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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1962
Page
2
Multiple short notices: sale items including Ottburner lambs and sheep bucks from Albert DeWall and Mrs. Vincent Heller rummage sale October 19 20 at 9 to 4. Also butternut squash and turnips from Ed Merk and LP gas tank and oil burner items from Bob Vasey.
Sealed bids for a seven room two story house at the South Walnut Lutheran church, 514 miles southwest of Graettinger, are invited by 8S. M. Andersen to noon Saturday November 17. Bids opened then. Right to reject any or all bids reserved by St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery Association board. S. M. Andersen, secretary. Route 1 Box 96 Emmetsburg, Iowa. FOR SALE 12 by 18 hog pen Robert Mitchell Graettinger. Also 100 feeder pigs vaccinated castrated by F. T. Skovgaard Ringsted. Chihuahua puppies Louis Lammers. Hampshire boars Ruthven Harley J. Hanson. 10-11-2x
The list records various local people traveling or visiting, including E C Andresen at Lennox dealer school in Emmetsburg on Oct 3, Herbert Thoreson visiting Waldorf College student in Forest City, and several family visits among Hartley, Ringsted, and Graettinger residents. It mentions a Packers game trip to Bloomington to see the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings, a hospital transfer for Willard Lewis, an Anna MacDonald patient note at Des Moines Veterans Hospital, an Elmer Olsen farm auction at 140 acres sold to Vernon Torneson, and social visits in multiple towns. It notes a Bertha Axelton dinner gathering, Margaret Johnson’s weekend with Mrs. Battles at Center Junction, and other travels including Hoover birthplace visit, Amana Colonies, and a funeral in Spirit Lake for Burl Ellis.
Admission and discharge listings from Holy Family Hospital note residents of Graettinger and nearby towns. William Duhn, Herman Eisenbast, Mrs Oscar Nehrenberg, Arnold Sampson, Chris Norris admitted between Oct 10 and Oct 14. Dismissals include Craig Gilbaugh, Mrs Kate Mahan, Norman Mickelson, Herman Elsenbast, Fred Rubink, Mrs Oscar Nohrenberg, and Mrs Pete Duus, spanning Oct 10 to Oct 14.
The family of Alice Brand expresses heartfelt gratitude for comforting sympathy, service, and memorial offerings. They acknowledge and thank Circles and neighbor ladies for the lunch and dinners provided to relatives and friends.
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