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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1938
Page
9
Local notes from Pella Cordova and surrounding areas cover family moves and health. Mrs. Waite recently gave birth in Washington Iowa, third child. several residents mention visits, hospital walks, and summer gatherings. Des Moines trips, rail wrecks, and a July transfer to Monroe affect Cordova routes. river levels rise and community aid meetings occur.
Grace Karr and companions toured Pella for Memorial Day visiting the cemetery north of Pella where Mrs Hart decorated her mother's grave. They met the Swank and Vriezelaar families in Altooi and Knoxville, observed illness in Gertrude Vriezelaar, and noted blooming gardens and new sights along the route from Pella to In apei cemetery south of 2.
A new modern home is rising on the Elza Nolin farm east of Tool's Chapel. Mr Nolin and family occupy the farm. Mrs John Anderson traveled to Knoxville Wednesday for her sister's husband Groendienst illness. Des Moines visitors dined with the A L Dykstra family on Memorial Day. Miss Jennie French remains ill at Mrs C C Neff’s Prairie City home. Mrs Fred Fokker of Newton attended a Vacation Bible School picnic in Monroe. Patricia Ann Fokker returned home with her after the event. Beda Walker spent the day and Friday with grandparents the Herwees. The Aalbers and Breen families visited the Dykstra home Thursday. G J Klein visited Ottumwa on business. Martha Jane Livingstone returned from Skiff Memorial Hospital Newton after eye and head injuries from a car crash last Friday. Others injured included Jacob Rezenburg and Raymond Currier. Lea Tool, Erma Rickabaugh, Elizabeth Shultz, Willa Oldham and Cora Bowans were uninjured. The Worths and Andewegs toured northern Iowa Sunday. Edith Jones of China spoke at the Methodist service. The Den Otter family visited Mrs Den Otter’s mother near Otley. Mrs Schippers entered Mahaska hospital for scalp grafting. Carol Clevenger, Des Moines business college student, visited her parents Ulric and —. Katie and Don Vriezelaar dined with Peter Breed near Fairmount. Benita Herweke visits cousin Thelma Kepler in Ankeny this week.
Sunday afternoon about 4:00 o clock on highway 163 near the G H Fennema farm a serious wreck injured two occupants a lady with a broken arm and a man with a possible fractured leg they were taken to a doctor additional notes recount visits and social activities among local residents with numerous names and towns mentioned including Leighton Pella Monroe and Newton and a closing proverb about being too economical and missing chances
A budget conscious party idea centers on Kraft Dinner shaped in a ring mold. Fill the center with creamed chicken or leftovers and decorate the edge with green beans wrapped in pimiento for a festive yet economical main dish.
Des callers Saturday and Mrs Lyle Montgomery and Mr Will Elyn with children were Sunday dinner guests in Case Dunsbergen home. Elscott and Terpstra visit. Terpstra bruised knee from hammer strike Friday and cannot walk without help. Mr and Mrs Will Dunsbergen and Norma Jean visited Ottumwa Sunday.
The article lists residents and visitors from Lynnville and nearby towns including Esther and Lester Vanden Hoek Pauline Terpstra Wilhelmina Terpstra Gertrude Van der Geest Dorothe Byers and more. It mentions William Terpstra suffering a bruised knee from a truck incident with a cow.
Mrs Liggett offers a special Summer Term in vocal instruction with private or class lessons starting June 6. Phone Red 123 for details and enrollment.
Obituary notices report Tom Mickle of Newton dying from a heart attack at 51 with funeral at Sacred Church and burial in Catholic cemetery. Other items list George Ramage in Muscatine for observation, Helen Dykstra returning to Duncombe Fort Dodge, Brice North welcoming Marilyn Ann May 18, Philip Elrod visiting grandparents, and a Baptist Sunday school pot luck on June 19 with attendance hopeful for June 26. Also mentions Wittmer reunion attendees from Monroe and nearby towns in Newton Matag Park families and associated names.
New Salem residents Frank and Mary Brand of Sully visit with Bart Donai of Peilx and Mrs. John Vande Krol. Thursday, they helped with a Jennie Meppelink miscellany at Henry Willemsen home in Sully. List of locals includes Mrs. Neal Vander Wilt, Freda, Vera, Mrs. Henry Meppelink, and Mrs. Jett Wille sen. Irene, Lucille, and Treva Vande Krol joined last Wednesday with Freda and Vera Vander Wilt.
Catherine Vander Pol spent the weekend with Sylvia EL Scott in Sully. Those attending a conference in Des Moines Sunday included Mr. and Mrs. John Vande Krol, Guy Vander Pol and Mrs. Guert Vande Krol and family, Nola Monsma, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Vander Pol and family, and Merlin Gertsma. Mrs. Gerrit Van Willigen is on the sick list this week. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Vande Kyo visited the Andrew Van Zante home near Lynnville on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Vander Pol and family spent Sunday in the Mrs. R. Eysink home near Sand ridge. Mr. and Mrs. John Terlouw visited Sunday afternoon in the Gerr ard Roorda home. Catherine Vander Pol was 2 Sunday dinner guest in the Elgar Taylor home. Mrs. Catherine Kooistra visited Sunday in the Wm. Rykhoek home. Sally. These are uncertain days. You can't tell whether a man is making a move to draw a gun or scratch.
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