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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1933
Page
6
Local notes recount social visits and family gatherings across Oskaloosa Leighton and surrounding farms. Residents include Coen Stouwie, Van Wyngarden and Vander Meide families, De Bruin and De Prenger reunions, and multiple travels to Des Moines Chicago and Denver.
Willa Mae Grandia of Oskaloosa visited relatives in Leighton at the De Cook home. A son named Cornelius James was born to Rev. and Mrs. C. Witt on Monday July 3. Several families from nearby towns shared visits and picnics, with gatherings at homes of De Jong Van Haaften Van Der Linden and Meppelink, and a Delaney party at Clear Lake.
The Porterville Union Sunday school schedules a picnic on Wednesday July 19 at the W J Monster farm four miles south of Pella. A dinner will be served then a short program follows with an address by E V Goad editor of the Pella Chronicle and ball games and other sports. Proceeds from the refreshments support missionary work.
Clarence Renaud and Marinus Vos drove cattle to Chicago last Thursday on a business trip. Several local families spent the Fourth with relatives and friends, including Van Speren, Hindley, Wendsll, Bloodsworth, Brouwer, Kuiken, Aalbers, Portinga, De Joode, Klyn, and Vander Wiel. Children and grandchildren visited grandparents and birthdays were celebrated across multiple homes.
Cordova area farmers gather at the Bartus Klyn residence for the local union meeting. A good crowd attended and Des Moines river riverbank fishing drew several reporters. Visitors at Gerrit Vande Kieft’s home included Rev Henry Vande Kieft and family, Mrs Martin Ver Heul, and H D Vande Kieft from Pella.
A six year scan of Continental Congress records finds Gwinnett signatures only on the Declaration of Independence and two other documents. The Georgia merchant turned revolutionary politician was in Congress in 1776, challenged to a duel in 1777, and killed.
A North Carolina group backed a bill naming the chickadee as official bird but lawmakers repealed it after discovering the chickadee is the common garden tomtit. The note recalls a separate, incomplete tale about theft and a quip exchange between Willie and Mr. Golden.
The Standard Brands Incorporated exhibit at the Century of Progress in Chicago features a modern circular building in the Agricultural Building. It highlights a fast delivery system, dioramas of farming and processing, a mural history of baking, and a Hall of Science display on yeast growth vitamin D research and related food science.
The Iowa Department of Health warns that most fatal swimming accidents involve unsupervised water, and stresses that lifeguard supervised pools with proper construction, filtration, and chlorination offer the safest recreation. Health officials advise healthful pool design, regular maintenance, and swimmer precautions to reduce infections and disease spread.
A lighthearted picnic guide suggests easy outdoor cooking using improvised stoves. It describes building a fire on a sheltered spot, broiling small steaks or lamb chops, reheating potatoes in milk, and making coffee over coals. Include fresh rolls olives sweet pickles and fresh fruit for a complete meal with a cold lunch as an alternative.
A list of foods and drinks suitable for a cold picnic including rye bread sandwiches with ham, cream cheese and jam, potato salad, cold slaw, pickles, tea box cookies, baked beans, buttered brown bread, sweet pickles, sliced ham, frosted cupcakes, iced coffee, cold meat loaf, buns, onions, tomatoes, roast beef, potato chips, gherkins, rye bread with butter, nut drops, lemonades, and hot drinks in thermos bottles. It notes adding a hot drink with each cold meal to stay warm.
Four hard cooked eggs two 3 percent sardines two tablespoons lemon juice two tablespoons French dressing mayonnaise white bread Chop egg whites finely mash yolks and sardines together add egg whites lemon juice French dressing and additional seasoning Spread on slices of thin buttered rye bread
Private Donahue rises to sergeant while Private Leahy notes the rank differences and asks what would happen if a private insulted a sergeant. The sergeant says punishment would follow, then says a private might not be punished if the sergeant himself is the one called a consated little monkey. The exchange ends with Leahy accepting a new understanding. Meanwhile world leaders anticipated new Russia talks at the world economic conference.
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