Community Notes From Weekends And Visits
Sunday visitors included Tunie Paltzer with her new grandson at the Mick Paltzer home and sisters at the Gerald McClain home near Pleasantville. Dozens traveled to Des Moines and Storm Lake for shopping and visits as families wrapped up pre Christmas gatherings. Don Durham departs December 7 for service.
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Tunie Paltzer
Mick Paltzer
Gerald McClain
Pleasantville
Chris Durham
Wanda
Don Durham
Illinois
Don
Gilbert Moorman
Nola Ann
Des Moines
Sylvester Vander Veer
Beacon
Clarence Vander Veer
Will Ver Pl
Bob Harrison
West Coast
Gerald Kaldenberg
Memphis
Dorothy
Frank van Veen
Marge
Art Kuiper
Gerald Rozenboom
V. 0. Swearingen
Hedrick
Faye
Walter Visscher
Pearl Bogaards
Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Arranging Tour of St Louis for Marion County People
Burlington officials met with Walter Brown and J Lyman Eells to plan a rail sightseeing trip to St Louis in May for Marion County residents. Tentative May 26 date targets a scenic Mississippi River journey with bus tours to downtown and riverfront landmarks including Jefferson Memorial and historic Old Courthouse.
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St. Louis
Marion County
Burlington Railroad
Walter Brown
J. Lyman Eells
St. Loi
Old South
Burlington
Mississippi River
New St. Louis
Old Cathedral
Old St. Louis
Eugene Field
St Louis sightseeing trip from Knoxville planned for May 26
A Knoxville trip to St Louis features visits to Forest Park Zoo Shaw Botanical Gardens and Jefferson Memorial with a chimpanzee show at Forest Park. The tour departs 11 45 p m May 26 and returns after midnight with stops at Harvey Tracy Bussey and Hamilton and a round trip fare of 11 77 for adults 7 52 for children plus meals.
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Park
Busch Stadium
Ahildren
Forest Park
Knoxville
St. Louis
Harvey
Tracy
Bussey
Hamilton
Marion County 4-H Banquet Slated for Dec 10 in Knoxville
The annual 4-H banquet occurs Saturday December 10 at Memorial in Knoxville at 6 30 p m with guest speaker Ray Cunningham former YMCA Ames secretary. Other guests include Esther Whetstone state Girls 4 H leader. Dinner served by Columbia women and music by Carolyn Cline Judy Darnell Mary Ann Johnson Phyllis Walraven Jeanenne Goemaat. Peggy Clark and Nancy Core will sing. Rosalie Jordan to play accordion and Robert DeRuiter to present a number.
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Memorial
Knoxville
Ray Cunningham
YMCA
Ames
Esther Whetstone
Columbia
Carolyn Cline
Judy Darnell
Mary Ann Johnson
Phyllis Walraven
Jeanenne Goemaat
Peggy Clark
Nancy Core
Rosalie Jordan
Robert DeRuiter
Five Generations Pictured At Manning Event
Five generations gathered at Manning with Mrs. Hans Moller, 97, as matriarch and Randy Jahn, two months old, as the youngest member in the family portrait.
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Manning
Hans Moller
Randy Jahn
Voice of the Public calls for clearness to win Cold War
Frances Ray Ralston in Washington urges America to come clean and strengthen unity economy and integrity to gain world respect. She argues Russia may imitate American ideas, warns against mudslinging, and stresses divine guidance.
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America
Frances Ray Ralston
Washington
Travelog of Colombia by Nicol Smith at Kiwanis event
Nicol Smith presented a Colombia travelog at the Kiwanis sponsored program in the College Chapel. His film showed Colombian Spanish, vast mountain ranges, rivers, and waterfalls near the Magdalena River source. Bogota appeared modern with about 750000 residents and colonial cities dated to the 16th century.
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Nicol Smith
Colombia
Kiwanis
South America
Iowa
Smith
Bogota
South American lands and industry showcased in travel theme
The piece describes ripening beans, red and pink like small cherries, and coffee shipped on Grace line ships to Germany. It highlights gold dredging producing a $50,000 brick, a company mining $9,000,000 yearly, and notable emeralds. Mr Smith remarks on people, customs, industries, and agriculture, concluding Americans know little about lands near the U.S. in South America.
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Grace Line
Germany
Christmas Mailing Tips From Postmaster Ed Wesselink
Postmaster Ed Wesselink urges cooperation to speed Christmas mailings. Face cards with stamps in the upper right corner and separate bundles for Pella and all others. Attach LOCAL or Out of Town labels, available at the post office, to speed service and reduce clerks’ work. Unsealed greeting cards may be mailed at 2c. sealed cards for US Canada and Mexico cost 3c per ounce.
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Ed Wesselink
Pella
United States
Canada
Mexico
A.P.O
F.P.O
Postal Rules For Christmas Mail Delays and Packaging
The notice outlines postage rates by region, parcel post packaging rules, and requirements for mail handling. It covers enclosures, marking letters inside parcels, fragile items, and the correct use of Christmas seals. It also states mail closes at 5 p.m and window hours with extended days before Christmas.
Pella Station Weather Report Summary
U S Weather Bureau Pella Station records total .32 inches with E C Beaning listed as observer.
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Pella Station
U. S. Weather Bureau
E. C. Beaning
Amana Dairymen Favor Home-Grown Grain Ration
Dairymen in Amana and at Towa State College highlight home-grown grain mixtures as top dairy rations. Floyd Arnold notes research and experience show home-grown feeds produce high milk and butterfat, with legume-grass silage and hay as roughage. The Amana Dairy Herd Improvement Association leads in average production, adhering to these ration guidelines.
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Towa
Floyd Arnold
Towa State College
Arnold
Amana Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Dairy herd improvement supervisor Curtis Jone reports ration
Curtis Jone of the dairy herd improvement association notes this fall ration for herds includes 600 lb corn cob meal 400 lb crimped oat 100 lb each soybean oil meal linseed oil meal cottonseed meal 100 lb bran 160 lb blackstrap molasses totaling 14.9 percent digestible protein. In November home-grown grain valued at market price made the mix cost about $2.50 per hundredweight at the feed mixer as dairymen hauled their own feed.
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Curtis Jone
Jones
Association
Amana Herds Milk, Butterfat Yield Highlight Manapoint
Winter Curtis advised Arnold on price driven feed changes, noting soybean oil meal offered better value per protein. Amana herds get free salt and mineral mix. Last year each cow averaged 11,327 pounds milk and 405.9 pounds butterfat. A taxi driver adds, “It’s the people I run into.”
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Curtis
Arnold
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Kaloces
Ss Motty
Plasere
Remington Quintilline
Remington
Amana
Sethe Hen
Mickay
Finges
Singer Sewing Center
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Iday
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Dad
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