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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1914
Page
4
W D Stone general secretary Iowa state Sunday schools will address the city in the park Sunday evening. A special collection for Sunday school advancement will be taken at this meeting. Various local notices follow about wells and bids for city paving.
A. Waechter undertook a business trip to Muscatine on Wednesday.
Bethel Stars announce a missionary program at Bethel Church north of town on Thursday evening August 13 at 7 30. After the program ice cream cake home made candies and fancy work will be sold on the lawn. Come and have a good time and help the missionary cause.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Meth odist church will host a lawn supper at Mrs. Louisa Richardson's home on the west end of Oskaloosa street in the evening of Aug 6 from 5 30 to 8 00. Supper with ice cream and cake costs 20 cents, and ice cream and cake are available to late arrivals. All are invited. Rube Brand is visiting his brother Gradus at Allerton this week.
Des Moines eye ear nose and throat specialist Dr Coffee promotes a new absorption massage treatment for eye and ear diseases. He cites restored sight and hearing in multiple cases and offers free examination, with offices in the Davidson Building and Des Moines practice totaling about six years.
Oskaloosa callers Tuesday and Thursday include Chas Voss John Van Maanen J. W. Binns and son Vernie Frank Bartlow and Mr. and Mrs Pete Burgraaf and families. Moody family visits Laughlin at Oliver. Van Maanen’s baby ill. Dr Wilcox attended Saturday. Verna Viola Moody visit Moody aunts VerPloeg Friday. Jno Moody daughters Violet Nellie visit Wyers Thursday.
Miss Marie Lefeber of Pella spent Sunday with friend Dena Van Roghel. Mr and Mrs Conrad VerPloeg left for Montana for about four weeks. Twins born to Mr and Mrs D Bennink July 23 weighing 8 and 9 pounds. Grace Brummell and others visited Pella Saturday. Don DePrenger’s car hit by a calf causing an upset Saturday evening. Harriet VanZee spent weekend with sister near Pella. Ebenezer Reformed to hold annual picnic. Warren Talbot visited daughter near Taintor. Bertha Briggs surprised on her birthday with ice cream and cake. G C DeJong and Dan DeJong on Newton trip. Rev Aylmore returned from Marshalltown. Rev Mills preached with him. Danhof of First Reformed preached last Sunday. Garret Strovers visited W M Talbot’s. Lute DeBrown visited her mother Mrs Swisher. Curt Burnhams and Osher Holds worth fished on South Skunk river. Fred Haines and family visited Sully. G C DeJong visited brother Dan DeJong.
Des Moines sees rising eastbound automobile parties stopping over nightly at Randolph Hotel. Cashier George M. Thomas notes weekly overnights surged from about one to eight in a week as more travelers use White Pole road over River to River. He cites broader tours from the East and across the continent, boosting Des Moines as a popular night spot. A related note advertises a light electric vacuum cleaner for rent via phone.
City invites bids for coal for the electric light plant in lump mine run and steam coal delivered to the plant bin. Bids due at City Clerk’s office by 6:00 PM August 20, 1914. By order of city council. A C Kuyper City Clerk.
Advertisement calls for fifty women and girls to work in the canning factory with assurance that wages will be paid. The notice notes a anticipated tomato crop and urges those interested to respond.
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