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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1942
Page
10
A cluttered page shows want ads for autos from the 1930s and 1940s, farm equipment, lumber, and livestock hauling services. Local names like Van Houweling Auto Co and Van Sittert Plumbing appear alongside farm sale notes, household goods, and community columns. The piece includes a gossip column, letters asking for Chronicle subscriptions, and social notices from Pella area residents with numerous family names and addresses.
Marion VanTy and his classmate work on a Future Farmer project near Marion Canyon, planning early growth for hogs and wheat, while other boys begin hone farming programs. The piece notes family support from Poortings and Waardhuizen relatives, a 80th birthday visit, and a party held at Mrs Mary Rosehaven’s home with lawn games and ice cream, as the community discusses farm tasks and grain feeding.
Wanted: Typewriter with a keyboard and an experienced fly for housework and child care starting last week of Amrust. New day work, state ace, experience, wages expected. Address: Bungalow Court Stone, Tawi. Phone.
Let us manufacture feeds for you with Sar feont's Mineral Meat Meal praised by Six Iowa farmers as the top supplement. Farmers are urged to push early fall sales and contact Jansen through the service for hog feed orders and representation.
A Marshalltown Iowa notice states the R C Valentine Co collects notes judgments and all items of indebtedness with no charge if unsuccessful collections made anywhere must be legitimate claims and references are provided for Light Company Building Marshalltown Iowa
August is Federal Crop Insurance Month in Iowa. Ray W. Grane of the Marion County AAA committee said during August wheat growers will be contacted to file three year contracts for federal crop insurance on the 142 wheat crop. The program introduces a countywide premium rate schedule and removes farm by farm rate setting. Farmers who plant wheat are eligible to sign contracts and share benefits of all risk insurance, without AAA cooperative involvement.
Nearly 275 Marion County farmers applied for federal wheat crop insurance this year covering about 1200 acres. The program protects against drought flood hail frost winter kill lightning tornado insect infestation and other unavoidable causes. Mr Crane notes expectations for next year's wheat crop.
During the first half of 1942 Iowa graders inspected 27,154,000 dozen eggs in oil dried and frozen forms under the Extension Service Iowa State College and U S Department of Agriculture. Most purchases were by the government for lend lease and armed forces. Government demand helped move market toward lower farm price differentials versus New York and Chicago. Local demand plus army orders should keep egg prices profitable for producers.
Larry Gene Hackett, baby of Mr and Mrs Henry Hackett, was improving after a hospital stay in Oskaloosa. A Knoxville skating party drew many locals including Misses Low Kawick De Wild Monster and Vanden Baard, plus Arnold Kametiek and Dale Hoksbergen. Otley and Pella residents visited, and the Vory Strivers 4-H club staged a Pleasant Grove school play Praiser Rimanee with a crowd and refreshments.
Doris Lee travels with Connie Joe Slovan’s family to Jock Salant while illness keeps Connie home with Bakker family. Local birthdays celebrated at Carl Grandia home in Pella. Marion Ui and Aart honored soldiers. Farmers Co-op reports a breakdown event as Nellie Waardhuizen visits Grandin. Continuous mentions of Rock Island Slocums, Aalbers baby birth near Fifield, and hospital returns in Oskaloosa reflect a busy community page.
For insurance on farm and city property including hail on crops and automobile coverage in its branches, plus start a savings account with life insurance. Insure in good companies at low rates. Call 60 Sully Iowa or write P O Box 146.
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