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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1951
Page
4
The column lists social visits, hospital updates, and events in the area including parties at homes, funerals in Newton, and attendance at church and school functions. Names such as Mrs. Walton, Mr. Rozen, the Wisterhofs, and the Jansen, Sparks, and Kaldenberg families appear amid travel to Rochester and Des Moines, with notices of relatives and servicemen.
Oskaloosa area notes report Mr and Mrs J K Schemper visiting relatives in Long Island before heading to Denver. Missionaries Rev and Mrs Gordon Wind return from China to visit Rev and Mrs J Van Wyk. Local gatherings include Harrison Homemakers plant bulb exchange and a Farm Bureau Women’s Project donation.
Otley residents share Mother's Day visits and dinners with families from Pella and nearby towns. A school tour of Des Moines sites impressed local students. Janet Karr's tonsil operation and several members attending Rebekah events were noted along with 4-H plans and local visitors from Monroe Nevada and Knoxville.
Summit News reports a Thursday Fry H party at Monrow High School with chaperones Mrs Houshar and Coach Larson. No scavenger hunt was held and a Wiener roast took place at Baerke LeGrand. Attendees include Mrs Loren West and Fovira Dane of Pella and Dens.
Public Ledger No 1, long missing from Sibley, was located last week in the vault during routine vault cleaning ahead of operations. Officials reported the rediscovery occurred as vaults were cleared to make way for repairs and maintenance.
Marion County supervisors consider installing an automatic elevator to serve the third floor offices including the county attorney and court facilities, with renovation of the fourth floor storage space also under review. A preliminary estimate places the cost around 500 plus shaft removal, contingent on donations from users on the second and third floors.
Marion County farmers are invited to a pasture clinic in Albia on June 7 to review experimental pasture renovation and utilization work at the Iowa State College Pasture Improvement Farm near Albia. F J Kohrt, county extension director, announced the field day and encouraged attendance. The program covers pasture problems in the southern Iowa pasture region. The Albia farm, established by the federal government in 1935 and leased to Iowa State College in 1939, examines pasture improvement for beef production. started in 1939 the first plantings were made on the farm in 1939 and since.
Farmers will view tests of grasses and legumes in pasture renovations. Birdsfoot trefoil, Indian clover, and Korean lespedeza are among new legumes being studied with grasses to form permanent pastures. Beef gains compare renovated versus unimproved pastures, with grazing versus grain feeding analyzed. Field day programs expect 500 to 1,000 attendees.
About 75 school districts will learn this week they have been granted 31.5 million dollars for construction due to impacts from Federal activities. The sum leaves around 500 districts still without relief, but Congress and the White House are expected to provide up to 50 million more by late June, with Knoxville eligible because of the Veterans Hospital.
Families from Tingley Newton Rensselaer Otley Prairie City and Des Moines visited residents of the Home for the Aged including Mr C N Weeda Mrs H Vander Wilt and Mrs C Den Tartog Mrs Elscott and family and Rev Jacob De Koning from Washington Iowa. Peter Keuning and Leendert Langstraat hosted callers during Mother's Day observances.
Unknown thieves broke into the Kasille Savings Bank office in Delta, stealing 3722.80 in silver and currency. They did not access the vault.
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