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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1948
Page
2
A nephew visits Mr Burkman’s mother, Nina Van Gorp, with Mr and Mrs Burke. They plan a short trip to Chicago after a wedding trip. Suz visits and a note mentions a rare event with a large-eared creature at Mr Ver Steeg’s home.
An exhibit features watercolors and drawings by an earnest professor of art. The college gallery presents works including orchards and landscapes, reflecting a medley of technique and subject.
Obituary notices report the deaths of Nittert Aalfs and Arie De Raad with burial details and lists of survivors. The Vander Lindes family formerly lived near Pella and Fifield while Aalfs resided in Pelts, Iowa, with multiple children and grandchildren named. Services were led by Vincent and Rex Haverkamp with funeral times in September 1946.
Foreman at the Jake Forem farm near Alton found three raccoons in his chicken house one evening, chased them up a tree and killed them with his rifle.
Classified ad from Bee News announces bulldozing services offered by Dan Dt Atnebook in Wualons, Texas, with a contact phone 1 and location details. The short blurb conveys a local service listing typical of a small-town classifieds section.
An item lists Pete Dingeman J involved in basement digging, sewers, and tiling work with locations in Rock and gravel and sand levees. It also promotes marketing hogs, cattle, and sheep through the Farmers Co op with phone contacts 206 and 267.
Our sincere thanks to you friends and neighbors for your kindness and help after the fire that destroyed our buildings on the farm. We appreciate the flowers letters and visits during hospital stay and at home. Special thanks to Rev Van Sant and friends Vander Schaaf for their aid and to neighbors who helped with harvest. Arthur Hoksbergen New Sharon Iowa. Grazing lards can be good or excellent forage producers through proper pound management.
The list names choir participants selected by Prof Thostenson including multiple named members such as Mae Rezeboom Rock Valley Sheboygan Hislop Linden N J Firth Nebraska and Bernice Reynen Clarks Grove Minnesota with tenors De Vries Adams Neb Greving Prairie View Kansas Klimster Morrison Ill and alternates Alvin Hospers Hull ink Hingham Wis Weil Rock Valley Harold Correntos Hane de Vries Titonka Oma John Hesselink Holland Neb Idris Jutting Buffalo Center Vern Dethmers Hull Rickard Co ge Springs.
At the churches second perform ed church charte Bletarg evangelist J J Humphries speaks at Morning Worship every Sunday 8:00 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. Overcomer Vesper Service with Evangelist and Mrs Humphries in charge. Friday Ladies Dorcas Group meets at 1:00 p.m. Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. Morning Mass at 8:00 a.m.
A brief Peoria record notes Lower Grove defeated by 14 to 7 after a Monday game, while Brenus Westercamp visited John Westercamp home on Tuesday. Several residents attend church services Sunday and a neck brace was placed after Mr Jacob Dahm had a cast removed.
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