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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1958
Page
1
Local residents gather for social visits with families in Leighton and Lacey. 4 H clubs meet with members and leaders, set dates for achievement and Cedar Livestock events. Ministers from Sanborn West Sayville and Paterson listed by the First Rev. Church consistory.
Don Bishop visited the William Franklin home Tuesday evening. Mrs. Charley Bailey spent Thursday at the Nelson Lambert home in Monroe. The Franklins hosted visitors including David and Jerry De Vries near Oskaloosa. Lorena Pamela and Sandra Franklin spent the evening with William Franklin's girls. Sarah Thomas visited Friday afternoon. Nelson Lambert and family joined Charley Bailey and Marvin to celebrate Mrs. Lambert's birthday. Sherman Durham and Dick Michael with son from Fairfield were weekend visitors.
Multiple households including the Anderson, Franklin, Clement, De Zwarte, and Langstraat families hosted visitors and dinners Sunday through Monday. Guests from Ottumwa and Des Moines joined local residents in social calls, birthday celebrations, and shared chores such as canning beans.
A Cordova column lists Anna Waardhuizen on a 12 day July cruise from St. John's to Goose Bay Labrador with return planned July 21. It notes visits, hospital visits, weddings, and community happenings including Rain measurements and various local residents' doings across Monroe Knoxville Des Moines and Oskaloosa with multiple family ties and church charity actions.
A newsletter-like recap details Capt Don W Vriezelaar and family leaving Offutt AFB for MacDill AFB Florida after a visit with Vriezelaar relatives in Gulleringan. The piece also notes reunions, picnics, and social visits involving the Horman, Ritter, Vos, Vos, Robus, Perkey, Hollander, Stanlin, Van Wyk, Verwers, Angove and Armstrong families across Missouri Iowa and Ontario with travel plans to the Ozarks and South Carolina.
The Iowa Business Digest analyzes how profitable hog prices could sustain Iowa through 1958, highlighting cash farm income as a cushion against recession. It warns that spring prospects may weaken if farmers lift fall farrowings by about 20 percent, despite enduring regional resilience.
Insured unemployment, Maine maintenance of retail spending, and strong financial indicators show health in farming. The Iowa index of prices received by farmers rose 12 percent January to June, outpacing a three percent national gain. Cash farm receipts rose despite fewer livestock slaughters, with hog prices expected to rebound next autumn as hog production expands in the Corn Belt and Iowa.
A Siamese pig born recently at the Melvin Schlatter farm near Summer had two rear quarters but only two front feet and one head. It lived briefly after birth.
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