Band Resumes Concert Series Saturday Night
The Pella band restarts its summer concert series on Saturday evening after a break for a Chicago trip to Soldiers Field. A variety program in Garden Square featured Bob Omick as master of ceremonies with readings, singing, and instrumental performances by Bob Klein, Donald Wachter, Dean Sadler, Hespers Kuyper, and Jean Kuyper on electric organ. Herbert Five marches an overture and two popular songs will be played, including a medley from Victor Herbert's Sweethearts. The program highlights include The Men from Mars and a Sweethearts medley, with a closing set of marches and selections. The end of the season nears. come out and hear the band.
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Pella
Chicago
Soldiers’ Field
Garden Square
Bob Omick
Bob
Bob Klein
Donald Wachter
Dean Sadler
Hespers Kuyper
Jean Kuyper
Herbert Medley
Mars
Victor Herbert
Angelus
Jeanette
Newton Invitational Tennis Tournament Announces Sept. 3 5
The Newton Tennis Association sponsors a Newton Invitational at Maytag Park Sept 3 4 and 5 with events in men and women singles doubles mixed doubles and youth divisions. Deadline Sept 2. Manager Erwin Ekeland and assistants Lew Blight Larry Dutton from Newton. Harold McCollom of Des Moines won last year’s open division.
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Erwin Ekeland
Lew Blight
Larry Dutton
Larry Brierly
Newton
Harold McCollom
Des Moines
Trinity Senior C. E. Hymn Sing Aug. 28 at Park
Trinity Christian Endeavor of Reformed Church sponsors an outdoor hymn in Central Park on Sunday August 28 at 9 00 p m A free will offering will aid missions and fund a church piano Rev Wm C De Jong will lead the singing In case of rain the event moves to Douwstra Chapel Public invited
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Trinity Senior C. E
Christian Endeavor Ity Reformed Church
Central Park
Cause of Missions
C. E
Wm. C. de Jong
Douwstra Chapel
School Year at Christian High Starts Tuesday
The Pella Christian High School opens Tuesday, August 80, at 8 45 am with registration and a chapel service. New teachers are introduced and a class orientation run-through follows. About 175 students are expected from Sully Pella Peoria Otley Leighton Oskaloosa Newton Cedar Tracy. Returning staff include De Jong Weldhouse Boertje Bossenbroek Brouwer Veltema Heyboer.
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Christian High
Pella Christian High School
Michigan
Veltema
Public School Faculty Meeting Friday Morning
The first meeting of this year's public school faculty will be held in the high school study hall at 9 a.m. Friday with new teachers introduced and staff invited to join local, state, and national organizations.
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Sublic School
Richland 4-H Garden Winners At Southern Iowa Fair
Richland Blue Bells 4-H Club ribbons at the Southern Iowa Fair highlight regular and beginner garden classes. Top placers include Rosalie Eng first Linda Kuiper second Janet Nolsen third and Marilyn Van der Linden honorable mention in regular division. Marcia Kuiper first and Mary Lou Gosselink honorable mention in beginners. Home garden winners: Linda Kuiper first Janet Nollen tied for fourth. beginners Mary Gosselink second. Home furnishings ribbons go to Dorothy De Geus Rosalie Engbers Mary Lou Gosselink Norma Hiemstra Linda Kuiper Marcia Kuiper Janet Nollen Alda Mae Pippel Marilyn Vander Linden Jessie Vande Voort Linda Van Zee Carolyn Vos. Demonstration in junior division by Jessie Vande Voort and Marilyn Vander Linden red ribbons. senior division red ribbons to Alda Mae Pippel and Janet Nollen on Your Dresser Drawers. Leaders are Mrs. Clarence Bogard and Mrs. Lester Vander Linden.
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Richland Blue Bells
Rosalie Engfirst
Linda Kuiper
Janet Nolsen
Marilyn Vander Linden
Marcia Kuiper
Mary Lou Gosselink
Janet Nollen
Gosselink
Dorothy de Geus
Rosalie Engbers
Norma Hiemstra
Linda
Alda Mae Pippel
Jessie Vande Voort
Linda van Zee
Carolyn Vos
Marion County Fielding Large Entry Count at State Fair
Marion County plans a strong presence at the Iowa State Fair from September 1 to 5 with 56 4-H members and 24 dairy head plus 22 beef heifers. The dairy classes include 10 Jersey 6 Guernsey 3 Holstein and 6 Brown Swiss with 40 baby beef entries across Hereford Angus and Shorthorn. A livestock judging team of four boys will compete along with two pens of market lambs two colts two pure bred litters and two market pigs.
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Marion County
Jersey
Iowa Radio Hams Enlisted in Civil Defense Network
About 1500 Iowa amateur radio operators join a disaster back up plan coordinated by the State Office of Civil Defense. Des Moines officers Robert Evans and the Rev Duane Farris are named State Radio Officer and Alternate State Radio Officer, serving unpaid. The system links short wave facilities with city, county, and state agencies to alert the public during emergencies.
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Des Moines
State Office of Civil Defense
Ben” Fowler
Civil Defense
Robert Evans
WOAUL
Davis Avenue
Duane A. Farris
WOEHH
Ard Street
State Civil Defense Office
Leo A. Hoegh
Towa
Civil Air Patrol
99 County
Dykstra Kooyman In Semi Final of Club Tournament
Dykstra and Kooyman reach the 18 hole semi final after close matches in a four-some format. Vander Waal Mohrbacher also advance by narrow margins, while other A Flight and ladies events unfold with Tysseling and Ulrich among winners and Bets/Neighbors contesting later rounds.
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Dykstra
Kooyman
Don Dykstra
Pellachamp
Wally Kooyman
Herb Vander Waal
Stan Mohrbacher
Rudy Ulrich
Pete Gauss
Vander Waal
Mohrbacher
Gauss
Nick Vander Ploeg
Matei
Max Schakel
Pella School Bus Routes Timetable Starting Monday
Public school buses begin runs Monday morning August 29 with Wheatgrow route reversed. Key stop times include 7 28 Louis Van Vark corner, 7 42 Vander Zyl, 7 61 Clarence Van Gorp, 8 06 Sale Barn Olivet, and Otley, Liberty Corner, White Breast and Plainview routes. Buses return at 11 15, no afternoon session.
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Paul Meppelink
Plainview School
Pella
Louis van Vark
Vander Zyl
Clarence van Gorp
John R. van Gorp
Sale Barn Olivet Corner
Leighton Black Oak Center
Otley
Bunker Hill
Otley Liberty Corner
White Breast
Wheatgrow
J. C. de Bruin
Centennial School
Warren School
Flint Ridge
Plainview Amsterdam
Harvey
Paul Langstraat
Henry Hackett
Central College Dean Drives Radio Tape Projects Expansion
Dr. William G. Wing of Central College music faculty spoke to the Rotarians on expanding Central’s musical programs through tape recordings. He outlined obtaining local funding, making recordings for WHO Des Moines, later broadcasting on WOF Ames and KBIZ Ottumwa, and noted student attendance rise and positive station feedback.
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William G. Wing
Central College
Wing
Bob Kuyper
Pella
Central
WHO
Des Moines
WOF
Ames
KBIZ
Ottumwa
Anthony Tysseling
Dutch Weirather
Gerald Dieleman
Harold Haverkamp
Mr. Weirather
Record Oat Year Tells Yield Ability
Iowa State College crops chief I J Johnson says 1955 was a record oat year in the state with high test weights and frequent 100 bushel yields. He notes good weather and few diseases allowed varietal yielding ability to show, providing a basis to compare varieties on average performance.
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I. J. Johnson
Iowa State College
Johnson
Top oat varieties expected as trials reveal long-term performance
Joe Robinson of the Iowa Crop Improvement Association notes no shortage of high quality oat varieties. The Agricultural Experiment Station will release the Iowa oat variety trials summary around October 1, detailing 1955 results and multi-year averages. College specialists base recommendations on consistent year-to-year performance across tested varieties.
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Agricultural Experiment Station
Joe Robinson
Iowa Crop Improvement Association
Golf Tourney at Indianola Postponed to Aug. 27 28
Indianola Ia Saturday and Sunday Aug. 27 and 28 have been set for the Indianola amateur golf tournament. The event was moved from Aug. 7 due to a water shortage. It will be medal play with championship flights 36 holes and other flights 18. 18-hole qualifying rounds for the championship flights on Saturday and 9-hole rounds for others can be played Saturday or Sunday. An 18-hole best ball twosome is planned for Saturday. Over $600 in prizes is offered.
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Indianola
John Piffer
Indianola Country Club
Piffer
Melon Patch Raided at Home for the Aged
A Home for the Aged garden patch, normally pumpkins after tulip beds, was vandalized last week. Watermelons, pumpkins, and squash were uprooted and damaged, with pumpkins partly saved and squashes unrecoverable. Supervisor Geenen condemns the act as a dirty trick.
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Pella
Geenen
Jasper County Plowing Matches Invite Entries
Plans underway for two Jasper County plowing matches with contour and level land events. Contour on Sept 21 at Forrest Warner farm near Monroe. level land on Oct 8 at R F Brewer farm near Newton. First six entries after Sept 1 qualify, one contest per entrant, entries at Soil Conservation District office Newton IA.
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Forrest Warner
Cecil and
Laverne Rector
Monroe
Highway No
R. F. Brewer
Don Leavens
Newton
Soil Conservation District
Iowa
Soil and Water Field Day Set for Hiemstra Farm
A Soil and Water Conservation Field Day is planned for September 9 at the John C. Hiemstra farm three miles west of Pella in the Thunder Creek watershed. Demonstrations include building a pond of 1.2 acres, terracing, waterway shaping, tiling, and contour plowing with tractors and tools supplied by area implement dealers. The event is hosted by the Soils Conservation Service, Extension Service, Pella Chamber of Commerce, High School Age Department, FFA, and Thunder Creek watershed officers. The program starts at 8:30 a.m. with lunch provided, and invites all area farmers plus a trade event by Pella merchants on Friday and Saturday.
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Jasper County Soil Conservation District
Newton Chamber of Commerce
Jasper County Extension Service
Washington Center
Colfax
Prairie City
FFA
John C. Hiemstra
Thunder Creek
Sci
Pella
New Webster
Wilbur Vos
Patsy Gond
Wilkins
Soils Conservation Service
Extension Service
Pella Chamber of Commerce
Thunder Creek Watershed Association
John Hospers
Builings
Merchants of
Voters Defeat School District Reorganization Plan
Voters defeated a plan to reorganize school districts in the Sully Lynnville area during a Tuesday election. Of seventeen districts, twelve approved the measure and thirteen were needed to pass. the proposal failed in five districts. In Sully, 209 total votes were cast with 197 for, ten against, and two spoiled ballots.
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Sully-Lynnville
Sully
Merchants Dinner Hosts Farmers at Pella Chicken Supper
The Adult Evening School of Pella hosted the Pella Chamber of Commerce for its annual chicken supper picnic at Swimming Pool Park on Wednesday August 17. Attendees enjoyed ample chicken and trimmings with seconds and thirds, followed by a low scoring softball game that ended 29-28 as the Merchants scored the winning run in the bottom of the final inning. The Chamber plans to host a reciprocal banquet for the farmers next winter.
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Pella
Pella Girl Connie Nieuwsma Crowned Maytag Queen
Connie Nieuwsma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Nieuwsma, was named Queen for the coming year by Maytag employees at the Newton picnic last weekend. Joyce Petersma and Mrs. Elmer Van Dusseldorp elected attendants. Miss Nieuwsma crowned by Fred Maytag. Peggy King sang before 122 nominees with nine finalists.
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John Nieuwsma
Maytag
Newton
Joyce Petersma
Henry Petersma
Pella
Elmer van Dusseldorp
Miss Nieuwsma
Fred Maytag
Washer Company
Mi Nieuwsma
Barbara Dimon
Marilyn Trent
Geraldine van Dusseldorp
Roy List
Beverly Sutphin
Charles Gifford
Norma Irwin
Peggy King
George Gobel
Miss King
New York
N. Y
Chicago
Ill
Maytag Co
Pell Maytag
Joyce Peterama
Elmer
Gerald Brue) van Dusseldorp
Barbara Dion
Geraldierry Sutphin
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