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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1957
Page
4
Community members visited relatives in Grinnell Oskaloosa and Sully. Hospital treatments and births are mentioned along with church society activities and missionary reports, highlighting visits by numerous families and individuals in nearby towns.
Local families gathered for cooperative dinners at homes in Lynnville Sully and Grinnell visits occurred among residents including Miss Ida Ladd Mrs Vina Renaud and JoAnna Renaud. Elmer Gause hospitalized in Grinnell. Given Johnson hospitalized. B A Mitchell of Grinnell named General Motors District Manager for January with a 16.7 percent market penetration note.
The Monroe News lists Easter Sunday dinners and birthday observations across families. Guests include Dwight and Nettie Warner of Des Moines, Carroll Warner, Mrs. Rose Taylor, and Bernice Van Buren from Chicago. Other items note Donald Moringster visiting grandparents in Ankeny and Sargent M. L. Schippers’s Camp Pendleton assignment.
A cascade of church attendances dinners and family gatherings marks Easter week in Monroe and surrounding towns. Notes include Sgt Wagner’s service at Shaw AFB and Norma Rice of Mason City, plus multiple visits and dinners at the homes of the Masters Stevens and Munson families and announcements of travel, anniversaries, and a funeral for Mrs. George Marshall of Altoona. Neighboring communities in Newton Pella and Baxter are referenced with additional visits and condolences.
The text notes a person will be sent to Germany and his family intends to move to Europe soon. It mentions Mr. and Mrs. James Bump of Newton visiting Leo Bump's home with their family, spending Sunday there.
WHO-TV will broadcast a Jack London television series Captain David Grief starting May 4 at 9 p.m. The program showcases sea drama and acting, aiming to boost London's popularity beyond books. A USDA survey notes over half of the nation’s farm mowers are tractor powered.
Two Sully residents suffered injuries in a two car collision at 4 50 p m Sunday four miles northwest of Monroe at a bad township intersection. Mrs C C Van Soelen 56 and her daughter Joanne 18 were thrown from their eastbound Chevrolet when a 1949 Ford driven by Frank Fisher 18 of Monae Route 1 struck their vehicle. They were taken to Mercy Hospital Os kaloosa with fractures cuts and possible internal injuries while Mr Van Soelen and Fisher received only minor injuries. Deputy Ray Gaylor investigated.
A 47 year old former Montana state penitentiary inmate has admitted a burglary at a Lynnville store and is under confinement in Minnesota authorities pursue formal charges and extradition.
Sheriff Ed Scoville of Jasper County identifies James Hopkins as a suspect in a Lynnville April 16 burglary at Ralph Evans grocery. Hopkins, recently released from Montana prison, is held in Paul Minnesota on a stolen vehicle transport charge. Items from the Lynnville store were found with Hopkins and later recovered at the home of his sister in Fairmont._hold order expected to transfer Hopkins to Jasper County after Minnesota processing.
Cattle Feeders Day will be held at Iowa State College on Tuesday June 11. C C Culbertson reports experiments on protein levels with corn silage and comparisons of ground ear corn with high moisture stored corn. Trials examine fat and arsenic carrier as growth stimulants and stilbestrol use, with a women’s program led by Lenore Sullivan.
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