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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1963
Page
16
Mrs H W Vriezelaar and family share updates from Monroe Iowa with hospital stays in Iowa City for H W Vriezelaar and health concerns among relatives. Visitors include Rev Russell Farrell Rene Franje and many local residents. Edits note hospitalizations, eye surgery, and community support events at Monroe Elementary and local churches.
Co-op Lumber Yard reports its spring demand far exceeds any season since 1960. Ken Ustermarkt, the yard’s manager, notes growth in homes garages and farm buildings with expanded stock of lumber plywood cement roofing bricks paints and ceiling tiles. The business now offers doors moldings hardware insulation and a wide range of fencing and gates. Ustermarkt remains optimistic for 1963, though farm building activity may stay limited until markets rise. The yard plans to keep stocking more materials to serve the local building trade.
Des Moines residents Mrs. Mable Van der Meide and son Philip visited Mrs. Blanch Van Brogen. Philip, fresh from service in Japan, now at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Chicago. Several families from Sully Newton Otley Rose Hill Boone Knoxville and Pella area called on relatives including Mrs. Marie Kommer Mrs. Jennie Kein Mr. and Mrs. Pete Klooster and Mr. Henry Breuklander in a sequence of Sunday and Friday visits reported in The Pella Chronicle May 9 1963.
On page seven, Mrs Nettie Greenen hosts visitors including Mr Will Van Sant and Tina Van Arkel with Andrew Van Sant, and Nettie receives calls from Mrs Jennie Hasselaar and Mrs Elizabeth Veldhuizen of Sully. The Stern family produced Logan’s fire chiefs for three generations, with Varick Stern succeeding in 1957 after his father Albert Stern, and grandfather Almon Stern who began in 1887.
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