Tulip Time visitors fill Pella with guests from far and wide
Arch ie Bloem of Chicago visited with his brother and sister in law in Pella. Henry Roelofsen from Ames joined the Dyke family. Numerous neighbors from Iowa and Illinois stayed with local families during Tulip Time. Several names of relatives and former residents appear among weekend visitors and hospital announcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie Bloem
Chicago
Illinois
Peter Bloem
Henry Roelofsen
Ames
Iowa
Bert Roelofsen
Martin Dyke
Fulton
Ilinois
Mr. Dyke
Albert van Heukelem
Elbert van Maanen
Gerrit
Babe) Visser
Bussey
James E. Goodman
Pleasant Hill
William van Sittert
Goodmans
Arthur Broser
Pleasant
Goodman
Carl F. Nolte
California
Hubbard
Nolte
Noltes
Case Reynew
Hollandale
Minnesota
Henry Rooda
Peoria
Pella
Carrie Muilenberg
Newton
George Browning
Don van Wyk
Wilmar
Jacob van Wyk
Bernie Vogelaar
Moline, Illinois
Ben Vogerr
Dick Caddock
Meyer Langerak
Caddock
Anna Mae Langerak
Helen Hopley Shepler
Atlantic
Junior Dykstra
William Basinger
Des Moines
Kenneth Vander Linden
Joe Faassen
Clarinda
Robert
Bob) Hites
Henry Trumbell
St. Louis
Missouri
Trumbell
Wabash Railway
Howell Station
Fred Dekker
Bellevue
Nebraska
Gerald Rysdam
Rysdam
Ernie Schippers
Renaud Rysdam
Dougla
Bondurant
Stella Rysdam
Slow Down And Dive
Ed, a district sales manager, teaches a new salesman by days end in a drive through town. They push ahead at speed 60 mph, covering 88 feet each second, while the new man fights fatigue. A dark object appears in the headlights just before impact.
Iowa May 1 1956 crop report highlights winter wheat drop
Iowa crop report shows winter wheat forecast at 2,070,000 bushels, one third under 1955 harvest and 46 percent below the ten year average. Yield per harvested acre projected at 18.0 bushels, hay stocks on farms about 1,276,000 tons with old hay second largest on record for May 1, pastures and moisture shortfalls reduce forage supply with May 1 pastures at 56 percent of normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
Towa Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Hay crop conditions lag due to dry weather
The ten year average of 84 percent for date is noted while hay crops show delays from dry weather to May 1. Condition of the hay crop stands at 62 percent, compared with 94 percent a year earlier and 85 percent for the 1945-54 May 1 average.
Bond Sales in Marion County 1956 Quota Progress
Marion County's first four months of 1956 savings bond sales totaled 683,642 dollars, reaching 46 percent of the annual quota. Compare Iowa 41 percent and national 34 percent, under chairmen E L Job of Knoxville and P H Kuyper of Pella. Four-month figures include Jasper 809,063 dollars at 36 percent and Mahaska 533,104 dollars at 40 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Savings
Marion County
Iowa
E L. Job
Knoxville
P. H. Kuyper
Pella
Jasper County
Mahaska
New Till Planter Demo Set for May 22 at Vande Voort Farm
The Pella Implement Store and International Harvester Company announce a field demonstration of the McCormick 4M-21 Till Planter mounted on a Farmall 400 tractor. It seeds two rows of corn, soybeans, or other crops directly in various residues, leaves a mulch on top, and applies deep and shallow fertilizer in one pass, claimed to save seven to eight tractor manhours per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
International Harvester Company
George Vande Voort
McCormick
Farmall
Corn on Run-Down Land Boosted by Till Planter Method
George D. Sca r aeth director of the American Farm Research Association started planting corn on rundown land five years ago using a till planter. He claims he produced corn without a plow, requiring only three tractor hours per acre and that the land grows better with each year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George D. Scaraeth
American Farm Research Association
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Verne Wiedemeier
Nevadowa
van Berkum
Mr. Wiedemeier
Wiedeman
Nevada
Harold Slaughter
Fredericksburg
Max Slaughter
Earl Atkins
A. J. Grotenhuis
Jefferson, Iowa
Atkins
William Grotenhuis
Stanton, Iowa
Atkins Home
Herbert Barton
Denver
Colorado
Jack Boatsma
Boatsma
Grace Buckingham
Amboy
Boatsmas
Iowa Methodist
Anthony Tysseling
Carol Ver Steeg
Waverly
Kurt Weltner
George Ver Steeg
Mark Schakel
Linda
Julie
Mark Jr
Ver Steeg
Joe Hoeksema
Gar
Vogelaar
Chaley Hoeksema
Bob Klein
Nathan Vander Linden
Herbert Wormhoudt
Lisa
Ottumwa
Bess Wormhoudt
Gene Wormhoudt
Herbert
John Bauman
University Hospital
Iowa City
Mr. Bauman
West
Washington Street
Jewel
Arthur H. Meppelink
Mercy Hospital
Oskaloosa
John H. van Vark
Mercy
Robert van Essen
Otley
Rex
Earl Brummel
Leighton
Mahaska Hospital
Bethany
Ed du Pree
Mr. Nusbaum
Penney
William Wing
Des Moines Register
Des Moines Sunday Register
Aven Coberly
Danville
Kriel Boushka
Mondamin Avenue
Sunday Register
John M. van Dyk
International Harvester
Marion Co
Garde
James de Penning
North Main
Agency
Pella, Lowe
Dominion Electric
Adams Orange
Lake Valley
Franks
Bologna
Rath
Skelly Products
Morton
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