FOR SALE ADS AND MISC PELLA AREA HARDWARE ITEMS
A long list of local sale notices from Pella area stores and residents. Items include hybrid seed corn, Jamesway equipment, farm implements, hog gear, poultry supplies, pumps, stoves, and many small hardware goods. Advertisers include John G Ver Place, Arie Kommer, Vogelaars Hardware, Diel link, Van Gorp Hatchery, and Henry Van Rheenen, with multiple farm and garden product mentions and contact details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Ver
Pella
Markwell
Chronicle
Arie Kommer
Thun
Diel Link
Henry van Rheenen
Kalamazoo
H. P. van Rees
Broadway
Berkshire
Tunis
Vogelaar’s Hardware and Implement Store
Liberty Street
Peter Rus, Jr
Frank Eeling
Taintor
Iowa
John Breed
Monroe
Poultry Culling and Farm Services Advertised
Local ads promote poultry culling worming delousing and flock treatment at low price with phone 334 B J Brom. Gamble Store dealer offers farm battery service and on farm feed milling corn shelling oat hulling hay baling with phone 892. Pella Iowa listings include milk bottle caps printing and wholesale quantities delivery in 15 days. Also bale hay field loading, monument sales, and feed manufacturing services highlighted with contact details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Ver Ploeg Pella
Iowa
Othe Pella Chronicle
Wilson's Jewelry Closed for June 18 to 22
Notice states Wilson's Jewelry will close from June 18 through June 22 and reopen Saturday June 23. Starting next week, any bicycles found without numbers will be taken to the City Office. Signed F. M. Frush mayor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson’s
F. M. Frush
Wormhoudt Chosen Tau Epsilon Pi Head
From the Central Bay Tau Epsilon Pi held its final meeting of the school year at Stoddard Cottage. Miss Billups hosted with poetry by Pat Collins themed Poetry of Yesterday and Today, featuring works by Central students. Theresa Wormhoudt, Joy Hedrick, and Florence Meredith were elected officers. George Calhoun led a Knickerbocker discussion. Plans for next year were set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Bay
Tau Epsilon Pi
Billups
Stoddard Cottage
Pat Collins
Central
Theresa Wormhoudt
Joy Hedrick
Florence Meredith
Marianna Baitsell
Ruth Simmelink
George Calhoun
Knickerbocker
Iowa reports lowest infant death rate on record in 1944
The Iowa health department announced that 1944 recorded the lowest infant mortality rate ever, with 1572 infant deaths and a rate of 33.47 per 1,000 live births. The department credited medical progress and public health education, noting more mothers seeking care early and more hospital deliveries under controlled conditions. Maternal deaths rose slightly to 88, a rate of 1.68 per 1,000 live births, the lowest in state history.
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Iowa
State Health Department
Cold Water Canning Not a Good Method for Rhubarb
The U S Department of Agriculture warns against cold water canning for rhubarb gooseberries and sour grapes noting it yields poor quality. Proper method involves cutting rhubarb into half inch pieces with sugar, drawing juice, boiling, packing hot jars and processing in a boiling water bath for ten minutes.
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U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Why children ask questions and how they learn to speak
A study notes children can ask up to eight questions per ten minutes and slow talkers three to four per ten. The piece suggests early questions may signal repetition for attention or practice, with a toddler repeating what adults say to learn language.
Child speech mastery and parental endurance in early learning
A Child Welfare Research Station insight notes that young children repeat sounds for mastery and think aloud about what they are told. Parents face an exhausting pace of questions, about one per minute, and may redirect attention after a reasonable stretch to avoid overburdening the caregiver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Child Welfare Research Station
University of Iowa
Summer shelters aid poultry production in Iowa
Iowa poultry raisers find summer shelters essential for profitable production. Open-sided shelters on clean ground reduce crowding and disease risk, cut labor, and enable better use of the brooder house. Plans are available from county extension or Iowa State College, with lightweight portable designs and low-cost materials.
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Iowa
W. R. Whitfield
Town State College
Whitfield
Iowa State College
Central College Literary Societies Elect Officers
The Central College literary groups Alpha Kappa Alpha Delphi and Alethian elect new officers. Delphi picks Martha Vande Voort as president and Dorothy Jurgens as VP, with Nelva Rensink recording secretary and Kay Murphy corresponding secretary. Alpha Kappa Alpha names Evelyn Brunsting as student senate rep and others. Alethian elects Carol Cook as president and Lois Christiansen as VP.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Ray
Central College
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Delphi
Alethian
Martha Vande Voort
Dorothy Jurgens
Pat Hendrickson
Nelva Rensink
Kay Murphy
Jean McLean
Jean Brewer
Joy McCain
Dorothy Farquhar
Stephanie Dzuiba
Evelyn Brunsting
Maxine Huenink
Florence Meredith
Muriel Vande Garde
Evelyn de Wild
Jane Rozendaal
Anna Poppen
Barbara Jacobs
Lucille Brunsting
Dorris Ehret
Gladys van Wyk
Inter-Society Council
the Alethian Society
Carol Cook
Lois Christiansen
Ellen
Alethian and Alpha Kappa Alpha Activities Detailed
Hubrex and Ruth Overlander lead the Alethian Society with Berdella Anderson Wilma Loomans Joyce Prins Muriel Byers as consuls and Vange Lubbers as sergeant at arms. Volleyball winners Alethians, runners up Alpha Kappa Alpha. basketball ends with each side 1 win, 1 loss. February Alethian party, April Delphi Banquet in Jordan Hall, Miss Williams travels in Europe before the war. Alpha Kappa Alpha picnic May 18 at the swimming pool park. Mennenga silver cup earned by Alethians for the third year straight. Canning tip: pre heat fruit to prevent darkening and proper processing preserves quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubrex
Ruth Overlander
Berdella Anderson
Wilma Loomans
Joyce Prins
Muriel Byers
Vange Lubbers
Recreation Hall
Delphi
Jordan
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Foot Dee Pump
John Descook
Black Saddle Horse
Vogelnar
Jamesway
Hackett Hatchery
Oskaloosa
Jamesway Electric
Minnesota Woolen Co
Henry Brouwer
West
Franklin Street
Ted Rozendaal
Sully
Mukden
Richard van Rockel
Marshalltown
INC
Vogelaar
Oskaloos
Gary
Ashingeton
France
Town Weede Tt
Sue Ukden
Troy
Yella West
Poland
China
Bert Vander Werf
Otley
Dick G. Kuiper
Farrow
D. Vander Waal
Independence
de Kalb
Mart Hoeksema
My Place
John R. van Gorp
Schiebout & Popma
Goodyear
Dick W. Gosselink
Redhead
Pella Supply Co
Deep Rock Oil Station
A_ ood McCormick Deering mower
M. G. Klein
Leighton
Dwight Mathes
Illini
H. & E. Vander Ploeg
Sears
Hammer King
Gerrit L. Dykst
REN
Redee
East First St
Department Heaven
Montgomery Ward
Jaws
Marion van, Gorp
van Gorp
Harriet Kuyper
Enat
Dick Leydens
Brom Feed
Timothy Christian School
Cicero
Ill
Chicago
Tolsma
Prin
Timothystian School
M.’ Dingeman
Beau
Frank Spencer
RFD
Harvey
Marion van Gorp
B. J. Brom
Louis van Roekel
Des Moines Wheel and Rim Co
Schiebout & Popma Pella
New England Granite Works
Bert Vande Kieft
Brom Feed Store
Sudan
Atlas Sorgo
de Jong Seed Store
Stokely's
Ealian Blue Prunes
California
Perfex
Wormhoudt
Lautenbach & Ver Dught
Alethians
Department of Agriculture
Funk
Qamimgaeg
Calif
Shafter
Texas
Florida
Georgia
Pillsbury Flour
Carload of
Minnesota
Bakker
Rus
Brillo Box
Jemima
Otoe
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