Graettinger News Highlights May 4 1922 And 1962 Traditions Mixed
Warm weather returns after a cold spell. Graettinger prepares for graduation May 26 at Hawkeye theatre with 1922 senior class list. Water supply woes challenge a 100 ton experimental rune. Local storms damage two new homes, lightning hits a barn causing heavy loss. May 11 marks Our Saviors Lutheran church 40th diamond jubilee. Dial phones arrive ending operator era as Margaret Mahan logs 21 years on night switchboard.
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Margaret Mahan
Margaret
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E.H. Urry Place
McNamara
Graettinger Woman's Club Style Show Tea Notice
Graettinger Woman's Club invites members and children to hear tapes from last year's and this year's Spring Style Show and Tea in Graettinger Methodist church Friendship Room on Tuesday May 16 at 3 30 PM. Bring any Style Show pictures you have.
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Graettinger Woman's Club
Graettinger Methodist Church Friendship Room
Garden Talk: May Flowers and Land Stewardship
Joseph Gabrielsen recalls spring explorations as a boy and the joy of discovering Mayflowers crocus buttercup cowslip and violets in a swampy bog near Axleton. He links nature’s beauty to conservation during Conservation Week urging care for land waters wildlife forests and fields.
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Axleton's
Remembering Graettinger Mayflower Spring and River Bridge
A nostalgic reminiscence recalls a 1972 Graettinger scene selling a spring’s cool water and a trek along the CRY and PAY railroad right of way south of town. The narrator recalls flowers for Mom, virgin land, red wild strawberries, and a long trestled bridge crossing the Des Moines River before promising more in a continuation.
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Mom
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