L. Lammers
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Community Church Directory
Bethel Lutheran Church
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Grace Baptist Church
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Woman's Club
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Legion Auxiliary
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