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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1938
Page
9
Community notes detail visits and social calls among residents of Gary Indiana Henry Surber Vande Pol Kooistra Vander Pol Van Willigen Ver St Herman Vander Pol and others. The entry records busi ness meetings at the Taintor elevator, travels to Pella Des Moines Knoxville and Sully, births, sheep incidents, moves, quilting bee, and Friday and Sunday gatherings across multiple families in the area.
A special passenger train operated by the Wabash carried students from Columbia University Missouri Sunday evening and returned Monday morning. Calvin Talbot visited Roy Karr on Monday morning. Mr and Mrs Barthlyn celebrated their 83rd wedding anniversary on Thursday February 24. Seventy friends surprised Frank Poortinga and Ralph and Mrs Ida De Hoedt Monday night. Poortinga plans to move with parents west of Otle. Mr and Mrs M P Van Hemert visited Murray Van Hemert Tuesday afternoon. Louise Allen visited Madge Hart Wednesday evening.
Fifield couple Mr and Mrs John Vanden Berg and son Kenneth spent Wednesday at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Gerrit Klein near Monroe. They helped Mrs Klein celebrate her sixty four birthday and we wish her many more happy returns of the day. Other Fifield visitors included Mr and Mrs Gerrit Vander Waal who called Thursday afternoon.
Monroe and Smith families plan moves to farms near Monroe and Prairie City. Pella residents host visitors and dinners while church groups, veterans hospital news, and birthday gatherings mark a busy social week. Local moves involve Birkenholtz, Throckmorten, and Van Weelden families with various movements to Montezuma Otley and near Prairie City.
Summit Mr and Mrs Elmer Ustermarkt move to Jacob Van Zante farm vacated by Cyrus Louwsma who relocating near Tracy. Many local residents and families are listed with visits, anniversaries, illnesses, and new births including a first child for Dick Kuiper. Van Wyngarden Roozeboom Aalbers Ustermarkt and others are noted with hospital and home visits in this period.
Radiant Sonja Henie and Don Ameche co star in Happy Landing a 20th Century Fox musical from Darryl F Zanuck coming to the Rivola Osage Oskaloosa featuring Sonja Henie and her on e in a million partner Don Ameche with lavish song and dance numbers poised to thrill audiences this Friday night
Thursday gatherings unfold around Monroe as Mr. and Mrs. Van Haaften host near Monroe while C D Vander Ploeg call on Don Vrieze laar. Gerrit Aalbers and Hattie visit Mrs. Baker in Monroe. Dykstra and Vriezelaar attend Knoxville Farm Bureau meeting planning County Achievement Day March 23 at Knoxville Memorial Hall.
Coal Ridge reports Alva Bricker of Knoxville at the John Amos home. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gearts were Sunday dinner guests at Eli Poffenbarger’s. Arnold De Winter has recovered from illness. Paul Simmons, visiting his grandmother Pearl Simmons, has scarlet fever. Mrs. George Wells returns from visiting her daughter Chas. Baughman. Mr. and Mrs. George Blackman visited friends and relatives and returned to Rawlins Wyoming. Mrs. Ethel Andrews visited Friday and Sunday with her parents F W Reynolds in Knoxville. Regular preaching services at Coal Ridge next Sunday both morning and evening.
John De Jong, Earl Northcutt, Glen Elscott and Earl De Jong helped Jessie Hill with corn shelling Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Jack Linsted spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Rufford Pethoven. Mr. and Mrs. Evert Vander Pol visited in the William Rykhoek home Monday afternoon. The K Y N Farm Bureau club met at Mrs. Harry Williams’ home Thursday February. Attendees included Mrs. D Monsma, Mrs. Lester Gans, Raymond Garner, Mrs. L es se Sr., Mrs. Evert Vander Pol and two daughters Henrietta and Geneva, Mrs. Will Swan and two daughters Nancy and Dimp, Mrs. Harold Benson, Gladys Williams and the hostess. Refreshments were served by and her daughter Gladys. Next meeting will be with M Willemsen. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Elscott and family and the John Elscott children and Max Pethoven spent Sunday afternoon in the John De Jong Walter Hill drove to Perry Sunday to get his mother who has been staying with her son and family.
Report covers vocal instruction with a memory contest and singing, listing attendees Mrs. Barney Memmelaar Mrs. D F Dykstra and nineteen members. Mentions refreshments and next meeting date March twenty fifth at Mrs F B Denburger's home plus various local family updates and a World Day of Prayer notice at the Reformed Church with Rev D Flietstra.
Porterville residents Porterville Golmore Kamerick and Dan Sytsma Sr. host and visit with Connie Vanden Baard and others. Henry and Agnes Jansen, Murray Kamerick, and Bastian A. Goe maat with Arlene Bernice move or stay with relatives near Otley and Des Moines.
Leighton led the third lesson on Nut on the use of milk and meat at the William Rempe home Saturday. An afternoon meal was prepared by the lad and served at the Rempe gathering for the evening meal with neighbors and family. The Heap o Livin club met Friday with Mrs. H. M. Remne. roll call featured a song and Mrs. Brummell provided song histories.
Residents from Oskaloosa and Pella attended social visits and a Barn Dance Frolic in Des Moines last Saturday. Several families including the De Jong Goemant Roorda Hackert Vanden Berg Monster Kamerick and Sytsma groups were mentioned visiting relatives and friends on successive evenings.
Winter bid a tepid salute with December averaging 82 degrees and January 20. February brought a near zero night but dry days. wheat crops look fine though rain is needed. Grandmother Joh Beeve, 80,重大ill, tumor threat. Jer ry Rickey in hospital with ruptured gall bladder. Anne De Jong, 71, dies suddenly at Peer. Twins born to Verna Schemper and Howard Hays. mother healthy. H. Vander Plas returns from Kansas City hospital. 61st birthday celebrated. Gerrit Nonhof visits from Holland Michigan after three months in hospital.
Gerrit works as a shoe store salesman while several neighbors face illness including J Brands age 77 and Mrs Rev Parsevoort. John Kuiper and wife, Q Huyser near 87, and Wm Smith 71 recover after strokes. Relatives from Granville to Sioux Centre travel as factory closures affect workers. Anniversaries of John Van Roe Albert Ronnema and Nellie Vos, and Wm Creving and Katie Dragt mark 30 and 45 years.
In January five hunters were arrested by the Conservation Office for taking one shot and missing a pheasant. The courts assessed fifty dollars in fines and costs for all five hunters. The ten dollar miss did not include ammunition costs.
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