Graettinger High Band Plans Half Time Show Progress
Graettinger high school marching band of 36 drills daily for the first home game with Gilmore City. Baton twirlers debut with new equipment, a 40 inch baton for drum major Barbara Jensen, shako ordered, and a new Scotch bass drum added after parent approval. Band parents elect officers and arrange concessions for football games. Gilmore City may send its band. out-of-town game plans under way.
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Gaettinger
Graettinger High
Gilmore City
Shako
Barbara Jensen
Parenta
Plana
Grachtinger
Vocational Agriculture Program Opens At Graettinger High
Graettinger High launches a twelve month four year course in Vocational Agriculture with units in Introduction to Agriculture Crops and Soil Management Farm Shop and Livestock. Each student carries a home farm project supervised by the local instructor. Projects include beef cattle pigs sheep dairy and crops with funds guiding future farming education.
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Graettinger
Dick Campbell sale bids on four properties in Graettinger
Auction announces Dick Campbell residence sale Saturday September 16 at 2:00 pm on premises in South Graettinger. Two lots with the house, three other lots separately, plus a 10 by 26 chicken house. Grodland Bort int Brown as auctioneers, Graettinger State Bank as clerk. Also Herke building did not meet bid price and may sell privately. Visitors from Alabama. Hancock family in town for a visit. Mrs. Rosena hospitalized with appendicitis. No school next Wednesday due to tri county institute in Estherville.
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Dick Campbell
South Graettinger
Grodland, Bortint & Brown
Auctioneara
Graettinger State Bank
Cberast
Herke
H. A. Herke
Robbins Avenue
Graettinger
Gammon couple to visit from Los Angeles
Mr and Mrs L C Kelly Gammon are en route from Los Angeles California and expected to arrive Friday for a visit. The couple plans to spend time here during the week.
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Los Angeles
L. C. (Kelly) Gammon
California
Rabbit and Squirrel Season Opens September 16
The 1950 hunting season for squirrels and rabbits opens September 15 with statewide limits of eight per bag and a possession limit of 12. Rabbits may be hunted 6:00 am to 6:00 pm daily, while squirrels have no hour restrictions. Guthrie Center reports Elmer Fogg owning a 140 year old muzzle loading rifle once used for hunting and protection in Indiana.
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Guthrie Center
Elmer Fogg
Indiana
Gene McDonald Wounded In Action In Korea
Gene McDonald 19 was slightly wounded in action in Korea on September 5, per a telegram to his parents Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald of Graettinger. He has served with the army nearly two years. The War Department telegram indicates he is expected to fully recover.
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Gene McDonald
Korea
War Department
John McDonald
Graettinger
Gene
Visitors From Austin Texas Visit Graettinger Times
Capt and Mrs 0 M Refsell of Austin Texas called at the Times office Friday The pair have often visited Graettinger but Mrs Refsell has not been in northwest Iowa in winter months They are both at the University of Austin Capt Refsell studies for his PhD He is in the Army Air Force reserve and may be called to active duty Mrs Dora Refsell of Wallingford accompanied them to Austin for a visit.
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Austin
Texas
0. M. Refsell
Graettinger
Refsell
Iowa
Refsells
University At Austin
Army Air Force Reserve
South Walnut Team Wins League Crown in OT Thriller
The Hotel softball team defeated league leader St. Paul 17 to 15 in overtime, tying for first place. A later play off saw St. Paul forfeit a game for fielding Wallingford players, granting South Walnut the league title. Other reports are unavailable. Visitors from Los Angeles, the Hornstra and Rockwell families, plan trips through Graettinger to Laurens and Ames.
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St. Paul
iSouth Walnut
South Walnut
Wallingford
St. Paul's
Graettinger
Devin Pack
Estherville
Graettinger Opens 11 Man Football At Evergreen Park
Graettinger high School begins its 1950 football season at Evergreen Park Friday night at 8:00 p m hosting Gilmore City. It is Graettinger’s first 11 man game since 1940 and first night game in town with bands and a concession stand run by band parents. The schedule lists home games Sept 15 vs Gilmore City Sept 21 vs Emmetsburg B Sept 29 vs Estherville B Oct 19 vs Spencer B Oct 27 vs Bode away Oct 6 Livermore Oct 13 Laurens.
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Evergreen Park
Gilmore City
Graettinger High
Graettinger
Northwest Town
Groattinger
Deal Place
Graettinger High School
Emmetsburg
Estherville
Spencer
Bode
Livermore
Laurens
Philadelphia visitors trace Graettinger Labor Day ties
Mr and Mrs Norman P Roschoro of Philadelphia visited relatives in this section staying at son Clayton Roschoro’s home in Ledyard. The Labor Day visit in Graettinger revived 82 years of memories for Mr Roschoro who once worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He began as a brakeman and rose to conductor, greeting old friends Hack and Smoky Clemmenson and Fred and Carl Spies, with whom he had connections in Graettinger.
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Philadelphia
Norman P. Roschoro
Clayton
Ledyard
Roseboro
Graettinger
Labor Day
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hack
Clemmenson
Fred
Carl Spies
Grachtinger
No Fangway
Weather report notes cool week and improving corn prospects
The item reports a week of cool weather with furnaces in use since Sunday, cloudy days through Tuesday, and no rain. Leaves show browning likely from August 20. Corn prospects are fair with expected yield if dry warm weather continues. early week denting noted but overall outlook improved.
Ban Marine visitor misses 64th Labor Day event
Mrs Charles Barkley of Ban Marine California visiting Grayttinger missed the 64th Labor Day celebration, remaining indoors for a week or more, a setback reported by local sources amid northwest Iowa festivities.
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Charles Barkley
Ban Marine California
Grayttinger
Barkley
Iowa
Catholic Ladies Bazaar Sunday Dinner and Sale
Rosary society plans annual dinner and bazaar in the church hall on Sunday September 24 with booths offering a range of items. Dinner serves at the usual hour with a nominal charge and a large public turnout is anticipated for the big event. Mrs E T McCarty of Sacramento California is recovering from pneumonia and polio at home in Graettinger after a visit by the McCarty family a year ago.
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the Rosary Society
E. T. McCarty
Sacramento
D. E. McCarty
Graattinger
B R Cole Taken To Holy Family Hospital After Ulcer Surgery
B R Cole rural mail carrier on route 1 was taken to Holy Family hospital after a ruptured stomach ulcer. He underwent emergency surgery around midnight following a late evening illness. The Times hopes for his early recovery as his wife and daughter returned from Betherville. The Estherville Field Artillery battalion will report for active duty soon, with Don Potter and Maynardt Holland among Graettinger volunteers.
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B. R. Cole
Holy Family Hospital
Cole
Craven
the Times
Mr. Cole
Saya
Estherville
Land and Residence Deals Reported Around Graettinger
A land purchase by A Speck of the 120 acre Anton Bonstead farm southwest of Graettinger will relocate him March first with his sale of a northeast Graettinger farm recent. Bonstead plans to retire from farming after his new Graettinger home is ready. H A Eisenbast arranged the land deal. G B Osher bought the La Roy Miller residence in Graettinger, an almost new house begun a few years ago, with the Millers planning a new Emmetaburg home. Gwen McWilliams, daughter of Mr and Mrs A D McWilliams, was accepted for admission to the Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls for a two year elementary teaching curriculum this fall.
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St. Speck
Anton Bonstead
Graettinger
Mr. Speck
Bonstead
H. A. Eisenbast
G. B. Osher
LaRoy Miller
Emmetaburg
Gwen McWilliams
Cedar Falls
Gwen
John J. Sullivan Completes 50 Years in Printing Trade
The Times marks John J. Sullivan reaching fifty years in newspaper work from 1900 to 1950. He began boxing printing plates in Emmetsburg, moved through roles as stenographer, bookkeeper, and writer, and helped launch the Graettinger Times in 1916 before continuing in Graettinger for nearly 35 years.
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John J. Sullivan
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Joan Murray
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