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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1930
Page
8
The excerpt features responses from W. D. Van Sittert Peté Van Rees and John N. Vander Linden on recreation. Van Sittert favors gardening citing cost and time limits for golf and tennis, Van Rees shows fatigue but enjoys hunting and fishing, while Vander Linden lists golf tennis gardening lawn work and evening motoring as varying interests.
The piece highlights fresh air benefits and varied pastimes. M Van den Dever prefers golf and outdoor activities, while Pete Heerema loves golf and fits gardening and home tasks around golf, noting recreation is possible in many forms.
The Thursday high school assembly overflowed as the 1980 Glee Club wrapped its season. Prof Mennega shared trip highlights, the program blended familiar songs with new twists, and soloists John Wesselink Laurel Boot impressed the crowd with violin encore after encore.
A historic Harlem stream crossing dubbed Spuyten Duyvil, once central to Dutch legends, saw a modern rescue of power lines for New York Central Railroad. Engineers used 23,400 feet of wrought iron piping assembled in 650-foot lengths to run under the canal, drawing lines through a dredged trench with divers’ guidance while canal traffic paused for a day.
Special correspondent reports Visiting and family events in Ed Sheesley and Vander Veen households near Pella Des Moines trips and weekend visits to Peoria Galesburg and New Sharon people named Strom Vander Molen Van Roekel De Jong Van Rees Sterk and Ben Vander Molen care concerns about Mrs Vander Molen with heart leakage and high fever tweeted with local details
Henry Sylvester Merryman of Cordova Iowa died May 1 1980 after a short illness of pneumonia and heart weakness at Des Moines. He was born November 5 1900 son of Mr and Mrs Fred Merryman. Survived by wife and son Jack Wayne his mother and father brother Burdette sisters Chrystella Bernice and grandmother Mary Swallow. Funeral at parental home near Boonville with Forrest Lodge No 292 Boonville in charge. Burial in Boonville cemetery. Floral tributes included Oddfellowship symbols and lilies from Red Rock school children and the Richerd family. Community expresses condolences to Mrs Merryman and family.
Otley reports: a Des Moines Electric Co cooking demonstration in the Vriezelaar store room drew a solid crowd. Mr and Mrs Nick Heemstram of Polls visited relatives in Otley. V. McKeever relatives visited New Sharon. A brooder house fire destroyed three week old chicks at Asthers, brooder house survived. Anne Byers brooder house and chickens burned. Larson Construction Co worker caused disturbance after drinking home brew. taken to Knoxville and given thirty days. Mrs Anne Kool of Knoxville noted.
An old column speaks of joy in vegetable gardening with a playful tale of a person harvesting radish and corn in a home patch. It suggests simple recipes such as baked corn and tomato layers and describes a buttered baking dish with alternating corn and tomato layers for a tender, savory dish.
Near Cordova resident serving as field solicitor for church hospital funds while church subscriptions shift. Social notices include visits by De Moss, Karrs, and Muilenberg family. cooperative union meeting at Harvey with Des Moines speaker Miller. various home projects and community improvements. Red Rock score 7 to 0 for visitors White Line Transfer Co. at a ball game with detailed play-by-play and lineup notes.
The Pirates defeated Penn 11 to 0 in a college diamond nonconference game. Neifer t tossed well for the Pirates, striking out 13 and allowing four Penn hits with no walks. Sikkink starred behind the plate and at times blocked tough pitches as Ver Dught and Tysseling drove in runs, with scoring starting in the first and multiple tallies added in the second and fifth innings.
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