Tulip City Saddle Club Fun Fair highlights many races
Tulip City Saddle Club held a Tuesday Fun Fair at Bats De Jong’s lumber yard on June 22 with events including Clover Leaf Barrel Race Pole Bending Pick-up Race Scoop Shovel Race Fan Belt Race and Egg Race. Winners featured Harley Terpstra Gerald Vander Linden Stan Snellers Paul Van Wyk and Ken Tromp among others. Rose Festival entries and committee appointments followed in short notices.
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Tulip City
Gerald Vander Linden
Stan Snellers
Ken Tromp
Paul van Wyk
Junior Cade
Elmer Rietveld
Harley Terpstra
Aston Terpstra
Laddie Club
de Jona
Chronicle News
Buerkens Honored Among Retired School Leaders
Former Pella superintendent C. C. Buerkens received a retirement award at the fifth annual meeting of School Board Members and School Administrators at the State College of Iowa Cedar Falls. Ten other honorees from Cedar Falls to Des Moines were recognized for 33 to 43 years in administration. Special talks addressed long service and frontline leadership.
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Pella
C. C. Buerkens
State College of Iowa
Cedar Falls
J. W. Maucker
The
State College
Buerkens
E. W. Goeth
Wilmer Ritter
L. W. Briggs
Hampton
Earl Cope
Iowa Falls
C. 8
Griwe
Sac City
Arthur Hewlett
Pomeroy
J. J. Jorgensen
Independence
H. P. Main
Deep River
Burton North
Jesup
Hale C. Reid
Cedar Rapids
John G. Schultz
Des Moines
Vern Troup
Clarksville
Iowa State hosts 18th School Lunch Short Course
ISU in Ames Iowa presents the 18th annual School Lunch short course co sponsored by the Institution Management Department and the Iowa School Lunch Division. Sessions cover menu planning food purchasing work methods cost control sanitation storage and inventory community relations and nutrition and fitness. Attendees include Mrs Edna Coop and Mrs Margaret Klyn from Pella Community schools Mrs Esther Lingo from Iowa Valley Monroe district and Mrs Janice Olsthoorn from Monroe New Monroe Community district.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State University
Institution Management Department
Iowa State Department of Public Instruction
Pella
Edna Coop
Margaret Klyn
Esther Lingo
Monroe
Iowa Valley
Janice Olsthoorn
New Monroe
Outer Space Days winners prize balloons travel wide
Jaren Steenhoek of Reasnor wins a Boy's English Bicycle for the farthest balloon drift from Outer Space Days in Pella. About 150 miles to near Shel don, Mo. Other prizes awarded to ten runners up with gifts from skateboards to gift certificates. balloons returned from Missouri and Iowa locations with notices from area residents.
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Jaren Ray
Steenhoek
Reasnor
Pella
Shelbina
Lewis Utz
Jaren
Pella Chronicle
Ernest Scheffers
Lyle Woodward
Plevna
S.E
Edina
Connie Kay Brouwer
Perry Kittle
Queen City
Connie
Judith R. Bosveld
Community events schedule for July and June listings
A dense list of July and June local events across towns and churches. Activities include bridge parties at the Country Club, ice cream socials at Second Reformed and Otley Reformed churches, breakfasts, a What Cheer Centennial parade, July 4th celebration at Leighton, and numerous youth league games and reunions. Reading outlines dates, venues, and times across churches, parks, and community buildings with several June finishers and a page 5 continuation note.
Pel la Jaycees elect new officers led by Roger Duven
The Pella Jaycees elected Roger Duven as president with Merlyn Van der Leest as 1st vice president and Kenneth Ustermarkt as 2nd vice president. Other officers include Nelson Bogaard Gary Matice as board members Gary Van Vark as treasurer Arlin Harvey as secretary and Darrell Shaefer as state director. The group earned about $100 from the June Daily Month ice cream social.
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Pella Jaycees
The
Roger Duven
Merlyn van der Leest
Kenneth Ustermarkt
Nelson Bogaard
Gary Matice
Gary van Vark
Arlin Harvey
Darrell Shaefer
Jaycees
Free pictures at Pella Chronicle available for subscribers
The Pella Chronicle opens its back picture files for a limited time. Subscribers may search a cardboard box of photos to find pictures of family, friends, and relatives and take them home at no cost for the effort of selecting and collecting.
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Pella Chronicle
Chronicle Photo Box Offers Decades of Moments
The notice describes a daily replenished photo box for the Chronicle featuring images from roughly 1949 to 1963, covering weddings engagements sports and various news pictures. It invites readers to keep checking back as new items are added each day.
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Chronicle
Tysseling Home Fire Damages West Street Residence
Fire at A F Tysseling residence 508 West Street Friday evening caused extensive smoke and water damage to furnishings and walls up to the attic. Cause undetermined. Mrs Tysseling alerted by smoke while returning from Rev Ward's home. daughter Linda Van Doorninck of Denver arrived with her 9 month old grandson Marty and called the fire department. Department responded promptly.
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A. F.tyselling
West Street
Home Rebuilt After 1870s Deed Transfer
The land was deeded by Dominic Schol te to Thomas Ryan, a lawyer, in 1873 and the home was rebuilt between 1873 and 1875. The Tysseling family moved to Pella and bought the home in 1916, and since then the Tys and his wife have fully restored it.
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Dominic Scholte
Nomas Ryan
Leighton Hosts Fourth of July Little League Games
Leighton will celebrate the Fourth of July with two ball games at 6:00 p m. The Leighton Little League faces Tracy Little Leaguers in the opener, followed by a second game between Leighton Merchants and Tracy keg wars. A program and lunch by Ebenezer Reformed Church ladies will follow.
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Leighton
Leighton Little League
Tracy Little
Inmaay
Leighton Merchants
Tracy Kegwars
Ladies of the Ebenezer Reformed Church
Uuu. Nel Youe
Marine Lt Melvin Vos Deploys to Bodo Norway
BEAUPORT SC Marine First Lieutenant Melvin L Vos son of Mr and Mrs John M Vos of 1336 Orchard Dr Vella Towa is serving with Marine Fighter Squadron 333 which deployed to Bodo Norway June 20 with the unit sailing for overseas duty and duty stations trailing in the wake of World War II era military movements and assignments described in the notice
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Beauport
S.C
Melvin L. Vos
John M. Vos
Orchard Dr
Vella
Towa
Marine Fighter Squadron 333
Bodo
Norway
Card from Outer Space Found in Hay Bale
A farmer’s wife in Bussey Iowa recounts finding a blue balloon tied card among hay bales. Her 9 year old son David was driving the tractor when the card, likely lost earlier, was discovered. She explains the card’s fragile state and hesitates about mailing it separately.
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Ellis
Route 2
Bussey
David
Harold V. Ellis
Ia. P. S
Gerret Thomassen Services Held for Local Merchant
Funeral services were held Saturday June 26 for Gerret Eaward Thomassen 74 who died June 24. A retired merchant of Tracy and lifelong resident he leaves three daughters three brothers and four sisters. A complete obituary appears in this issue.
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Gerret Eaward Thomassen
Tracy
Erosion Control for Red Rock Bid Let by Corps
The Rock Island District Corps of Engineers will open bids at 2 p.m. on July 27, 1985 to prevent erosion on Stage 1 of the Rock Lam earth embankment and along the dam bluff. Downstream grading, topsoil, and seeding will precede riprap protection upstream and downstream from the dam’s right abutment. Work to begin within 15 days of notice and finish by October 31, 1965. bids restricted to small businesses under a government program.
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Rock Island
IIL
Corps of Engineers
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Steve Kilpatrick
Darrey Terpstra
Harry Terpstra
Gerald van der Linden
New Sharon
Bats” de Jong
Bill Swank
Len
Smoky
Stewart Kanis
Stu Kuyper
Gil Roozeboom
Kenny van Rees
Len Schippers
Edwin Groomes
Menlo
C. Warren Phillips
Valparaiso
Indiana
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Diane Hollebrands
Roger's
Roger Palmquist
ISU
Outer Space Days
Jaren Steenhoek
Judith
Rebecca Aldridge
Liberty St
Riverside
Katherine Troit
Rebecca
Debra Kooyman
Hazel
Livania
Moulton
Chariton River Bottom
F.M. Walter
Coatsville
Victor Vanden Dever
Madison
Candy Marlin
Unionville
Blakesburg
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Lori van Zee
Broadway
Ricky Lynn Dixon
Denny Waits
Main St
Miner Hop
Kins
Patty Omick
Main
Larry Smith
Carla Groeneweg
Albia
Don Jeno
Lori Butler
2Nd St
Baxter
Fred C. Klein
Newton
Childre
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Country Club
Second Reformed Church
Otley Reformed Church
Church Yard
Durchesses
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Sully Community Bldg
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Pool Park
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Pony League
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Brooklyn
Pella Hi
Winterset
Women’s Guild of the First Reformed Church
Elyn Tire & Battery
Kiwanis, Jr. Hiv
Pella Natl. Bank
Recreation Commission, Jr. Hi. S
Richard's Cleaners
A & W Root Beer
CAI
City League
Pella National Bank
Trinity Church
Rosscreen
Steak House
Indianola
Otley
Rotary
Mun
Field, Natl. Ig
Jaycee
A. F. Tysseling Home Burns Fri
Melvin Vos
Gerret Thomassen
Recreation Commission
Franklin Street
Steve Visser
Mary Lubbers
Norma
Karen van Wyk
Dean Humman
Steve Vande Kraat
Bob Slagter
Doug Oppenhuizen
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