Various local groups meet in mid November across community
South Walnut church women plan a meeting at Mrs Jorgen Paulsen home on Nov 4 with the Nov 14 date set for the next gathering The High Lake Get-to-Gether club will meet Nov 13 at Lily Jacobson home with roll call a favorite scripture verse Ww 80s Ladies of the Methodist Church meet Nov 15 at the church parlors Hostesses include Theresa Johnson Ruth Traver Ruth Wikert and others Dining room hostess Marie Singer The Catholic Daughters Court Mary Immaculate will meet Nov 12 in the parish hall The Rosary Society Immaculate Conception church hosts its annual bazaar and supper Nov 15 serving from 5 30 pm Fancy work and baked goods are requested TOPS Club meets Nov 12 at two pm Dan Petersen honored on birthday with a surprise party The Gradinger Woman's club meets Nov 6 with Dr Robert Dawson discussing Rheumatic Fever and heart surgery A big family dinner brings together ten Lundgren children plus relatives at the Anderson home on High Lake The Dana College coronation feature highlights Annette Thim as 1958 homecoming queen and the Graettinger F H A plan a Northwest District conference Nov 10 with an all day program and a skit on Boy and Girl problems
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W.S. C
The
Methodist Church
Theresa Johnson
Ruth Traver
Ruth Wikert
Dorothy Byatt
Dora Potter
Helen Potter
Grace Carlson
Elsie Larson
Mildred Warren
Marie Singer
Rosary Society
Rosary Society of Immaculate Conception
Gradlinger Woman's Club
Norma Rix
Esther Rasmussen
Shirley Baker
Robert Dawson
Cora Christopher
Charles Carter
Charlotte Held
Ruth Weber
Phyllis Bloss
Coy Coan
Beverly DesCombaz
Dillian ‘Toro
Grachtinger F. H. A
Fratt
Lytton
Graettinger
Patty Watson
Graettinger Group
George Steele
Cedar Falla
Iowa
You
Football boys to watch Oklahoma Iowa State game
Graettinger selects a game for the top 22 boys to attend Oklahoma versus Iowa State with tickets and transport funded by the High Behood Athletic Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Graettinger
Iowa State
Amea
High Behood Athletic Fund
School Hot Lunch Menu for Next Week
The menu lists daily meals for the school week. Monday offers roast pork with mashed potatoes and carrots. Tuesday features goulash with sunshine salad. Wednesday has tomato soup and crackers with meat sandwiches. Thursday serves toast beef sandwich with potatoes and gravy. Friday presents creamed salmon on toast with jello and buttered peas. Milk accompanies all meals.
Winneshiek County Tubers Association Grant In Dispute
A fragmented note mentions Winneshiek County tubers group awarding a five thousand dollar grant tied to state antiquity research. The legibility is poor with several garbled terms but indicates a formal funding action by a local agricultural or horticultural association and a related state research emphasis.
1956 corn crop harvest report from DeKalb area
DeKalb Crop and Weather Observers report Minois as the 1956 corn center with an almost 100 percent excellent crop. Yields fall east and west due to moisture and weather. west experiences low subsoil moisture and scant rainfall, while east suffers a late spring excessive rain and cool summer. National crop totals reach 34 billion bushels, second largest ever, with Illinois averaging 66 bushels per acre and total production of 586 billion bushels, both records.
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Minois
Ilinois
Illinois
Ag McCarty To Open Helen's Cafe
Mrs George Carmet plans to open Helen's Cafe this weekend after taking over from Mrs Harriet Miller. The town experiences soaking rain with 2.5 inches falling Sunday into Sunday night, boosting a dry spell while mild temperatures gave way to near freezing by midweek.
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Ag McCarty
Helen’s Cafe
George Carmet
Pans
Helen
Harriet Miller
Postoffice Window Closes at Noon on Saturdays
Beginning next Saturday the local postoffice window will close at 12 noon on Saturdays due to earlier star route arrival at 10 a.m. Mail sent before 5 p.m. will be dispatched on the evening southbound star route. Bess Hamilton asks for coffee strips before December 10 for Christmas toy purchases for orphans.
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Bess Hamilton
Gracttinger Womans Club
of &T. Anthony
Sioux City
Waverly
Fire Extinguishers from FFA Explain Carbon Tetrachloride Type
A letter from Ruthven schools copies advice from Dr Wardel of Iowa State College Agricultural Extension on farm use of carbon tetrachloride extinguishers. The extinguisher is effective outdoors for gasoline and oil fires but dangerous in closed rooms. ventilate before reentry. Used as a low cost option, it should be kept in accessible spots and used per directions.
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FFA
Des Moines Register
Wardel
Agricultural Extension Service
Iowa State College
Iowa
Motors, Inc
No Doctor in Laverne as Doctor Leaves Town
For the first time in a decade Laverne goes without a doctor after Dr. Jack Harris relocates to Cedar Falls leaving residents to seek care elsewhere and creating a gap in local medical coverage.
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Laverne
Jack Harris
Cedar Falls
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High Lake
High Lake Get
Tops Club
Claude Shaffer
Emmetsburg
Dan Petersen
Woman's Club
Rix
Lundgren
Anderson
Ellen Lundgren
Wesley Anderson
Dana College
Annette Thim
Blair
Nebr
Annette
Gunnar Thim
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Ray Lundgren
Evs Lundgren
Des Moines
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Chet Lundgren
Glen Lundgren
Bob Lundgren
Jesse Anderson
Lyal Bonstead
Kenneth Sampson
Floyd Hill
Marlin Foote
Leslie Hil
Ralph Wilhelm
Estherville
Donald Krough
Maple Hill
Jo Wright
Schaller
Millicent Petersen
Gowrie
Maynard Hulburt
Swea City
Psphers
Tomy
Eugene Wagner
Roger
West Bend
Betty Lundgren
Carrol
LaVonne Lundgren
Deg Moines
Duane
Dewey) Anderson
Wee
Queen Arnette Thim
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Guy DE Leo
Skyline Club
Tlle
Willy
Williughby Adams
Aunt Hester
Olga Aunt
Louise Inner
Willy Stanley Clark
Mike Marybelle
Rudy ‘Sanet
Carol
Roger Tonderum
JO Ann Murphy
Karen Wolfe
Susan Shiley Francis Murray
Jim Spies
Dave Landvig
Karen Sevdy
Marilyn Stoltz
Marjorie Johnson
Aileen Bisgaard
Dvertiain
Wg Prion
Mixeard
de Delbart Jensen
Marilyn
En Romsh Histode Grast Wilson
Dennis Lastine
Bob Girres
Gale
Miriam Foton
Janet Anderson
Winneshiek County Tubercuipsia Association
Atate Anniqeity
Taal
DeKalb
EN Graettinger
Supt
Pickett
Ruthven
Palo Alto County Voters
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John J. Duhing
Palo Alto
Edward C. Norland
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