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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1954
Page
6
Wallingford areas note births in the Starkey family and community visits by residents from Mason City Estherville and Denver. Teachers and school openings are listed along with numerous travel mentions and local gatherings across towns like Graettinger Duluth and Fort William.
Bert Twite and Mrs Jamie Kasa with Leni Gunderson at the piano assisted in a gathering featuring Bible study by Mrs Leonard Osher on The New Woman Delieves and Loves from John 3. Karen and Jones Chork performed a duet. Mrs Tryeve Latreon gave the closing devotion. Guests were announced for a Guest Pay at Bible Camp 6 on Thursday Sept 9 with many aides from nearby towns. Serving included Mme Wayne Bryan, Lowell Rustad, Norman Mickelson, Lavonne Van De Walle and Tom Nelson. dining room hostess Mrs Oscar Teter. Merv and Mrs Marlin T Brown with Eric and Marlin Jr of Charlottesville visited Ma Brown’s cousins Maxine and Mary Margaret Skattebo last week en route to his parental home at Sioux Falls.
The Holstein-Friesian Association of America released production records for registered Holsteins. Spies and Levi of Graettinger list records including Spies Polly Folies Ormsby with 148,852 lbs milk and 5,499 Tbs fat over 9 years on test, and Oakdale Florence Inka Sepis in Tawa.
Corporal Arvid Peterson, son of Ernest Peterson of Graettinger, serves in Korea with the 1st Battalion 32nd Regiment of the Thirteenth Infantry Division. The Bayonet division trains intensely to sustain the unit’s fighting peak from Pusan to the Yalu River. Peterson joined the Army in December 1952 and arrived in Korea in June 1953.
Lewis Seiberth died in Grinnell and his funeral procession used the town’s 1914 volunteer fire department fire truck. A longtime member, he had been on the active roster until two weeks before his death and was 78 years old.
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