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Graettinger Times

Location

Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 31, 1940

Page

11

Senior Class Play At Auditorium Friday Night

Students prepare for the senior class play at the auditorium on Friday. The desert office building setting, spring morning acts, and acts with dates and musical between acts promise an engaging performance. Tickets are on sale from class members and Jensen Drug Store, with Graettinger’s past record of strong turnout noted.

John Reeves Atis L. Thorpe Rosemary Dale Starkey Rosemary Laurence Florence Jackson Henry Oglevie Bubblegum King Bob O’brien Phoebe Hamblow Gloria Vasey Alice Strain Dorothy Sanding Donald McCombs Bob Schaney Lerniece Gilbaugh Arnold Sevold Mary Evelyn Fogde Andantino Billy Rasmussen Manola Mary Sullivan Ruth Frick George Frick Vance Knutsen Secon

Social Items From Local Lutheran Meetings

First Lutheran Mission Society plans a November 8 meeting at the parsonage with all invited. Eglee M. E. Ladies' Aid hosts Thursday, November 7 at the church parlors with Mrs. Jensen, Johnson, Barringer and Whiteside as hostesses. A birthday gathering for Mr. James Hansen drew thirty-five relatives and friends with gifts, games and refreshments. A family reunion at Dana Iowa brought relatives from Boone Ruthven Dixon Mt. Vernon and South Dakota to dine together.

First Lutheran Mission Society M. E. Ladies’ Aid Grachtinger C. A. Jensen A. J. Johnson D. C. Barringer FP. B. Whiteside James Hansen Mr. Hansen Dana Iowa J. W. Winters Boone Towa Ruthven Dixon Illinois Mt. Vernon South Dakota

Entertaining and social notices from Graettinger area

A social calendar listing visitors from Ruthven Wallingford and Columbia Heights Minnesota includes Mrs Emmet Devaney and daughter Karen Jean Sevdy. Community events note a bridge party hosted by Mrs C E Norris with high score by Mrs A E Cameron and refreshments served. County Auxiliary met in Ruthven with reports on Dubuque convention and Fort Dodge district conference. presiding officer Mrs Hazel Logan. A sewing club shower honored Karen Jean Sevdy with many gifts and a dinner. Local ads for dairy products, real estate and farms appear alongside notices of a Poland China sale and several farms for sale. A Box Social is planned at Graettinger school with a one act play Est Thing In Boots and a basket social. Doris Neel is the teacher. A shower for Deloris Sheller, bride-to-be, gathered neighbors at the WANTED nursing work notice from Mrs Rasmusson in Wallingford.

Ruthven Severs American Legion Dubuqne Hell Fort Dodge Hazel Logan West Bend Mallard Emmetsborg Graettinger Karen Jean Sevdy Sewing Club Westey Sevdy Box Soctal

Shower in honor of bride to be before November wedding

Local guests gathered Monday afternoon for a kitchen shower for the bride to be, with Mrs Sheller and Mrs Merk serving lunch. The event previews the November marriage to LeRoy Blume, Graettinger, while other community notes mention farm tasks and a farmer’s unusual tool collection.

Edward Marl Sheller

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