Gossip From This Area Farm Report Northwest Of Pella
On a Friday afternoon in Ma, farmers near Pella work under wet fields with rain delaying some tasks. Everett De Vries plants with a team of white horses while his son Duane and a fox terrier ride along. De Vries notes remaining planting and strong clover and alfalfa growth in the area.
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Pella
Fox Farm
Everett de Vries
Everett
Hi Duane
Judd
Duane
Mr. de Vries
Fine Farm Portrait in Bethel Iowa Farm News
A visit to the Kamericks on the Van Essen farm near Bethel outlines family ties, farming detail, and plans to sell the hundred sixty acre property. Mrs Kamerick refinishes furniture by scraping with a safety razor blade while Gore visits Pella for planter parts and vows to finish corn planting that evening with a lit planter.
Everett De Vries Rolls Up Check Row on May 21
Everett De Vries of Northwest of Pella rolled up a check row on Thursday afternoon May 21. He rode with his plump team and his little son Duane who trotted beside the planter with his dog. Duane, four, had a curly head of red hair.
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Everett de Vries
Pella
Duane
Mrs Kamerick Farm Life and Soap Recipe Report
A portrait of the Kamerick family on the farm notes productive soil and plans for alfalfa. It details White Leghorn chicks eight weeks old, pastures, a hunterly family, and a homemade soap recipe that yields good lather without garment damage.
Ivondale Marquis Belgian Draft Stallion details
Ivondale Marquis No 23576 a sorrel Belgian Draft stallion with star. Sire Conquerant de Zandvoor de 18625 by Foch de Heron and dam Irondale Beauty 16938 by Oakdale Hero 16807. Located at L M Van Zante Place near Pella Iowa. Horse fee eight dollars. Contacts: telephone 626 on 34. Not responsible for accidents.
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Ivondale Marquis
Conquerant de Zandvoorde
Foch de Heron
Julie de Goyck
Faro
Baronne de Heron
Zambour de Neyghem
Lise de Goyck
Irondale Beauty
Oakdale Hero
Jupiter
Daisy
Oakdale Farceur
Farceur
Margot
Mack
Liberty Bell
L. M. van Zante
Pella
Insurance offer for farm and city properties in Sully
Wm. Dieleman of Sully Iowa promotes insurance for farm and city property including crop and automobile cover ages and offers life insurance savings plans. Call 60 Sully or write P O Box 146 for a call. Insure in good companies at low rates.
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Sully
P. O
Wm. Dieleman
Iowa
Fats for Soap and Wartime Trade In Germany
In wartime Germany soap becomes a valued resource as fats are redirected to military needs. The text notes Mr Flamerick was busy and refers to a Kamer icks group to be called upon later, while a farm on the Van Eesen property may be sold to someone who will run it as a fine enterprise.
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Germany
Increase in farm payments boosts Marion county totals
The AAA announced higher payments for 1942, with Marion county farmers expecting about a 40 percent rise. Chairman Herb McCoy notes 1941 payments of 552,000 could top 700,000 in 1942. Iowa as a whole may see a 20 million rise, aided by a 10 percent corn acre allotment increase and larger Parity and ACP payments.
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AAA
Marion County
Knoxville
Herb McCoy
Iowa
McCoy
ACP
Iowa 1941 corn allotment rises to nine million bushels
Iowa figures show 1941 state corn allotment up 10 percent to about 9,000,000 bushels with a 16.66 cents per bushel parity and conservation payment rate. Total state payments are projected near 364,760,000 on a 45 bushels per acre yield.
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Iowa
Towa
Knoxville Journ
Otley News social notes and visits around town
Otley residents share visits and travel details from Friday to Sunday. Mrs. Martin Kooyman spent Friday with the Verwers family near Fifield before returning home near Bondu Lac by train. John De Ha Pella and Kathe Leonard Verwers visited the Andrew Astermarkt home Monday morning. Wilford Van Gorp and Dale Lille headed to Wisconsin Monday for a few days with plans to return Friday. Tone Van Zee, Nick De Ronde, and Joe Vanden Berg painted the Christian Reformed church last week. Mr. and Mrs. William Roush left for their farm near Pleasantville Monday. Mrs. Roush to join him for a few days. Nes Van Vliet remodeling at his home. Bob Price of near Knoxville was in Otley Wednesday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Parl Van Hemert spent Monday in Des Moines. Mrs. A Bogaard, Ted Van Doorland and daughter Minnie Jean, and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robus with daughter Janice called at the Charles Vander Kolk home Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Evert De Vries of north of Pella visited Sunday afternoon at their parents’ home.
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Martin Kooyman
Kathe Leonard Verwers
Fifield
Bondurant
John de Ha Pella
Andrew Astermarkt
Wilford van Gorp
Dale Lille
Wisconsin
Tone van Zee
Nick de Ronde
Joe Vanden Berg
Christian Reformed Church
William Roush
Pleasantville
Norman Robus
Janice
Charles Vander Kolk
Evert de Vries
North of
Pella
Village notes on local residents and visitors
Mr and Mrs Andrew Ustermarkt and Arie Van Waardhuizen Sr were ill over the weekend. Mrs Leonard Van Ee and her son visited Mr and Mrs Arie Van Waardhuizen. Mrs Dale Lille and her daughter Nancy Lou left for Ed Carters in Pella. Mrs William Roush and Mrs Charles Vander Kolk attended the funeral of Mrs W B Verwers in Pella. Connie Mollenaar of Crookston MN spent the weekend with the Aart Uitermarkt home.
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Pella
William Roush
Charles Vander Kolk
W. B. Verwers
Itetysdhuizen Sr
Ef Oskaloosa
Sundternoon
Charles Kolkhon
Mee
Fil Gane
Prairie City
Ari Wen
Connie Mollenaar
Crookston
Minnesota
Aart
Crocheted Lord's Supper Picture Donated to Church
A three by five foot crocheted image depicting the Lord's Supper was created by rMx, P. I. Ruf corn of Harlan, Mrs. Ruf corn Presented the piece to a local church as a donation to the congregation.
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rMx
P. I. Rufcorn
Harlan
Ruffcorn
Eighty year old Mrs Bonnewell knitted for Red Cross
Eighty year old Mrs Isabelle Bonnewell of Town City has knit sixty two pairs of socks for the Red Cross at the last count, with expectations the total has since risen.
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Isabelle Bonnewell
Town City
The
Red Cross
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Kamerick Farm
Prospect
W. Rietveld
Bethel
van Essen
Ove Kamerick
Marion Schippers
Schippers
Marion
Des Moines
Kamerick Or
Kamerick
Kamericks
Mrs Kamerick
Mr. Kamerick
Fisks
de Hoog
Kamer
Gove
Feller
Mrs. Kamerick
Kamerick Boys
Gove Kamerick
T West
Colfax
Colfax Sales Company
J. H. Shinn Hatchery
East 1St St
Pella, Iowa
Bob DE Meer
Blaze
Gerald Terpstra
Otley News
Horace B
Democratic
of Supervisors
Sam
United States
Pella National Bank
Member
Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
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