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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1966
Page
8
High game leaders include men Al Van Zee 189 and Walt Butt 178 while women show Sandy Young 191 and Ruth Van den Board 163. In series, men top Al Van Zee 552 and Walt Butt 487, women Sandy Young 508 and Ruth Van den Board 442.
Pella Merchants beat the West Des Moines Mexican Eagles 4 to 3 on Tuesday August 2 behind Floyd Blom allowing seven hits and key hits from Benes and Slykhuis. Quijano homered for WDM while Blom struck out 10. Pella advances to Sub State play August 9 at Prairie City starting 7 30 pm facing Dallas Center runner up.
In a high scoring game Farmers Coop rallied to defeat Klyn Tire 18 to 7 on August 4. Heav y hitters for the losers included J Klyn with a double Velma Bandstra and T Menninga with triples. For Coop J Boat doubled and J Hackett and Van Ee each tripled. Klyn’s batteries V Bandstra and Roozen combined for two wins two strikeouts while Coop’s Hackert notched two wins five strikeouts.
Farm Tours featured Herman the talking plowman near the old 1900 furrow plow as Timmy Agan invited visitors to meet him. Sheriff Lee Shives directed traffic for a shuttle bus, while Bob Phillips traced a wire to barn where 12 year old 4-Her David Weller entertained crowds. Local sponsors Ed Lamson, Phil Visser, Bill Lumry, Junior Briggs and Dick Freeman praised hosts of Visitation Days by Lake Prairie and Hex-A-Poppin 4-H Clubs.
A nostalgic kitchen note recounts visiting Hattie and Janet Gezel at 713 Franklin Street in Pella, admiring their home and sharing a lemon cookie recipe. The article includes a detailed method, ingredients, and baking steps for a soft lemon chip cookie baked at 400 degrees for eight minutes, yielding about four and a half dozen cookies.
The notice lists Aug 11 events: sub-state finals in men's softball at Prairie City at 7:30 p.m.. a Poortinga reunion at West Market Park. driver license tests at the Public Safety building in Pella. Aug 12 includes Know Your activity.
The Pella Chronicle outlines a series of August events including Jasper County candidate meeting at Farm Bureau building, golf club tournaments, a Tulip City Saddle Club horse show, town picnics in Long Beach, Van Arkel and Van Ommen picnics, reunions at West Market Park and Leigh ton Community Center, an open house for the Gritters’ 35th anniversary, social security office hours, Steenhock and Mathes picnics, an ALCS elections day in Marion County, and a Reformed church Bible conference at Lake Okoboji with Rev. John M. Hains as keynote.
Mrs. W A Anderson spent the past week near her hospitalized husband at Collins Memorial in Knoxville. W A Anderson improving and expected home tomorrow after eight days with pneumonia. Sarah Thomas shows slow progress and leg cast adjustments. Wires to be removed from her broken jaw next Monday. Local residents visited hospitals and attended family birthdays. Ron Vinson of Des Moines served with the national guards in Ohio.
Harold Walraven hosted a July 22 bridal shower for Mrs Phillip Cummings. Attending were Mrs Myron Nollen Mrs Lee Nossa man Mrs Reuben Buwalda Mrs Butch Vander Zyl Mrs Ron Van Ekeren Mrs Larry Renaud Mrs Andy Bandstra Mrs Delis Walraven and Joan. The honoree received many gifts and the blue and white theme reflected the bride.
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