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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1962
Page
6
The Pella Chronicle page highlights community notices and events for August 30 1962. Local gatherings, school announcements, church activities, and upcoming civic meetings are listed with brief details and dates.
Mary J Franklin reports on Coal Ridge activities and visits across the community. Families stop by the Karrs in Lovena, the De Zwarte and Anderson households, and friends share church events, hospital calls, and a Coal Ridge Church picnic planned for Sunday September 9.
Berniece Richard Buckley died Saturday August 18 and was buried at Red Rock Sunday. The obituary notes her age fifty five and that she had lived in northwest Town for years. The column also recounts a ten day Greyhound bus tour to Minneapolis Spokane and the World Fair and a five hour Seattle land and water tour including the Space Needle descent. Further family visits and local community updates follow with numerous names and notes on chores travels and events from the area.
Dr Edward Luke 86 longtime Coin physician who began practice in 1905 died recently. He spent fifty years serving the Coin community and built a lasting medical presence in the town.
Lynnville News reports the Kingsm Quertette from Haviland Bible College presented an aspirational program of sacred music in the Friends church area. Wendell Barnett and Harold Clark stayed overnight with the Warren Stanleys. Mehlon Wilson and John Coleman were guests at the Ross Ratcliffe home. four young men had dinner with the Stanleys Saturday noon. Barnett is the son of Rev. and Mrs. Barnett, longtime local pastors. Mrs. Gerald Benson underwent surgery Saturday in the Norton Pagable. The Beiber family of Green Castle Indiana, teaching in Forks North Dakota, attended the World Fair and visited in Iowa City with Mrs. Wagaman and others. The Beibers returned to Indiana Saturday morning. The Evans family and Dennis vacationed in southern states, visited Pauls in Des Moines, attended the state fair, then returned home Saturday night. Chai Ladd of New Sharon led the meat depot at Evans Grocery during the period.
Scarsboro resident Mildred McCoullogh assisted in cooking at a home, while Clarence Seelen helped part. Holdsworth of Durango visited with his sister Mrs. Dean Lewis and family in Cedar Rapids. Julia Macy and Earl Macy families hosted dinner guests in Grinnell. Howard Macy also dined with the Blairs. Don Lewis and Rhonda stay with George Clark’s family in Cedar Rapids awaiting overseas posting. Don will teach PE for dependents in France. Reverend Max Brandt and wife attended a picnic in Merrill Park. Brandts resign from the Grinnell Church of God effective Sept 1 and will lead a Church of God in Minot, North Dakota. Rev J W Garrison and family were honored at a farewell Sunday with a cooperative noon dinner led by Henry Van Donselaar as master of ceremonies.
Fragmentary excerpt discusses love, unity, and goodwill among individuals and nations, but lacks concrete facts, names, or events to summarize into a standard news item.
Brief ad fragment notes a tea item and a want ad feel. It hints at a reader seeking a specific tea product and possible seller contact, within a small local notice style. The readable text suggests a casual request rather than a formal sale.
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