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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1928
Page
8
Andrew Geertema family hosts at Geertsma home near Lynnville Sunday morning. Numerous locals visit relatives across Lynnville and Newton including Holdsworths and Wisgerhofts. Election results list mayor and council members. Flu, cantata, school carnival and seniors activities noted along with fishing resort plans by Elscott and Kruseman.
Church notes outline Easter services at Third Reformed and Second Reformed in Pella and Holland. Easter Sunday programs feature cantatas, sermons on resurrection, Sunday school, and evening events. Readers are urged to attend and form a regular churchgoing habit.
GALESBURG Mrs Andrew Hoekstra and Mr Freeman Kling visited Newton last Sunday evening. There was no Methodist church meeting due to Rev Pritchard illness. Max Wheeler Howard Ida and Jennie Holmes were in Newton last. Mrs B A Romans is ill. Miss Leona Zickel, working in Ottumwa, spent a week with her parents Peter and Mrs Zickel. Mr and Mrs Frank Heemsbergen and Miss Ethel Graffis were Tuesday evening callers at the Andrew Hoek.
Otley residents including Mr and Mrs Henry Van Buren of Pella visited Friday to celebrate a birthday. Several local families assisted with chores and illness, while the Reformed church Banner Bearers presented a play at Otley school and planned performances in Galesburg. A sale of Rev Drost’s household goods occurred early in the week, and Henry Williamson Jr reported the death of a horse on Tuesday.
Last year N J Wilson of Sac county Iowa treated his corn seed and harvested an average gain of 7.7 bushels per acre. The ad cites field tests across the corn belt showing high acceptance among farmers and claims a quick, simple dust treatment that costs under five cents per acre and allows seed to germinate faster even in cold wet soils.
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