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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1940
Page
4
Social items announce the Dorcas Mission Society meeting to be held next Monday at the home of Mrs Charles Bonstead with a cordial invitation to all. The M E Ladies Aid plan a meeting next Thursday October 31 at the church dining room and all are invited.
Hostesses Mrs Ross Clayton Mrs Earl Jones Mrs E A Baumgartner and Mrs L H Garber invite locals to a Friday October 25 basket social and program at Hauge school west of Graettinger. Miss Lillian Jensen teaches with pupils performing and an one act play Have You Had Your Operation by Lost Island teachers. Lunch baskets will be sold after the program.
Local news items list weekend visits across several towns. Mr and Mrs Henry Willingham of Emmetsburg spent Saturday and Sunday in Iowa City while Miss Florence Wella attended the University. Miss Florence Conway came home from Manning for a few days, Miss Lucille Higgins of Ayrshire visited Graettinger friend Alice Brown, and Mrs J P Wagner visited relatives at Mallard. Vincent Kelly handled Graettinger real estate matters ahead of an October 29 sale northeast of town. Mrs Kelly traveled with him to Emmetsburg to visit sisters. Doris Henningsen and Helen Garber returned from State Teachers College Cedar Falls, George Frick was a Des Moines visitor, and E S George, Margaret Lancaster and son Herbert toured Minneapolis with E P Knutsen driving home a newly sold Ford. Albert F Johnson and wife visited Alvin and family at Iowa Falls, then Waterloo to see Floyd Masters. John Smith, back from Waterloo, is employed by a tractor-building firm. A weekly output of 1,800 machines is noted.
Mrs J J Sullivan and others attended a Hartley event to greet Franklin Roosevelt with Dr Jolene Foster appearing on stage. Graettinger visitors included Mrs White, whose family lived there 1922 to 1926 when Mr White headed local schools.
Graettinger M E Church lists Sunday School at 10 AM and Morning Worship at 11 AM with Rev. Bohr. St Pauls Lutheran notes include multiple services, Sunday School, confirmation class, and events such as Dorcas Mission meeting, choir practice, Luther League, and a pastor’s conference in Spencer. City Meat Market advertises meats, groceries, and fresh bakery items with Robt Simonson as proprietor.
In the 1989 Iowa Corn Yield Tests the Pioneer 922 hybrid yielded the highest among all hybrids tested in the Northern section. The note promotes Pioneer 322 for rapid moisture loss and early husking and cribbing, claims safe stalks and strong roots, and urges orders for 822 flat kernels as stocks deplete.
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