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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1955
Page
8
Leighton area visitors and gatherings are listed with many names from Oskaloosa Des Moines and local families. The record details church after services dinners picnics and visits at multiple homes including De Heer De Prenger Aalberts and Beltman households plus a Washington internship for Arthur De Jong and conclude with community society events and hospital calls.
The Cordova column reports Roy and Nell Bundy returning from a northern Saskatchewan fishing trip to find a spoiled deep freezer due to a bad connection. Roy suffered a foot cut that bled, while Nell bore wind burned lips. Art Nichols and family depart for the Black Hills and Yellowstone for three weeks, camping each night. Dick De Jong and his wife join fishing in Minnesota with the Waardhuizen family planning further travel. Delores Van Waardhuizen heads to Colorado with friends. Diana De Moss has scarlet fever. Kenneth Richard returns to hospital care.
A busy fragment from a local periodical notes foot pains, family visits, and community events. Highlights include Jonnie Adams stepping on a nail, Neal Stanton's Fourth of July at Lake Ahquabi, birthday party for Lou May Stanton, travel for relatives, Kiwanis convention, bridge work disruptions, culverts, a Mahaska County car incident, and several family gatherings. Also mention Oren Wiseman’s death, spraying corn for borers, and various travels among residents like Templeton, Harveys, and Koopman family members.
Bill Koopman drives a truck on trips out of Fella and meets Jack Cronkhite in Galesburg. Fred Hoeksema and Zetta Hoeksema with daughters visit Bill Karr. Clinton Rinehart group fishes while others mow and rake near Delight's quail nesting site. Delight Wing commutes to work at Rolscreen with Edward Klyn. Polk's Peppy Pals plan a club meeting July 8 at Fifield school on a simple blouse demonstration for the fair.
A family reunion including Mr. and Mrs. Carl Steenhoek and others from Monroe Newton and Kansas gathered at the Gerrit De Zwarte home. Lunch was served and attendees enjoyed visiting. Charles Earp, hospitalized in Grinnell for a heart condition, was among recent cases.
Royce Sparks visited the Merle Sparks home near Newton last week. Several families gathered at the Carl De Bruyn home Tuesday evening. A birthday dinner honored Mrs Slot with attendees including the Carpenter and Slot families. The Marks reunion near Galesburg brought 49 guests for a basket lunch.
The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Marvin Van Engelhoven received baptism at First Christian Reformed Church. Chicago Heights visitors Roger and Charles Newenhouse stayed with grandparents J G Newenhouse family and visited relatives before returning home. Local notes include church Ladies Aid party for D Vander Wilt Sr and C and H Boosters meeting led by Judy McBurney with plans for a bake sale.
Newenhouse visited Monday afternoon at the home of Mr and Mrs Wm De Heer in Leighton. The call followed a social visit and included discussion of local matters and community affairs.
Monroe News notes numerous family visits with Des Moines guests at the McConoghey and Wallace homes. Word spreads of surgery at Methodist Hospital for Mrs. Glenn McConoghey and a July Martha and Mary class meeting with 20 members and two guests. Additional outings include Gosselink and Herwehe families visiting, and Emma Woods and Bruce from San Antonio visiting Mrs. Beyer and Mrs. Ladd then traveling to Cedar Rapids.
The notice lists several families visiting relatives in Des Moines and Minnesota, including the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Ordell Birken holtz on June 28 at Skiff Hospital Newton. It also details travels of Rev Clyde Shannon and family to missionary work in the Belgian Congo via Canada and France, with Ralph Shannon staying in the United States for college. Other items mention rheumatic fever illness of Danny Meyers and Patrick Leroy Kinnart recovering from polio at Lutheran Hospital.
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