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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1941
Page
8
Community events and notices across Monroe Iowa and nearby towns. Includes school activities, club meetings, sports coaching changes, births and deaths, reunions, and social gatherings. Notable items mention AAA committee elections, football coaching duties, scholarship awards, and upcoming Farm Bureau programs.
Wm Dieleman of Sully Iowa advertises farm and city property insurance plus crop and automobile coverage. He urges readers to secure life insurance, start a savings plan, and ensure a steady income in old age, inviting calls to 60 or letters to P O Box 146 for a house-call.
Summit News lists residents and guests at local homes and events including Miss Nellie Vriezelaar and Gradus Vriezelaar of Pella, Harold Danks of St Louis, and Mrs J Van Gorp ill in Des Moines. Reports cover church, charity, and Women’s Missionary Conference activities, plus Home Project meetings and Otley Daughters of Ruth Society banquets.
Newton visitors Mr and Mrs Neal VanderWerff stopped by the Delbert Schrader home near Monroe. Joe and Vanden Berg kin from Cordova visited John Vanden Berg Tuesday. Lewis Van Vark and children helped with silo filling at H J VanderWerff on Friday. Neal Nieuwenhui zen and C Nibbe link of Pella visited John Vanden Berg Wednesday afternoon. Arie Vink attended a Knoxville sale Friday. Will Jansen spent Saturday night with Art VanderWerff. Alfred Parish and John Van Veen hosted Sunday dinner.
Sully News reports Killduff visitors and furloughs as Floyd Ver Steegh returns to Washington. Harry De Jong and Dr. Wendell Sparks take a fishing trip to Leech Lake, Minnesota. Delegates travel to Pel la for the Women’s Missionary Union conference with speakers Mrs Norman Vincent Peale and others. Local students attend conferences at Otley and Springfield Bible schools and a commercial school in Des Moines.
Mary Ames shares inexpensive original accessories crafted by school girls and ideas for bracelets and necklaces. The piece describes thread work, bead and acorn necklace experiments, and a small homemade jewelry factory on the kitchen table. It notes crafts using screws, leather boot lace, and varnish, plus other kids’ projects and local observations from the Pleasantville area.
Community notices list gatherings hosted by Pearl Vander Ralph Mennin and Jeanette Beyer at the Will Vander Zyl home with eleven members present. C J Vereeph of Barnes City and M and Mrs Tunis Blom attend the Ames Rawleigh dealers conference at the Sheldon Mann Hotel. Sully high school's six man football team defeats Monroe 21 to 6, led by Wayne Weideman's first touchdown from the 13 yard line and subsequent scores aided by Bruce Conover and Guert Van Sant. Mrs Gerrit Wisgerhof returns from a four week west coast trip with family in Sioux City and California visits. Killduff residents visit Van Maanen home and plans noted.
Mr and Mrs John De Jong attended the funeral of Peter Dunnick in Monroe on Monday. Mr and Mrs John Elscott Grace Irene and Elmer visited in the Harmon Branch home Sunday. Neighbors donated to a storm relief sale in Sully in the park Wednesday. Anna Monsma spent Friday evening with John Elscott. Walter Van Maanen hosted a wiener roast Friday evening with Tunis Van Maanen family. Glen Elscott helped Marinus Gourte Thursday and Friday. K Y N Club met at Mrs Lester Gaveo home Wednesday with several members present. Mrs Harry Williams visited Mrs Tunis Van Maan on Wednesday. Irene Glen and Elmer went to Pella Saturday. Henry Willemsen J and children were Sunday dinner guests in Jeff Willemsen's Sully home.
Cordova News reports Farm Bureau and Flowers Club activities with various residents attending meetings in Otley and Cordova. notes include home demonstration discussion on fall production, local car and road improvements, apple vendors from Michigan, and upcoming rail survey work near Cordova.
Near Pleasantville a community event featured Haden Albums gifts and Earl Vernon on piano. Fiddlers included C. C. Baughman champion, W. Ben Roland on guitar, Virginia Hicks singing, and a youngster from Ackworth winning a $1 prize for reciting Little Charley Chipmunk. More than 800 attendees listed names such as Mrs. Pearl Moomaw Lane and Dela Pickett. Mrs. Ramage teaches Field school in Monroe Town. Defense bonds urged during national emergency.
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