Busy Iowa community notes bring visitors and updates
Local column records a flurry of visits and arrivals across towns. Mrs Marie Standish visits Pelin from Los Angeles, Eugene Ira born to Mr and Mrs Vander Linden of Oskaloosa, and many residents travel for family events, illnesses, and church activities.
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Marie Standish
Los Angeles
Cal
J. J. Thomassen
Bloomington
Jil
Pel- In
J. Heerema
Eugene Ira
Anne Vander Linden
Oskaloosa Mond
Message to Business Men on Telephone Rate Reductions
A businessman urges lower residential rates as 42 states grant right to reduce prices for home telephones. He argues home service drives customer access to stores, notes fixed operating costs, and promotes wider telephone growth while criticizing critics and promising further interviews to explain the plan. He states Pella will not lower business rates due to costs and expense discipline.
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Pella
Memories of Pella Churches Activities
Local church notices list Sunday school and worship times for Baptist and two Reformed churches in Pella. Baptist services include morning worship at 10 45 with evening sermon and B Y P U. Reformed churches schedule Sunday school at 10 45 and sermons in Dutch and English with Holy Communion and guest speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wesselink
G. H. Mennings
Second Reformed Church
Pella
Geo. Mennenga
Religion and social reform in a preacher's view
A. M. McGuire argues that gospel faith must show itself in tangible acts of help and privilege for others. He links salvation to practical charity, citing Jesus and the Good Samaritan to urge concrete deeds over mere belief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. McGuire
Hallaleupah
Jesus
God
Dinner for six on a dollar fifty plan
A vintage menu shows a six person dinner costing a quarter each. It lists Cheese and Salmon Loaf, Creamed Potatoes, Pickles, Salad, Lime and Apricot Sponge Sandwich, Coffee, and a salmon and cheese bake with steps. Dessert involves apricot mold and Relatin setting, with whipped cream for serving.
Religion as social remedy in the era of unemployment
An Iowa sermon argues unemployment and the ruin of self employed farmers test religion’s social efficacy. It contrasts evangelism with action, cites Paul and Darrow as life outcomes, and urges believers to pursue remedial, faith driven social responsibility rather than hollow piety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Paul
Darrow
Christ
Chron-necdotes and the town's beer question ponderings
A local column riffs on the re-elected mayor, waterlogged streets, and civic matters. It jokes about gasoline with alcohol, looming taxes, and a straw poll on the beer question, urging readers to reflect on duty and faith before voting.
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the Chronicle
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Clarence Darrow Quote Sparks Church Bulletin Debate
Wednesday papers report Clarence Darrow, atheist lawyer, urged youths to seek escape from life while a church bulletin defends faith in God and worship. The pastor praises scripture and community guidance, urging youth to seek comfort and purpose instead of despair.
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Clarence Darrow
Darrow
Christ
Sixty Years Since Baptism in Old Meeting House
A reminiscence recalls a February 2 1873 baptism at the old brick meeting house in Jeffer son Iowa where the baptistry was installed just days earlier. Rev James Hill led ten others in the ceremony as water was drawn from the Maquoketa River in barrels and no warming was done despite 20 degree cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Je, Iowe
James Hill
Maquoketa
Baptism and Testimonies Ring Through Baptist Church
A narrator recalls a baptism day in a Baptist church where the father praises forgiveness and becoming a child of God on his 30th baptism anniversary. The father, a carpenter, reads the Bible daily and discusses Scripture with his family, while the narrator admires his father’s deep Bible knowledge. John Firth.
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Smet
Baptist Church
Biethodist Church
Mother
Father
John Firth
Passenger Bus Schedule Between Pella Des Moines 1933
Effective February 1 1933 schedule shows departures from Pella to Des Moines at 9 30 am 3 30 pm and 7 45 pm and to Oskaloosa at 9 25 pm 1 25 am and 7 40 pm All buses depart Central Park Cafe Also a cartoon dialogue noting a boy Jimmie and his father age 42 with humor about women having ears.
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Pella
Des Moines
Oskaloosa
Central Park Cafe
Sammy
Jimmie
dJimmie
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