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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1954
Page
5
Local families report moves and arrivals with Cornie De Bruin relocating to 716 Elm Street in Leighton and Wilbur Veenstra returning from Augsburg Germany after U S Army service. Multiple hospital admissions and discharges accompany church notices and social events in Oskaloosa Sully Otley and Des Moines.
Iowa State College extension weed control specialist E P Sylvester says late winter is ideal for brush control. Begin removal of dormant top growth, then cut regrowth to 18 inches before applying foliage spray. For trees, cut and haul off and treat stumps, use brush killer on the regrowth mix like elm plum osage orange cottonwood willow.
The Knoxville Rotary Club hosts a 14 litter event at Bingley’s sale barn on March 10 featuring Hampshires owned by Jimmy Crosier. Crosier, 1953 champion exhibitor, will lead a 12 to 21 year old exhibitor field with a banquet at the Masonic Temple after the show and a Friday visit to the Iowa Packing Company to review carcasses.
Sylvester recommends 4D and 2,4,5-T for treating stumps and standing trees. When only willow or cottonwood remains, he notes 2,4-D alone is cheaper and equally effective. For spray, mix one quart concentrate in ten gallons of fuel oil and spray stump to runoff. For basal treatment, spray trunk to one foot above ground until runoff.
The Marion County Tuberculosis and Health Association urges citizens to adopt a Heart Month resolution to rely on facts about heart disease not fears. February education targets five myths including futility, fatality of heart attacks, misleading symptoms, and risks for women bearing children with proper medical care.
The Iowa Heart Association declares that most people with heart disease can still work, often without changing jobs, and urges Iowans to discard long standing myths. The group emphasizes hope, urges support for education, and notes heart disease causes nearly 10,000 deaths yearly in Town.
A historical note claims the United States first junior high school started in Berkeley California in 1909. It marks a turning point in American education formalizing a separate middle grade between elementary and high school.
William John Klein died February 22 1954 at his home in Pella aged 74 years 4 days He was born near Pella in 1880 son of Gerrit Klein and Dena Korsegoer He married Hattie Monster in 1904 and had one son Hendrikus W After Hattie’s death he married Mary Van Pursem in 1909 Mary died in 1952 He leaves Hendrikus his stepson Pearl Van Pursem two sisters Mrs Hal Van Oenen and Mrs Jennie Woods and three brothers Anne Tone Richard He lived in Pella 20 years worked at Buerkens factory before retiring Funeral March 24 1954 at Van Dyk Funeral Home and Third Reformed Church with Rev Russell Redeker officiating burial in Oakwood Cemetery
The Klein family expresses gratitude to friends neighbors and relatives for support after the death of William J Klein their father and brother. They acknowledge expressions of sympathy and condolence and thank those who assisted during this time.
Ottumwa residents mourn John Wormhoudt a veteran lumberman and civic leader aged 84 who died in Santa Monica California His death notice appears in the Ottumwa Courier dated February 20 and is carried for Chronicle readers.
Calif. born Otumwa lumberman Wormhoudt headed Worm Lumber Co for over six decades. A native of Pella born 1869, he moved to Ottumwa in 1890 and built a regional business with yards across multiple towns. Active in Willard Street Methodist church and local civic bodies, he served on school boards and numerous fraternal orders.
Hed three children he was married about the time he came to Ottumwa to Miss Ina Kelly of Pella. Their home was for many years on avenue, in the house which was recently converted into Walsh high school. Mrs. Wormhoudt died in 1985. He remarried in 1938 to Mrs. Lena Crips Palmquist. She survives. Their home is at 187 West Alta Vista avenue. Other survivors are two daughters Mrs. Bertha Sowers of Dotna, Tex, and Mrs. Lucille Peterton of Sioux City, and a son, Henry Wormhoudt of Ottumwa. There are seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. In recent years he has been intensely interested in farming and has given much time to operation of his farms west of Ottumwa and near Milton. The body was flown to Chicago and brought by rail to Ottumwa. Funeral services were held at Ottumwa Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m.
Daniel Kamp, born in Iowa, married Mary Van Gorp in 1881. He moved with his family to Nebraska in 1884, later settled near Adams. Mary died in 1909. He remarried Kate Schakel in 1918, who died in 1941. He resided in Adams from 1918, lived alone 1941 to 1953, then with his children in Adams. The text covers family moves and long years in Adams.
Surviving are six children J W Kamp Tipton Oklahoma John Kamp Lincoln Mia Malone Crete Mee John Groningen Harry Kemp and Mrs Gerrit Fischer all of Adams A son William died March 20 1958 Funeral services were held at the Preman Church Adams with Rev E L Cochran officiating Interment in Pella cemetery north of Adams Assisted by piano performances by Mrs James Spellman Mrs John Mays and Mrs Aaron Crisler.
An 11 year old boy, Joe Slattery of Waterville, was killed when a rock weighing about 100 pounds rolled from a bluff onto a highway near Lafayette and struck the top of the automobile he rode in on February 14.
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