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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1962
Page
6
Extension Horticulturist Ben Vance notes it is not too late to plant sweet corn with succession plantings. Late June and early July plantings can still mature, using early varieties like Marcross. Fertilizer and deep watering aid stands, while renovation helps strawberry beds post harvest for runner plants.
Mrs John Keuning recently had surgery but is improving. M Van Vark had an appendectomy at Pella Community Hospital last week and is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Van Vark. Mr and Mrs Bob Beyer and family spent Tuesday in Des Moines at the Bloodsworth home. Vance Van Vark, recovering from a June tonsillectomy, is doing well. Elmer Vogelaar and Marcia hosted a June birthday gathering for several relatives including J J Buwarda, L J Gosselink, and others from Pella Otley and Cedar Falls. Several visits occurred at Joe Willemsen home and references to a 1920 Otley Dorcas Society photo. Mrs John Pringle remains a patient at Oakdale Sanatorium with not improving condition. Ed McCuen and Freda of Newton visited, and Ike McCuen’s 99th birthday on July 5 is noted with a request for cards. address Monroe.
Midwest livestock experts say muscling and natural thickness will dominate beef lamb and pork judging. 4 H and FRA projects prize muscle over fat, with emphasis shifting from external fat to structural thickness. The Town State conference and Iowa State University leaders highlighted trends in beef cattle lambs swine and horses judged at fairs and shows.
Willene Tysseling wed Harold H. James in a June ceremony at the Chapel of the First Reformed Church of Pella. The couple and families hosted 60 guests with music by Wesley Vos and Jessie Varide Voort. The bride wore white satin with lace, a seed pearl diadem, and carried white roses with a white orchid. Afterward a reception was held in the church social hall. The bride and groom will reside in Fairfield at 506 East Burlington after a Ozark honeymoon. The Pella Chronicle notes the wedding in 1962.
The text notes a young woman finishing her sophomore year at Central College and intending to enroll at Parsons College in Fairfield in September. It also mentions Mr. James, a graduate of Ottumwa High School and Iowa State Teachers' College, former Pella Community High School math instructor, who taught at Fairfield High School last year.
Fifteen year old Arthur L. Munson Jr. of Crane Creek broke his left arm while playing ball at his parents' home, following a prior broken right arm in an automobile accident a month earlier. Also reported is the birth of a tiny pony on the Bill Winkelman Jr. farm near Lohrville, measuring 20 inches tall and weighing 16 pounds 4 ounces at birth, smaller than the Winkelmans' earlier pony Tiny Tim.
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