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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1946
Page
2
Shirley and Joan Gilbert visit relatives in Pella as M Tibbeels travel from Pella to Holland and on to New York. Many locals visit, move, or recover. notable items include births, hospital discharges, vacations, and family reunions across Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Nebraska, Kansas, and Michigan, with multiple trips to Chicago and Des Moines.
To insure egg quality during hot weather eggs should be gathered twice a day in a wire basket and promptly cooled in the basement.
On a farm the Iowa State College experts say most fatal accidents occur in homes and fields. Alma H. Jones promotes safety education over prohibitions, advising front stall lessons, supervised visits near animals, and child friendly play areas near the house to keep youngsters safe.
Otley news item covers visits by Mrs Chas Vander Kolk Mrs Andrew Ustermarkt and others to Otley and Oskaloosa, plus updates on Mrs Conville Gerald Angove and Jimmy Van Vliet detasseling crews, and health notes. It also includes Iowa crop report highlights on tasseling silking yields and statewide pasture conditions from July.
Crop prospects remain excellent in most Iowa regions though the northern third reports uneven rainfall and drying pastures. Small grain harvest nears completion while threshing continues for two weeks. Oats produce good quality grain, winter wheat yields surpass expectations, and farmers pool machinery for corn and hay harvests as over half the corn crop shows robust development with silking and ears forming.
Lenora May Bricker 72 of Monroe Iowa died July 27 1946 at her daughter’s home in Monroe after long illness. She was born April 9 1874 in Johnson County Kansas daughter of William J and Mary M Lofton and lived in Illinois before settling near Monroe in 1904. She is survived by four children Clarence Bricker Ethel Bricker Lea Allard and Mrs Murray Van Hemert. two sisters and six grandchildren. Funeral Monday July 29 at 2 p.m. from Monroe Baptist Church with interment in Monroe Cemetery. Former husband Emmett Calvin Bricker died May 30 1946. She was a member of United Brethren Church in Illinois. The obituary also notes a garden of memories and a Memorial poem “Going Home.”
We thank neighbors and friends who were kind to our mother Lenora May Bricker during her life and who helped after her death. Grateful for comforting words and flowers sent in her remembrance. The Children.
Mrs. Adam P. Hasselman nee Julia Van Zee was born March 24 1874 in Pella Iowa and died July 26 at her home in Oskaloosa. She married Adam P. Hasselman on February 22 1893, had seven children two died in infancy, survived by husband three sons Herman J Gerrit and Lawrence W all of Oskaloosa and three daughters Dirkie Leighton Gertrude and Artie Rozeboom, two brothers Arie and Dieles of Pella, sixteen grandchildren and many relatives. She is preceded in death by the child.
The Hasselman family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kind acts and expressions of sympathy and flowers after the death of Mrs. A. P. Hasselman. They acknowledge the many acts of kindness shown to their wife and mother and to them thereafter.
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