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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1946
Page
6
Musings outline Thursday May 9 auction rules and social codes for town event. Nicodemus Van der Ploeg highlighted, Tulip Time praise, Dutch costumes urged, local schools closed, festive mood and neighborly share noted.
County Board minutes outline road program approval for 1946 1947 1948 led by Roy Karr and F N Loynachan with various claims audited and paid including taxes salaries supplies and services. The meeting adjourned after approving the Valley School District compromise and bond business.
A letter from Miss Marie Hanken details rising generosity from American friends aiding a school in Rotterdam. She lists multiple donors sending shoes, socks, clothing, and undergarments for 180 children aged 3 to 7, noting joy among parents and gratitude despite wartime hardship.
In Oskaloosa on Wednesday evening Margaret Slater and Charles Street united in marriage at the home of Mr and Mrs Roy Sopher. Also notes report family moves and service events including a church program by Queen Esther and hospital visits.
The Ninth Annual Spring Sale of the Marion County Angus Breeders Association at the Knox ville Community Sale Barn features Black Belmar 3 a McHenry Blackcap Bull topping at 1800 dollars. Consigned by O O Emerson and Son Knoxville it advanced to C D Speers and Son Gianola Iowa. A McHenry Barbara Cow Barbara McHenry B2ist led females at 750 dollars, consigned by Banks Banks Knoxville and bought by Ben Bowne Ottumwa Iowa. The sale offered a full lineup of cattle.
The sale featured 55 females and 16 males maintaining high quality standards. Bulls averaged $478 per head while cows averaged $313 each, with overall cattle average at $350 per head.
More than 20 000 quail and pheasant chicks will be shipped to co operating sportsmen groups during the 1946 game and bird program. Clyde Updegraff reports hens are laying well and no strikes threat. Eggs start May 1 delivery of two week old chicks begins in June. Birds kept in pens until eight weeks then released locally to bolster seed stocks.
The club reports improvement work and outlines collaboration with twenty five sportsmen groups to raise quail and twenty organizations to cooperate in a pheasant raising program.
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