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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1957
Page
8
This parish and rural column records a daughter born April 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Nikkel at Mahaska Hospital Osceola. It lists community events at Ames Iowa State College and First Reformed Church activities, visits, birthdays, and social gatherings involving local families and guests.
Prairie City News recaps recent social visits and church activities including Dr Haverkamp’s services at First Reformed Church, family night closure, catechism end, and missionary slides on the Chinese Church. Also noted are local visits to Knoxville and Pella, tornado near Dallas plats, and Maytag Foundation scholarship awards to Jasper County seniors.
Community notes record Sunday school at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. at Coal Ridge. The Rural Urban dinner in Knoxville, visits among local families, and kinship events note several gatherings across Knoxville, Des Moines, Melcher, Oskaloosa, and nearby towns with relatives traveling from Los Angeles and Ft. Leonard Wood. The Lambert children recover from chicken pox and Pvt Robert Anderson prepares for overseas service.
Reformed Church plans a Friday evening service on April 12 featuring hymns and chorale numbers led by Mrs. William Vande Kieft. A Centennial Pageant of the Christian Reformed Church, Up on This Rock, will be shown at Newton High School Auditorium on April 16 with Prairie City youth, involving 175 participants. Jake Gableman, 78, died suddenly at his Colfax home April 3. Funeral services were held in Colfax and Prairie City. Rev Anthony Haverkamp officiated. Interment at Waveland Cemetery. He leaves wife, one son Theodore, two daughters, and eleven grandchildren. Sympathy extended to the family. Dick and Walter De Jong attended John De Jong’s funeral in Sully Friday afternoon.
C F Blackman home Tuesday afternoon with Alma Avery, Mr and Mrs Robert Avery visiting Marjorie Heffelfinger in Indianola. Joan Heffelfinger, in Iowa City, and June training as a nurse in Chicago, were weekend visitors. W A Anderson home hosted Sunday relatives as C J Anderson and Ernie Anderson plus Philip joined W A Anderson for dinner. Lloyd Anderson of Des Moines visited his parents Saturday afternoon. Mrs Wm Franklin attended a stork shower for Clarence Weldon and his Knoxville family at Katherine Weldon’s home.
Leighton residents and relatives visited family and friends across nearby towns. Names include Van Ommen Van Haaften De Jong Kempe Van Zouk Sedrel Rempe Engelhoven Van Veldehuizen and Duffus. A trip to Ames and a Board of Education meeting in New York are noted.
Iowa motorists are facing high public costs to clear litter along highways. Margherita Tarr of Iowa State College notes a new law bans highway littering and imposes fines. Citizens use disposable car bags to collect gum wrappers and other refuse.
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