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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1957
Page
4
The notice lists weekly worship times and events for Immaculate Conception, Methodist, Wallingford Lutheran, and St. Paul churches. It includes mass times, confession, choir practices, Sunday school, Lenten services, and special programs across multiple pastors and locations.
H. Irving Petersen, pastor, will lead the confirmation service on Saturday at 10 30 a m with members and attendees asked to arrive early for preparation and remarks.
The record outlines multiple church activities across St. Pauls Lutheran First Lutheran and Spirit Lake High, with Norbert Jolivette and Pastor Petersen leading sermons and services. It notes a postponed cemetery meeting Monday at 2, a Waldorf concert at Spirit Lake High, and Dorcas and Ruth circles meeting on specified dates.
Saturday 10 45 Confirmation Class. 9 00 worship service. 10 00 Sunday School.
Funeral services were held Thursday March 14 for Mrs. Law rence Birkland 68 of Grover after a sudden heart attack in Tucson Arizona. She was born August 4 1888 in Woodbury County Iowa and lived most of her life in Graettinger and Gruver areas. Surviving are her husband Lawrence two sons Lloyd and Alan J six grandchildren five sisters and three brothers. She was a longtime member of First Lutheran church at Graettinger.
Darwin Meyer of Woden paid a neat $100 after a 16 mile pursuit with Algona police. Patrolman Charles McBride said he accelerated to 100 mph to overtake Meyer and could not use his police radio during the chase.
Photography for Trapeze was directed by Robert Krasker. The Fastest Gun Alive stars Glenn Ford Jeanne Crain and Broderick Crawford with Russ Tamblyn in a suspenseful Western thriller about George Temple a mild storekeeper who is the fastest gun in the West and the challenges three murderers bring to Cross Creek ending in a remarkable surprise finish.
Community letters urge a NO vote on March 26 1957 for a proposed municipal gas plant. The Graettinger Taxpayers Committee argues past misrepresentations and rising costs, citing The Times editorials from 1941 and 1911, and accuses local officials of hidden spending, lacking public input, and questionable bids while contrasting gas and electric schemes and public debt concerns.
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