Christmas Party and Club Notes From Local Fragments
Fragments report a Legion and Auxiliary Christmas party with Santa, tea, candy, and kids activities planned for December 17. Other items note SSS Club Christmas dinner at Mrs. Francis Christman’s home, seed corn plant workers party with Bible quiz and gifts, Baptist Ladies Aid Christmas program, Branderhorst Vander Molen wedding, adult ladies Sunday class activities, and numerous neighborhood club gatherings with prayers, lunches, and secret sisters exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion and Auxiliary
Santa Claus
SSS Club
Francis Christman
Frandt Seed Company
Katherine Notting
Gladys Rinehart
Mr. Frandt
Harriet Bean
Jean Nelson
Mrs. Nelson
Mrs. Bean
Worth Karr Breaks His Arm In Tractor Incident
Cordova News reports Worth Karr injured when his tractor failed to crank last week near Otley Pellal area. The note mentions multiple local residents ill with fever and a wedding of Danny and partner, plus community events including a farm bureau banquet and a Des Moines theater trip, with various local names and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Karr
Worth Karr
Roy Mikesell
Oye
Mary Berkey
Sherry
Kure
Colleen
Otley
Pellal
Marjorie Sherwood
Dex Moines
Danny
Fred Shaw
Rade
Janet Karr
Santa Claus
Christ Dawson
Christian Church
Knoxville
Red Rock
Alberta Buttery
Mabel Cooper
Hugh Templeton
Dwight Harvey
Bill Kart
Farm Bureau
Farm ‘Bureau
Elmer Cooper
Wallace Roff
Kingery Farm
Holiday Time is Cake Time and Baking Tips
A vintage guide outlines precise measuring and mixing methods for holiday cakes. It covers using liquid cups for accuracy, sifting flour, handling sugar, and pressing fat to remove air spaces, plus a tested Butter Cake recipe with butter sugar milk flour baking powder salt vanilla and step by step instructions for mixing, baking times, and frosting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town State College
Pressing Wool Garments With Cloths And Steam
Use a wool presscloth for best results when pressing wool. Place the cloth on the wrong side to press and on the right side for pressing the right side. Keep the garment damp with steam, brush grain while steaming, and avoid pressing dry. Use a damp cotton cloth when needed and let the garment dry without being crushed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances
Friedell
Town State College
Inspiring Week on Central Campus Closed Friday
Central College observes anEmphasis Week centered on Christian life with student leaders and speakers from the Reformed Church guiding devotion and service. Highlights include a 85 minute chapel talk on serving God in vocation, panel discussions, student group events, and a concluding service at Douwstra Chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heyeun
Theii
Pais Philian
Yow.c. Ay
Douwstra Chapel
White Way Auto Shop opens with new facilities
White Way Auto Shop announces its expanded facilities inviting customers to visit. The notice lists staff including Heuketom Kolenbrander Kyron Melvin Ver and others employed in Paris Depart ure and Shop for lubricating work.
Rev Vanden Berg Receives Citation and Farewell Plans
The Rev Vanden Berg is honored with a citation from Central College and the Board of Domestic Missions for decades of service in the Reformed Church in America. A farewell luncheon was held by the faculty, as the couple prepares to move to Metuchen New Jersey near colleagues in California and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fee
Central College
Board of Domestic Missions
Vander Lagt
Richard J. Vanden Bers
Reformed Church In
America
Jordan Hall
M Vanden Berg
Vanden Bergs
Pella
California
Domestic Miss
New York
Metuchen
New Jersey
Bernard Mulder
Knoxville Junior High Edges Pella Junior High 21 to 18
Knoxville Junior High beat Pella Junior High 21 to 18 in Knox ville Monday December 9. The game remained tight with Knoxville pulling ahead early in the first quarter and Pella showing improvement since a prior 24 to 6 loss. Key players for Knoxville included F D Buyert P man C G Boat MR Vander Lugt and Ro Van Dyk with substitutes Balstad Hiemstra and Svore. There were four newspapers in Boston by 1765.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerrit Kuiken
Pella
May van Hemert
John Martin Visser
Joe Johnson
Des Moines
Howell Dam
Darlene Karr
John van Hemert
Eve- Jena
Husband
Murray
Dwight
Sarah Harvey
Celia
James L. Huygens
Tipto
Burkhart
Uncle Abe
James Koopman
Lorena van Hemert
Kodak
Izaak Walton
E. Raymond Mick
Hugh Templeton
Bill Warrick
Prairie City
Ted
Alberta
Jimmy Buttery
Elmer
Mabel Cooper
Roy
Grace Karr
Fisher
Joan of Niton
John Pringle
Newton
Harold
Madge Efnor
Fifield
A. L. Dykstra
Ernie
Knoxville
Pella Bays
Attien
F. D. Buyert
P. Man
C. G. Boat
MR. Vander Lugt
G. Ro van Dyk
GT. Balstad
V. H. Hiemstra
Svore
Also Mentioned on This Page
Baptist Ladies Aid
Ladies Aid and Missionary Society
Minnie Vanden Berg
Esther Boat
Pearl van Gorp
Leona Sadler
Branderhorst Vander Molen
Mabel M. Branderhorst
William Branderhorst
Louis M. Vander Molen
First
Christian Reformed Church
Vroon
Peoria
Eldeen Club
George Croll
Adult Ladies
The
Reformed Sunday School
I Ellicott
M.W. van Doorninck
Christian Union Ladies Entertainment
Monster Home
Christian Union
Jenna Monster
Gertrude Schakel
Mary
Martha
John Vanden Berg
Columbus Street
Va Berk
Jerry Vander Berg
Jamil
Dewey Kaldenberg
Joe McLain
Reasner
Sarah van Ryswyk
John M. Vande Kieft
Gerrit Vanden Berg
Joe Vanden Berg
C.H. Keuning
George Vanden Berg
Neal Vanden Berg
John
Will Johnson
Methodist Circle
James ‘Klyn
Nina Blommers
Wm, van Dyke
Holy
Walter Koopman
van Dyk Funeral Home
Lars, Shorts
Whitman Gabardines
PAC
Rentton
Cordova
Oakdale
E. L. Quaife
Iowa’ State College
Memorial Hall
Berlin Ballard
Savanah
Missouri
Ora Balmer
Vivian Karr
Register & Tribune Press
Eye Leve
Reformed Church
Mil. Ventive Secres
Walvoord
Hud
Donald Boseh
Ander
China
White Way
Vanden Berg
Junior High
Boston
Gongs
Circle Line
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