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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1934
Page
6
The article argues the church must combat sin and aid humanity while keeping state and church separate. It urges civic leagues to reform politics, education, sanitation, and aid underprivileged children, enlarging their scope beyond narrow confines.
A writer recalls a 1898 photo with a childhood friend and himself at age 16. He reflects on school days, marbles, ball games, and a now changed city where growth from 9,000 in 1890 to 75,000 shapes the old town memory.
The piece argues for higher quality reading material over sheer quantity. It critiques libraries shops and newsstands for flooding with varied books and blames a permissive audience for cheap titles. It urges focus on better content to protect readers from harmful material.
The piece argues that truth exists in abundance but is not always discovered rather than revealed. It cites a Quaker who refused Baptist baptism until he personally discovered it, noting many miss truth and allow error into life. It stresses active discernment over passive acceptance.
The piece urges motorists to beware of reckless drivers and to avoid passing on curves or long hills. It argues more warnings should be posted along highways to deter dangerous overtaking and reduce accidents.
An editorials defends the Pella Christian Civic League against views that it seeks to force religious reform. It asserts the sabbath rest is constitutional and biblical, but warns morals cannot be coerced by law. The piece stresses voluntary moral life and cautions against overreaching prohibition-style enforcement.
The Globe Gazette highlights Milo Reno’s critique of the brain trust, while Eagle Grove praises Senator Dickinson and Sioux City Journal notes calm amid Minneapolis protests. The Nonpareil, Times-Republican and Keokuk County News excerpt varied takes on New Deal opposition and Jeffersonian principles as the era edges through slow recovery.
A Pella column sketches local chatter and incidents. Jests about Kipling lines and bedrock jokes mix with notes on quarrels among neighbors, scales at a store, and community observations. It ends with reflections on wealth, morality, and a sermon about selling all. Chronicle want ads bring results.
E V Good presents a devotional lesson on the young man who asked how to attain eternal life. It praises youth education and character, notes his keeping of commandments, and argues he should have sought God first, since worldly gains cannot satisfy the soul. The plan outlines three points about what he did, should have done, and did not do.
A man posing as the boomer operator secured depot work Saturday night then fled Monday with 13.60. Mrs L Knook who arrived in 1867 and moved to Orange City in 1870 died April 11 in Chicago. RR Beard sold four Main street lots to P H Van Gorp H P Van Gorp and Dr F F Carpenter. Mrs A Verrips bought A Waechter’s residence. Waechter to build at Broadway and University. I Goulooze installed a library vacuum cleaner at General College. A baby was born to Mr and Mrs Martin Van Hilton on April 11 north of town. Star Auto Co sold five cars in one day. J H Van Vliet welcomed a baby girl April 21. Gertrude Vander Linden on vacation from American House. Joe Zinberg injured after a fall from a horse drawn vehicle on Washington street.
In 1904, A N Kuyper suffered a prolonged illness as friends hoped for recovery. Henry Gezel quipped about a country’s fatherhood and ten of twelve children with mumps. H E Wormhoudt moved from Rock Island Monroe to a telegraph post in Pella. Henry Cox formed the Marion County Oratorio Society uniting Pella Knoxville and nearby towns. Anthony Hollebrands took a drugstore job in Lincoln Nebraska. J H Klein and wife welcomed a baby girl born April 20. Andrew Terpstra, formerly on Rock Island at Valley Junction, visited home. Two girls escaped reform school at Mitchellville and were captured at Runnells. Herman Rietveld sold his Harvey brick and tile factory to T J Neiswanger. Pella Steam Laundry began delivering with a new wagon. The broom factory closed for the season. H A Bauman, ex-owner of Opera House Restaurant, moved to St Louis to start anew.
A reader argues against infant baptism in a long critique of Mr Hoksbergen, asserting that true Reform doctrine ties the covenant to the elect seed of Abraham. He cites Romans 9 and Romans 4 to claim only spiritual Israel inherit promises, insisting believers are the seed and that baptism must be viewed through this lens.
A dated doctrinal tract argues the seed of Abraham remains constant through ages and that infant baptism mirrors circumcision. It cites Galatians and Hosea alongside Acts and Romans to claim continuous covenant signs, urging Hoksbergen to prove otherwise and asserting scriptural consistency across dispensations.
Notice states that Woodrow Washer Company articles of incorporation are amended to authorize two hundred fifty shares of preferred stock at par value of $100 each and five hundred shares of common stock with no par value. Document dated April 6.
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