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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1954
Page
9
The region reports a busy social calendar with numerous visits and dinners among local families in New Sharon Pella and Prairie City. church services and cantor events at Ebenezer and Pleasant Valley precede gatherings at homes and Easter cantatas.
Summit area residents gathered for family dinners and Easter celebrations across Monroe Prairie City and nearby communities. Visitors included Vriezelaar, Vos, Van Wyk, Van Doorninck, and Rozendaal families with multiple Sunday gatherings, birthdays, and a Guernsey dispersal sale at Winterset. Local events also noted 7 covered bridges nearby and school club elections with Glen Ver Woert as president.
Coralee Vriezelaar stayed with Mrs. Robert Beesley Thursday night and joined a steak dinner at Duncan Cafe in Monroe after the show Seventeenth Summer directed by Mrs. Beesley. Mrs. John Vriezelaar and County Women’s Committee members attended the 8th district convention at Leon Christian Church on April 22, with Marilyn Olson and others present.
A double decker truck overturned in Storm Lake releasing about 58 hogs that wandered through the neighborhood, prompting authorities to corral the animals and prevent disruption.
Welfare officials announce a second general distribution of government surplus dairy goods in Knoxville on May 4 and 5. Recipients from the first round may obtain a second supply, and newly certified individuals may also receive dairy products. Distribution continues while supplies last, with further shipments anticipated for ion County and additional dates to be announced.
Watchmaker Frank Gibbs celebrates six decades in the jewelry business at Sibley. Now 77, he began as a jeweler in Sanborn at 17, when most watches for men were key-wind.
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