Future Farmers Winners at Labor Day show and rodeo
The Labor Day event featured a live stock and grain show and a tractor rodeo. Winners include Merle Jensen and Dick Wikert in hog and cattle categories, with Frank King and Dick Spies & Levi taking top honors in Duroc breeds. Grain and tractor rodeo titles also awarded to local participants. Community notes report Mrs. Arthur Rogness hospital stay and the Earl Jones house lease by Atty and Mrs. Merrill Clark, who have moved in and opened a Graettinger law office.
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Futura
Vo. Ag
Dale Schnirving
Merle
Jensen
Dick, Wikert
Don Bisgard
Donald Bisgaard
Lloyd. McCombs
Lloyd
McCombs
Utter
Lloyd i McCombs
Earl Jones
Atty
Merrill Clark
Clark
Graettinger
the Times
Florida businessman Bennett Thoreson ill with mumps
Bennett Thoreson of St Peters burg Florida is confined to his home with mumps and not enjoying the ailment. Fellow businessmen and others in Graettinger wish him a speedy recovery.
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Bennett Thoreson
St. Petersburg
Florida
Graettinger
Mr. Thoreson
Purchased home in Winnipeg by CN railways head
S Sullivan general superintendent of the Canadian National railways has bought a fine new Winnipeg residence four years old and recently moved in with his family on Tuesday.
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S. Sullivan
Canadian National Railways
Winnipeg
Misses Lundgren Herke Knutsen Visit Canadian Ports
Misses Lundgren Herke and Knutsen travel to Canada visiting Port Arthur and Fort William. Miss Wanda Knutsen accompanies them to Minneapolis.
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Jean Lundgren
Mary. Herke
Joy Knutsen
Canada
Twin
Port Arthur
Fort William
Wanda Knutsen
Minneapolis
Rooms for Rent Demand Prompt by Attorney Merrill Clark
A message asks if there are rooms for rent noting that paying workers create a demand. Attorney Merrill Clark will compile a list of available rooms if advised.
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Atty, Merrill ‘Clark
Modern Country Home At Auction Friday
Mrs Olen Anderson of five miles east of Wallingford will sell lakeshore acreage with 7 acres and 360 feet of lake shore plus equipment and household items. The 8 room modern home is among the beat in this section. Sale Friday September 7 at 1 pm. Inspect anytime before sale. Grodland Bortint Brown auctioneers Emmet County State Bank clerk. Anderson plans to move to California.
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Olen Anderson
Wallingford
Grodland, Bortint & Brown
Knudsen Estate Auction Sale September 18
The K C Knudsen Estate prop will be sold at a farm west of Graettinger on Tuesday September 18. Machinery hay and tools plus a few items under 6,000 miles. No live stock. Grodland Bortint Brown auctioneers. Graettinger State Bank clerk.
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K. C. Knudsen
Graettinger
Grodland, Bortint & Brown
Graettinger State Bank
Lutheran Sunday School Institute at Zion Ruthven
A Lutheran Sunday School Institute will be held at Zion Lutheran church in Ruthven on Sunday September 9. The afternoon program starts at 3 00 p m and the evening program at 7 30 p m with Rev I C Kronstad of Sioux City giving the address. The complete program appears on another page of today s Times.
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Zion Lutheran Church
Ruthven
I. C. Kronstad
Sioux City
Times
Spies Levi And Otto Appel Herds Tops In County
Palo Alto dairymen receive honor roll certificates from Purebred Dairy Cattle association for herd averages of 250 pounds butterfat or more. Otto Appel near Graettinger posts 394.1 pounds, Spies & Levi Graettinger 621.4 pounds, with the county listing ten top herds and Spies & Levi leading by a wide margin.
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Palo Alto
DHIA
James Twigg
Dairy Cattle Association
R. W. Ashby
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Palo Alto County
Otto Appel
Near Graettinger
Spies & Levi
Graettinger
Community notices and war service updates from Graettinger region
In letters from Pittsburg California and Graettinger area residents, readers report relocations to California, mention weather, and send best wishes. Robert Galleger joins the U S Navy from Waterloo, and Richard McKenna, 22, is missing in action in Korea. Charley Jackson planned to be home from Wallingford, with hospital news and well wishes for local friends.
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Richard McKenna
Frank McKenna
Zwingle
Town
Korea
Richard
Herbert McKenna
U. & Navy
George Graettinger
Graettinger
Charley Jackson
Chas. P. Jackson
Wallingford
Marsha Town
Newac
Hee
Souvenir recalls early school program at OConnor schoolhouse
Mrs. Wm. Sullivan guards a page from a Walnut township record book detailing a May 27, 1904 basket social at the OConnor schoolhouse. The program lists songs recitations dialogues and a debate with participants including M. H. OConnor W. L. OConnor Nell OConnor and Etten OConnor among others.
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Wm. Sullivan
South of Grachtinger
O'Connor
Walnut Township
America
H. O’connor
Clara Larncn
Ruth Dingman
Martha O’connor
I. E. Herberger
Agnes Mahan
Gina
W. L. O'Connor
Nell O'Connor
Miss
Maude) Montgomery
Annie Dingman
Mary Cullen
Miss Herberger
M. HH. O'Connor
Margaret Redmond
W. L. O’connor
Harry O'Neill
Etten O'Connor
Tda E. Herberger
Graettinger Labor Day Celebration Draws Large Crowd
Graettinger’s 66th annual Labor Day fest drew a big night crowd with ideal weather. Rodman beat Graettinger 12 to 8 after a late surge, while new features included a stock and grain show and tractor rodeo led by Dale Sehnringer and Future Farmers of America. Old Settlers elected Bob Elgenbast president and planned next year’s picnic, rain permitting, at Graettinger’s new park.
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Graettinger
R. C
Bob) Murray
Wayne
Bud) Hamilton
Rodman
Future Farmers of America
Dale Sehniring
Thoreson Hardware
Bob Elgenbast
Legion Hall
Gracttinger
New Park
Doyle Hansen Ill With Blood Clot in Heart at University Hospital
Doyle Hansen, son of Mr and Mrs Merle Hansen, is seriously ill with a blood clot in the heart at University hospital in Iowa City. He has been a patient there for six weeks while his condition prompts family concern and hopes for recovery.
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Doyle Hansen
Towa City
Merle Hansen
Doyle
University Hospital
Iowa City
U S Post Office Moves to Graettinger Location
The U S post office in Graettinger moved to the Wayne Potter corner building across from the Adolph Spies office. Carpenters and staff worked through the weekend to relocate fixtures and wiring, with mail service back to normal by Tuesday and the new office offering more lobby space and about one hundred extra lock boxes. Local postmaster is R T Nage with assistant FP A Peterson and clerk Dwayne Lammers. carriers are Earl Jones and Bishop Cole, with James Nelson handling mail to the railway postoffice.
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U. S Post Office
Graettinger
Mrs
R. T. Nage
FP. A. Peterson
Dwayne Lammers
Earl Jones
Bishop Cole
James Nelson
Railway Postoffice
Paving Crew To Start Work Here In A Few Days
Palo Alto county board of supervisors chairman W H McConnell announced at the Times office that pavers will move in after Labor Day to pave about 1 8 of the east end of Robbins avenue this year. The project will take around two weeks and is described as a welcome improvement. Weather has been mild with clouds and a touch of rain. Corn prospects remain uncertain with possible bumper yields if maturing continues, though frost could hurt yields and unplanted and yellowed fields affect output.
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John
the Times
Midwest
California
Graettinger
C. E. Weir
Dave Towers
St. Petersburg
Bennett Thoreson
Times
W. H. McConnell
Palo Alto
Walston to Move Office to New Post Office Site
Dr. J H Walston will relocate his office to the south half of a new post office building owned by Wayne Potter. The ground floor space will be remodeled into several rooms and used by Dr Walston by September 15. Dr C A Shiley will take over the second floor of the Weinholzer building for his dental practice.
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J. H. Walston
Wayne Potter
Walaton
Weinholzer
C. A. Shiley
War Veteran Ray Kennedy Dies at 56 in Estherville
Ray Kennedy a World War I veteran died of a heart attack at his Estherville home Wednesday evening. He served as county recorder and rural mail carrier, lost a leg in Belgium and earned the Distinguished Service Cross and Purple Heart. Survived by wife Myrtle, a son Robert, a daughter, four brothers, one sister and four grandchildren. Funeral at St Patrick’s Church in Estherville Saturday at nine with burial in the parochial cemetery.
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Ray Kennedy
Estherville
St. Patrick's Catholic Church
Raymond R. Kennedy
Elva
Ilinois
Myrtle Carnshaw
Graettinger
Kennedy
U. S
Belgium
Ray
France
Great Britain
Italy
Prince of Wales
England
United States
Dir
America
Robert
Walker
Minnesota
Don Walz
the Times
Moving a House Across the River at Wallingford
Wayne Hamilton had an almost new dwelling moved yesterday forenoon from the Iverson farm northeast of Graettinger. Patrolmen stood by along Highway 17 and Robbins Avenue as the house was wheeled past low hanging wires, ending up just north of the Esther Simonsen home, once the Fleming property.
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Wayng Hamilton
Wallingford
Robbins Avenue
Iverson
Graettinger
Esther Simonsen
Jess Fleming
Julie Ann Martin Fractures Wrist in Swing Accident
Julie Ann Martin age seven daughter of Mr and Mrs J E Martin Graet finger fractured her right wrist Saturday when a long swing struck a tree. The accident ended a hopeful start to her summer vacation and friends and classmates regret the misfortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julie Ann Martin
J. E. Martin
Graetfinger
Julie Ann
Julia Ann
Mayor Spies Wins Beautiful Golf Trophy at Emmetaburg Labor Day
Mayor Adolph Spies won a beautiful trophy after a golf tournament final at Emmetaburgi on Labor Day. He placed second in his flight but earned the honor. he had previously won the tourney three times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Spies
Spies
Glendale man revisits friends during Labor Day visit
Grover Ynberg of Glendale California spent Labor Day in Graettinger renewing old acquaintances. He had been at Pocahontas visiting his sister Mrs Turner and her husband. Mrs Turner had been ill and was a patient in a Fort Dodge hospital, but her condition has improved.
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Glendale
Grover Ynberg
Caliifornia
Labor Day
Graettinger
Pocahontas
Rd Turner
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Richard Herke
Don Bisgaard
Bob Sampson
David Jacobson
John Elsenbast
Merlin Norris
Arthur Rogness
Spencer Municipal Hospital
Chris Knudsen
Lake Shore
Knudsen Estate
Mercury
Long Beach
Louie Segatson
Legion and Auxiliary
The
LeRoy Paulsen
Topeka
Kansas
Dale Phelps
Emmetsburg
Floyd Nichols
Ayrshire
Leslie Baxter
Alvin
Lucille
Illinois
Mrs. Baxter
Joe Langley
Whitely
Cerro Gordo
Ilnois
Donald Walker
Springfield
United States Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C
Civil Service Commission
Washington
D.C
Lutheran Sunday School Institute
Levi
Otto
Pittsburg, California
Robert Galleger
NAVY
Wm. Galleger
Waterloo
J. J. Sullivan
U. S. Tevy
Des Moines
San Diego
Mian Verde’ Dieworth
Holy Family
Friends Hope
Tox
U.S. Post Office
Dr. Walston
Anna MacDonald
R. N
Clayton
Los Angeles
MacDonald
Peron
Palo Alto Memorial Hospital
Emmeteburg
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