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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1953
Page
1
Local notes from Pella Iowa dated December 24 1953 recount military returns and discharges Korean War veterans including Marion Van Zee and Frank Vander Hart and Marion Van Rheenen. Also births marriages hospital visits employer moves and visitor trips with several residents and relatives described alongside church and hospital notices.
Newton visitors Mr and Mrs George Browning join Mrs Carrie Muilenberg for holiday tea. Lt and Mrs Lester Qonk and three children arrive from Florida for Christmas with Mrs Qonk’s parents in Meulpolders. Vander Linden to Canton Minnesota for the holidays with Wickett family. David Ver Meer, son of Mr and Mrs Harold Ver Meer, injures himself with an electric coffee urn, treated at Pleasantville and Mahaska Hospital, then home swathed. A boy is born to Mr and Mrs Harold Brock of Pella at Mahaska Hospital, Oskaloosa. Mrs Henry Langstraat of Taintor seeks medical care at Mercy Hospital. Church bulletin notes list several illnesses and recoveries. Siblings from Reseda California, S N Van Vliet, visit and return from Amarillo Texas where granddaughter Mary Whinery was born.
The State Conservation Commission reminds deer hunters that storage permits are required if deer meat is kept in storage for more than ten days. Applications are available at commercial locker plants and submitted to the Commission in Des Moines. Free permits cover game stored in lockers or home freezers with migratory waterfowl exceptions.
The twelfth annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah occurred Monday in Douwstra Chapel before an overflow crowd. A 32-piece orchestra included nine guest artists from Central, Pella, and the University of Iowa, with notable performers Stuart Canin and Claude Carlson among the string specialists and University of Iowa students Evangelia Thomas Joneal Boyle and James Niblock in key roles.
The performance united Central College students and faculty with about 200 chorus members and 800 in the audience. Soloists Edith Sedrel Le Cocq from Central and Jean Gressley Willard Sunnstad Herald Stark from the University of Iowa delivered refined recitatives and arias as part of a memorable Messiah concert.
Artificially bred cows in Iowa reached 251 049 in 1952, representing 25 percent of cows two years old and over kept for milk.
A fragmentary line evocative of agricultural labor and soil care suggests a farmer's task to nurture soil through feeding, resting, and weeding cycles. The incomplete text hints at a longer rural or instructional piece emphasizing sustainable farming practices.
Fore it gets dirty there are the marks of husbandman. A concise Gaelic saying notes that soil bearing work leaves visible signs of labor, emphasizing practical wisdom over ornament.
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