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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1957
Page
2
Mrs. Crene Shiley thanks everyone for prayers, cards, visits, flowers, and gifts while she was a patient at Holy Family hospital and after returning home. She also asks to bar the women of the church for the beautiful plant she received.
Sunday night callers at the George Twait home included Joe Kay Walter Weltzin Elmer Randa and family Pete Randa from Cylinder Wilfred Bierstedt Fenton Gene Twait Emmetsburg. Tuesday night guests honored Norene Twait graduate with Grachtinger class and Gene Twait to graduate May 27 included Lester Larson Oliver Twait Joe Kay Earl Osbornes Dan Bleckwenns Percy Randal Walter Weltzin all of Cylinder Wilfred Bierstedt Donald Twait of Fenton Truman Naigs Terris Mrs Gene Twait Dorothy Staver Emmetsburg Cavy Carpenter West Bend Bernard Twaits Maynard Lees of Gracttinger.
Local notes detail visits and guests across Graettinger including Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Johnson in Jeffers Minnesota, Ted Christiansen hosting fourteen ladies for a birthday, and multiple families visiting, moving, or attending events in nearby towns. Notables include Carol Torreson’s wedding, the Silver wedding anniversary of Wm Sparks, and Pfc Bob Laubenthal’s deployment plans.
Army Specialist Third Class Robert E. Mammen of Graettinger Iowa with the 11th Airborne Division climbed Germanys Zugspitz the countrys highest peak during training maneuvers in Garmisch He enlisted in July 1955 and is a radio and telephone operator in Company B 504th Infantry His high school was Graettinger Public High School.
Maureen Murphy of rural Grachtinger won a high powered Lone Ranger Cap Shooting Rifle with telescopic sights in a Nestle chocolate bars sponsored national contest. The release notes there were several hundred thousand entries.
Thomas 27 admitted 23 break ins in Graettinger Albia and southern Iowa including Heidecker D X and Rasmus Standard stations. His bride Phyllis 15 also jailed five years with bench parole in Estherville. Police traced the spree by a car seen in Emmetsburg at 2:30 am Tuesday, linking license to Thomas after monitoring five counties. He had been released Feb 22 from the State Reformatory Anamosa.
Miss Patricia Christensen of Graettinger has been elected treasurer of Alpha Pi Epsilon sorority at Stephens College in Columbia Missouri. Alpha Pi Epsilon is the national honorary secretarial sorority for junior colleges. Christensen is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Christensen of Graettinger.
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