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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1946
Page
10
Local items report on church activities, visitors, and family announcements. Notable mentions include Mrs. Sam Athans visiting relatives in Newton and Sacramento, new births Dennis Roy and Sharon Kay, and several travels between Des Moines Seattle and Des Moines. A November 6 electrical equipment talk by Naomi Shanks urged careful planning and reliable local dealers for households.
Sully News reports John Veenstra family from New Holland and friends stayed with Gerrit Van Norden and visited Marion Swank Adrian Rozendaal homes while enroute from Holland Michigan. Various local residents attended devotions at The King's Help and a church service for Jennie Jelsma. A family gathering at Geurt Vande Krol’s included multiple relatives. Gerald Van Genderen visited Camp Atterbury. Extended visits included Wichita Kansas guests and a Blackwood Bros. performance at New Sharon High School.
Tracy News notes Mr and Mrs Gerrit De Wolf of Oskaloosa at Abram Bus home all day Tuesday. Arie Engbers family attended the Buwalda Van Andel wedding in Pella Thursday evening. Harold Binns lost fingers in a corn picker accident Monday. Marinus Roozeboom injured eye with dry cement while helping Tunis Hoksebergen lay a floor Thursday. Eldert Groenen dyk and Barbara of Donnelson visited Arnold Beekhuizen family Thursday night and Eldert attended the State Teachers meeting in Des Moines. Marie Hol of Pella visited Arnold Beekhuizen Sunday and Monday. John Henry Engbers returned from Navy service, home on terminal leave, to be discharged in December. Several went to New Sharon to hear the Blackwood Bros. Quartet. Rev C De Leeuw received word that his oldest sister died at 84 in New Jersey.
Jack Hoffman, 15, from Ida Grove Iowa, won Grand Champion honors at the American Royal with a 1,212 pound Hereford steer named T O Pride. The steer topped 1,100 other entries in 4-H, Junior Grand, and Open Show, selling for a world record $45.50 per pound to Williams Meat Co. of Kansas City Kansas.
Community notes recount Lamplighters of the Reformed Church of Otley hosting by Myrna Van Haaften on a Wednesday evening. Several residents share visits, travels to Des Moines, Monroe and Rockwell City, and attendance at a State Teachers Convention. 4-H and Farm Bureau events include a skating party, rug making demonstrations, and the November township meeting with plan for December program.
Cordova News reports Bill Van Hemert hospitalized at Collins Memorial Hospital after a Wednesday arrival with Jim and family visiting. Faye De Heer and baby seen. a new home move for Faye. Van Hemert daughter and sisters visited Monroe, while Bruce Clements faced bronchial pneumonia in an oxygen tent. Lenora Carter ill with infected tooth. birth announced for Hugh and spouse Templeton at Collins Memorial Hospital in Knoxville. Church events and school visits noted along with new coal mine building north of town for workshop and truck storage.
Otley residents and relatives connected to the Vander Kolk and Ustermarkt families were noted visiting and hosting events through the week. A baby was born to Mrs Don Hartog at Lutheran hospital Des Moines Sunday morning. A Halloween party at Otley school drew 120 children with pumpkin-face prizes. Families gathered for birthdays and weekend visits amid homecomings from Des Moines and Newton.
Delight finishes painting and papering upstairs rooms. Fifteen freight cars head south as Semeiren travels. Khuis buys a corn picker, Herman De Heer buys a second hand picker from Buzz. Slykhuis and Huis Mikesell work at the Automatic fu cwntont. Flor employed at the Co-ops trimming. Stirne Mann rents property for a month. Charley Ford and son Donald go pheasant hunting. The inch room in Otley opens for business.
In Northwood, E K P asks if the 1928 Iowa law banning drunk driving remains on the statute books and if it was ever enforced, noting a fine up to 1000 dollars or one year in the penitentiary for intoxicated operation of a motor vehicle.
Iowa State College economist Francis Kutish says lifted meat price ceilings make short- fed cattle more profitable. He prefers medium grade stock buyable around 11 to 13 dollars, with spring sale potential next April or May. Carrying cattle into next year is riskier as long-fed beef supplies rise. feeders have slashed calf numbers, and pork shortages next summer may bolster demand.
John Sanders of Eldon overheard a young man praying for forgiveness at SU Aloysius church. Sanders escorted him to his home and persuaded him to return to Fairfield to face the music for stealing a car.
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