Pella area notes holiday visits and local health updates
A long list of Christmas visits and illness updates from Pella and nearby towns. Subscriptions renewed, relatives gathered for Christmas, and various hospital admissions and discharges noted. Residents include Berg, Groenendyk, Gezel, Weirather, Van Vork, Mulder, Bandstra, Vander Hart, Ozinga, Slings, Gosselink, Williams, Hiemstra, Van Dusseldorp, Vander Linden, and Van der Linden, with several attending hospital and church events and a North American Student Conference report from Central College students.
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Marianne Walvoord
Jaci van der Lugt
Raymond Weiss
Don Hull
G. T. Vander Lugt
Central College
University of Kansas
Laurence
Kansas
YMCA
YWCA
Godert Vander Hart
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
Lewis Ozinga
Andrew Slings
Mahaska
William Gosselink
Elam Williams
Leonard Hiemstra
Mercy
Start Young Colts on Grain Before Weaning
A B Caine promotes starting young colts on grain before weaning at 4 to 6 months. He notes exceptions when the dam is idle or in foal. Teach the colt to eat grain early to avoid setbacks and use home grown seeds like oats corn alfalfa clover and timothy hay with a small amount of high protein feed for proper growth.
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A. B. Caine
Town State College
Congressman urges delay on coast to coast highway plan
Congressman Paul Cunningham said Congress will likely not fund a nationwide highway network for years. He urged continuing the current federal highway funds formula, focusing on upgrading existing roads rather than building new expressways. Attorneys note postwar funds up to 500 million annually through 1949 require state matching. The plan hinges on population area and road mileage, with equal weight to each.
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Cunningham
Congress
Interesting Facts About Christmas Carols From an old church tale to Dickens influence and Mendelssohn melodies
The piece traces origins of Silent Night sparked by a snowbound Austrian church and a gnawed organ, notes Dickens boosting God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, and explains Hark the Herald Angels Sing name origin and the Mendelssohn link to the present melody. It ends by mentioning Adeste Fidelis as an ancient hymn with uncertain date and authorship.
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Austria
Oberndorf
Germany
Charles Dickens
Scrooge
Dickens
Herald Angels
Charles Wesley
Methodist Church
Mendelssohn
State Breeders Seek National Poultry Honors
J Thompson of Centerpoint and A H Ward of Independence will represent Towa in the 1948 finals of the national Chicken of Tomorrow contest. The event will cap a three year search by the poultry industry for a superior meat type chicken with a grand prize of 6000 dollars and runner up awards from A and P Food Stores. The finalists were chosen from 44 states and 40 have been named to compete for the title next spring. Finalists will ship 720 hatching eggs to a central Delware hatchery near Georgetown for the finals, as the program aims to guide selective breeding for better consumer value and producer returns.
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Centerpoint
A. H. Ward
Independence
Towa
Pring
National
Chicken-of-Tomorrow Committee
A & P Food Stores
H. L. Shrader
U. S
Poultry breeders vie in 12 week Delaware trials
The 12 week program at the Delaware State experiment Sub-station concludes with prize winning breeders to be announced at a Chicken-of-Tomorrow Field Day in Georgetown on June 24. Thompson led 1947 state trials and was runner up in the North Central Regionals. Ward, a White Rock breeder, won 1946 state trials and placed as high as third in 1947 regional. Other finalists include Roger Nelson Sharon North Dake Corn Belt Hatcheries Joliet Illinois and Robert Martin Ram sey Indiana.
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Delaware
Georgetown
Thompson
Ward
Roger Nelson
Sharon
North Dake Corn Belt Hatcheries
Joliet
Il Nois
Robert Martin
Ramsey
Indiana
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B. L. Berg
Chicago
Chronicle
The
E. Groenendyk
West Des Moines
Ivan Gezel
Altoona
Iowa
Mrs. Gezel
F. W. Weirather
Winfield
Vivian Weirather
Mr. Weirather
Vivian
Ruth
Tenseelani
Makacka Hospital
John Heerema
Dez Moines
Simon Vander Zyl
Wayre Schakel
Jerry Car
University
Houpe Nf Towa
Sam Ver St
Requa
Decorah
BL. Ren
Pella
Betsy
Willis M. Tait
William Tait
Willis
Glider Infantry
Abn
Ft. Bragg
North China
Dale den Hartog
Des Moines
American Institute of Business
Pel- Ju
George Gezel
Mercy Hospital
George Gezel Jr
Ed Ves
Gordon Farndell
Presbyterian Church of Knoxville
William van Vork
John Mulder
Okaloosa
John Bandstra
Bertha van Wyngarden
Joe Shultz
Curtis M. Snow
Boulder
Colorado
Myron Sjaardema
Sully
John W. Vander Linden
Mrs. Vander Linden
A. D. van Skike
Mrs. Wayne Pos
Towa State College
Ames
John Victor Vers
C. Evers
Orange City
Iowa State College
T. Meinders
Gilvert
Tim
Henry van Whe
Orange U
Herman Bruxvoort
Carl Vander Ploeg
Towa City
Oakland
Rob
Martha Tautenbach
Berea
Kentucky
Yeoman
Billy Lankelma
Doe Boyd
Maryland
Olathi Kansas
Billy
Reg Dixon
Tryg Grufman
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Keg
Minnesota University
Michael Cherkala
Cleveland
Ohio
Bernie Vander Linden
Bob
Myrtle
Henry Cox
Johan de Groot
Hague
Netherlands
San Diego
California
de Groot
Wormhoudt
Rotterdam
Coxes
Mr. Cox
D. P. van Zee
den Adel Sales and Service
Verrip’s Grocery
Shell Service
Art
Esther—Franklin
Florence Ted and
Leo
Paul Cunningham
House Roads Subcommittee
United Press
Oloosa Herald
Frederick Oakley
Oxford
Angelican Church
Newman
James Pierpont
Treasury Department
Washington
J. Pierpont Morgans
Elmer and
Jim van Zee
Billboard
Heralds
Bakker
Rus
Amooln Sailing
Frank
Tromp
Vogelaar’s
Ben, Carl, Arnold, Gary
Helen, Fred, Raymond, Andrew
Scharing Garage
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