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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1946
Page
4
Numerous listings selling livestock appliances homes and personal items. Entries include bred Hereford bulls saw logs polled Herefords and Duroc hogs with contact phone numbers near Oskaloosa Monroe New Sharon Peoria and Pella along with a modern home at 904 Washington Street and a dining room suite. Proximity notes mention pavement 63 and Route 1.
A list of farm products and equipment for sale includes 17 purebred Duroc pigs to farrow soon, Duroc boars, baled straw, a circulating enamel heater, Warm Morning heater, a two lid laundry stove, a modern eight room house, a piano, estate heating stove, 200 bales of straw, a pure bred spotted hog, hog feeding gear, hog houses, 250 bales clover hay, a model A Ford coach, 250 bales threshed straw, and various farm jobs and rental notices. Contact names and phone numbers include Dick Schimmel, Mrs. B. TH. Langerak, Henry Roorda, Dick W. Gosselin, Chas. Toom, Thurman Lester, AL Steak, Lynnville Rawleigh route, Bernstine's Fur & Hide, Maasdam, and local Des Moines and Oska loosa area numbers.
South Texas prompts interest in homes or investments with flowers oranges grapefruit sun and warm climate. Ten day trip offered for 40 dollars as guest after arrival in Dallas with no obligation. James Engle Newton Iowa invites for full particulars. Also notices on elder care nursing service and farm feed services from West Des Moines and Gamble Store battery sales with Brom Feed Store fabrication.
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the stockholders of the Pella National Bank in Pella Iowa will be held at its banking house on Tuesday January 8 1946 at 3 o clock p m for the purpose of electing not less than five nor more than seven directors. C Smorenberg Cashier.
Knoxville Iowa December 16 1946 notice states a will allegedly belonging to Richard Van der Leest deceased is on file in the Clerk of the District Court office Marion County Iowa and set for hearing January 14 1946 at Knoxville to prove validity objections must be filed by the hour indicated under Clerk Leonard L. Long Deputy.
In Knoxville Iowa December 81 1945 a testament of T Plette is presented in Marion County before Clerk of District Court Jack B Carpenter ahead of a January 1 1044 9:00 a.m. deadline to prove validity and register objections in writing if any exist.
Notice from Kno To Whom Iowa dated December 31 1945 and January 29 1946 for the probate court to prove the validity of the will of Jan J De Kock deceased at Knoxville Iowa. Objections must be on file by the specified time. Jack J Carpenter is named.
Sale dates span January with multiple farmers listing closures and herd sales. Names include Mrs J Nunnikhoven Henry Eilander Earl Umble Walter Ver Dught Gerrit Vander Hart Marion Den Adel Rus Dykhuis Gerrit B Andringa Jake Langstraat G A Van Zee and partners Ver Meer Kloosterman. Locations cover Pella Otley Sandridge Mon roe Molen & Co area. February 7 shows Ver Meer Klooster man closing sale nearby.
Dairyman Dwight Espe of Town State College advises switching a five day old calf from dam milk to a nipple or sucker pail to ease transition. With warm water in a starter pail, the calf learns to drink in a few days. An 85 pound calf needs about 1 1/2 quarts per feed twice daily, reduced if Jersey milk is used. A low milk plan uses a palatable grain starter mix and vitamin supplements. feeder recommendations include ground corn, oats, bran, linseed or soybean meal, salt, bone meal, irradiated yeast, and cod liver oil for vitamins A and D. Calves should receive liberal milk for veal and protein before four weeks, with gradual hay intake to four pounds daily.
The outlook foresees egg prices tied to international demand. Francis Kulish of Iowa State College says UNRRA and non UNRRA buyers will influence price ceilings, which are slated to drop each Thursday toward March. He urges poultrymen to cull old hens and empty underdeveloped pullets to cut feed use and align flocks with 1946 goals as meat availability shifts.
Sully News reports Ronald Dean Beyer born December 25 at Community Hospital Grinnell to Mr and Mrs Harris Beyer You have Marie Van Zante Velma Kooistra and Harris Jansen among relatives visiting Springfield Mo students from Central Bible Institute in Springfield Missouria and other local family updates including discharges and gatherings during Christmas Day with neighbors and friends.
Farmers should clean and repair around buildings to reduce rat harbors as 99 percent of Marion County rats concentrate in warm sheltered areas. Extension entomologist Harold Gunderson advises rat-proof construction, tin edging, self closing doors, hardware cloth vents, burning old wood, filling burrows, soil around foundations, and safe baits like peanut butter and corn meal with barium carbonate kept away from chickens.
The family expresses gratitude to neighbors friends and relatives for kindness after the death of Tunis Plette. They acknowledge expressions of sympathy and floral tokens from friends and relatives and thank all who assisted them. Mrs T Plette and Children.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness shown during illness and after her death. Gratitude to all who offered sympathy and sent flowers as tokens of regard to Mrs John Rillihan and family.
Mr and Mrs C I Vander Meulen express sincere thanks for memories and cheerful wishes on their 50th wedding anniversary. They note it is nearly impossible to reply individually and extend blessings for a happy new year to all who sent letters cards telegrams flowers and tokens of friendship.
Local families extend gratitude to neighbors and relatives for husking corn after the accident involving Simon J. Van Dusseldorp. Mr. and Mrs. Von L. Van Dusseldorp and Mrs. Artie Hiemstra extend appreciation for support and aid.
The Iowa state health department urged proper pork handling to prevent trichinosis after a 1945 outbreak linked to smoked sausage. They advised cooking or freezing meat for safety, noting a 21 day freezing period and risks as hogs are prepared for butchering.
The report notes leg pain facial swelling eye puffiness and itching with many cases resembling influenza implying a common illness or outbreak based on readable fragments.
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