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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1957
Page
5
Summit Township gatherings feature visits among Vriezelaar Klein Heemstra and De Vries families in Otley Pella and Monroe. John Vriezelaar re elected Extension Council representative. Summit Homemakers plan December meeting with cake decorating lesson by Mrs. Alvin Rietveld.
Mrs Henry Kool fractured both bones in her right leg after a fall in the yard on Monday morning Nov 18. She underwent surgery at Mahaska Hospital in Oskaloosa with steel plates placed and a cast applied. She will be hospitalized about 10 days and confined to home for months.
Prairie City News reports a church call extended to Rev Ralph Cordes of Sioux Falls after a congregational meeting at First Church on Tuesday evening. The Rev William Vande Kieft swapped pulpits with Rev J Steigenga of Otley Reformed Church on Sunday night. Mrs C Ver Dught left Ottumwa by train Monday for Sacramento to visit her daughter and family. Mr Floyd Cowman and family of Monroe and Mr LaVerne De Haas and Douglas of Pleasantville shared Sunday dinner with Edd De Haas. Gerald Ter Louw and children visited the Hoksbergen home in Pella Thursday evening. George Vander Schel and wife visited Sunday afternoon.
Community churches planned Thanksgiving services next week while school music groups held vesper services at the gym. Merlin Van Dyk arrived stateside from Camp Sheridan after serving in Germany and France and will return to his Mr and Mrs Van Yke. Local families Mr and Mrs Heemsbergen Van Yke Van Pearsem Boertje Ver Dught Van Essen attended Mrs Bogaards funeral in Pella. A son named David Wayne was born to Duane Bos and wife October 30. Harold Roberts suffered severe burns in a farm mishap near Vandalia and is treated at home. Sunday dinner guests included J S Keller Waukee Fred De Haan family Osceola Ralph Huisman Pella Bob Van Arkel Altoona Johnny Young family.
Oskaloosa residents attended services at the First Christian Reformed Church with Rev P Y De Yong of Pella taking charge. Farm Bureau groups Harrison Township Cedar Township met at Cedar School. 4 H Club held November 11 meeting with 12 members, 2 leaders, 14 visitors. Christmas plans voted and a gift exchange arranged. Visitors described. various home visits to J G Newenhouse family and extended relatives. Congregational meeting elected Rev R J Venema pastor-elect. Mission Chapel youths screened a film Angel of Elbony and Mrs Day and family were among attendees.
The Cedar School senior class visited Parsons College in Fairfield on Wednesday November 13 to observe future teachers day. The senior music department performed for the junior class play with members Loren Veldhuizen Donald Cum Joan Ireland Joleen Fox Twila Moore Linda Caves Gloria Mugen Joyce Vander Linden Dale Wasser Richard Cummings and Marcella Else.
Cordova residents note Aunt Kate Karr's birthday this week as she nears 88. The column lists local happenings from family visits in Monroe and Knoxville to farming, church and social club activities, plus minor injuries and community news.
Mrs. H W Vriezelaar hosts guests in Des Moines with Loyd Zickel and Merritt Van Roekel honored on their birthday. Several families from nearby towns gather for dinners and suppers through November with names including Harold North Ray Schaffer Arch Coiner Joe Erskin Stella Erskin Zelpha Colvin and Grace Oldham among others.
Denberg of Pella and the Vander Waal and Michmershuizen families visited in the Paul McConoghey home on a Thursday evening. Tabor spoke to the Senior Missionary Society at the Baptist church about life and work in the Philippine Islands. The 4-H club, Happy Hearts, met with talks on wool care and design, planning to send Christmas treats to Knoxville Veterans Hospital.
Sheriff Loren Jarman reports Marion County results from a statewide joint patrol of secondary roads by Towa Sheriff and Iowa highway patrol. In six weeks, four patrols yielded eighteen violators, mainly speeding and running stop signs, with district one officers aiding. The effort aims to cut rising farm-to-market road deaths, which reach about 40 percent of state tolls, and is believed to be the nation’s first such joint program.
Mr and Mrs S B Worth and Robert visited in the Neal Pruitt home at Ackley Sunday. Mr and Mrs Carl Crane visited J T Van Zante at Pella Sunday. Arthur Simpson moved to his Reasnor home. Mrs Mollie Perrin spent Saturday night with Mr and Mrs Dan Porter in Des Moines. Guests at Jake Diekema were Mia Maurice Burke Pat Tom from Des Moines and Mrs Martha Viers and Doris in honor of Tom Burke who will soon enter navy duties.
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