Pella Knitting Club aids war effort with garments and aid
The Pella Knitting Club reports raising 700 with 600 spent on yarn for sweaters socks and 80 forth. One hundred funded Hostess House at Camp Dodge and muslin for fifty cootie garments. donated boxes include 20 woolen suits for boys under twelve and 126 Smilage Books. Total 1922.00 across war activities including 1022.00 for fatherless children of France and 75.00 for layette work.
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Red Cross
France
Camp Dodge
Belgium
Commercial Club
Otley Knitting Club
Pleasant View
Coeletts
Y. M
Days of old and a robin stealing a collar
A reflective musing on memories and the pull of the past. A spring scene opens with a robin snatching a lace collar to line a bird’s nest, then recurs to stormy summer weather and the neighbor's boy returning the found token. The tale ends with the narrator washing the collar and naming it the bird nest collar.
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Robin Redbreast
Oriot Smorenburg Wedding in Blenheim Apartments
Kathryn Smorenburg of Pella married Lieutenant Thomas Oriot at the Blenheim apartments with Rev. Howland Hanson officiating. Attendants included niece Bea Ewing. Post ceremony, a four course dinner was held. the couple plan to reside in Blenheim apartments after April 16. Lieutenant Oriot, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oriot of Pitcairn, Pa., recently left military service and will live in Des Moines.
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H. W. Fleming
Blenheim
T. Smorenburg
Pella
John Ewing
Century Lumber Co
Oriot
Frank Oriot
Education and road taxes confront selfish landowners
A Pelia man discusses how large landowners with no direct stake in education or roads block public improvements. The piece argues that main highways and school funding benefit all, including those off the main routes, and urges cooperation to escape the mud and improve communities.
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Pelia
Youthful boxers contend with fear of beating parent
Willie and Jack, two youngsters bound for a rough bout, argue about courage and punishment. Willie taunts Jack who worries his mother will notice and nothing but a doctor can mend the feared damage.
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Willie
Jack
Worry and health urged against by public bulletin
A health bulletin urges people to resist worry, noting ancient teaching and modern statistics on nervous diseases. It compares birds and animals to human anxiety, citing scripture and the national public health message that fretting harms well being and longevity.
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National Public Health Service
Alphabet Prayer Remembers God Through a Boy Shepherd
A shepherd boy lacking a real prayer begins reciting the alphabet to reach God, believing the letters will spell out what he cannot yet voice. A passerby comforts him noting that a heart spoken rightly guides lips, while a remark about Bill Smith’s daughter hints at a softer rumor about her.
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Aschenbrenner
M. W. van Doornink
V. P
Ramsey
Scholte
Vander Linden
Collegian
Oriot-Smorenburg
Bill Smith
Big Allen Huber
Dorothy Phillips
Dorothy Pees
Talk of the
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie
Mme. Petrova
Priscilla Dean
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