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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1921
Page
5
Sunday 7:30 pm subject Carried by Four based on Luke 5 16 26. Sunday services in English unless noted. Next Sunday evening subject Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness. Choir to sing anthem Breast the Wave Christian. Morning service to include commemorative sermon.
The article notes the discussion of Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms and marks the 400th anniversary that has just passed. The choir will sing How Amiable are thy Courts.
Overflow congregation gathered last Sunday evening to hear Rev. Wesselwink on The Christian's Sabbath from Mark 2 27 28. A large choir provided music and an upcoming Evangelistic Evening is announced for next Sunday with Prof Safler Marie DeBruin and Clar ice Smith at organ and piano James Ver Hey to sing a solo. The song service starts promptly at seven thirty and all are invited to sing and worship a singing Gospel of Praise.
Sunday morning the choir will sing an anthem Art Thou Weary and in the evening a special service features music and a Stereopticon Lecture Christ at Work in Asia. The program includes hymns, scripture, duets, quartette, two anthems Cantata Domino and Lift Up Your Heads with stereopticon slides, a silver offering for church music, benediction and postlude.
The memorial notices record Gerrit M. Heitink dying at his son's home in Oskaloosa on April 27 1921 aged 85 funeral planned at the Second Christian Reformed church in Pella and Oakwood cemetery interment. Also included are details of Allewyne De Heer 72 with multiple marriages and large family and Mrs Gerrit Goedhart death in Pella with service and interment at Oakwood. Additional notes mention Anna Versteegh and her long church connection, plus Legion notices about veterans employment and a controversial remark attributed to Kate Richards O’Hare, and a report on the Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion conventions in 1920 at Sioux City.
State Adjutant Barton will call a conference of Legion baseball enthusiasts to arrange an Iowa American Legion baseball league. National headquarters sent a telegram to the War Department requesting publication of the slacker lists, with Iowa posts urging action. The Veterans service editors and Earl Caddock are urged to comment on reports that wrestling matches he participated in were crooked.
At a regular stockholders meeting in Pella Iowa on January fourteenth 1921 the Articles of Incorporation were amended increasing the authorized capital stock from ten thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars.
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