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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1956
Page
3
Cornie Van Roekel is in Methodist hospital Des Moines for observation. Many residents travel, visit relatives, and move homes across Iowa Illinois and Minnesota, with gatherings in Des Moines and Kalamazoo. Numerous family weddings, births, hospital stays, and vacations noted among local families and friends.
New figures from the Harvard Bureau of Business Research and the Northwestern Bureau of Business Research show recommended advertising spends as a percentage of gross sales across retail categories. Department stores 1.9 to 3.1 percent. grocery stores, haberdashers, women's wear, furniture, general merchandise, florists, music stores, shoe stores, drug stores, cleaning and drying, electrical shops, hardware, jewelry, meat markets, millinery, restaurants, and specialty shops, with locality notes for Lake Mills.
Mr and Mrs Gerard Terpstra and their three sons relocate to Pella for a six month furlough, then visit relatives in Montana, after two and a half years of mission work in Nigeria with the Christian Reformed Church. They plan to return to the same mission field. Mrs Terpstra formerly Clazina Vos. They will reside with Rev G Menning at 511 Washington Street, vacated by Mr and Mrs Wm Jensen.
John Vander Ban of Clover Leaf Dairy Pella hosted Mr G Riemers of Arnhem Holland a farm equipment professor visiting July 27 to 29. Riemers, sponsored by the Dutch government, plans field observations for Dutch university teaching on farming machinery after touring U S universities farms and factories. The party arrived with Mrs Riemers and will depart for Holland September 25.
The annual softball game between farmers and businessmen finished after six innings, tied 18 to 13, in 102 degree heat. A morning 4 H game between East and West sides also ended 12 to 12. Ralph Dyer led the West, Russell Crozier organized the East. Winners included nail driving Mrs Ray Kingery and pie eating Dwight Johnson.
Martin Paardekooper recalls half a century in pharmacy from starting as a 1906 hire at F. D. Stubenrauch to owning and running stores. He describes old time duties, changes in medicines, and the soda fountain spectacles, plus early photography ventures and a move to current premises on Main and Franklin Streets. He later sold the shop to C. B. Caldwell, a Drake College alumnus and licensed pharmacist since 1949.
Prices received by Iowa farmers for all farm products at mid July averaged 8 points lower than mid June. The July 15 index stood at 230 percent of the 1910-14 base, with declines in beef and hog prices, chicken and egg prices, and small shifts in crop values led by corn gains and hay increases.
The Farm Gadget Show features gadgets from high school students and adults working on farms. Senior division includes adults in farming and agricultural occupations, while junior division accepts vocational agriculture and 4-H youth entries. Sponsored by the Mt. Pleasant Chamber of Commerce agriculture committee.
Pella High lost to Hires Root Beer of Oskaloosa 8 to 5 on Wednesday evening. Pella had 6 hits and 5 errors, while Oskaloosa collected 8 hits and 2 errors. Bob Wells homered for Oskaloosa, Douglas led off with a homer in the second, Rus Davis and Wells added others, and Gene Long singled in Les Modlin for Pella’s other run. Pella scored 3 in the 6th on 4 straight hits. Ron Bogaard had 2 of Pella’s hits.
Pella junior legion baseball defeated Oskaloosa Friday 5 to 0. Brown pitched for Oskaloosa with 16 strikeouts and two walks while Tom Boat of Pella fanned nine and walked two. Bob Boyert and Jim Duffus led Pella with hits as per box score details.
Rotary defeated Kersbergen 11 to 4 Thursday evening. With one game left, Kiwanis clinches league championship. Kersbergen had 6 hits led by Bryce Menninga with a home run and two doubles. Marvin Vander Molen also homered. Rotary had 13 hits paced by Jerry Breen with a double and three singles, Vernon De Jong with a homer and a double, George Voort with a triple and a single, and Paul Kuyper and Ted Weirather with two singles each.
Van Gorps closed the season with a 7 to 6 victory over Rotary Tuesday evening. Rotary scored early in the first inning but Van Gorps answered with a five run burst in the second and led the rest of the way.
Rotary collected five hits led by Vernon Jong with two including a double. Ed Ver Meer and Don Palmquist each had two hits for Van Gorps, while Roger Palmquist and Don Ver Meer drove in runs. Pitching and fielding details are incomplete due to fragmented OCR text.
Iowa farm income fell 63 percent on average in 1955 from 1954 across 1,044 farms studied by ISU Extension. Northwestern farms led losses at 74 percent, driven by hog and beef operations, while southern Iowa posted 40 percent declines due to prior drought and low yields.
Mr and Mrs Marvin Vander Molen of Sully welcomed a son on July 27 at Mahaska hospital in Oskaloosa. A boy named Bradley was born to Mr and Mrs Leo Van Vark at Mercy hospital in Oskaloosa on Saturday July 21.
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