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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1957
Page
2
OCALS News contributions and Easter weekend plans fill The Chronicle as residents from Milwaukee to Denver visit family in Pella. The report notes hospital discharges, births, and local travel as neighbors share news of relocations, illness, and family gatherings across several Iowa and Wisconsin households.
Schedule for the 1957 Tulip Time Flower Show at Legion Hall Pella Iowa. Public hours Thursday 3 00 to 6 00 p m Friday 8 00 to 6 00 p m Saturday 8 00 to 5 00 p m Theme is There’s No Business Like Show Business from Annie Get Your Gun. Rules cover division entries tulips use devices and exhibit labeling with notes on care theft risk and judging criteria.
The notice lists multiple worship services across churches on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Liberty and West Second locations include sermons such as The Grave in the Garden and The Resurrected Christ the Cornerstone, with morning services at 9 30 a m and 11 a m and evening worship at 7 30 p m. Visitors and strangers are welcome.
Wm C De Jong and Minister Franklin host an annual sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. for all. Morning worship follows at 9:30 a.m. with the theme Risen as He Said. Sunday School at 11:00 a.m. covers Jesus Victory and Commission. Evening worships include The Keeper of the Key at 7:30 p.m. Trinity Church extends a welcome.
Minister Everett G Ward will conduct services at Douwstra Chapel Central College starting Thursday April 18 at 7 30 pm with Maundy Thursday communion meditation titled The Cost of Communion Easter Sunday features Sunday school classes for all ages at 9 30 am and worship at 10 45 am with Sermon The Glory of Easter Youth Fellowship meets at 6 30 pm for juniors junior high and senior high. A cordial welcome to all.
Pastor Gritters shares the Dutch service phrase Raak Mij Niet Aan for Good Friday 7:45 p.m. and Sovereign Grace Hour broadcasts on KBOE Sundays from 4:00 to 4:30 p.m. The message includes Peace be unto you and references Joh. 20 19.
Rev G Lubbers invites listeners to the Reformed Witness Hour every Sunday at 7 30 a m over radio KBOE Os kaloosa. The program features distinctively Reformed singing and preaching from the First Protestant Reformed Church Grand Rapids Michigan.
St Andrew's Ev Lutheran Church announces Sunday services at 9:00 am Eastern with Holy Communion and a 10:30 am Sunday School. Maundy Thursday service at 7:30 pm marks the seventh and final Lenten service. community welcome.
Herman J Ridder, minister, leads morning worship at 9 30 am with The End is but the Beginning. Sunday School at 10 45 am, followed by Jesus Victory and Commission. Evening services begin 6 30 pm with Junior Intermediate and Senior C E. Easter cantata From Darkness to Light under Fred J Whalley. Good Friday service Friday April 19 from noon to 3 pm. Everyone welcome.
The Church of the Open Bible outlines sunrise service at 6 30 am on the Kelderman farm with Mrs Wm Van Dyke delivering the message followed by a breakfast. Sunday School at 9 45 am features a sermon The Risen Christ and an Easter theme. Evening service at 7 30 pm presents The Resurrection with an illustrated sermon. Good Friday noon to 3 pm services at First Reformed. Broadcast Easter youth crusaders on KBOE at 8 30.
Good Friday service at 7:30 p.m. on April 19 and Easter services at 10:30 a.m. on April 21. Includes Sunday School at 9:30 a.m., Bible classes, choir rehearsal on April 24, and adult formation group at 7:60 p.m. Speaker Bob Smith headlines the Sunday worship.
The Trinity Reformed church schedule lists Rev. Redeker leading morning worship and Sunday School, with Rev. Beardslee and Rev. Bast delivering Easter messages. Temple Time on radio stations KROE KNWS and KXEL features Rev. Henry Bast.
George T. Pinches delivers a 9:30 am Bible school class and 10:30 am Lord's Supper service with a 7:30 pm Gospel sermon titled The Greatest Triumph of the Ages and the Eternal Spoils of Victory. A 7:45 pm Tuesday talk on April 23 launches a series What the Bible Teaches About the Ways of Christendom Its Mystery of Evil Organization and Divine Wisdom.
Calvary Christian Reformed Church invites worshipers to morning services at 9 30 and an evening service at 7 30 in the Christian High School with sermons on The Resurrection of Christ and Knowing Christ in Resurrection Power The event marks the festival of our Lord's resurrection and includes Sunday School and Young People's Fellowship at 11 00.
Central routed Simpson and Grinnell in a triangular track meet at Pella on April 16. Central won nine events as Phil Bush set a new meet record in the high hurdles with 15.7 seconds. Harold Hiemstra, the defending half mile champion, clocked 1 58 in the event.
The report notes a new meet record of 2 03.3 set by Hiemstraanewart in the mile relay with Victor and a close finish for YS in the mile. JM Miller (C) captured a first in the up hurdles with a 26.5 second time. Al Haughey set the om meet high jump mark at 6 feet, eclipsing the previous performance by several inches amid a noisy start controversy.
Wesleyan defeated Central 5 to 2 at Pella on Saturday. Merle Mille beat Bruggink 6 2, Ted Sadewate and George Weidenbacher won 6 3 4, Jerry Duffus swept Rosenburg 6 1 6 2, Hon LeMahien beat Jamison 6 4 2 6, Miller and Wikes edged Bruggink and Barnes 6 4 14 6 2, Sadewater and Rosenburg beat Duffus and Weidenbach 6 8 6 3 8 6.
Dubuque won four of seven relay events at the Conference Relays in Pella and swept the top two spots in the shot put. Central College took the 440 shuttle hurdle relay win and placed third in three relays but faced setbacks as LaVern Boelkens strained a muscle in his opening race. No overall team winner was declared. trophies went to relay victors and medals awarded for field-event placings.
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