Visiting Etiquette for Hospital Patients From a Church Publication
A church pamphlet urges visitors to be considerate in hospital rooms. It advises delaying visits, using mail or cards, avoiding closed doors and loud voices, respecting No Visitors signs, keeping visits brief, and leaving during doctor rounds or mealtimes. It stresses not judging treatment, checking dietary rules for gifts, and remembering patient welfare over personal talk or nostalgia.
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Vera Henry
Pella Community Hospital
Good Grades and Cars Seldom Fraternize
Iowa high school study links car ownership to lower scholastic ranks. In Northwood Kensett, 58 percent of the bottom quarter own cars, none in the top quarter, and 17 percent of car owners sit in the top half. Guidance chief Fred Knauer led the study. editorial urges parents to say no to car ownership for students.
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Iowa
Northwood Anchor
Northwood-Kensett
Fred Knauer
Northwood
Churches and Highways Mark Iowa Travel from Charles City
The Charles City Press notes many new churches along the highway to Des Moines rivaling the number of new service stations. The piece praises better highway markings and the apparent direction Iowans choose for both earthly travel and the hereafter.
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Charles City
Des Moines
South Central Iowa Colt League team treats 11 year old bat boy as part of team
Mr and Mrs Bernie Bishop of Davenport share how the South Central Iowa Colt League team, composed of players from Pella New Sharon Brooklyn and Montezuma, treated their 11 year old son Tom Bishop as part of the squad during the district tournament at community field. They describe the boys offering pop and inviting him onto the field for a steak dinner after the championship. The team earned the winner s trophy and were praised as gentle men on and off the field.
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Community Field
Tom
Burlington
Bat Oby
South Central
Rex van Dyke
Dave Bair
Lym
Tom Bishop
Bernie Bishop
Lynnwood Drive
Central College Training Pageant in Army Enlistments Soon
It Was News Years Ago recounts Central College being authorized as a training school for 75 Army Enlisted Reserve Corps men with many already enlisted in Navy programs, including flight training. Other notes include The Model store’s 25th anniversary celebration, local scrap drives, FBI talks on Civilian Defense, the first Marion county glider pilot training, residents’ health updates, and a reception for the new pastor at First Reformed church.
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Central College
Army Enlisted Reserve Corps
Navy
Central
THE
Model Clothing Store
Bill Black
Chronicle
Marine Corps
San Diego
Cal
FBI
John T. Flynn
Des Moines
Pella
Legion
Marion County
Mobile
Alabama
John M. Visser
Cordova
N.H. Krizer
Pella-Oskaloosa
Gene Stientjes
Army Air Corps
M. C. Schroeder
Medical Corps
Eldon Tharp
Pleasant Plain
First Reformed Church
Kool’s
Highway 163
Simon H. Douwstra
Lon Wormhoudt
A. Haverkamp
Pella Plans Seventy fifth Anniversary and Local News
Pella plans a September seventy fifth anniversary event with a chorus led by Mary Taylor Liggett and addresses by Clyde Herring and Smith Brookhart. Council rejected early bids and awaits new bids while Rasmussen of Des Moines offered asphalt at 1.20 a yard. Hospital land near Hospers sells at 600 per acre and other plots at 250 per acre. Pella lost a game to Prairie City eight to six with Moe Farland injuring ribs. Vander Waal and Kruseman collide, Vander Waal loses two front teeth.
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Mary Taylor Liggett
Pella
Clyde Herring
Smith Brookhart
Rasmussen
Des Moines
Hospers
Sioux County
Carson
de Haan
Gerrit Vander Waal
Everett Kruseman
Vander Waal
Gerrit
Pella Marshal Voted One of Nation's Meanest
August 29 1912 report notes Pella marshal Buckingham called the town meanest in the state after a clash with Charlie Mick. Other items cover Des Moines auto deluge, purchases of 1913 Overland and Indian motorcycles, a deaf tailor buying a seven HP bike, Marie Van Gorp becoming Puritan Drug clerk, Sunday school camping on a sandbar near Des Moines river, and a new concrete bridge over Competine Creek east of Knoxville on the Pella road.
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Charlie Mick
Marshal Buckingham
Pella
Charie
H. H. Sadler
Lou, de Vries
Marie van Gorp
Puritan
Edith Rhynsburger
Rene van der Linden
Des Moines River
Knoxville
Hayrack
Competine Creek
Pella Road
Farmers Declare Holiday And Block Produce Sales
Thirty years ago farmers in the area declared a holiday and halted market sales until cost of production was covered. Pella farmers offered to donate produce to Jacob Plender for Red Cross distribution rather than destroy it. Elsewhere some farmers faced criticism for destroying the community pool plan at West Market Park due to lack of funds. Local business changes included Walter Johnson selling The College Inn, and Star Oil Company workers performing tree surgery on a maple at Washington and Main.
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Pella
Jacob Plender
Red Cross
the Chronicle
the Press
West Market Park
Tunis van Heukelem
Prescott Steenhoek
Albert Ver Meer
Roy Andeng
Star Oil Company
Washington and
Main
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Pella Publishing, Inc
M. M. de Zwarte
Dean Sadler
Franklin Pella
Aspciatign
Official
H. Sadler
M. DE Zwarte
AL DE Wild
Tri-County
Towa
Bat-Boy
Davenport
City
CAI
Army Reserve Training School
Garden Square
Tunis Prins
Prairie City
Monroe
MoeFarland
John Vogelaar
B. H. Sack
van Dusseldorp
S. E
Otley
WBE
Jennie Vander Kieft
Brooks Klyn
Audt
Floyd Vander Zyl
Husky
Tysseling & de Wild
Walter Johnson
College Inn
Broadway
Franklin
Elmer Nichols
Federal Discount Corp
North Market Street
Oskaloosa
Martin Naaktgeboren
Harold Ver Meer
Pella Sale Barn
Harold Vermeer
Pella, Lowa
Wooden Shoe
James Smalley
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