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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1956
Page
2
A mixed page of small ads and thank you notes. WANTED ads seek green alfalfa bales and used steel gates while hog raisers push cholera vaccination products. Business mentions include Potter Insurance Agency and Del's Farmers Supply. Thank you cards express gratitude to hospitals, pastors, and funeral services for recent illnesses, recoveries, and the passing of a husband and father.
Fort Dodge district items include Mrs George Crown and Dickie visiting relatives, nursing staff guests from Sioux City and Minneapolis, and several Sunday visits to family homes. Attends include Mason City brand creamery dinner, Grand Ole Opry trip in Sioux City, and travels to Rochester Kansas City and Cushing Oklahoma for family events and funerals. Aesthetic notes cover Mrs Thoreson and Mrs Schealler birthdays and a collection update on an alabaster chapel replica by Rev Lawrence Murphy.
The local Salvation Army Unit Committee led by Mrs. Joseph Gabrielsen announced the annual welfare drive will begin shortly. The committee praised the organization for aid to those in need regardless of race creed or color and its readiness to respond to floods fires tornados or other disasters. Other members include G. Shaver Arnold Masters and E. V. Manchester.
Everett Bell of Tabor was hospitalized after a falling tree struck him while he pushed out trees near Peru Nebraska. He sustained broken ribs and a puncture wound.
The American Weekly reports on marriage prospects for England's Prince Charles amid a tangle of match making ideas and royal expectations. It notes Queen Elizabeth's son faces public scrutiny while suitors and alliances are weighed by royal circles and press outlets.
Palo Alto county farmers were urged by ASC chair Wm. P. Brodersen to do arithmetic and consider individual problems before choosing corn allotment compliance. He outlined calculations using 1956 figures and suggested weighing yields, rotation, costs, and storage, noting noncompliance may suit some farms and loans depend on stored grain.
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