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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1957
Page
4
Rev. Fr. S. Maynard, pastor, lists weekday masses at 7 a.m. Confessions Saturdays 3 to 5 and 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday Masses at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Choir rehearsal Wednesday after devotions. Lenten devotions held at church Sundays Wednesdays and Fridays evenings during Lent.
George E. Pingle ministers the Methodist Church with worship at 10 30 Sunday and church school at 9 30. Thursday choir practice at 7 p m completes the weekly schedule.
Interim Pastor H L Norhelim leads Saturday confirmation 10 45 worship 9 00 Sunday school 10 00. Interim pastor N L Jolivette attends Thursday choir 7 00 and Lenten service at St Pauls with Pastor Norbert Jolivette preaching. Saturday offers 10 30 confirmation 9 15 Bible class 9 15 youth Sunday 10 30 Luther Leaguers help. First Lutheran Lenten service 8 00 pm. SO Walnut Lutheran H Irving Petersen presides Thursday 8 00 pm Lenten service
A radio style community notice lists Jolivette as speaker for upcoming services. Sunday morning includes Sunday school and Bible classes followed by worship. The week features parsonage volunteer cleanup, Ladies Aid meeting with program on Higher Education, and Lenten services at First Lutheran with Pastor Bagge delivering the message.
The text notes a series of church events including Confirmation on Saturday at 10 30 a m and Youth Sunday with Bible Class at 10 30 a m Sessions list a council meeting Monday at 8 00 p m at the Elliott Larsen home and Lenten service Thursday at 8 00 p m at First Lutheran.
The schedule lists services and activities for Wallingford Lutheran with pastor N L Jolivette. Includes Junior Choir Confirmation Class Saturday at 9 30 am, worship Sunday 9 30 am, Sunday School 10 45 am, Jewish Mission Society 2 30 pm with Pastor Beckstrand, Girls Chorus 7 pm, Luther League social 8 pm at Legion Hall with Immanuel. Weekday meetings include teachers meeting Monday 8 pm at Chester Paulson home, Adult Membership Class Tuesday 8 pm, Ladies Chorus 8 pm, Mid week Lenten services 8 pm Wednesday, WMF meeting Thursday 2 pm with hostesses listed.
The 1957 price schedule fixed for feed grains lists barley at 94 cents per bushel, corn grown under allotments at 1.36, flax at 2.92, grain sorghum at 1.83 per hundredweight, soybeans at 2.09, and wheat at 2.00 per bushel. Most prices are several cents lower than 1956 except wheat, which remains unchanged.
Emmetsburg voters earlier approved retaining city control over natural gas after March 15. The measure funds a municipal gasworks system with up to 165000 dollars for erection and up to 65000 dollars for establishment, to be covered by future net earnings as per Iowa code sections 397.9 to 397.19.
Lake Mills state senator Jacob Grimstead announces candidacy for congressman in the sixth district in the 1958 Republican primary. A 51 year old business farmer, he ran a Joice and Lake Mills grocery 1933 to 1955 and owns a 200 acre Worth county farm. Grimstead, re elected in 1956 to a second term as state senator from the forty first district, serves in the 57th general assembly.
Bob Reeves, son of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Reeves, shown with a Berkshire gift prize winning reserve grand champion in the overall heavyweight class at Albert Lea Minnesota. The annual show featured 750 hogs and his Berkshire also placed third in the Berkshire pen of three. Reeves, active in the local FFA chapter, has prominent projects in the organization.
The school lists next weeks lunches by day Monday features baked beans orange juice baked luncheon leaf sandwiches beet pickles pudding milk Tuesday offers meat loaf creamed potatoes sunshine salad sandwiches apple milk Wednesday includes macaroni and cheese cabbage salad boiled eggs sandwiches cherry upside down cake milk Thursday serves hot beef sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy lettuce salad sauce milk Friday menus grilled cheese sandwiches catsup corn carrot sticks cookie jello
Members of the Palo Alto County Farm Bureau will attend a Leadership Conference on Tuesday, April 2 at the Bethany Lutheran Church basement in Emmetsburg. Registration begins at 7:45 p.m. All committee members, board members, women’s officers, and young people leaders plus Chamber of Commerce, Extension, SCS and ASC leaders are invited, including both spouses.
A spectacular blaze leveled 2700 bales of hay at the Leland Sunderland farm near Harlark. The fire started from a trash fire in a ditch nearby and spread rapidly, drawing firefighting crews to battle the flames.
A hospital log lists admissions on March 20 to 24 including Mary Ann Port Graettinger Dean Povner Wallingford Willard Herse and Anna Spies Graettinger Ed Anderson. Discharges occur March 20 to 25 with Anna Spies Wallingford Leland McQuewan baby Mary Ann Pertl Graettinger Albert Speffing Wallingford Dean Poyter and Ed Anderson.
The Palo Alto Breeders Coop. will hold its annual meeting Wednesday evening April 3, 1957 at 8 p m in the KC Hall Emmetsburg. Members and others interested in improving dairy herds are urged to attend. a very interesting program has been prepared.
Gertrude Webbe was the first Times reader to identify last week’s mystery farm as that of Mr and Mrs Wm Leduc. Kenny Jacobson won free theatre tickets in the weekly drawing. Other correct identifiers included Mrs Lester Martinson Paul Joyce and Punk Leduc.
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