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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1952
Page
12
The column reports a daughter Marlyn Sue born October 10 at Mahaska Hospital Oskaloosa, notes on families moving to properties, visits between Knoxville Stuart and Goodell, and multiple church and club activities. It lists gatherings, officers elected, temple meetings, and social events with numerous local residents and families named.
Cordova News reports Red Rock school board met at Hugh Templeton home with Conrey absent. Local residents share visits. Grace Ballard and Gerty Karr traveled from Louilia by bus. Cal Talbot hospitalized for pneumonia and another attack, may recover. Community events include a pot luck for rural mail carriers and families. Local farming notes cover soybean yields, repairs, new baby, and housing changes.
Farmers pick corn for crib and feed as families festival and church activities unfold. Billy Brown returns to Dunreath after his wife’s death. local families visit, attend meetings, and share meals. Community groups elect officers, study accessories, and hold Rally Day at a Baptist church.
The Truth Seekers of Bethel Christian Reformed Church presented slides on Korean spiritual relief work Friday evening and also held a servicemen's request. Vernon Van Engelhoven, son of Mr. and Mrs. G Engelhoven, injured his arm in a washing machine wringer but escaped a broken bone. Several local families visited various homes over the weekend including Newenhauses, Van Wijk, Van Engelhooven, and others, with hospital and church visits noted and residents returning home from Mercy Hospital.
A lengthy local notes compilation details a shower for Mrs Frances Heslinga Veldhuizen at Mrs Joe Vander Helden's home in Oskaloosa, many social visits and dinners across town, birthday party for One Mark, a marriage at the Van Zee home, L. Van Zee and family visits, 4-H and Priscilla Sisters Society meetings, and various trips to Pella Des Moines and Ottumwa with names of participants and hosts, reflecting a bustling late autumn social scene. The report also notes church activities, fundraising plans, and a patriotic Homemakers meeting emphasizing voting rights.
Mrs. Andrew Van Zee was elected secretary and Mrs. Andrew Steenbock treasurer. Mrs. Westra named assistant to either office and furnished refreshments. Members spent the afternoon cutting silencer pads for hymn book racks. Earlier Ruth Circle officers included Mrs. William Schimmel president and Mrs. Walter Steenhock vice president.
At a road setting in Ames on Tuesday, two Marion county projects were let to low bidders with a tie in one case. The I-177 project covers 10 miles from east of Pella to New Sharon with chemically treated surface material and 8440 tons. The Pella Construction Co and Lloyd McCabe of Knoxville tied, bidding $2.60 per ton.
Pella Limestone Co bids $2.64 per ton while Kibbey Limestone Co of Carlisle bids $2.60 per ton for the project. A second job covers 6040 tons of chemically treated surface material on a three mile stretch between Hamilton and Bussey, with Kibbey and Lloyd McCabe both at $2.60 per ton. The approach road to I-760 includes 300 tons of plain surface material, with Kibbey at $2 per ton.
Twin daughters were born in the Robert Vondrak home near Merrill with one arriving before midnight and the other shortly afterward, giving them different birthdays.
Dr John Herrick Iowa State College extension veterinarian warns that any condition lowering cattle resistance can trigger shipping fever Symptoms to watch include runny nose and eyes coughing off feed diarrhea and high temperature
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