Birthday Gatherings Highlight Newton Pella Contacts
Community notices recount birthday celebrations and dinners across Newton and Pella. Mrs. Jessie Butin marked 89 with family and friends at Blanche Butin's home in Newton. Several guests joined Mr. and Mrs. Willemsen of Pella to honor a birthday. Cooperative dinners and hospital visits involve extended families from Newton, Pella, Davenport, Des Moines, Otley, Killduff, and Oskaloosa with church group quilting sessions and hospital passes noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Butin
Blanche Butin
Newton
Wilbur Ramer
Dwayne
John Willemsen
Pella
Willemsen
Henry Willemsen
Johnnie
Jimmie
G. J. Klein
Bennie
John P. Vanden Berg
Phil
Carl de Bruyn
Marvin de Bruyn
Earl de Bruyn
Walt Madison
Hazel
Alan Kroh
Frank Zickel
Killduff
Harry Zickel
Rev. Nickerson
Des Moines
Homer Wediken
Anne de Penning
Annie Marks
James Steenbock
Oskaloosa
Henry Marks
Mercy Hospital
Jake Swank
Dewey Ramer
George Perry
Paul Brand
Minnie Holmes
Elmer
Blanche van der Putte
Bob Ten Hagen
The
Christian Aid
Aid Room
Bill Hart
Wilbur Sparks
Vande Lune Buys 240 A Bidwell Farm at Auction
Wilbur Vande Lune became owner of the 240 acre Ida Bidwell farm after a Friday public sale. The improved property sold for 366 dollars per acre, located 3 miles west of Prairie City on Highway 163. The week also carried notices of bereavements, hospital stays, local events, and stroke reports in Prairie City and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Vande Lune
Ida Bidwell
Prairie City
Highway 163
Wm. Vande Kieft
Felix Kasen
Punta Gorda
Fla
Vande Kiefts
Prairie City Community School
Weekend Greetings and Church Soup Supper Report
Mrs Mildred Icenbice of Deep River Iowa and John Lavaleur of Ashley Minn were weekend guests of Mrs P A Bauer. The Junior Aid of the First Reformed Church held a soup supper Thursday evening. Mr and Mrs Fred Kutali returned Sunday from Algona Iowa where they visited Mrs Kutalis mother Mrs Specht Mrs Martin Van Essen Mrs Marie Jabani and Misses Dreaka Kleinendorst Nettie De Gooyer attended the travel on Thursday at Douwstra Chapel in Pella. Word came Tuesday of the death of A P Kennedy of Chicago Illinois after a lingering illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Icenbice
Deep River
Iowa
John Lavaleur
Ashley
Dreaka Kleinendorst
Nettie de Gooyer
Douwstra Chapel
Pella
Come ware of Ketsi City survives him
A fragmentary notice mentions the fate of a figure linked to Ketsi City and notes survival following an unspecified event. The readable text provides limited context about identity or date.
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Come
Ketsi City
Major Decisions Will Be Made by Farmers Tuesday
Corn growers in major production regions will vote in a November 25 referendum on whether to grow corn with out federal restrictions. A simple majority for no controls would cut price supports to about $1.12 per bushel in 1959, while a majority for controls would keep acre allotments and support at $1.29. Experts expect farmers to vote against controls, signaling higher planted acreage and a larger or similar 8.7 billion bushel crop, with lower cash prices and a new era of lower prices for corn and feed grains amid surplus.
The Spreading Government Tree
The piece notes that U S income taxes cover the salary of one average federal civilian worker while the government employs 2,828,047 civilians. It adds the government owns 700 large corporations and 19,000 small businesses, plus various service groups, with corporations losing about $10 billion yearly yet remaining funded by tax money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Pay as share of federal tax bill for civilian workers
The last year pay for the million civilian employees amounted to 11 billion dollars, about one third of the total federal individual income tax bill.
Good Indianola dogs wag tails at new law
Indianola city leaders repealed a provision forbidding dogs to run at large. The new ordinance allows most dogs freedom while excluding those that chase bark bite or injure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW Law
Indianola
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Kathy of
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Tex Kassen
Beeville
Kassen
McFadden
Claude Williams
Pauline Roush
David Roush
Cromwell, Conn
Loren Roush
Cynthia
Dora Brown
Carl Porter
Skiff Hospital
Charles Ruggles
Nelle Schalk
Carrie Awtry
S. E
Everett) Churchill
Lutheran Hospital
Kenneth Donelson
Debra
Patricia
Iowa City
J. J. Boot
Donelson
Hallie Kingdon
Altoona
Methodist Church
Mark
Wm. van Zee
Roy Buitenworf
Roy Churchill
Ethel Williams
Waveland Cemetery
Harold van Baale
Lester
Eugene
Plainview
Neb
Vernon Engel
Herbert Sanger
Kant Theater
WSM
Nashville
TENN
Ray Price
Kitty Wells
Johnnie and
Jack Grandpa Jones
Jimmy Dickens
Roger Miller
Tennessee MT. Boys
Cherokee Cowboys
Utica
Anderson Erickson Dairy CO
Hubbell
A. P. Kennedy
Chicago
IML
Turkey
Sloe
Parkas
Coats
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