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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1951
Page
3
Rural community news lists visitors, family gatherings, and church events. Memorial Day observances include Hattie Smith guests. local residents travel to visit relatives in Des Moines Ripley City and Rochester Minnesota. Familys and friends attend hospital stays and two church services reported with community dinner and social events.
Sunday visits filled Linden and nearby towns as Mr and Mrs D B Carter hosted guests at the C L Carter home. A daughter was born May 28 at Des Moines Methodist Hospital and Corwin Stevens remains slowly recovering at a Des Moines hospital. Fire destroyed a barn on Joe Banks property. neighbor pulled out a car from the blaze and firefighters kept flames from neighboring structures. Dean Woody departed for Rapid City Army Air Force base after graduating Yale Technical Institute. A gathering at Hazel and Robert Tice included Maurice Tompkins and Margaret Ann of Osceola plus others from Newton and Monor Toe. Community church services and youth groups met with local pastors in Linden with about 50 young people attending.
Des Moines couple Mr. and Mrs. Robert Aalbers and Pella couple Mr. and Mrs. Albert Van Zee with daughters visited Sunday at Neal Jabaai’s Hazel Allen recovered from an appendix operation after hospital stay. Amvet Auxiliary May 4 welcomed state president Janet Van Gorp of P Ta. Officers installed: Flossie Stim, Ruby V Ouse, Jessie Honnald, Ricka Bause, Mae Sloan, Roth Shaw, Grace Gillersteeve. Darle Vander Wyngarden became the opset.
Son of Mr and Mrs C Vander Pol married on Saturday evening in a candlelight ceremony at the bride’s parents home The double ring rite was officiated by Rev Wo Guy Hamilton with Mrs Wallace Bump as pianist and Mrs Robert Sheelur as soloist The bride wore a white marquisette over tafetta gown with finger tip veil and red rose bouquet The maids color blue silk marquisette also carried red roses Laurel Vander Pol and Harold Vander Pol served as attendants and usher respectively.
The bride and groom, Monroe High School graduates of 1950 and 1949 respectively, hosted a one course lunch for guests including Blanche Schippers and Geraldine Vander Leest. The bride, now employed in Jasper County welfare, will move to Nashville where Pvt. Vander Pol is stationed at Steadman Air Force Base. Supper guests marked a 86th birthday celebration for Mrs. D. Sjaardema with extended family from Artesia, Grand Rapids, Chicago and Pella.
Mary Vriezelaar and Mary Tem- are among graduates attending the Monroe alumni banquet. 4-H delegates were chosen for Rally Day and the State 4-H Convention at Ames with Norma Angove named as a delegate. Joann Walraven Geneva Hopkins will attend 4-H camp at Lake Ahquabi June 4-7. Lenora Vogelaar chosen junior Better Groomed girl.
Pleasant details of local people include pleton singing The Four-Seat Clover at Rally Day, visits among Van Zante and Van Zee families in Greeley Colorado, and a series of camp and family visits across Monroe Randol Indianola and Newton. several local youths attend 4-H and Rural Bible Crusade camps with families hosting and traveling for summer activities.
Buena Vista residents express concern for Mrs Sophie Klein now in hospice care. At 101 she is the county’s oldest resident, reflecting a fragile health status as she nears the end of life.
Nearly all of Iowa's gently rolling land is suitable for farming with 97.7 percent of the land under cultivation. The state contains 828,247 farms on 80 R80 acres of land. Last year falls accounted for a fourth of all farm accidents.
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