Rol screenings enliven Pella factory notes and travel
Rol screenings notes travelers visiting Des Moines Guthrie Center and Denver while factory activity includes many Pella Venetian blind orders. High points include St Luke’s hospital Denver orders bringing total blinds to 98, plus orders for Lib ey-Owens-Ford Toledo and other firms with statewide managers and local visits.
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St. Luke's Hospital
Denver
Libey-Owens-Ford
Toledo
Ohio
Sunnycrest Sanatorium
Dubuque
Iowa
Bell Telephone Co
Omaha
Robinson Apartments
Des Moines
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Ames
Kearney
Nebraska
Wahoo
Coca Cola Company
Annapolis
Maryland
Glenwood Hospital
Glenwood
Many Central 1940 Graduates Have Positions
The Central College Placement Bureau reports a high percent of its 1940 teachers list have secured positions. The document lists numerous appointments for both high and elementary school teaching roles across Iowa, with several graduates assigned to rural locations in Illinois and nearby states.
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Central College Placement Bureau
Towal Dary
Certifi
Sof
Eaward
Willkie Clubs Organize in 89 Counties Across State
Willkie for President local clubs spread to 89 counties with Willard D. Archie of Shenandoah named State President. Archie chaired at the state meeting and opened the state headquarters at the Valley Bank Building, 310 Fourth Street, on Wednesday.
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Willkie
Willard D. Archie
Shenandoah
Archie
Valley Bank
Central College Plans Three New Faculty Homes
Central College will build three new faculty homes on the idle Cotton Hall site. The plan follows Cape Cod style and uses the college owned property to house professors Likegett and Sandren. Residents note the change will improve the southwest city area alongside the athletic field transformation.
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Central College
Pella
East First Street
Tynseling
Central
Gaass House Exterior Painting Progress and Local Help
En route from the athletic field the Gaass home prepares the first paint coat. Library and gym window and door casements in campus buildings will also be painted. Bill Slick from Grundy Center assists the Kallemyn boys and jokes about preferring football to painting, noting painting pays the bills.
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Gaass
Bill Slick
Grundy Center
Kallemyn Boys
Bill
Willkie Club Movement Seeks 500 Town Campaign Groups
Archie announces a plan to form 500 town clubs pledging support for Wendell Willkie. Each member will vote and campaign non-partisanly for Willkie, with charters issued by the Associated Willkie Clubs of America led by Oren Root Jr. Clubs already started in Storm Lake Shenandoah Mount Ayr and other cities.
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Wendell L. Willkie
Pres Dent
Archie
Willkie
Associated Willkie Clubs of America
Oren Root Jr. Young
New York
Storm Lake
Shenandoah
Mount Ayr
Sioux Raps
Marathon
Newton
Maurice
Council Bluffs
Cedar Rapids
Guttenberg
Waukon
Postville
Harpers Ferry
Waterville
Pella
Cork Linoleum Floor Going Into The Library
Cork tile flooring is being installed in the Central Col college library to provide ideal study conditions and sound proofing. Battleship linoleum covers the hall and around the main desk where traffic is heaviest, with nine inch cork squares planned for the rest. The cork tiling will form an artistic pattern similar to a foyer design.
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Chapal
Plan Annex to Dormitory for Young Ladies at Central College
Graham Hall will be filled to capacity as every room is contracted by students. College officials surveyed an auxiliary building to house overflow and plan conversion into a dormitory near campus. Graham Hall is well equipped and clean with Miss Clara B. Wilname as general supervisor and Mrs. Dora Kenady handling business management. Students govern themselves and the hall includes a list of residents and a hall serving as communal space. Shortly the new school year brings activity to the Concord, with fresh plans for the early term and related developments.
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Graham Hall
Central College
Clara B. Wil- Mame
Dora Kenady
Who Ag
Graham
Students Paint to Earn College Tuition for Kallemyns
The Kallemyn family of Grun dy Center plans four children at Central College. Edward Merle Marvin and Gertrude will attend, and the brothers will paint college buildings to fund their education. They met with Dr Lubbers who spoke on preservation and self preservation through education, then secured a contract and began painting.
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Kallemyn
Grundy Center
Edward
Merle
Marvin
Gertrude
Central College
Spare No Pains To Make Central Field Perfect
The Central College field project nears completion with drainage tile laid and gravel base. A quarter mile track will run southwest with the football field inside the track and a six inch gravel base for the cinder track. The stadium faces north, southeast hosts baseball, and the north area serves intramural activities for boys and girls under the program A Sport for every student and Every Student in a Sport.
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Central College
De Kock Heads Tipton Schools
H De Kock of Pella Iowa a 1926 Central College graduate and former superintendent at Manson Iowa for fourteen years has been chosen to head the Tipton Consolidated School The Tipton Consolidated School is the largest of its type in Iowa and among the largest in the United States He succeeds Superintendent
Iowa educator De Kock named to new position
Des Moines Register sports editor Lee Taylor praised Mr De Kock in his column noting his retirement due to illness and his successful direction of the Iowa High School Baseball Tournament at Manson last spring. De Kock is well known among Iowa educators and will be congratulated by many friends.
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Kelley
Lee Taylor
The
Des Moines Register
de Kock
Iowa
Manson
Eva Blanche Wheeler Clark obituary outline
Eva Blanche Wheeler Clark, born November 4, 190% near Kellogg Iowa, daughter of Vernon S and Netta Wheeler, spent early years in Reas ner and Monroe and graduated Monroe High School in 1925. She married Marion P Clark on June 27 1929. They had five children, among them Delmar, with more details cut off.
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Eva Blanche
Vernon S
Netta Wheeler
Kellogg
Iowa
Reasner
Monroe
Monroe High School
Marion P. Clark
Delmar
Faithful Latter Day Saint Isla Women Passes On
Baby preceded her in death and was baptized in 1931 as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She leaves a husband three daughters Marianna Barbara Jean Eva Lucille her mother three sisters Ruth Lust Delis Walraven and Wayne Tool plus other relatives. Her father preceded her in death. A recent discovery in Guadalupe mountain New Mexico reveals a mound with a chamber about 700 feet wide and over three miles long.
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Baby
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Marianna
Barbara Jean
Eva Lucille
Ruth Lust
Sully
Delis Walraven
Pella
Wayne Tool
Monroe
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