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Newspaper

Pella Chronicle

Location

Pella, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 23, 1944

Page

4

FOR SALE Hogs and farm goods from area sellers

Multiple local notices advertise for sale purebred Berkshire and Chester White hogs, Poland China boars, yearling boars, and farm equipment. Listings show sellers from Pella Monroe Monroe Iowa and nearby areas, with phone numbers and locations including Sully, Pella, and Newton. Also offers coal delivery, seeds, nursery stock, and a public auction notice.

Berkshire Wilber van der Kamp Sully Chester Poland S. E Monroe U.S A.L. Dykstra Dick W. Gosselin Francis de Geus Denicolo Coal Co OAK Grove Nursery Bensink& Son Ings Squad Aml Pella Engle Realty Company Newton Lowa Gra D. Schimmel & Son China Mark Shaw

Card of Thanks for Husking Help and Missing Loved One

We thank neighbors and relatives for husking our corn when we could not. Mr and Mrs Len Hoksbergen express appreciation. A loving verse honors a departed family member, noting enduring memories and the lamp of love that still shines. Mrs Arie Veldhuizen and Children.

Len Hoksbergen Arie Veldhuizen

Contour farming boosts corn and bean yields in Iowa study

R A Norton and George Browning report on contour farming advantages from 1944 trials in Marion Jasper and Warren counties. Contouring raised yield by 7 to 8 bushels per acre for corn and 3 to 4 bushels for soybeans, with 10 to 12 percent gains over up and down hill cultivation.

R. A. Norton George Browning Soil Conservation Service Research Marion Jasper Warren Browning Norton Soil Conservation Service Agricultural Engineering Research Division College Marion County Tama Iowa

Notice of store closings and local events in 1944

Notices announce Wilson's Jewelry Store will close Tuesday November 2k to organize Christmas stock. A Carnival is sponsored by Pella High School Band on December 1. Also listed is a sewing machine service offer and a notice about a will hearing for Anthonie Roelof Van Setten in Marion County Iowa with a December 5 hearing in Knoxville.

J. A. Vander Wal _ Phone Brom New England Granite Works Black Bert Vande Kieft Forest Ver Ploeg Lautenb Lautenbach & Ver B. J. Brom Wilson's Pella High School

Notice of Probate of Will in Knoxville Iowa 1944

Public notice from Marion County Iowa announces a will of Edmund J. Renaud deceased filed with the Clerk of the District Court. Hearing set for December 19, 1944 at 10:00 a.m. in Knoxville to prove validity of the instrument.

Knoxville Towa District Court of Iowa Marion County Anthonie Roelof van Setten Jack B. Carpenter Leonard L. Long Edmund J. Renaud Carpenter

Intramural Volleyball Tourney Aims High At College

An intramural volleyball tournament for college women under the Women’s Athletic Association features teams from Alethia Delphi and AKA. Matches are set for November 21 28 and December 5 with A and B team clashes including AKA and Alethia on Tuesday night.

Women's Athletic Association Alethia Delphi A.K.A Delphis

Doughnut Cooler Made in Italy for Red Cross Shop

Pvt. Gerald Elliott of Pontiac Michigan built a doughnut cooling device in Foggia using an Italian torpedo motor. The unit speeds output by cooling a tray of doughnuts in ten minutes and powers the machines on city current with a home made transformer.

Italy Gerald Elliott Pontiac Michigan Foggia Elliott

Winter stove and furnace fire hazards warned

A period piece urges winter fire safety for stoves and furnaces. It cites annual property losses over 18 million dollars from stove and furnace fires, plus 15 000 dollars daily from hot ashes and 25 million from defective chimneys and flues. It lists safety rules, placement guidelines, and protective measures, plus a note that 1 600 women drivers died in fatal crashes last year and 740 000 were in all traffic accidents per the National Safety Council.

United States National Safety Council

Grain mix guidance for dairy cows from Iowa State expert

C Y Cannon of the dairy husbandry star at Iowa State College counsels on weighing grain for dairy cows. He notes ground oats or bran make the mix busky while higher soybean and corn content makes it heavy. Instances arise where dairymen err by using too much or too little feed.

C. Y. Cannon Star Iowa State College

Farm fatalities in early war era outpace combat deaths

The National Safety Council reports that in the first two years of America's entry into the war more farm people were killed by accidents than the number of fighting men killed in the war itself.

America National Safety Council

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