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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
8
Musings describe daily pool gatherings for three months and a village-wide effort to build physical resistance for winter. The writer mentions Tulip Time postcards, Iris clump at Pietenpol, and local social notes including Bob, Leo Linder, Ed Schreiner, Jerry Moka, and the Boy Scout movement in Pella.
A compact newspaper style item listing assorted wants and sales. Includes window and door screens repair by Tromp, sale notes for Jersey heifer calves, a Hobart M Cable piano offered by W W Denna Western Auto, lightning rods by Bert Kersbergen, and a Ventura high school valedictorian note for Hilda Dorow plus injuries from a Northwood saw incident involving Jace and Clifford Northwood.
Two Shorthorn sales are planned in Marion County during June. Brownie Hudson hosts a herd division sale on June 17 featuring polled Shorthorns, while on Monday June 24 the Marion County Shorthorn Breeders Association holds its annual show at 10 am at the Fairgrounds Sale Barn Knoxville, followed by a sale. The event showcases Iowa’s top cattle to help farmers improve herds with estimated strong returns from quality livestock. The piece emphasizes livestock’s role in Marion County’s agricultural income and urges breeders to participate.
At Decorah the Faustin group Symra marked Norway independence day with seven club members receiving badges from Hing Haakon, then a fugitive from Nazi invaders in Norway.
Resignation of Reva Buitenwerf clears June 1 for housework. she will marry Gerriit Van Gorp of Des Moines on June 20. Jay Downey takes a vacation presumed as a honeymoon. Memorial Day visits noted for Verne West, Harold Dwight, Louise Bruce. Ongoing orders include Venetian Blinds for Crown Cork & Seal, Aeronautical Corp of America, Armour & Co, Northwestern Bell in Iowa. 50 Rolsereens for Naval Academy. Electrolux of New York. window orders from Valdosta and Rochester. Casements by C Ray Lyon. Pella Neo Classic Blinds gain momentum with US Steel orders. over 100 blinds total. Also a note that the Plot Adena star group is commonly misnamed the Little Dipper.
Marion County Farm Bureau with Soil Conservation Service cooperation initiates two farming contests. A ten acre corn yield contest and a pasture development effort aim to showcase soil management and profitable pastures. Entrants include A B Mann Knoxville and Henry Hulleman Otley among others. past Keokuk county yields reach 1350 bushels per ten acres.
The notice lists participants for the pasture development contest across Knoxville Dallas and Washington townships. Names include Leland Roberts B Leavengood Roy Thomas Floyd Gaass Clarence Ridlen Jim Hartley and others with several township affiliations and a Farm Bureau committee in charge.
James Norman Hall the author and World War I aviator will visit his brother Fred Hall in Colfax in August. Mr and Mrs Hall and their daughter Nancy recently arrived in the United States from Tahiti and are staying in the eastern states. They reached Boston in April and plan to visit relatives in Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa before visiting Conrad Hall and other kin in California. Hall is author of Kitchener's Mob and co author of Mutiny on the Bounty and other works.
W Kanmeyer, agent for Standard Oil Co of Indiana at Concordia Missouri, won the safe drivers contest for tank trucks by driving 675,000 accident free miles in 18 years. Walter R Young, city salesman at St Joseph Missouri, won for commercial passenger vehicles with 50,000 accident free miles. The National Safety Council of Chicago conducted both contests and standings were announced at the International Petroleum Exposition.
Tulsa honored a resident for accident free driving, noting his record of 684455 miles when entries were submitted to the exposition contest. The exposition awarded him a gold watch at its annual banquet.
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