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Newspaper

Pella Chronicle

Location

Pella, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 05, 1940

Page

4

Couples Tie The Knot In Alton Iowa Nuptials

Misa Vander Schaaf and Arnon Lensink wed in Alton Iowa on Friday evening. The newlyweds plan to furnish their Pella apartment and begin housekeeping after returning from a three week Western and Southern trip. A wedding band number was played in their honor at a Saturday concert. Isabel Thomas and George Hargrave spent weekends in Des Moines. Marie Smith Rab Smith and Perry Smith also were noted in Des Moines area weekend activity.

Misa Lauran Vander Schaaf Arnon Gus) Lensink Alton Iowa Isabel ‘Thomas Des Moines George Hargrave Des Moine Marie Smith Rab Smith Perry

Local Pool Party Highlights and Industry News

A Lake Wapello area pool event drew families with games, ice cream, and thanks to host Mr Kuyper. The note mentions Miss Josephine Thomas, a Pella debutante, a sick child of Bill Shepherd, and a birthday tribute to Jay Downey. Pella blinds orders, Ex Alaska Film Exchange, St. Louis hospital orders, MIT endorsement, and casement department activity across multiple cities are reported.

Lake Wapello Ottumwa Verne West Sister Junior Mr. Kuyper Josephine Thomas Pella Bill Shepherd Shepherd Jay Downey Eastman Kodak Company Lone Star State Laughlin el Paso Texas Alaska Film Exchange Juneau Alaska St. Vincent's Hospital St. Louis Massachusetts Institute of Technology Casement Department Decatur Ilinois Minneapolis Minesota Fort Wayne Indiana Helena Montana Des Moines

Complete list of beef awards at Iowa state fair

Contd from page one, the baby beef show highlighted high quality entries. Judges Prof Shearer and M D Gray praised the 660 animals, noting Marion county's dominance with 75 percent of 49 beeves bred and raised locally. Madison county captured reserve county honors, while many winners were retained for future shows. The St Joseph show follows, with champions and breeding plans shaping the season.

P. S. Shearer Department of Animal Husbandry Town State College M. D. Gray Cedar Rapids Fruit of Marion Co GC. A. Olsen Iowa Beef Producers Association Marion County Madison County Madison Walter Brown Don Rinner Herbert Rees Dixie Shawver St. Joseph Angus Agus Dropper Dixie’ Shawver Lyle Eawards Don van Healen Robert Bane Ford Birst Reid Boothe Hereford Hirst Lis Jordan Rankin

1939 4-H cattle entries and show outcomes

The record lists multiple 4-H Angus and Hereford cattle entries and drops across 1939 with owners such as Dixie Shawver Herbert Rees Dean Hodgson Eugene Harvey Donald Van Haalen and Jean Hollingshead. It notes produce of 4-H categories for Angus and Shorthorn steers and heifers and a deer sighting near Pomeroy involving Curtis Schmidt.

Eugene Sar- Angus Rey Angus Heifer Dixie Shawver Dean Hodgson Dixie Shawver Donald van Haalen Eugene Harvey Jean Hollingshead Herbert Rees

Ouch screen picnic that ed like the in the ball guaranteed out of a fallen chest.

A garbled OCR line describes a mishap at a picnic scene with mentions of a ball and a chest. The readable fragments point to an accident involving a ball and a fallen chest but lack clear names places or dates.

Catch Up With Swindlers in San Francisco

The Chronicle notes a wave of letters from a Mexico based swindle promising large U S riches. Federal Grand Jury in San Francisco indicts five individuals for mail fraud in the so called Spanish prisoner swindle, all defendants in Mexico, after hundreds of complaints from victims across the country.

Chronicle Mexico U. S U.S Washington INS San Francisco Justice Department Cleveland Ohio

First Student Assembly Program September 9th

The first high school assembly of the year is set for Monday September 9 at 9:00. From the National Program Service the Bentley Trio will perform a Spanish Mexican and folk dance program in elaborate costumes. They showcase the largest marimba xylophone built with coco bola rosewood ironwood and lig num vitae, spanning six octaves.

Bentley

NBC Shell Petroleum weekly broadcast highlights costumed artists

The featured performers wear gay colorful Spanish costumes of fine design and appear on the NBC Shell Petroleum weekly program aired over KFRC in San Francisco.

NBC Shell Petroleum KFRC San Francisco

Good Honey Crop At Wriezelaars

Virgil Weaver of Slater known as the Beeman around Otley collected 12,000 pounds of honey from Locustdale Farm after placing 110 stands of bees in spring. He has moved the bees to northern Iowa, expecting equal or greater honey yield before cold weather.

Virgil Weaver Slater Iowa Otley Locustdale Farm Weaver

Bees Trucked South For Winter Honey Season

In the fall these bees are trucked to the south for the winter months where another season for honey making is available. By trucking bees to different facilities it is possible to gather three crops of honey in a year.

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