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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
8
Rural notes recount quilting at Gerty Core and visits among the Core and Karr families. Summer absences, hospital checks, and a funeral in Keswick are noted along with farm labor, livestock incidents, and local events. A feature on trains, Xmas planning, and a flower club gathering closes with a local poem.
In New Salem area many attended the funeral for Pete Hardeman's infant daughter near Montezuma on Wednesday. Local residents including Harry Vande Krol and family visited Newton on Thursday afternoon. Leona Vos stayed over with Herman Vander Pol family through Sunday after spending Friday with Mrs. John Geurts, Mrs. Ed Vos, and Mrs. Charles Dykhuis.
Lynnville News nn and Phyllis, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Terp ira and family, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Elscott, and family were dinner guests in the parental Will Terpstra home Sunday. Mrs. Zelpha Krose has started a new beauty shop here. Let's all cooperate and give her our work. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Tool and children of Reasner visited in the Case Van Norden home Sunday. Mrs. Henry Van Wyke visited in the parental Henry Van Roekel home Wednesday. Mrs. Henry Elscott visited in the Louis Jensen home Saturday. Mrs. Gerrit Vander Weerdt visited in the Mrs. Arie Terpstra home Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. I, 8, Howard and Junior Harris and Robert left this week to go on a fishing trip in Minnesota.
Alyce Shutts returned from a Winfield Iowa trip with Loren Eldredge's family. The Ladies Aid of the Chr Ref church met in church parlors with G Vander Weerdt hosting and refreshments served to a list of Sully residents. Several residents enjoyed trips to Chicago Wisconsin Dells and Clear Lake during a July weekend. Howard Duane arrived at the De Penning home on Thursday July 13. Sunday guests at the Sjaardema home included Klyn Paltzer and Kaldenberg families with Lenora Jane staying a week. Marie Van Zante and Ruth Kaldenberg shared Sunday supper. Effie Jansen celebrated her birthday with friends. Sully Telephone Company installed two new switchboards.
Freshman Mark Schakel and senior Ira Veldhuizen, active FFA members, present project summaries from agriculture class work. Ira, a Pella High alum, completed a four year course, detailing calf, pig, and herd management with notes on weights, feed, and expected sales.
Sunday gatherings filled with neighbors and relatives at multiple Kellogg homes. Guests included the Versteeghs, Van Maanens, Hoksbergens, Welles, Sjaardemas, Griffioens, and others. A Reform church Ladies Aid meeting met with eleven members and a lecture on Indian work planned for Friday night at the church basement.
Glen Wilson started Monday with his thresher and harvested seventy acres for a mother. Other local machines also began. Mr and Mrs C De Bruin and family spent Tuesday evening with the C Walster family. Mrs Tom Wilson and daughters Alma and Mrs Arthur Moehl enbrock visited Monday evening with Mrs Elmer Ustermarkt and family. Mr Mrs John De Prenger and family visited Friday evening with Mr and Mrs Lou Van Roc kel at Leighton. Other guests at the Van Rockel home included Mr and Mrs John Van Rockel Paul and Lois of Hampton Town. Tony De Jong and wife received word Monday of the birth of a baby girl at the home of Mr and Mrs Wm De Kock north of Pella. Van Roeker and Mel and Joyce on highway 163 visited Sunday at the Van Roekel home near La os. Clifford Van Arkel of east of Oskaloosa has been helping the Wilsons with harvest and will continue to work for them during threshing time Elmer Ustermarkt was home with his family Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.
A Texas trip ended with two truckloads of watermelons and a 30 lb Dixie Queen melon for his parents along with two pieces of iron ore believed unseen by them. Nearby, residents attended the funeral of Mrs. G. Bennink of Pella at Third Reformed Church on Monday afternoon as Mrs. W. J. Speirs of Elm Creek Nebraska arrived in Omaha.
A fragment notes a patient urged an operation on a Tuesday due to personal ties to the weekday. It mentions she was married on Tuesday and each of her three children was born on Tuesday, implying a superstition or personal ritual around the day.
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