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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Koopman
Pella
Les Stientjes
Co-op
Wisconsin Engines
Briggs & Stratton
Mart Hoeksema
Gosselink Builders
Suffolk Bucks
Willard Kaldenberg
Fairbanks-Morse
Matt Hoeksema
Dempster
Mulkey
Ford
Ford Tractor
Wittenburg
Ferguson and Cockshutt
Boat
Boatama
Henry van Rheenen
Jefferson St
America
Woman’s Home Companion
American Magazine
Collier’s Magazine
Wanted Girl or Woman for General Housework
Pella Chronicle lists a domestic help ad seeking a girl or woman for general housework with contact Mrs D Geenen at the Home for the Aged, phone 274. Also notices seeking a reliable man for district manager work with livestock interest and a car, inviting personal interviews via Box 0 c/o the newspaper. Additional items announce lost Vander Pol picnic events and a public hearing notice from the Iowa State Commerce Commission on a proposed Lateral Gas Pipeline in Marion County with a hearing set for September 13, 1955. A local truck mortgage clarification from Pella Implement Store follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Geenen
Home For the
Iowa State Commerce Commission
Marion County
Lateral Gas Pipeline Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Towa
Pella Town
Towa State Commerce Commission
Des Moines
Carl W. Reed
John M. Ropes
John A. Tallman
Knoxville
District Court of Iowa
Gertrude Grundman
Card of Thanks from Sara Elyn
I express sincere thanks to all who prayed sent cards flowers gifts and visited during my stay in Mercy Hospital and after returning home Your kindness will be remembered Sara Elyn
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercy Hospital
Sara Elyn
Thankful note for hospital kindness and gifts
Donald John Ver Meer expresses gratitude for prayers, flowers, cards, and visits from relatives friends and neighbors during illness. Special thanks to Rev Redeker Rev Van Wyk and C F Dykstra for support and a TV gift. Harry G De Jong adds appreciation for well wishes and gifts remembered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redeker
Rev. van Wyk
C. F. Dykstra
Harry G. de Jong
Poisonous Wilted Plants Endanger Livestock in Iowa
Sudangrass sorg and sorg hums serve as emergency pasture and silage crops in Iowa but extension veterinarian Dr. John B. Herrick warns wilted plants raise prussic acid levels. Bruising trampling frost or similar damage triggers dangerous acidity, risking livestock poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
John B. Herrick
Iowa State College
Iowa Towns Plan Recreation Sites
Iowa towns push local recreation spaces with fulltime directors in larger cities and planned summer supervisors. Clarion, a county seat, built a 15 acre complex with a city pool, picnic area, and facilities run by civic and church groups. leadership and long term planning are highlighted as keys to success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Clarion
W. H. Stacy
Extension Rural
Iowa State College
Board of Education
John Fitzsimmons
City Park Commission
American Red Cross
Stacy
State Extension
Town State College
Fifth Iowa Cow Conference at Ames on Sept 9
The fifth annual Iowa Cow Conference will be held September 9 at Iowa State College. The new dairy cattle nutrition laboratory will be shown in Curtiss Hall Auditorium from 9:30 am with demonstrations in the Dairy Farm that afternoon. Gustav Bohstedt of the University of Wisconsin will discuss forage utilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State College
Floyd Arnold
Extension Dairyman
Artificial Breeding Association
Curtiss Hall
Gustav Bohstedt
University of Wisconsin
Wilt Stage Plants Poison Livestock If Eaten
A farmer warns that certain plants become poisonous only in the wilt stage, especially in second growth. Animals grazing 8 to 10 inches high risk rapid death if they consume wilted material. antidote must be injected into a vein and a veterinarian alerted quickly to save the animals.
Obituary for Gertrude Boland Grundman in Seattle
Gertrude Boland died August 10 1955 at home of Mrs S E White in Seattle Washington. Born April 23 1874 in Pella Iowa she married John P Grundman June 10 1894. Survived by seven children Frances Paul John Henry Gerard Nelle Alma and others plus eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral at First Reformed Church August 15 1955 conducted by Rev Wm C De Jong. burial Oakwood Cemetery Pella.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Boland
Neeltje Ver Steeg
Gerrit Boland
S. E. White
Seattle
Washington
Pella
United Vn Rage
John P. Grundman
Grundman
Gertrude
John Grundman
Frances
Laguna Beach
Calif
Paul John
Henry
Gerard
Newton
Nelle
Anthony van Zante
Alfred
Inglewood
California
Alma
8. E. White
Alyda
Clarence Vander Linden
Ine
David C. Renaud
Agnes
Charles Hayes
Wm. C. de Jong
Oakwood Cemetery
David Loetscher dies at 52 in New Jersey
David L. Loetscher aged 52 died at his home in Summerville New Jersey on Saturday August 13 1955 funeral services will be held at Oakwood Cemetery Pella Iowa at 10 30 am Thursday August 18 a complete life story will be printed in The Chronicle August 25
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David L. Loetscher
Summerville
N. J
Oakwood
Pella
Plan Nutrition School For Sept 8 at ISC
The annual Iowa Nutrition School will be held at Iowa State College Sept 8. G. D. Story of the college animal husbandry staff notes a special invitation to county extension directors and other agricultural educators to learn about the feed industry and current developments in animal and poultry feeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Iowa State College
G. D. Story
Looking Into the Future at Iowa feeding conference
The event is sponsored by the Western Grain and Feed Association, the Feed Institute of Iowa and Iowa State College. Speakers include E. Howard Hill president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Art Stegner of Butler Manufacturing Co Kansas City and Dr Gustav Bohstedt from the University of Wisconsin. Iowa State College researchers will report on beef dairy sheep swine and poultry feeding developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Western Grain and Feed Association
Feed Institute of Iowa
Iowa State College
E. Howard Hill
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Art Stegner
Butler Manufacturing Co
Kansas City
Gustav Bohstedt
Anna Husbandry Department
University of Wisconsin
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Colfax
B. G. Chamberlain
Philco
Pella Poultry Service
J.D
Owatonna
Vandermeulen Hoeksema
Reuben Schakel
Wood Bros
van Zee
John Deere
Rolle
Marion County Fairgrounds
Verploeg
Lundell
Bakker & Rus
Ferguson
J.D. A
Farmail
McKee
Vermeer
Vos Farm
U Tractor
Hammermill
PTO
Kewanée
Promway
International Harvester Dealer
Columbus St. Lee
Call Pella Construction Co
Marion van iGorp
Veenstra Real Estate
Maple
Scholte Heights
Skunk River
Sully
Frank Brennecke
Marshalltown
Fred Veenstra
Dodge
Weleunieinssae
Schiebout Tire
Studebaker
Delray
Breen & Kelderman Auto Body Shop
Plymouth
White Way Auto Co
Veenstra
West Fifth
Columbus
W. Miedema
Denver
Mary Versteegh
Leighton
Oskaloosa
Black
Clara_Gosselink
Pella Mfg. Co
Journalism
Towa City
Tom
Margaret Ann Waechter
Chronicle Office
Catte
Henry A. Beyer
Otley
Chronicle
Bram
Don Cummings
Ichery
Vera's Beauty
Simon
Deep Rock
Oskaloosa Street
Gerrit
Vander Pol
West Market Park
Edmundson Park
Geo. L. McCaughan
James A. Walster
Walster
Pella Implement Store
Meyer
Reef On
Firestone
Klyn Tire and Battery
Mathes
Jack B. Carpenter
Marian Flanders
Donald John Ver Meer
Clarion Fun Center
Cow
Ames
Chicago
National Civil Defense
Trafic
International
David Loetscher
Plan Nutrition
ISC
Quality Farm Machinery
Viking Mobil Mills
Viking Farm
Viking
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