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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1946
Page
6
Local items recount travels and visits among families in Pella and surrounding areas. Several residents travel to South Carolina to see relatives while others host guests from nearby towns. Discharges, moves, and social gatherings are noted along with a Knoxville hospital death and upcoming church meeting.
A July 11 shower at Mrs. Frank Andreas home celebrated Mrs. Roy Roten with contests, games, and gifts including an electric lamp and coffee table. A tray lunch followed the activities, with many friends and relatives attending. Also noted were injuries to Lester Wisgerhof and visits by Wm. Eckhoff and the Dukes family.
Miss Jeanette Veenstra receives gifts at a miscellaneous shower hosted by Peoria youths at the Lambe Veenstra home. Numerous local families visit and host relatives in Peoria and nearby towns. James Bandstra’s baby boy born Saturday. Rev Mulder and daughters depart for Minnesota on vacation. Anthony Bokhoven returns home with an honorable discharge. Neal Kronenberg and John Van Gorp hosts welcome Denver visitors.
A Kalakaua era Oregon/Oskaloosa linked story notes Col Kent, son of Os kaloosa resident Charles A Kent, was offered ten thousand dollars a year to lead a private school system for Islanders of Hawaiian blood. The plan includes Elementary, Boys and Girls, and Senior High schools funded by the Kamehameha family and Princess Beatrice’s will. Kent, Northwestern University graduate, departs for the post early August.
Mrs Amanda French passed away Sunday July 14 at the home of her nephew Clarence Main near Colfax after a short illness at eighty. Funeral services were July 17 at the Methodist church conducted by Rev W W Marzahn with burial at Westview cemetery. Also notes on ill health of George S Vander Zyl and John De Graaf in Des Moines General Hospital. Various local visitors and trips cited. It ends with a historical note on ancient Greece wine dilution and Louisiana lacking counties, introducing the term parish.
Two letters from Mrs. Ray Mimelick of Albin describe postwar hardship in a Dutch village near Arnhem. The author thanks American and Canadian deliverers of parcels while detailing rationing, scarce meat and coal, rebuilding efforts, and casualties including thirty killed near Oosterbeek and Arnhem.
A girl writes of skimped rations and scarce fuel as Germans tighten controls in occupied Netherlands. She notes bread scarce, food scraps eaten, bicycles and glasses seized, families punished, and hope in letters to supporters. An adjoining letter from Otterlo and Ede conveys thanks for clothing and health recovery as the family endures pleurisy and school pressures.
A letter from J Jonk v Oldebarneveldskaat in Amsterdam asks American readers to send clothing. The family of five, with two sons and three daughters, is rationing, hungry, and walking due to bicycle tire confiscation by Germans. The plea seeks garments and aid from readers.
Hasselman urges young people to seek salvation and confess sins now. He warns of temptations in the world and the danger of delaying acceptance of Jesus. He emphasizes hearing the gospel in Pella and the need to choose between Jesus and the devil in this life.
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