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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1950
Page
16
A community column reports visits among families in Bussey and Delta, church events, and a Spring Creek Livestock club meeting with water provision talk. Notes include snowfall, wildlife sightings, and residents traveling to California and Arizona, plus local weather and holiday reflections.
Early morning Verners hill car crash injures Delight and a friend from Pella. car damaged and glasses broken. Donald Balmer's recovery continues in wheelchair, planning move to Des Moines Veterans Hospital. Obituaries for Mrs. Isrenl and Charley McGriff noted with pallbearers. Red Rock Aid sells Jewel Tea shampoo profits for church urn. Farmhand moves to Templeton Harvey tenants. Ernest Simpson buys new TV. farewell party at Dwight Harvey home ends with an object donation.
Galesburg News reports Mr. and Mrs. Everett Mudgett and families visiting Holmes, Dearinger, Dearin ger, Zickel, Steeg, Brien, Awtry, Carpenter, and Schippers households for Sunday dinners and shopping trips. Church ladies gathered for a basement cleanup and quilting. Funeral services were held for Mr. Ko, who died after a stroke en route to Newton hospital. burial at Hewitt cemetery.
Peoria residents report church movements with John Swank moving to First Reformed Church of Pella. Local births include a baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vander Wiel in Newton. Snow and icy roads cause travel hazards while teachers attended a Teachers Institute at Pella Christian High. Community visits, showers, and hospital updates fill the week with Christmas greetings and reflections on the season.
Otley neighbors share Sunday gatherings with the Uster markt family, De Vries visitors from Pella, and Rev Vander Kamp conducting services in Otley as Rev Brink attends a funeral in Dispatch Kansas. Local updates include Maxwell Carnahan recovering from a cold and Connie Robus improving after illness. Mrs. Florence Van Steenis returns to teaching after a three week bedbound period following surgery. Percy Clemets reports a successful deer hunt in Wisconsin while Bonnie, Darlene, and Cordell Verners spend time with the Charl der Kolk Reformed church group. In Pella, Mr and Mrs Fred Kingery from Knoxville dine with son Donald Kingery’s family. Roberta Waits assists at the telephone office Saturday afternoon, and her aunt Mrs Don Rexroat joins a birthday observance.
A string of brief social items lists visits and travels of residents and relatives. Names include Mrs. Tate Wheatcraft of Amana, the Bible Youth Crusaders, Mrs. Marion Verwers and Delores, Mrs. Gerrit Wittenberg, Mrs. Gerald Koopman, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper De Rand, Donald Rexroat, Mr. Aunt Uiter arkt, Oscar Sjoline, John Vander Baard, Gerritt Vander Wiel, Charles Vander Kolk, Dick Ustermarkt, Andrew Ustermarkt, Mrs. Harry Ver Steeg, Mrs. Neal Vanden Berg, Gerald, Betty, Norma, Hattie Ver Steeg, Marion Ustermarkt, Louis Kathlene, John Ryken, Rev. Brink. Events include movements to Oskaloosa station, trips to Des Moines, California, Dispatch Kansas, and funeral duties, with scattered church and minister duties noted.
Funeral services for Charles IfI 70 were held at Crumpacker Funeral Home Monroe with burial at Barney Cemetery Lorimer. McGriff obituary notes wife and five children including Newton residents Karl Schrall Patrick McGriff and nine grandchildren. Attendees at Harvester convention included Mrs Ted Root and Annie Jo Willemson. Rev Lasswell conducts evangelist services in Algona. Guests at John Bruce home included Robert Bruce Marshalltown Bert Turner and Grover Herwehe. Birthday dinners honored Lee Marshall and Rose Taylor with attendees from Monroe Des Moines and nearby towns.
A Sunday gathering at the Scheffers home included Charlene Westbrook Duane Westbrook W S Westbrook Newton Wilbur Tair Lair and Belle Coughshalltown plus Albert Van Pella and Judith. Ed Morningstar and Marcia Sweeney welcomed a son born December at Methodist Hospital Des Moines. Mrs Meg Morton Zerley and Wm Warrick visited last week. Chris Vander Pol hosted the K Y T club at her home with a toy drive for a children s hospital. Robert J Barr trains as an Air Force technician at Warren AFB Wyoming. Trees are a firm crop like corn hogs and beef with woodlands protected from fire and grazing.
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