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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1947
Page
4
A long list of weekend calls and visits across Graettinger Emmetsburg and surrounding areas features A H Shaver ill with flu, Belmond visitors the Infeldt and Jonsen families, and multiple trips to Emmetsburg Geneva and Ringsted. Several residents travel to Mason City Stratford and Colorado with kin.
Mrs. Arnold Bisgaard is a patient at Emmetsburg hospital. Ray Montgomery leaves for Chicago to visit relatives. Mrs. Ellen Peterson returns from Pasadena for the winter. Mrs. R. C. Mason suffers rheumatism. daughter Mrs. Alfred Jensen aids in care. Frances Chrestensen works in Owatonna after business college study. Mrs. QO. T. Hereim visits Mason City. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Maurstad visit Graettinger. son Fred dies. Oscard Olson birthday anniversary celebrated. Mr. Olson stays with daughter Mrs. Wesley Sevdy. High school boys’ basketball team hosts steak supper at D X cafe. Tax deadline nears with April first penalty. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKenna visit Herbert McKenna family. Kathleen Agnes Weir born in Minneapolis six pounds seven ounces. Mrs. J. P. Wagner returns from Mallard. In Hartford area sorghum molasses factory now makes maple syrup. 1500 pails on 1000 trees. 50 gallons sap per gallon syrup. Ollie Jane Berry, age 9, of Shambaugh, may be Iowa’s youngest switchboard operator. Mrs. Ada Westcott of Hampton, 188, crafts 1642 cork dolls since 1915. corks yarn rings form each doll. Cork dolls sold to New York and Lincoln shops.
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