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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1937
Page
10
Hoeksema Bros Garage advertises starter geara and used cars for sale including 1930 Willys, 1929 Whippet models, 1932 1934 1935 Dodge and Chevrolet trucks, sedans, coupes, and buses. Listings cover 5 Chevrolet models, Plymouth, Nash, Pontiac, Ford and Essex options with various body styles and wheelbases. Also notes Dodge Plymouth sales and service by Van Houweling Auto Co.
Attention Dairymen. Caps must bear name after January 1. Caps in any color or lettering style. Prices as low as 35c per 1000. Order through The Pella Chronicle and save money while getting nicer caps.
Notice states by unanimous stockholders vote the Iowa All Star Silver Box Corporation dissolved effective June 1 1937, under Articles of Incorporation on record in Polk County and Marion County Iowa, with D Meulpolder as secretary and the dissolution witnessed in Pella Iowa on June 1 1937.
The past week of warm favorable weather improved farm crop outlook. Early planted corn has grown well and turned deep green after being bare and plowed with poor color a week earlier. Alfalfa hay yields look strong with harvests reported. Wheat and oats show signs of average or better yields, though some worry stalks may be too rank. Overall hay appears to be the best in years and grass feedings have been strong this spring.
Hal Roach presents Patsy Kelly and Lyda Roberts in a new full length comedy at the Princess Theatre Oskaloosa three showings starting Sunday June 27. The film follows Patsy Kelly and Lyda Roberts as amateur radio hopefuls turned student nurses in a series of comic mishaps with friends Detective Emery Litteworth and reporter Coops Hanford aiding their antics.
The Willing Workers met with Mrs. Ben Laurens last Friday with twenty members present. Many local residents are noted to be attending summer schools, church events, and family gatherings. A birthday party and a fifty ninth birthday celebration are recorded along with several visits and parishioner exchanges.
Lynnville residents Lynnville Dick Renaud and Mrs Johnson visit Grinnell while Miss Jennie Van Tul and Arie J Kock from Newton visit her parents. Others, including Mrs Henry Swank and son Henry of Sully, and Dick Van Hal with family, travel to Oskaloosa and Des Moines for visits and business. Families and neighbors attend games and calls in Sully, Pella, Osko loosa, and Oelwein areas.
Leighton Lou Van Roekel and Mrs Van Roekel with E Klaaren of Pella visited at Wilford Klaren's home in Eddyville where Klaren and Mrs Klaren welcomed a baby daughter Marilyn born last Friday. Also mentioned are visits with Con Ver Ploeg and H W Vander Lingens family, trips to Lake Keomah, and Peter Muyskens moving to Aberdeen Michigan.
A compact reflection urges keeping social contact limited to necessary interactions. It warns that unnecessary mingling breeds complications and distractions, advising a guarded approach to personal engagements and public life.
A report notes that a woman's arm is not placed on the shoulder as a man’s, reflecting differing positioning or measurement standards in the observed practice.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Mulder of Memphis Tennessee visited Mon tiny at the home of Rev and Mrs Ira J Hesselink. Other guests included the De Wild and De Wilds families from Pella and the Van der Waal Vos and Slings households. A Farm Bureau meeting at the Van Heukelem home near Bussey drew thirty attendees and featured Dairy Maids, recitations, and talks by J J Else and Laura Heddleson. The next July meeting was planned for the Gerrit Walragen home.
Taintor Charley Fleming and family visited the Ed Sheesley home near Eddyville. Mrs Sheesley is very poorly. Harold Hull of near Grinnell and family visited relatives. Sunday guests at the Hull home included Karl Fleming. Numerous locals dropped by for calls and meals including Dev Hull Gordon Monsma Cartavage Darlene Hull and Melba Doald Hull. Colonel Antles from Oskaloosa visited. Fd Northeatt and family spent Sunday at Delmand Evans home. Ray Duboe and two sons visited City. Miss Nellie Marian Garrett returned from Des Moines to spend the summer with Charles Garner. Clair Burke of Rockford Illinois visited his parents. Coleman Williams of Austin Minnesota visited George Sith. Ben Wilson and Tessie Williams visited Ames area.
Four elderly farmers Vander Molen Sies C Stursmuy and Cornelius Spoelstra dug a drain pit and outlet for Mr Dear's house, totaling 202 years of combined age. The school board and principal thank these men for taking on the difficult task amid favorable weather aiding crops like corn potatoes grass and oats. The article notes ongoing carpentry on John Pothoven's new house.
Reports from the community mention Wymore of New Sharon drilling a well with limited success at Bh feet. Mrs Wim De Wit of Pella visits the D W Van Gorp home. Cornelius Vander Hart preached in Prairie City at the Christian Reformed church. Henry Rosveld and family visit Mount John Rosveld, state hospital inmate. Peoria Young People Society honors Godert Vander Hart with a gold watch. Rev Wm De Jong and family visited locally then traveled to Michigan to fill a pulpit in Byron Center before returning home.
Rose Hill residents Mr. and Mrs. Art Vander Werff and family and William Jansen visited the Albert Van Zante home Tuesday evening. Other Des Moines calls included Jerry and Minnie Vanden Berg Johnnie and Katherine Vander Werff on Friday, with several Vink and Van Zante family visits reported in homes near Galesburg and Herman Van Veen.
Mise Ruby Vander Werff returned Friday after a few days in Oskaloosa. Mr. and Mrs. Neal Vander Werff were Oskaloosa callers on Wednesday. One thing always true to her the unreliability of the weather.
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