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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1953
Page
6
Local notices from Harrison Towns Bureau and area churches detail meetings, elections, and Thanksgiving events. Elders named for First Christian Reformed and Central Reformed Churches. Cedar Township Farm Bureau gathers with 55 attendees. Thanksgiving visits and minor injuries noted. Burns, grafts, and hospital stays discussed. calls for a postal shower auction to fund a TV set.
November 27 highlights include Helen Ka geth and Burt Karr birthdays, Verniece as new Avon representative, Monroe night school session starting December 7, Merl Price moving quarry equipment, local funeral and mail carrier activity, Pella Monroe basketball win, Summit Township to vote December 7 on fire protection levy, Otto Wynsteker farm sale December 29 followed by move to Pella, Wynsteker Dutch writing past, and visits from the Cook and De Moss families.
In a brief item the text notes Dylanne, Marshalltown drag ring, Kies employed by Braniff in Omaha, Patsy awaiting airline work, Center ville girls sharing an apartment with Harrison and Nettie Legrand, Henderson family, Bob Sherwoods visiting Marysville Missouri for Thanksgiving at Lois and Charles Jones, Wicker family from Milwaukee with Wally Morris, 17 turkeys and 50 dozen eggs taken home, Paul Karr praised by T Eller of the American Telegraphry School for high grades and Marshalltown schooling with February job readiness, and Hodgson plowing Bud Williams and Merl Price gardens last week.
The Galesburg Christian Church Ladies Aid Society held a Wednesday meeting in the church aid room with Mrs Clyde Rawlins leading devotions and songs. A planned December 16 Christmas party and gift exchange was announced. Hospitality by Mrs Charles Awtry and Mrs Alan Kroh followed, with several local families and visitors noted in attendance.
Mr and Mrs Howard and Karen Sue Ah... Y N Johnson of Monroe spent Sunday visiting in Steve Johnsons West Des Moines home. Families from Monroe Sully Newton Pella and Des Moines gathered for Thanksgiving dinners and afternoon calls at multiple homes including De Penning De Bruyn Menninga and Zickel households with Neal Koopman and Bill Koopman among visitors.
Peoria’s Thanksgiving service drew a large crowd as worshippers offered prayers of gratitude. The congregational offering of 1545.87 will fund missions. At last Friday’s meeting elders Tunis Fynaardt and John Kloosterman were chosen, with deacons John Hagen and Gerald Vander Wiel. Retiring elders John A. De Young and Pete Jonker and retiring deacons Peter Rus and Jacob Vander Molen were thanked. Elmer Vos, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Vos, had an appendectomy and is recovering well at Mahaska Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Gysbert Vis welcomed a baby boy at Mahaska Hospital. Jerry Lee has two brothers.
A long fragment recounts births and congratulations for families including Leonard and Henriette Veldhuizen, Harold De Vries, and Nellié Vander Hart. It notes illnesses among Vander Hart and Vander Wilt families, Thanksgiving reunions with relatives from Denver, Grand Rapids, and Minneapolis, and servicemen like Gerald Van Sant and John Veenstra arriving in Korea. A car accident near Kellogg is mentioned with no injuries.
Fragmentary text reflects a reader urging younger listeners to read a Psalm and to reflect deeply as they grow. It mentions Teefers and a line about comfort and sustenance, with a reference to Paton and maturer hearts meditating on the verse. The excerpt appears to be a church or devotional note from Chicago.
A fragment notes Puritans forbade celebrating Christmas by force of labor or feasting, arguing such merriment violated their grounds. It states Christmas has been a holiday for only about a century.
In Buena Vista a corn field contest produced a top yield of 167 bushels per acre by Terenee McKenna on a tract that had previously been pasture. The record reflects a notable change from pasture to high output in the season.
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