Ver Meer family hosts farm visit near Leighton Iowa
Reading about Muchakinock Creek headwaters on Willard Ver Meer’s east-Pella farm, Mark De Prenger visits January 14. The piece describes local water control plans for erosion, a cozy home with electric amenities, a two-child family, a collie named Tux, and farming life including cattle, alfalfa, hay, and planned poultry expansion with 350 pullets.
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Mark de Prenger
Leighton
Willard ‘Ver Meer
Pella
Willard Ver Meer
Muchaki
Ver Meer
Willard
Henry and
Brooks Klyn
Watershed plan could curb Muchakinock Creek floods
Neighbors upstream curb runoff with conservation practices while Ver Meer plans a headwaters pond. If area farmers join a watershed control project, flooding on Muchakinock Creek could end. The 1954 conservation program offers aid to enrolled farmers, seen as a chance to halt the flood.
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Muchakinock Creek
Ver Meer
Art Center discussed at Rotary luncheon in Pella
Norman Annis of Pella High School spoke on A Program for an Art Center at the Rotary meeting Tuesday Jan 19. He described the high school art program drawing interest from older residents and offering classes as hobbies. Attendees included J Gil Boat and Walter De Kock. absent were Art Kigh and Charles F Dykstra.
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Norman Annis
Pella High School
Rotary
J. Gil. Boat
Annis
Pella
Gil Boat
Ray de Haan
Tudor Kempkes
Ed Wesselink
Gerrit Vander
John van Dyk
Art Kigh
Charles F. Dykstra
Walter de Kock
Central Senior Accepted at Iowa U Medical School
Ronald Zoutendam, a Central High School senior and Waldo, Wisconsin native, is accepted to the University of Iowa Medical School. Admission hinges on last semester GPA and completing required courses. He is active as Student Cabinet president, real Who’s Who in America member, and A Cappella Choir. expects to move with wife Martha Hansen Zoutendam to Iowa City next year.
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Ronald Zoutendam
Waldo
Wis
University of Iowa Medical School
Central
Ronald
America
Bob Vander Ploeg
Hospers
Abe Grandia
Leighton
Ron
Martha Hansen Zoutendam
Iowa City
Martha
Bert G Meyer 80 Dies in Cuba Home of Relative
Bert Gilbert Meyer 80 of Pella Iowa died January 5 at the home of his sister in law Mrs Buenaventura Cairns Guanajay Pinar del Rio Cuba. Born December 12 1873 in Holland he came to the United States in 1880 and became a naturalized citizen. He married Guilermina Cairns in Chicago October 12 1923 and lived in Guanajay Cuba until 1947 when he returned to Iowa. He went back to Cuba for a visit in November 1961, fell ill and remained in Guanajay until his death. Interment was in the Cairn tomb Colon Cemetery with services at the grave by Bishop Blankingship. The deceased was the brother of Mrs B J Brom of Pella. Lambs need shelter to keep them dry during cold weather.
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Havana
Cuba
Bert G. Meyer
B. J. Brom
Pella
Bert Gilbert Meyer
Towa
Buenaventura Cairns
Guanajay
Pinar del Rio
Mr. Meyer
Holland
United States
Guilermina Cairns
Chicago
Iowa
Raymond Brom
Colon Cemetery
Bishop Blankingship
Meyer
Christmas Boxes From Pella Red Cross Send Warmth Aboard
Three sailors bound for Korea and stationed aboard ship during Christmas receive gift boxes from Pella Red Cross Chapter. In letters to Dr. T. G. Fultz, Pvt Paul Buck and others express gratitude for the boxes and the American spirit behind the gifts.
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Red Cross Chapter
Korea
Pella
Far East
Christ
Paul Buck
U.S
Ava. Maint. Co
APO
c/o
San Francisco
Calif
Christmas boxes boost Morale for Col Tom’s Troops
Pvt Glen L Brown RA 65812752 of Co C 866 EAB APO 902-1 c/o Postmaster Collis On the Gen E J Coltom expresses thanks for Christmas boxes sent by Knoxville Attica residents. He recalls farming near Attica before the army and notes mail and gifts lift spirits on a distant inland island near Pusan Korea. He invites letters and appreciation from home folks.
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Knoxville
Attica
Pusan
Koret
Carwaf
A. F
Glen L. Brown
San Francisco
Calif
Guttenberg Gets New Mayor After Resignation
People of Guttenberg will see a new mayor as Mayor Wm. B. Kann resigned last week after two weeks in office following a council decision to revoke a beer permit.
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Guttenberg
Wm. B. Kann
Fter
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Ver Meers
Ruth Klyn
Henry A
Bertha Klyn
Kent
Sandra
Collie
Tux
Gary Ver Meer
Gary
Willard Ver Meers
Chronicle Farm Pictures
Kent Demonutr
Broadway
Singer
Neal Schuring
Earl Pohlmann
Brazil
Veenstra
Iowa U. Medical School
Federal Discount Corp
Livermore Building
Oskaloosa, Iowa
Martin Naaktgeboren
D. I. Sultan
Sis Freeze
Na Resider
Ulrich Motor Co
Colfax Sale
Nien
Colfax Sale Company
Bell, Clippinger and Shields
Sory
Kelly Rvg
Inoue Wagon Bank Feeder Coy
Verploeg Implement Co
Pella, Iowa
Vogelaar S Hardware
Bode Grn
Sktra
Phillips
Plas
Philips Petroleum Company
Bersheerd
Ger Lubri
Phillips 66
Grootveld Oil CO
Gerrit Steenhoek
N. W. Corner Square
Albert Beyer
Schippers Bros
Mium
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