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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1954
Page
4
Pastor Rev. E. Maynard announces Masses on Sunday at 8 and 10 p.m. Weekday masses are at 7:30 a.m. Confessions occur Saturdays 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. On Sunday May 30 a Holy Hour with Devotions will be held at 7:30 p.m.
The Methodist Church led by Pastor R. E. Hodgkin lists Sunday School at 10:00 A. M. with Lloyd Cornelius as superintendent. Worship at 11:00 A. M. M. L. Y. F. Evening Service at 7:30 P. M. Choir practice Thursday at 7:30 P. M. Vacation Bible School runs June 1 to June 11 from 9:00 A. M. to 5:00 P. M. for children aged 3 through 8th grade.
St Pauls Lutheran Church hosts a Luther League welcome for the Senior Confirmands at 8:00 p m with the film A Wonderful Life, recreation, and refreshments. Town Sunday School Teachers meet at 8:00 p m Friday. all teachers urged to attend.
Wallingford Lutheran and Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran announce services, Sunday School times, and activities. Includes adult instruction Friday, confirmation Saturday, memorial observances, choir rehearsals, Vacation Bible School dates, teachers Sylvia Berge Shirley Olson Naomi Gunderson, and locations at Wallingford and Immanuel.
Thursday church events at First Lutheran and Our Savior's Lutheran include Ladies Aid, Choir Rehearsal, YMC Club, and a child discipline discussion plus a film. Friday hosts Lost Island Home Mission Society and an Estherville Lutheran Circuit meeting. Vacation Bible School runs June 1-5 with morning classes for kindergarten to 8th grade at two churches. The film It Happened to Me screens June 2 at First Lutheran and again at Our Savior's with lunch.
Shirley Herken received the Awards Continued from Page One. Maryanna Spies earned a Special Instruments Music award. Paul Kirkegaard won the Band Parents Union award while Leon Jespersen received a Special Vocal Music award. James Swanson got the Iowa State Bar Association citizenship award. Faculty awarded high school citizenship to Dan Jacobson and Martha Knutsen. Wayne Johnson won the Graettinger FFA chapter Star Former award, and the DeKalb FRA award went to Merlin Noyrig. Letters were presented to all school letter winners along with Secor, honor roll, student council, and perfect attendance certificates. The G club announced its ten top scholastic students: Martha Knutsen, Virgil Traver, Dennis Graettinger, Noeline Jensen, Jacqueline Howell, Karen Manchester, Nona Wikert, Cynthia Vasey, Jamen Swanson, and Betty.
The Gracttinger High School nine finished 1964 spring with an 8-4 win over Lake Center on their home field. Hennigsen pitched three frames, Bonstead two, and Jacobson two innings. Kirke guarded the plate, nabbing five baserunners. Bonstead belted a right field homer into a 300-foot fence, first to clear it in four years.
Adolph Spies of Graetlinger was re elected vice president of the Boy Scouts Prairie Gold council during the annual council meeting in Fort Dadwe Sunday evening. An afternoon business meeting featured a tea for wives of officials in the emply room of the Warden Hotel and Inter movies of the National Jamboree held in Santa Ana California in 1958 were shown to the group.
A man escaped serious injury when a tractor brakes failed while turning near an embankment. He leaped free of the tractor and plow and suffered shoulder and leg bruises. He was hospitalized at Holy Family hospital Friday night and discharged Saturday. He was taken to the hospital by Mr. Axelton and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Prather.
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