Local 4-H Club meeting and community notices
Town and rural happenings include the C and H Boosters 4-H Club meeting at Dorothy Randell home with twelve members and one leader, pledge led by Sandra Butin, and games and songs. Community events mention farm bureau demonstrations, farewell parties, visits to Des Moines and Pella, church activities, a new baby girl Sharon Sue, and 69th birthday celebration for Wm A Vriezelaar with family tree cake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. de Heer
Leighton
J. G. Newenhouse
Linda
Jane
Herbert Him
Leighn
C and H Boosters
Dorothy Randell
Sandra Butin
Harold Hagen
W. J. Lubberden
Des Moines
Cedar and Harrison Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Daws Barr
Joe Schinkel
Lacey
Wm. Schinkel
James van Wyk
Ronnie
Raymond Brand
John Heslinga
Clyde
J. van Weelden
David Terpstra
Jennie Terpstra
H. Black
H. Spoelstra
Wm. van Veldhuizen
Oskaloosa
Wm. A. Vriezelaar
W. A. Vriezel
Albert’ Hiemstra
Jacob Hiemstra
Rickie
Prairie City
Marie de Graaf
Runnells
Dale de Graaf
Angela
Charlie Rovaart
Clay Rusk
Roy Davis
Alto
Otley People Visit Families and Plan Spring Work
Otley residents and neighbors gathered for visits and celebrations across nearby towns. Families from Pella, Prairie City, Sully, and Marshalltown joined in in women and men’s social evenings, while local garden work and a golden wedding anniversary marked seasonal activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aart
Pella
Oskaloosa
G. A. Klein
Wayne
Virgil Schakel
John de Ronde
Howard Buwalda
Marshalltown
Paul Buwalda
George Vander Schel
Sully
Ed Horman
Johnnie
Linda
Joe Horman
Paul
Earl
John Horman
Norman Robus
Janie
Connie
Kenneth
Duane
William Verners
Douglas
Vriezelaar Family Twins Chronicle Iowa Farm Raised
The Vriezelaar homestead near Otley recalls a cold February night when Dr. John Harp is summoned to aid J B Vriezelaar and his wife. Twins Ira Garfield and William Arthur are born, with later births including Henry Vrieselaar and Mamie Kaldenberg, and Ira G Vriezelaar and wife Sarah welcome twins, one dying in infancy while the survivor is known as Uncle Jerry of the Youth Cru sadders heard on Sunday radio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Vriezelaar
Vriezelaar
Otley
Henry Vriezelaar
J.B
John Harp
Dr. Harp
Ira Garfield Vriezelaar
Arthur Vriezelaar
Henry Vrieselaar
Knoxville
Mamie Kaldenberg
Monroe
Ira G. Vriezelaar
Sarah
Gerald
Jerry
Youth Crusaders
Missouri road trip diary through Lamar and Bryan's
Mrs Roy Karr recalls a February rail and road journey from Cordova to Missouri visiting Lamar Bryan s Howard and Ellen s school area. She notes terrain roads bridges four lane highways irrigation wells and local sights including a private airport and water pumping for a school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman Street
Lamar
Bryan's
Howard’s
Bryan’s
Bryan
Highway 160
Ellen
Howard
Across Missouri and Iowa Farm Roads and Highway Tales
A Wanderer recalls farm life and landscapes along farms hedges fences and timber in Missouri and Iowa. The narrator describes roots of dairy farms outbuildings hedges and blackberries plus highway adventures to Jefferson City and Ashland with glimpses of salt springs limestone bluffs and cedar forests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard
Iowa Line
Queen City
Nevada
Bagnall Dam
Missouri
Capitol
Jefferson City
Marie
Oldest Iowa Resident Laura Swope Dies at North English
Laura Swope from North English, one of Iowa’s oldest residents, has died at age 16. Born in Illinois, she moved to Iowa as a child in a covered wagon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Laura Swope
North English
Inois
Dutch Carillon of 49 bells shipped to United States in April
The Dutch Carillon of 49 bells, a gift from the people of The Netherlands and Netherlands West Indies to the United States for wartime and postwar aid, will be brought to this country in April, according to K L M Royal Dutch Airlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Netherlands
Netherlands West Indies
United States
K. L. M. Royal Dutch Airines
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oskaloosa News
Mise Lisabeth Newenhouse
Otley News
Charles Vander Kolk
van Gorp
Cordova
Roy Karr
Gerrit
Mary Ann
Knoxvill
Indianola
Kansas City
Independence
Ryan’s
Bethany
Coffey
Missouri River
Carnation
Pet
Kraft
Truman
Lela S. Wier
Drive
P. O. Box
Jackson
Arbor Hills
Homeguard
Home Guard
Owen
Ashland
Creek Bottom
Ioway
Obrom Hatchery
Soffers
Minorca
Black Australorpe
Anera Ts A
WHO - TV
Sentinel
Bob Vander Kieft
Albert Wanders
Federal Discount Corp
Livermore Building
Oskaloosa, Iowa
Martin Naaktgebon
Verle
Estion
Sudan
Fowler Telephone CO
ASTRA
FORD
Ford Ulrich Motor Co
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