Rol screenings and travels of local residents
Local notes recount trips to Niagara Falls and Chicago while residents return to work and celebrate birthdays. Visitors include Arvonne Van Hemert and relatives while others attend events in Baton Rouge and Spencer Iowa. Casement and Venetian Blind divisions report orders, hospital stays, and record sales through September, with a milestone year for Rollscreen production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arvonne
Bob van Hemert
Paradise
Niagara Falls
New York
Jerry Stravers
Lucille
Spencer
Iowa
Jerry
Henrietta Vanden
Sara Gosselink
Parke M. Pontz
Salt Lake City
Utah
Pete de Jong
Andrew Nezzel
Daughter
Chicago
de Jongs
Nezzel
Sue de Jong
Paul Farrer
Bill Kilpatrick
Baton Rouge
Louisana
Dorothy van Rees
Hattie Ver Woert
Venetian Blind
Assembly
Ottumwa
Casement
Trinity Lutheran
North Carolina
Cerebral Palsey
Durham
Miller Memorial Hospital
Chappell
Nebraska
Central College Choirs select 47 for Capella and 84 for Chapel
Prof. Marvin Thostenson announces 47 students join the Capella Choir and 84 join the Chapel Choir at Central College. Local members include Jaci Vander Lugt Ruth Voge Jaer Paul Tanis Mark Van der Ploeg, with others from Pella Leighton and Sully. Edith Le Cocq names Girls Ensemble members Joan Vander Haar Joan Crawford Joan Hasselbrink Hunice Schmidt Marilyn Tunis Luella Rozeboom Eleanor Bruins Marion Kruis June Thomassen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Thostenson
Central College
Edith le Cocq
Pella
Jaci Vander Lugt
Ruth Voge Jaer
Paul Tanis
Mark Vander Ploeg
Louise Rysdam
Marcile van Zee
Dick Lautenbach
Logan Vander Leest
Lynn Joosten
Florence
Marcia van Maanen
Betty den Hartog
Leighton
Paul Stoppels
Sully
Marilyn Tanis
A Capella
Chapel
Chapel Choir
Douwstra Chapel
Central College Music Faculty
Joan Vander Haar
Joan Crawford
Joan Hasselbrink
Hunice Schmidt
Marilyn Tunis
Luella Rozeboom
Eleanor Bruins
Marion Kruis
June Thomassen
A Cappella and Chapel Choir Rosters Listed in Full
The document enumerates choir members including First Soprano Ruth Ludwigsen Greta Nelson and others, Second Soprano Joyce Brunsting Jaci Vander Lugt Etta Ter Louw and more, plus Tenor and Bass lines and Chapel Choir names. It catalogs numerous individuals across sections with full rosters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Ludwigsen
Greta Nelson
Marcia Schoeneman
Olive Hancock
Amy Vander Schaaf
Doris Powell
Joyce Brunsting
Jaci Vander Lugt
Etta Ter Louw
Pat Yenney
Shirley Kooistra
Wilma_Maassen
Edna Scholten
Joyce de Bruin
Ruth Vogelaar
Jean Davis
Junglee de Boer
Carol Ebert
Theo de Koster
Helen Hislop
Verna Maccom
Beverly Waples
Crysbert
Betty Koehler
Julia Koehler
Melvin de Vries
Wayne Greving
Alvin Hospers
N Klimstra
Eugene Vander Well
Art Glen Peterman
Bill MccNamar
Carlton Willis
Milton Scholten
Paul Tanis
Dick Cook
Mark Vander Ploeg
Earl Hietbrink
Kenneth Vos
Tom Boatman
John Hesselink
Ike Jutting
Ray Weiss
Vern Dethmers
Vernard Boekelman
Seth Huisman
Louise Rysdam
Zetta Weinke
Marilyn Pals
Florence van Maanen
Delorese Dykstra
Jean Byrd
Erma van Roekel
Faye Ebbers
Norma Jean Luce
Lois Masterson
Joyce Willemsne
Margery Buikema
Mary de Hoef
Ruth Carter
Marjorie Greving
Marcia van Moanen
Millie "Tibstra
Clara Smit
Ruth Jolly
Marcile van Zee
Bernice Huenink
Pat de Graff
Marilyn Paul Grow
Ana Rae Breen
Marilyn Vanden Berg
Ruth Goeken
Aileen Kullers
Betty den Hartog
Janet Thomassen
Betty Tilghman
Carole Hu
Marion County Sets 45 Day Quail Season In 1949
The State Conservation Commission announced a 1949 quail hunting season starting November 1 with 38 counties in the long season zone at 46 days and 13 counties in the short season zone at 16 days. Daily bag limit is 6 birds, possession 6, with hunting hours 8 30 a m to 4 30 p m. Several counties switch zones and several previously closed areas reopen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Conservation Commission
Winneshirk
Allamakee
Clayton
Black Hawk
Marshall
Dallas
Jasper
Winneshiek
Fayette
Black Flunk
Buchanan
Delaware
Dubuque
Guthrie
Adair
Adams
Page
Tama
Benton
Linn
Jones
Jackson
Polk
Poweshick
Iowa
Johnson
Cedar
Clinon
Scott
Madison
Warren
Mason
Mahaska
Kealeuk
Washington
Muscatine
Louisa
Union
Clarke
Lucas
Monroe
Wapel
Accidents Top Disease as Child Death Risk
The National Safety Council notes accidents remain the leading cause of death for children 1 to 14, with 10,731 accidental deaths in 1947, three times pneumonia and 42 times polio. Motor vehicle crashes are the top danger, prompting September as back-to-school safety emphasis under Operation Safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Miss Safety
Begin
Fertilizer storage guidance from Iowa State agronomists
Iowa State College agronomists say fertilizer bought this fall can be stored for later use if kept in a dry place and not stacked more than seven bags high. The advice addresses aging as long as moisture is avoided and stacking limits are followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State College Agronomists
Local names listed for community event attendees
Floyd Partridge Inghuisen Carl Hiemstra Walter Wendhold Roy Kats Alvin Sneller Edwin Kragt Aaron Roskamp Dave De Vries Kenneth Glewen appear as participants or members in a community notice or roster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inghuisen
Floyd Partridge
Carl Hiemstra
Walter Wendhold
Roy Kats
Alvin Sneller
Edwin Kragt
Aaron Roskamp
Dave de Vries
Kenneth Glewen
Safety rules urged as corn picker accidents rise in state
Norval Wardle of Town State College warns a fall spike in corn picker accidents is likely unless operators follow safety steps. With 58 000 mechanical corn pickers and a heavy fodder crop, wear replacement, shields checks, secure hitch and seat, fire extinguisher, and field stops to prevent clogs and injuries. Continuous field safety includes unclogging rules, trash removal from manifolds, tight fuel line connections, and metal sediment bulb use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norval Wardle
Town State College
Wardle
Money Can't Buy Here is an Old Rhyme to Reflect
A short verse urges reflection on true wealth beyond riches. It quotes George Horace Lorimer about having many friends yet lacking one to spare, and notes money can buy goods but cannot buy priceless nonmaterial values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Horace Lorimer
Commission Sets Trapping Seasons in Statewide Plan
A 20 day trapping season for mink and muskrat runs in all counties from noon December 1 to midnight December 20. Reopening of 30 southern and southwestern counties. Big Wall Lake Wright County opens seven days December 17 due to muskrat research. A 40 day season for other protected fur bearers runs from noon November 10 to midnight January 10. Continuous open season on weasel red fox gray fox ground hog wolf and coyote. No otter season. Beaver may be trapped in 3% counties Marion excluded and others by permit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Counries
Big Wall Lake
Wright County
Marion
The
Conservation Commission
Fall Is Best Time to Spread Lime for Legume Seeding
Extension agronomist H R Meldrum says fall spreadings give lime time to dissolve and improve soil for legumes. Quarries are operating at capacity, trucks ready, and fall conditions allow more fields. Lime works best in the top soil. avoid plowing it under unless it will be plowed again before seeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Meldrum
Extension Agronomist
Town State College
Meldrum
Tastes of Iowa Pioneers Show Varied Reading Habits
A New York Tribune correspondent notes Iowa frontiersmen read Harper’s, New York papers, and diverse magazines while novels were discouraged for dulling minds. Iowa City shops relied on varied stock. 618 readers received daily to monthly issues and The Tribune was favored by 128 subscribers.
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Iowa
Iowa City
Athens
Iowa Citians
New York “Tribune
Harper's “Monthly
Godey
Frank Leslie
National Police Gazette
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Fellers
Zeke
Lennox
Lennos
Kersbergen & Co. Plumbing and Heating
Pella, Iowa
Marion County
United States
Connecticut
National Safety Council
Nomiee
New Jersey
America
Invernariona Wanvesren
McCormick-Deering Sales
Ella, Lowa
BRAVO
Tus
New Yorker Worsteds
Michaels Stern
Precision
Rochester
Commission
U. S
Schuring Garage
AI Young IN
van den Berg Electric & Paint Co
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