Local youth and visiting guests fill Pella week
Crystal snapshot of Pella Iowa activities includes visits by Mr. and Mrs. Clark Richardson and other locals, calls for Maytag demonstrations, church events, family travel to Des Moines, and various social visits. Several townsfolk travel to Durant Union and Orange City while Kryn Van Zante and Miss Edith Stuarsma are among those visiting relatives.
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of Pella
California
A. T. van Houweling
John de Wild
Dick Wissing
Harold
Hull
Pella
Peter van Es
Orange City
Jacob Sterrenberg
A Temperance Lesson From Galatians And Proverbs
International Sunday School Lesson by J. A. Lapham discusses temperance, citing Galatians 5 13 24 and Proverbs 23 29 35. It warns alcohol’s historic grip, praises prohibition gains, and urges readers to practice love of God and neighbor as the path to freedom and fair economic order.
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Paul
God
Christ
Jesus
Ninefold fruits of the spirit and Byron’s dual image
The excerpt recalls Dr. Griffith Thomas urging complete virtue like a cluster of nine grapes in every life, then contrasts Byron’s genius with a satanic visage observed by Spurgeon. A librarian explains the artist sought to show both vast intellect and immense sin in Byron. The piece notes cigarette smoking harms youths and recounts a tale where a harsh word reveals character to a listener.
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God
Lightfoot
Paul
Christ
Jesus Christ
Griffith Thomas
Spurgeon
Joseph Nelson Greene
Tarbell
Governor Hammill Outlines Bank Capital Plan
Governor Hammill proposes a banking reform note to the State Banking Department urging that reorganized and newly formed banks maintain capital and surplus in a fixed ratio to deposits and require stockholders to prove their ability to pay. The idea targets stability in operations and investor accountability across existing and future banks.
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Hammill
State Banking Department
Bank stock duties and depositor security in reorganizations
An assessment on stock in banks emphasizes that stockholders bear responsibility for the bank's obligations. Reorganization and new banks heighten the need for financially sound stockholders. The endorsement of a bank's obligations should be solid, with returns secondary to securing depositor protection.
German couple threshing on Madison county farm
In northern Madison county a German couple on a fine quarter section farm own a threshing outfit and a small tractor. They harvest by loading grain onto a wagon, threshing, and storing it. They work together in the field with no meals to prepare for a large crew and no neighbor payments required.
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Madison County
Germany
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Jeannette Kool
Chicago
Ben Renaud
Ankeney
Ben Branshart
Oxford
Iowa
Maytag
Akerman Vogelaar
A. J. Kleinjan
Durant
Josie Vroom
Puritan Drug Store
Gary T. Vogelaar
Thomassen’s
Grace Elsloo
Kansas City
Bart Vander Waal
Kryn van Zante
Edith Stuarsma
Grand Rapids, Mich
Freda Staardema
Jerry Schut
Sioux Center
Paul Lynhorst
Mrs. Wm. Brand
Vanderzyl Bros
Hattie Egan
Burlington
John Egan
Sioux City
J. J. Bousquet
Tennis Tysseling
Knoxville
Hardware and Department Store
Second Reformed Church
Delta Alpha S. S
Bertha Tysseling
Ivan Sadler
Indianola
George M. Derbyshire
Waterloo
Derbyshire
Jeannette Vander Meulen
Des Moines
C. F. Dykstra
W. F. Palmer
George Holmes
Keota
Marjorie Lyle
la Porte City
S. F. Cole
Mildred Cole
Hattie Vander Meulen
Union
Arthur Renaud
Puritan Drug Co
George Gilliland
Donald Elliott
Omaha
Ben Blommers
Fred Heeren
N. D. Gordon
Baptist Church
Gordon
Amsterdam
Gerrit Smorenburg
Mildred Bailey
R. C. Amidon
Estelline
S. D
E. Richardson
Linneus, Mo
Farm Bureau
Cora Rietveld
Minneapolis
J. A. Vander Wal
Katherine Rietveld
Central Park
America
Rome
Mendelssohn
Elijah
Iowa State
J. A. Lapham
New York City
John
Wynberg
Mariposa
Brown Kid
Theresa
East
Chain Shoe Stoves
High Ave. West
Oskaloosa, Iowa
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