Birthday guests and visits fill Wallingford week
Wallingford residents hosted birthday gatherings and hosted visitors from Triumph Minnesota Chicago and San Francisco. Carl Sevatson remains in Good Samaritan home as Lena Sevatson and others attended dinners and parties. A surprise birthday dinner for Mrs Sevatson drew many family members. The Promotion Circle met with 41 members attending the Circuit church convention in Estherville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Bradshaw
Williard Crim
Mary Soeth
Max Soeth
Hogan Hoganson
Diane
M. J. Conway
Carl Thoregon
Frank Sasma
Triumph
Minn
Albert Madison
Mimes
Albert Walden
Alma Peterson
L. G. Sevatson
Pocahontas
Carl Sevatson
Lena Sevatson
Knute Gundersen
Clay Foley
Chicago
Alley Bucas
San Francisco
Ella Cripe
Goschen
Ind
Knute Gunderson
Luctle Nelson
J. L. Johnson
Louise Oddson
Graettinger
Sarah Peterson
John Oudes
Booneville
Mississippi
Anna Marie Island
Bradenton
Florida
Wallingford
Estherville
Curly Cues: Corn Growers Contest Interest Sought
The Emmetsburg Chamber of Commerce may sponsor a Master Corn Growers Contest if at least 18 entries are received by June 30. The Agri cultural Committee will run the contest only with sufficient farmer participation. A county swine meeting drew 97 attendees at the County Court Room and Decker's Yards, where Ralph Durham of Iowa State College spoke on the Iowa Swine Association testing station near Ames to prove meat-type hogs by genetics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmetsburg
Decker
Ralph Durham
Iowa State College
Iowa Swine Association
Ames
Durham
Decker's
Swine Association Elects Sixteen Directors at Palo Alto County
Before the meeting, attendees elected sixteen directors from townships for the Palo Alto County Swine Association. Directors named include Lost Island, Independence, Emmetsburg, Nevada, West Bend, and other townships with individuals such as Harley Hanson, Edmund Herke, Vernon White, Orville Wiener, Albert Larson, George Thatcher, and Bob Rutgers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palo Alto
Lost Island
Harley Hanson
Walnut
Edmund Herke
Vernon
Harold Drew
Independence
Lyndon Kerber
Highland
Kingdiespire
Emmetsburg
Bob McDonald
Freedom
Clarence Place
Fairfield
Orville Wiener
Silver Lake
Albert Larson
Great Oak
Richard Closing
Nevada
Darel Underwood
Fern Valley
George Thatcher
Booth
Carl Grice
Rush Lake
Vernon White
Ellington
Walter Meyers
West Bend
Bob Rutgers
Graettinger Council Papers Approve Permits and Appointments
Graettinger Iowa council special meeting records permit actions for Douglas Brennan sewer and water lots 13 and 14 block 4 Original Town. Building permit to raze Farm Service Station. Fire Chief Robert L. Jensen elected. Meeting adjourned. Also reports Graettinger Municipal Light Plant 1955 audited and accepted. Jerome J. Poland named Palo Alto county Farm Bureau fieldman. Olaf Olson retires after 61 years in Northwood firm.
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Thomsen
Craven
Kirkegaard
DeVries
Olesen
Hersleff
Douglas Brennan
Jens Kirkegaard
Farm Service Co
Spies
Hersloft
Graettinger
Glenn Shaver
Lars C. Petersen
Mike Weinholzer
Nissen
Hirkegaard
Thomas Thomsen
Robert C. Murray
Farm Bureau
Jerome J. Poland
Monona County
Palo Alto County
Emmetsburg
Hubert Campney
Foland
Paul Pink
Buena Vista County
James Murray 92 Died At Frank Smith Home
James Murray 92 longtime Emmetsburg resident died April 19 at the Frank Smith home after complications from old age. Funeral services were held April 21 at St Thomas church with burial in St Johns cemetery. Survivors include son Victor Murray of Chicago and daughters Jean Weeks Los Angeles and Marie Murray Chicago plus a granddaughter Vickie Murray. He had lived at the Smith farm for 29 years and was devoted to the Smith family and their grandchildren. A separate note reports a grain elevator fire at Sumner burning in a 35000 blaze melting aluminum siding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Murray
Frank Smith
Emmetsburg
Mr. Murray
Helen Smith
Helen
Union
Smith
Murray
Gordon Smith
Sandy Hansen
Sumner
St. Thomas Church
C. E. Farrelly
St. John’s Cemetery
Martin Funeral Home
Edward Bradley
Ulrich Juh
Ernest Gjerde
Ralph Snyder
B. J. Hobart
Fred Brown
Catherine O'Brien
Morris
Armstrong
Margaret Meehan
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Wallingford News
Soren Duhn
Art Duhn
Olga Glazier
Dave Peterson
Glen Young
Chet Torreson
Clarence Olaga
Sharon Kaltved
Diane Young
T. E. Johnson
Southern Illnois
Francis Johnson
Johnsons
Earnest Skattcbo
Leonard Johnson
Terri
Mason City
JL. G. Sevatson
P. G. Petersen
Grachtinger
CMLL
Curly
R. W. Ashby
Thoreson Hardware
City Hall
Town
Northwood
Olaf Olson
Hijagon
Amashan Cancer Society
Sericam Cance Society
Hansen Hardware
Iowa
Dior
Stork Hurser
Helen Cornell poBey
Jensen Drug
Ater
Pabieol Fossimple
Eee
Fiat
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