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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1956
Page
10
Notices include no milk delivery in Pella on Memorial Day May 30 and a 1956 budget hearing by Otley Rural Independent School District. Also sealed bids in Pella for 25000 dollars of library bonds and Otley reconstruction bids for the Otley Rural school, with dates and bid classifications.
The Otley Rural Independent School District invites bids with documents on file at the superintendent’s office and Savage and Ver Ploeg. Bids must be delivered in sealed envelopes to the board, marked with bidder name and work classification. Iowa and domestic labor preferences apply, and the district may defer or reject bids. Dated Otley Iowa May 17 1956.
Mrs Harold Gates and Harry Vos thank relatives friends and neighbors for flowers cards gifts visits prayers and calls during hospitalization and after returning home Your thoughtfulness will long be remembered.
To friends and neighbors who aided after the death of our dear husband and father, Herman D. Rietveld. We gratefully acknowledge expressions of sympathy and flowers as tokens of regard. Mrs. Herman D. Rietveld Cornie Rietveld
Five generations of the Kelly family of Onawa gathered at the home of 96 year old Elk Point resident D. Kelly for a group photo. Infant Vicki Jean Orzechowskis, Sioux City born great granddaughter, was the youngest in the clan.
Grain sorghums, especially mile varieties, will be grown in Iowa’s drier regions this season. Swine feed value runs 85 to 90 percent of corn, with Quaife noting sorghums are low in vitamins A and D and calcium, higher in protein but lower in fat. Feeders should crack or grind coarsely, mix protein, threshed heads, and provide mineral vitamin protein supplements for pregnant sows and fattening hogs.
In a special election residents of New Sharon granted Iowa Power and Light a 25 year franchise to supply electric power. The vote stood 166 in favor and 46 opposed. The company plans a road service center and a new sub station in New Sharon to serve the northern area. E J Condon quote from Sears Roebuck executive included.
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