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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1947
Page
7
Town crier urges three day Tulip Time May 8 to 10 with town in Dutch costume. Officials urged to close businesses, residents to decorate, and Gerald Mokma of Berlin to attend. Notes weather say March could start mild then storm, and promotes planting Tulip trees across Pella.
The Marion County F H A group summarizes 1947 operations noting high and low gains tied to 1945 feed and livestock held into 1946. The report compares favorably to 1945, with state average alignment and a single family showing low living costs despite farm fruit surplus.
The column lists numerous visits to residents of the Home for the Aged including Mr. and Mrs. Martin Vink and L. J. Monster visiting C. N. Wegda and other households from Prairie City Knoxville Tracy Attica Des Moines and Galesburg. A hunter from Williamsburg shot a wolf after surprising it on a rabbit hunt and brought the carcass home.
Mr. Allbaugh supervises both counties and teaches Farmers Night School in each. Sixty students are enrolled at Knoxville, highlighting high living costs that drive the rural groups to self identify as hill billies to the broader audience.
Injuries from an oxygen tank incident and a car crash among workers are reported. Cora Kruseman limps after an oxygen tank fell on her foot, while June De Zwarte Betty Jo Van de Geest and Betty Van Zee suffer cuts and bruises from a Thursday night collision at Main and Oskaloosa. Other injuries include a leg gash from a press accident to William Alexander and a similar press incident to Gerrit Van Rees.
A brief Peoria Illinois dispatch dated January 24 signs off from Mr and Mrs Albert Brooks stating They dodo it Be back Wednesday The piece mentions the East Indian fish called the snake head or serpent head noted for its long cylindrical form and flattened scaled head
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