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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1964
Page
6
The Roorda reunion is scheduled for August 4 at West Market Park with a rain location at the Shelter House. The Wittenburg picnic follows on August 13 at West Market Park with rain contingency at the Shelter House.
A notice announces a Verploeg pot luck picnic to be held at the Shelter House in the Swimming Pool Park on Thursday at 6 pm.
We express heartfelt gratitude to neighbors friends for kindness during illness and after passing of our husband and father. Special thanks to hospital staff for thoughtful service. Mrs Dirk Schippers and family Mr and Mrs Robert Kuper and family. Missionary and Mrs Charles W Burton.
Mary J. Franklin reports Coal Ridge youths Tom Franklin and Jerry Houser spent a week in Idaho as part of a 30 member Marion County 4-H exchange. The hosts, Claude and Carl Johnson, and family near Blackfoot, showed irrigation, beet and potato farming scale, concrete cellars, and a range of farm operations, including a 3 row potato digger and Mt Baldy excursion.
The narrative describes a multi day tour starting at a grassland farm for state champion farmer competition and visiting an 80 acre cement irrigation farm. It covers soil checks, Blackfoot offices, street days, a chartered bus, canal works west of Blackfoot, Big Fill, Idaho State University Experiment Station tours, Aberdeen Dam and fish hatchery, a boat trip, water sports, and a Sunday visit to Craters of the Moon before returning home.
Leighton Centennial Circle members and families gathered for a picnic at the new Pella shelter park on a Wednesday evening. Guests included former circle members and their families, with children enjoying the pool after supper.
Leighton Happy Hearts 4 H club held an achievement day at the Community Center on Wednesday. Members displayed exhibits and were judged by Mrs. Lawrence Everett of Oskaloosa. A noon lunch followed by an afternoon program included a talk on display improves and a flower arrangement lecture by Mrs. Robert Phillips. Refreshments were served by Connie Rempe and her mother. Six youths attend a fiveweek summer workshop at Des Moines for religious surveys and teaching. Henry Rempe and family visited Fr. M. Rempe. Mrs. Henry Van Rheenen and Donna Engbers married July 17 and moved to Pella. Van Rheenen family now on a farm west of Leighton.
Coal Ridge notes list visitors from Knoxville Des Moines and Fairfield to C J Anderson home and the Walter Thomas and Sherman Durham households. Attending were Mr and Mrs Richard Anderson Melcher Judy Anderson Keith Courtney Paul Brause and others. meals hosted by Mrs Frank Karr and others. varied Sunday and Saturday gatherings across Oskaloosa Prairie City and Fairfield with moving helpers and local host families.
The event lists Maidighters, Ninepins and Team No. 4 Bowlers Four with high games by Donna Kaldenberg 193 and 491, Donna Van Gorp 160 and 458, and men Don Simoons 203 175 546, Joe Haines 207 499, Ray Dieleman 175. Bowlers Four 95 and Team No. 4 2210 final score.
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