Pella Christmas News Roundup and School Notes
Pella residents visit relatives and friends in nearby towns while students and faculty participate in holiday activities. The notes list numerous visits by locals to Oskaloosa Des Moines Monroe Valley Junction and Newton, along with Christmas trips to Peoria and Denver. School highlights include a Christmas vacation schedule, a science teacher resignation, a first basketball win over Knoxville, and a close declamatory contest won by Marguerite Cole with Verna Halbert and Marion Wormhoudt in second and third. The event featured new glee clubs and a varied program with choral and dramatic numbers.
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Knoxville
Pella
Marguerite Cole
Verna Halbert
Marion Wormhoudt
Miss Cole
la Rue
Ruth Grandia
Anna VanderLinden
Verdi Boy’s Glee Club
Marion Kuiken
Genoa
Rome
Will Zinberg
Ergman
Pella Corn Growers Show Attracts Crowds Despite Low Exhibit Count
The annual Pella Corn Growers Association meeting and exhibition drew large crowds at LeCocq store last week with about two thirds the usual corn on display. An Ames corn expert praised the quality and urged showing more at the state meeting. Prizes up to 15 dollars were offered by members and local business leaders, though the event’s main value lies in knowledge shared and experience comparisons for local farmers. The fifth annual gathering strengthens its benefit to the community’s growers each year.
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Pella
Ames
Pella District Fair Elects Officers for 1916
The Pella District Fair directors held their annual meeting this week naming officers for the coming year. C Dieleman was elected president with M C Slob as vice president and B H Van Spanckeren as treasurer. A W DeBruyn will serve as secretary F DeCook is chief marshal and G Liter custodian Plans for a larger fair include two night shows to enhance the event.
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Pella
Booster Meeting Planned to Back Officials at Fair
Officials call for wide turnout at next month’s booster meeting to show appreciation for officers and directors of the fair and reinforce support for their work.
For Sale Second Hand Majestic Range and Oak Bookcase
Two good condition items offered by FF. R. Gambell's store. A Majestic steel range with water front and an oak sectional bookcase are available. Inquiries welcome. A piano at a bargain also offered by Schmoller Mueller Piano Co. Omaha Nebr.
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Sal
FF. R. Gambell
Pella
Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co
Omaha
Nebr
Turned the Tables Doctor Beats Bill Collectors
A New York physician who avoided collectors by feigning absence finally invited one in with a bill and endured a scene of indignation. The anecdote frames a crafty tax of payment using a ruse that left the collector inside awaiting a visit that did not happen.
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New York
Third collector’s failed attempt ends in partial payment
A New York Sun report recalls a third collector who entered with a bill around $15 but left without settlement. He was charged about $10 for his professional visit, and two others faced the same treatment. The tactic spread among collectors until professional calls were abandoned, then collections resumed by other means whenever possible.
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New York
Sun
Americans and foreigners in a foreigner's lens
A World Outlook student essay mocks foreign customs and stereotypes while noting Americans as clean and fond of dancing and baseball. It contrasts European habits, English fashion and expensive cuisine with American dress, collars, waist bindings, and the practice of high under the chin cloth. It also cites a discussion by Professor John Aitken on color perception and the saying seeing is believing.
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Peking
World Outlook
America
An Artist's Struggles Recalls Von Herkomer Early Days
The famed painter Professor von Herkomer faced severe hardship in his beginnings. He attributes his eventual success to an inexhaustible stock of patience and self confidence that carried him through lean years.
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Professor von Herkomer
Early life of a struggling artist to fame
A fragment recalls a man who sold his first picture for two pounds and later earned a few pounds weekly through a cartoon, supplying a cut to a comic Dal. Unable to secure stable work, he tried a troupe of players without success, then designed carpets. After years of poverty he finally found employment with a weekly illustrated journal, per the Gondol Globe.
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Proodacty Wivewoincone Rt. En
Player
Illustrated Journal
Gondo! Globe
Ownership of Deserts and Water as Land Value
The national government nearly owns all deserts, but Texas may see public lands pass to private owners via allotment tied to productivity. Water supply drives land value. in arid areas from 500 to 10,000 acres may be needed per family. The mussarama or snake killer in the Bronx Zoo, nonpoisonous, fights venomous snakes. It coils to kill small prey but is vulnerable to coral snake venom. Languages tracing Romance roots note French Spanish Italian Portuguese derive from Latin, while Germanic tongues grew apart from Latin.
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Bronx Zoo
New York
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Art
DeBruine
Os“furs
Herman Veenstra
Oskaloosa
Ben DeHaan
Mrs
Jacob de Haan
James Lankelma
Lucy Huber
W. B.laforce
Ottumwa
B. H. Langerak
Fred Clifton
Peoria
K. van Steenbergen
Newton
S. G. Vander Zyl
van Steenbergen
VanderZyl Bros
H. P. VanderMeulen
G. A. VanderMeulen
Monroe
Cornelius Koopman
Valley Junction
N. VanVliet
S. N. van, Willet
Leighton
Mera Buwalda
J. P. Klein
Prairie City
Wm. G. Klein
Adams, Nebr
Roy Hillyer
Hiawatha
Kans
T. Plette
George Wills
Ancho, N. M
J. S. Rhynsburger
Des Moines
Will
Colorado
George Lankelma
The
State University
Iowa City
Mrs. H. Rhynsburger
Horace Buckingham
Lavina
Mont
Peila
Ralph Grundman
Harry Awtry
Will VerPloeg
James van Vliet
Iowa Telephone Co
John TerLouw
South Street
L. D. Schakel
Mr. TerLouw
D. S. Huber
Mr. Schakel
Oskaloosa Street
Chapman
Correctionville
Aida
Verdia High School Chorus
the New South
Marlon Wormhoudt
Herbert
Girl's Glee Club
the Cort Film Corporation
Walker Whiteside
Zanswills
Story
the Chronicle’s
Chronicle
T. Nielson
Milwaukee Ave
Chicago
South Broadway
J. F. Mowe
Broadway
John Aitken
Nature
Insi
Bankers Madden Health Insurancs
Iowa
Carri Geo. VerSteeg
Payne
C.e.gilbert
Jaugust
Ces Club
Womans World
Farm Life
Home Life Household
Club D Poultry Post Womans World Household Farm Life
Todday’s
Free Potters
Club E Peoples Home Journal
Household Farm Life
Pella Chronic
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