Interesting Southwest trip notes and Arizona sights
Correspondent recounts a Southwest journey visiting Montezuma Castle and Jerome, noting cliff dwellings, a copper mine ghost town, then travels to Nogales Old Mexico. They describe desert flora, Spade Horse Ranch, a Glendale meat plant burro herd, Palmcroft Church, and local gatherings with Dutch descendants. The diary covers weather, grapefruit picking, and braided rug making, ending with a Phoenix rail return.
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Montezuma Castle
Phoenix
Jerome
Cnic
Verde
Bill
Coralee
Vriezelaars
Verde River
Arizona
Spade Horse Ranch
Glendale Meat Packing Plant
Grand Canyon
Palmcroft
Dutch Vriezelaar
Vriezelaar
Earl Jones
Monroe
Bill Woody
Old Mexico
Tests and Teaching Discussed by High School Teachers
High school teachers met to discuss the purpose of tests in learning. Edgar Epperly led the session which examined objective versus essay tests, noting both have value but essay questions are often neglected due to difficulty in creation and grading. An open book test was endorsed to teach using multiple sources and proper study tools. Recommendations urged teachers to list essential material, plan tests in advance, avoid overlong questions, use few strong essay prompts to teach writing, and minimize emphasis on obvious points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Epperly
Desi
Engine Retired From Paulina Municipal Light Plant
At Paulina the town has retired its 36 year old engine from the municipal light plant. The 180 horsepower unit cost $20,000 when new and served town power needs for decades.
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Paulina
Municipal
Former Pella Man Plans Visit To Old Home
Fred Voorhees of Monrovia California writes of nostalgia for Pella Iowa. He recalls a 1940 letter from George Ver Steeg urging a feature on the old neighborhood and hopes a late-life trip with his brother Frank to Minnesota and their former home may reunite them with longtime friends in Pella.
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Pella
George Ver Steeg
Frank
Minnesota
Fred Voorhees
Monrovia
Calif
Milking the Wrong Cow in Small Town Anecdotes
A reader recounts two dairy misadventures from a bygone town. First, milking the wrong neighbor’s cow while away on vacation, mistaking its owner’s for the agent’s and learning the joke too late. Then, attempting to protect his calf from a kicking cow with a crowbar backfiring comically, leaving him rattled but unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Rhynsburger
the Chronicle
Pella
Virginia
Chronicle
Iowa’s Great Cold Snap of 1936 Ends in February
The article recalls Iowa’s severe 1935 1936 winter with 42.9 inches of snow per three months and subzero lows. January saw 80 below zero in West Bend and 22 below in Cool. Frostbite plagued children. coal shortages hit towns. trains stalled. roads blocked for weeks. The thaw came late February followed by a record hot July.
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Iowa
West Bend
Cool
Davenport
Northwood
Radcliffe
Randalla
Dorothy Moore
Towa
Man survives gravel collapse after burial near Jefferson
Jim Pittman of Boone was testing gravel when a bank caved in and buried him to the shoulders. He escaped with a fractured collarbone. The note ends with a call to aid Easter Seals for crippled children.
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Jim Pittman
Boone
Jefferson
What If Everybody Had a Million Dollars
A dream vision shows a world where every person carries a million dollars and work ends. The narrator discovers food, security, and plenty vanish as society collapses into idleness and dependence on others for basic needs. The scene shifts from luxury to hunger and confusion across deserted streets.
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Dave Vander Ploeg
Coralée
Superstition Mountain
Prairie Farmers Insurance Hits All Time High Mark
William Van Maanen of Leighton says Prairie Farmers Mutual Insurance rose to $29,064,717 in force in 1957, an all time high. The 79th policyholders meeting at Oskaloosa announced rate cuts to $2 per thousand from $2.26. Losses totaled $29,083.28, down from 43,968.33 in 1956, aided by an inspection program. The emergency fund rose $17,750, enabling purchase of $28,000 and $20,000 federal land bank bonds. Prairie Farmers covers real estate and personal property.
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William van Maanen
Leighton
Prairie Farmers Mutual Insurance
Vanen
Oskaloosa
Federal Land Bank
Prairie Farmers
Dream and waking life of shared labor and breakfast rush
The speaker recalls a dream of wealth and the total welfare of mankind, then wakes to a sunny morning. He sees a world of people busy with daily tasks and realizes his own contribution to others as he urges his wife to hurry breakfast so he can get to work.
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H. W. Vriezelaar
Nogales
States
Dwight L. Pringle
Wallace Bump
Joel
Clarence Branniff
Gradus Vriezelaars
Kathryn
Vander Ploegs
Mamie Vander Ploeg
Beatrice Staley
Des Moines
Voice of
The
Pella Chronicle
E. V. Goad
American Bankers Magazine
Che Pella
Florida
Tipton
Mercury
Marion County
Charles City
Clover
Orde
Prairie Farmers Insurance
John Deere Tractors
PTO
John Deere
Hecksema
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