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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1929
Page
5
Five young men were injured Thursday evening when the Henry Behnke car left Highway No. 18 near the cement bridge between the John Mosbach and R. W. Carlisle farms and crashed into a tree along the roadside.
Rev Fremont Paul urges Burley church members and friends to attend Sunday morning worship. Evening service reminder. In two weeks the Wesleyan Gospel team will lead the Sunday night service with the theme The Business of the Church and Church Business.
St Pauls Lutheran notes for the fifth Sunday after Trinity with English services at Lube and South Walnut, Sunday School picnic at 2330 Soren Andersen farm, no evening service, Fourth of July celebrated at South Walnut church grove with Ladies Aid dinner and refreshment stand, Rev Axe M Andersen pastor invites neighbors and friends.
Lutheran service 11 English service 11 SS 10 confirmands Saturday 9 parochial school 8 am to 1 pm daily, care and social events on Hawkeye lawn. Bible hour next Wednesday evening at church. Mission meetings July 8 Palestine church Thome John 16 1 8. Lost Island L Ch f inglish communion 10 30 SS 10 confirmands Friday 2 Bible hour Thursday Abe Christianson home L L Sunday at Chas Christianson parochial school begins Monday July 1 north school. Please send your children as for me and my house we will serve Jehovah Rev M Mandsager Pastor.
A church session led by Lt. L L Hampson features opening hymn Holy Spirit Enter In scripture and prayer. Alys Thore presents Bible verses and a prayer session. Melvin Mandlinger sings vocal solo Heroes of Christianity Mamie Bonstead. Chas Lande and Irma Aierson report from L L convention. Closing hymn Sin of my Soul. Pro Committee led by G Bonstead.
Henry Rierson, a business caller, visited Emmetsburg on Thursday. He was joined by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thu and daughters Iola and Trene, continuing community updates from the Lost Island area.
Estherville area residents hosted and visited kin and friends through the week. Married couples and families from Jackson, Sandanger, Olson, Lunde, and Simonsen households joined dinners, picnics, and trips to Spirit Lake and Milford. Attendees included Maria and Gerald Bonstead, Violet Thoreson, and many others across towns like Ringsted, Davenport, and Mankato.
Local items recount visits from Dan Fitzpatrick of Wallingford and Ruthven visitors James and Cornelius Nolan, Horace Webster of Algona, Lyle Halsted of Emmetsburg, and other neighbors. The page mentions plane passengers nearby, graduations, departures of Ida Younker to Michigan, and wind-damaged Dalen place assessments.
Horace Webster of Algond and Lyla Halsted of Emmetsburg visited Mrs. Hans Meng Sunday. Minneapolis medical student Mr. Davia tolled here Monday. Melvin Smith family and friends attended the Quaker revival in Emmetsburg Sunday. Postmaster Sands and wife of Mallard vacationing called at the office and will visit Palo Alto county post offices. Ackerman of Hart Joys and A H Miller of Emmetsburg visited Minnie Wiener’s. Mrs. George Smith’s friends feared a near fatal burn from a brooker stove accident. Des Moines man Jim Quinn and John Carey rode from Graettinger for an airplane ride. Mildred Koutsantani and mother of Ottosen attended at Art McClelland’s. Lumbe couple spent Saturday in Emmetsburg. Rothermel and wife of Madison, Wisconsin paused here on a farm east of town. Julius Skew of Bancroft visited Osgood. Farm Bureau picnic at Kimbershore drew strong local turnout. Lowell Crook fished at Spirit Lake. Arthur McClelland family visited Graettinger. Jake Webb and children rode in from Oskaloosa. Mrs. Frank Meyers and daughters spent Friday evening at Luke home. J E and Fred Moffitt came from Ringsted Monday. Royce Calentine and family plus Ruby Johnson and Grady Wiener spent Sunday skating and fishing at Lost Island. Ed Thompson was here on business Friday. Robert Webb and brother Sam moved to the Jackman place west of the river. E R Ayers and children drove to West Bend to see Grotto then Marathon Sunday evening.
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