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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1956
Page
2
Expressions of gratitude and notices of thanks appear from the Grachtinger firemen the W C B Ladies and others for aid after a grass fire near a cornfield. Other items include thanks for a chicken supper and bazaar and condolences to a bereaved family with thanks to hospital staff and clergy.
The week offers a rotating menu of kid friendly meals. Monday features roast pork with mashed potatoes and gravy, carrot sticks, sandwiches with jelly, an apple, and milk. Tuesday serves baked potato with butter, meat sandwich, buttered corn, peach sauce, and milk. Wednesday includes scalloped potatoes with ham, lettuce salad, sandwiches and peanut butter, pudding, and milk. Thursday presents macaroni and cheese, cabbage salad, sandwiches, baked apples, and milk. Friday plans mashed potatoes, vegetable sticks, pea salad, sandwiches, cake, and milk.
Neighbors at Belle Plaine used a traditional bucket brigade to douse a roof fire at the Wm. Brown home, preventing spread to other structures and sustaining minor damage.
Local families and servicemen return from furloughs and trips. Pvt James Thoreson completed basic training at Fort Knox and headed back for further training in Kentucky. Numerous visits to Emmetsburg Waterloo Ames Iowa City and Des Moines noted with extended family members and friends. A Graettinger farmer Loren Wolfe suffered a stroke while driving and was hospitalized. Weekend guests included relatives from Dayton Stratford Denver and Phoenix with plans for upcoming gatherings and events.
Famous writer Philip Wylie describes his experience with psychoanalysis during a looming nervous breakdown. The piece appears in The American Weekly and is carried with Sundays Chicago American.
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