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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1954
Page
15
Friday note card of social visits across Sully Pella Oskaloosa and Leighton lists gatherings at homes and churches. It records multiple families including Van Haatten De Prenger Sneller and De Goey with visits, birthday celebrations, and ROTC camps at Fort Sill. Local names and places anchor the community update.
Local notes record visits from Mrs. H W Vriezelaar and friends including Mr and Mrs John Sterk of Linden Washington who attended the General Synod at Buck Hill Falls Pa on their trip home. Other guests included E J De Haai Pella and De Haai family Knoxville Prairie City. Some family births moves noted include a daughter for Mr and Mrs Woodrow Dietrick and James Marshall home visitors.
The Sully News reports a First Reformed Church gathering with devotions led by Janice Van Gent and Mission study on Japan. A June 24 picnic at Maytag Park Newton is planned, with multiple members listed as present and two visitors. Additional items note a military address, Sunday dinners, visitors, a baby birth at Mahaska Hospital, medical visits, a birthday gathering, and a Community Church Bible Class meeting with Revelation study and refreshments.
Rev. Robert Gardner, state missionary and youth director for the Towa Ne'ri Association of both morning and evening, oversees a note about church matters as the couple prepares to settle in Brookfield Illinois, while Mrs. F. B. Schaber and her Tolono, Illinois family visit the Mark I Shaw home.
Date nut cake recipe with dates soaking in soda and boiling water, creamed butter and sugar, eggs beaten, flour alternated with milk, nuts folded in, baked 360 degrees for 35 minutes, cooled and served with vanilla ice cream. Serves 6 to 8.
Mathilda Schultz Vera Vos note a plaque given to Evelyn Pierce by her class before she moves to Laurel Iowa. Ruth Circle of the Christian Reformed Church met in the church basement on Wednesday afternoon. The family spent the weekend with Kaldenberg parents at Rockwell City Iowa. Wednesday visitors included Tunis Blom and Ivan Kaldenberg of Otley plus James Brass, Janice and Dennis and George Vaiden Berg of Pella.
Otley student Arlan Menninga won a Calvin College scholarship. Knoxville and Monroe residents visited and hosted gatherings at the Vriezelaar and Rozendaal homes. A large June picnic on the Gradus Vriezelaar lawn drew many local families. Summit Strivers 4 H girls rally day identified records and spelled composers' names with one mistake. Willa Mae Van Doorninck left for Illinois.
A woman plans to study at the University of Minois during the summer. Don Vriezelaar of Monroe visited Wednesday evening in the H. W. Vriezelaar home. A 2e and Mrs. Marion Slagter visited the parental Henry Vander Horst home in Otley.
The report lists relatives visiting from Washington and Des Moines areas, with Marion stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base and Gene Rietveld on Guam. It also notes Summit Strivers 4-H leaders at Ames convention and County Line 4-H short course selections at Iowa State College in Ames with dates.
Mr and Mrs Gerald Van Houweling and Pamela along with Mr and Mrs Marion Heemstra Mary Beth and Marla spent Tuesday evening at the Jacob Vos home for Denny Vos s birthday. Refreshments were served. Mr and Mrs Arthur De Vries Laura Kay and Kathy visited Sunday afternoon in the parental Arie De Vries home in Pella.
The dairy sector drives Iowa’s economy with 360 monthly patrons per creamery totaling about $22,300 monthly per average creamery. State tax revenue on grade cattle nears 4% million, dairy cow taxes add 2,899,520, and butter sales tax contributes 740,000. Iowa ranks sixth in milk production at over 6% billion pounds annually and second in butter at 187 million pounds.
John Brown and his followers broke camp at Springdale on April 27, 1858 and headed east toward Harper's Ferry for a fateful rendezvous. Petroleum and natural gas are California's most important resources.
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