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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1938
Page
8
The Van der Wilt descendants will gather at Grandman's Grove on August 23 for a large family reunion. attendance exceeds 500 invited. The report also covers the Lynnville Renaud event, church farewells, birthdays, weddings, and community notices across several Iowa towns.
An afternoon gathering at Mrs. J A Hagens home on North Broadway honored her birthday. Relatives and friends from Mitchellville Otley Newton and nearby towns attended with gifts and baskets. A two course lunch followed a requested reading of the poem Tam not growing old.
Local church notices list Sunday school at 9 30 a m and services at 10 45 a m for First and Second Reform. Guest preacher Rev Theodore Trutenbach from Mount Pleasant Reformed Church will speak at both services. Baptist Church features Dr Frank Anderson as Sunday morning speaker with no evening service. Open Bible Church outlines 11 00 a m sermon Responsibility and 7 30 p m Wednesday Prayer and Praise with youth service times and notes.
Morning and afternoon sessions feature students G. Boerelyn and G. Boere. Friday evening Rev. Wm Kok of Zeeland Michigan will give an illustrated lecture at the First Christian Reformed Church. Everyone is cordially invited to attend.
J H Cochran and son Gerald Mokma recalled Central College days during a visit to the Chronicle office. Numerous neighbors and relatives from Pella and nearby towns are listed with travel, hospital, and family happenings, including trips to Lake Okoboji and Denver, birthdays, and weekend gatherings.
Porterville daughters Mary Jane and Dorothy and son Gerald spent Thursday with Mr and Mrs Andrew Hoekstra and family in Richland, and visited their farm near Rose Hill. Golmore Kamerick is in Minnesota harvesting crops for over two weeks. Mrs John Robertus and daughter Darlene and son Huber Lee visited Friday with sister Mrs Norman Falcon and family near Springville, with Darlene extending her stay. Mr and Mrs Henry H Van Oene and daughters Claire and ...
The Chronicle advertises a temporary rate of $1.50 per year for new and existing subscribers, noting the regular price is $2.00. It markets a full year of reading, latest happenings, features and pictures for less than the weekly postage stamp cost, urging readers to subscribe before the offer ends and save 50 cents.
Bertus called on their aunt Mrs Huber Van der Syde last Saturday. On Tuesday the auxiliary met at Connie Vanden Baard to work on a quilt for the Farmers Union picnic. Attendees included Mrs Will Den Hartog and Mildred, Mrs John Menninga and Jeanette, Mrs Harold Veenstra, Mrs Albert Weyerse, Mrs Frank Boat and Mrs Will Bensink. The six weeks old colt and its mother owned by Connie Van den Baard are sick with sleeping sickness.
A scientist voices the view that bowlegs reflect courage when displayed openly at the bathing beach. The piece also notes a lawyer who knows all facts can act more intelligently to conceal them, and that want ads deliver results.
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