Fifield Settlement Deep Roots in Des Moines River Region
The Fifield area formed in 1843 as settlers led by Richard Watts and Alexander Caton established homes on the north Des Moines River. Over the years families including the Everetts, Karrs, and Van Den Bergs built farms, a store, a ferry, and a creamery while a log school served as church and classroom. The town, later named Fifield after a nearby railroad station, saw flood destruction in 1851 and evolved with a new frame school and church on higher ground. By 1924 a new brick schoolhouse replaced the old building, serving generations with educators such as Delia Rietveld and Agnes De Vries and sustaining a Sunday School led by Gerrit Van der Kieft. The community gradually modernized as the old town declined.
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Richard Watts
Alexander Caton
Mordecai Yearns
Andrew Stortes
Des Moines
John Baback
Robert Ethrington
Everett
Warren
Frank
John
Karr
Andrew
George
William
White Breast Prairie
Warren D. Everett
John de Moss
Walker Leaty
Fifield
Will Talbott
John Benson
J.T. Walker
Rousseau
Gus Wilson
Z. C. Topping
Wabash Railroad
W. C. Benson
Nick Vos
Gerrit Korver
van Vliet
Howard Case
Neal Robus
Connie van den Berg
Peter Dunnink
Lewis de Vries
Nell Muilenburg
Joe Kool
John Geurts
Arie Diekema
Peter van den Berg
van den Bergs
de Raad Place
Bill Karr
Charlie Houck
George Carpenter
Henry van der Linden
Gerrit Skill
William Verwers
Tom Stevenson
Neal van den Berg
Tink Karr
Arie Klyn
Leonard Verwers
White Breast
James Karr
Polk
Piez de Moss
Unionville
Liddy Adams Kradle
Monroe
Sarah Lewis
Bill Stevenson
Sarah Mastellers
Percy
Lilly Duncan
Sarah Luce
Lilly Germain
Joy Templeton
Flora Jarman
Delia Rietveld
Agnes de Vries
Florence Hammer
Eleanor Sullivan
W. S. Stevenson
Marie van Gorp
Minnie Dickey
John P. Ward
Mary Greenaway
Ira Marsh
Albert Crosby
Lucie van Gorp
Lizzy Snyder
Hackett
Margaret Fennema
Rietveld
John A. Blockley
Blance Calvert
Helen Bootsma
van Gorp
Malvina Saville
Mamie Smith
John Pringle
Nanie Hyatt
Gertrude
Ves) Passamore
Vera Lucille
Beck) Gray
Cornelia
Kate) Mol
Helen Brooks
H. L. van Dellen
Gerrit van der Kieft
van Dellen
Pella
Gerrit de Hoedt
McDaniel
Arie Tysseling
Tenner Reon
Hazel Chivers
Vos) Passamore
Opal Morgan
Ellen Murdy
Blanch Karr
Irma Mae Verwers
Chris Mol
Henrietta Hoksbergen
Bonnie McCulley
Kathryn Nutt
Marie Heywood
Leveda Kamp
Jane Ramage
Helen Kindman
Louise Rupalo
Coffee Breaks Need Food for Full Effect
A State University of Iowa physiologist, Dr. Steven M. Horvath, warned that mid morning or afternoon coffee breaks do not stimulate without food. He noted blood sugar rises after meals then drops, linking it to work output, and urged small frequent meals, up to eight or nine times daily, for peak efficiency.
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State University of Iowa
SUI
Steven M. Horvath
Horvath
41-Inch Cabbage Reported by Mrs Schippers
Mrs M L Schippers of 806 West 5th Street reports a flat variety cabbage from her garden last week measuring 41 inches in diameter and weighing 10 pounds with no signs of splitting.
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M. L. Schippers
West 5Th Street
Oliver Corporation to Host Farmers at Field Demonstration
Oliver Corporation presents Better Farming Jubilee a full display and field event September 9 on the Harry Turner farm three miles south east of Waterloo Iowa. Wm Van Zee of Van Zee Implement Co sponsor says the event will showcase Oliver wheel tractors from 25 to 90 horsepower with over thirty plow bottoms and hay tool demonstrations for soil prep to harvest. Farmers and families are invited with chartered buses arranged if needed.
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Oliver Corporation
Harry Turner
S. FE
Waterloo
Iowa
Wm. van Zee
van Zee Implement Co
van Zee
Army Private Avise Completes Basic Training
Our man in service Pvt Leroy N Avise 29 son of William E Avise Harvey Iowa recently completed eight weeks of basic combat training at Fort Carson Colorado Avise a 1948 graduate of East High School Des Moines
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Army
Leroy N. Avise
William E. Avise
Harvey
Iowa
Fort Carson
Colo
Avise
East High School
Des Moines
Ver Ploeg completes ROTC signal corps training at Fort Gordon
Cadet Donald A. Ver Ploeg son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Ver Ploeg 1219 W Second Pella Iowa completed six weeks of Signal Corps training at the ROTC camp Fort Gordon Ga Aug 1 He attended the camp under the ROTC program of Iowa State College A 1955 graduate of Pella High School Jerald Lee Sneller EFSR 9738479 Company 441 U S Naval Training Center San Diego California
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Donald A. Ver Ploeg
Andrew P. Ver Ploeg
Pella
Iowa
Signal Corps
Reserve Officer Training Corps
Fort Cordon
Iowa State College
Donald
Pella High School
Jerald Lee Sneller
EFSR
U. S. Naval Training Center
San Diego
California
Move to Supply Free Textbooks in Pella District
The new Pella Community School District will issue all textbooks free starting this fall, with workbooks billed at actual cost. Some titles may vary in the first year across Pella, Marion, and Mahaska counties while a standard list is planned by 1961. Parents and teachers receive textbook lists, and used books will be purchased with credits issued for workbooks.
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Pella
Roy Reith
Otley
Marion
Mahaska
Leighton
Community Board
Pershing Reunion Plans Finalized
Plans are set for the All-Iowa Coal Miners Reunion at Pershing on August 30 to September 1. Speakers include D. Osborne Frank Wilson Hershel Loveless Henry Allai and Dr Walter Daykin plus a 16 team softball tourney and various entertainments. Organizers expect over 5000 miners and families to attend the three day event. Gerald McNulty dug a 4% pound potato.
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Pershing
Iowa
D. Osborne
Ethatinn
Ome
Frank Wilson
Umwa
Hershel Loveless
Henry Allai
International Board
Walter Daykin
State University of Iowa
Pershing Youth Center
Forest Conservation Stamp Honoring Roosevelt Birthday 100 Years
The 4 cent Forest Conservation commemorative marks Theodore Roosevelt's 100th birthday with a three color Giori press print. First day sales begin October 27, 1958 in Tucson at the American Forestry Association meeting. The vertical stamp shows forest management, wildlife habitat, and watersheds, designed by Rudolph Wendelin.
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Tucson
Arizona
American Forestry Association
Giori
Theodore Roosevelt
Rudolph Wendelin
United States Department of Agriculture
Wendelin
Department of Agriculture
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