Pella Area Notes July Travel and Local Happenings
Mrs. Murray Nesbit and son Gordon plan an extended trip to Madisonville Kentucky Tulsa Oklahoma and Nashville Tennessee returning in August. Ed Nutter, cousin of Mrs Kaldenberg, died June 28. he visited here forty years ago with the De Haan and Soeten families. Camp Fire Girls from Pella attend Camp Hantesa near Boone July 7 to 13. Ensign Ver Ploeg discharged at Great Lakes Naval Station July 5. The Star Oil port fire near Des Moines damaged a vessel. the tank remained intact. Various locals leave for vacations in Michigan Minnesota and the Black Hills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Nesbit
Gordon
Madisonville
Kentucky
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Nashville
Tennessee
Len Kaldenberg
Chas, Nutter
Moline
Ill
Ed Nutter
Kaldenberg
Jacob de Haan
E. Second St
Jas. Soetens
Margaret Olcott
Judy Allen
Hantesa
Boone
Camp Fire
Anthony Tusseling
Don Cummings
Franklin Brom
Near
Killduff
Maggie Brom
Harold Kaldenberg
Cedar Rapids
Wm. Wallace
Paul Boertje
Boertje
Prescott Steenhoek
Steenhoek
John Kaldenberg
Stanley C. Ver Ploeg
Andrew P. Ver Ploeg
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Dick J. Rouw
Sunnyside
Sunda
Gezel
Main Street
White Way Auto Company
Pella
Camp
The
Ledges State Park
Heart of the
Hawkeye
Johnnie Vanden Berg
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
Donald de Prenger
Mahaska
John Vander Wert
Mercy
Ira Vriezelaar
Black Hills
Colorado
Gerald Vriezelaar
Des Moines
Star Oil Company
Nick Ver Meer
Manning
Iowa
West Des Moines
Mason Olcott
New York City
Washington, D. C
Mount Vernon
George Washington
Carl van der Ploeg
Philadelphia
Ursinus College
Carl
University of Iowa
Jennie Cooper
Catherine Meyer
Chicago
Tors
John Vander Ploeg Sr
B. J. Broms
Peter Meyer
Arie Hol
Lansing
Illinois
Duane
Wm. van Dyke
Lawrence Doidge
Helen Jerie
Freddie
Gene Ver Ploeg
Herbert Mentink
Waldo
Wisconsin
James Jones
Pleasantville
Anna Snow
Clear Lake
A. E. Folkman
Lou Baker
George H. Mennenga
Ruth
Holland
Michigan
Workforce Absences and Industrial News at Local Plant
Rol screenings Eugene Careano started in the metal slat department recently cutting steel slats. Several workers were absent due to illness including Mrs. Jeanette Aalbers Mrs. Mabel Bishop Gerald Boxnard and Jo Morrow. Ruth McDonald started operating a punch press last week. Ruth Van Ee is back at work with a sun tan from Chicago. Materials deliveries included three cars of lumber and Venetian Blind slat steel while a Mahaska County bridge survived a near miss involving a Chicago trucker. Lois Binns cut three fingers on a router saw. July 5 Julianne Van Houwe ling had the reddest sunburn from Des Moines auto races. Independence Day saw Ruth Vande Geest Pearl Stravers and Dick Stravers boating with a snag and a splash but no injuries. Carl Hamilton keeps busy growing dahlias and lilies for the machine shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Careano
Jeanette Aalbers
Mabel Bishop
Gerald Boxnard
Jo Morrow
Ruth McDonald
Ruth van Ee
Iowa
Chicago
New Sharon
Skunk
Marion County
Mahaska County
County Sees Gas Tax Revenue Jump in 1946 Half-Year
County receipts from the state gas tax for the first half of 1946 totaled 34,652.68 dollars, about 10,000 more than 1945 and near prewar levels. Remittances from the state treasurer showed February to June payments totaling 34,652.68, with 1945 and 1942 figures cited as comparisons. The state’s 1945 gas tax intake was 15,618,680 dollars, 3,088,000 less than 1942’s peak, with 1946 expected to surpass that high year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion County
Knoxville Journal
B. W. Dutton
Centennial Belles Headline State Fair Musical Review
A major open air musical extravaganza centennial show titled Centennial Belles will open at the Iowa State Fair in August. The production, nearly a block long, features a Broadway chorus Gloria Hight and the Twelve Song Welders, a cast of about 200 with radio and stage stars, plus a 3 ring circus, grandstand acts, special town centennial numbers, elaborate scenery and new lighting, capped by nightly centennial fireworks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
L. B. Cunningham
Gloria Hight
Marion County Farms Power Up with 1560 Tractors
Marion county farmers owned 1,560 tractors as of January 1, 1946, up from 1,080 in 1942, a 44 percent gain. About 75 percent of local farmers now own tractors, while county and state comparisons show rapid progression in the agricultural power shift. The report also lists tractor ownership across several neighboring counties and northern Iowa cash grain regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion County
Marion
Towa
Adair
Appanoose
Clarke
Davis
Decatur
Lucas
Madison
Mahaska
Monroe
Sioux
Buena Vista
Jasper
Dallas
Hamilton
Franklin
Knoxville Journal
Praise and critique of Pella Band’s Saturday concert
Voice of the Public praises the Pella Band for Saturday night performance while noting a low initial crowd reaction. The writer urges more audience participation and credits merchant sponsors for supplying concert resources amid hard times. Signed by W. H. Boesrup and Herman Van Veen Otley Iowa.
Centennial Farms Project Expands Across Statewide Reach
Station WHO Des Moines launches Centennial Farms project inviting towns to share farms in family hands for a century or more. In ten days nearly 200 letters reach Farm Editor Herb Plambeck, with expectations of about 500 by summer’s end. Families on 100 year farms already featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Station Who
Des Moines
Towans
Herb Plambeck
Fea
County honors to mark long tenure farms
The article notes plans to award a special certificate to all farm owners featured on programs over WHO. Dubuque County joins counties recognizing farmers whose forebears have lived on Iowa land for 100 years or longer. Plaques will be given by the Farm Bureau at Dubuque’s Centennial celebration, tentatively set for September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque County
Iowa
Farm Bureau
Dubuque
John D Van Weelden S 2c U S S Prairie AD-15
Record notes John D. Van Weelden listed as 2/c aboard the U S S Prairie AD-15 at FPO San Francisco California. The entry records service affiliation and ship assignment in a naval personnel slip. No further biographical or action details are provided in the snippet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. van Weelden
U.S.S. Prairie
FPO
San Francisco
California
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Lewis Popma
Henry Post
Grand Rapids
Timothy Wayne
C. B. Caldwell
Mahacka Hospital
Richard J. Rozeboom
Denver
Betty
Central College
Lois Binns
Julianne van Houweling
Ruth Vande Geest
Pearl Stravers
Dick Stravers
Carl Hamilton
Cau
Ss. Kooyman
Rolscreen Company
Pella, Iowa
Sully
de Penning’s Gamble Store
Lynnville
Montezuma Renderers
Depi, Agri
Holland Theatre
the Virginian
Joel McCrea
Brian Donlevy
Sonny Tufts
Barbara Britton
Osteopathic
Drs. Kramer and
Kramer
Nellie D. H.H
West First Street
A. B. van Houweling
Dick C. van Zante
A. T. van Houweling
Voice of
George
W. H. Boesrup
Herman van Veen Otley
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Johns - Manville
J. M
Ben Hoeksema
Johns-Manville
A Dias Lek
Gail
Vander Linden
Rexall
Ozinga Tire Service
de Laval
Vanderzyl’s Coal Yard
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