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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1958
Page
4
Rev I S Maynard Pastor conducts Weekday Masses at 8 am and Sunday Masses at 8 and 10 am. Confessions Saturdays 3 to 5 pm and 7 to 8 30 pm. Thursday choir practice at 7 30 pm and Thursday evenings thereafter. Lenten devotions Sundays at 3 pm and Fridays at 8 pm. Catechism class Saturdays 9 to 11 30 am.
Rev Benjamin Coltvet presides services and activities across Sunday Wednesday and Saturday. Sunday school at 10 a m worship at 11 am Light Bearers at 7 30 p m Lenten service 7 30 p m Choir and Adult class at 8 30 p m Saturday features Jr choir at 9 30 a m Jr confirmands at 9 30 a m Sr confirmands at 10 30 a m
The notice lists March events at South Walnut Lutheran II St Pauls Lutheran Wallingford Lutheran and a Methodist Church. It includes missionary speakers Rev Vernon Crouse and Rev Hubert Morden, confirmation classes senior and junior, worship schedules 9 9:30 and 10:30 a m, Lenten services with film The Blind Beggar of Jerusalem, and church activities through March with various choirs youth groups and parish meetings.
The morning speaker will be the pastor and Rev Morden will deliver the evening sermon. Sunday School starts at 9 45 a m with Morning Worship at 10 45 a m and Evening Services at 7 30 p m. Friday prayer meeting at 7 00 p m and weekly visitation. Thursday prayer meeting at 7 36 p m.
Thursday March 13 schedule includes Lenten service at 8 p m and junior choir at 11 a m with worship at 11 a m. Sunday school at 10 a m. Tuesday March 18 Esther Circle meets at Marie Reeves home.
Ames Iowa Cadet Dennis R Graettinger son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Graettinger Graettinger was promoted on February 24 1958 to Cadet Corporal in the Army ROTC Signal Corps at Iowa State College Ames Iowa He has been in Army ROTC for five quarters of his academic career The promotion testifies to his keen interest and aptitude in military training.
Local residents shared weekend visits with the Johnson family in Fairmont. Russell Johnson hosted Monday guests with Jerrold Beckmann and Ronnie. Dale Starkey Becky and Robert Starkey joined. Jimmy Jensen Roy visited Tuesday evening. Darrel Eaton of Ruthven stayed with Marlin McCullah in Algona for supper and overnight. They traveled to Des Moines Wednesday to watch Ruthven play Emerson.
Graveside services were held for Cindy Sue Baedke infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Baedke of Ringsted. Rev. G. H. Schaeffer officiated. Survivors include two sisters Debbra Jean and Karol. paternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Martin Baedke. maternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Jens Flint. great grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Julius Wolff. Sandin-Fuhrman Funeral Home handled arrangements.
A quirky look at G I Jerry and companions Wayne Mantell in a globe trotting misadventure featuring a Pentagon psychiatrist a Moroccan cafe entertainer Arab pilferers of secret weapons and an unwary WAC detachment. Also reports on Palo Alto Farm Bureau updates Ed Norland’s Washington trip with Iowa farmers and farm legislation talks. The Mississippi River and its vast drainage are noted along with fish color identification caveats.
The film Zero Hour stars Dana Andrews Linda Darnell and Sterling Hayden and screens Friday and Saturday March 15 and 16 at Graettinger Theatre. Paramount praises its tense moments as ordinary people confront danger and reveal inner strengths and flaws. Also featured is The Bag Back a World War II cartoon adapted to the screen with Jerry Lewis as a bumbling G I tracing misadventures.
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