Courteous Driving Club Gains Phoenix Support in 1948 Era
A Phoenix Courteous Driving pledge campaign grows as Junior Chamber of Commerce members recruit drivers to follow fourteen safety rules. Three core rules insist staying right on the road, yielding to pedestrians, and not driving under the influence, with a fourth rule treating others as you would like to be treated. The campaign uses windshield decals to identify compliant drivers and promote responsible behavior on the road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Rizona
Chamber of Commerce
Buss
Editorial Comment on Farm Prosperity and Electoral Reform
Editorials from Oskaloosa papers praise farm prosperity near 1947 levels and note benefits to merchants. Other items discuss liver treatment saving lives from pernicious anemia, rural hospitality, Judge Dewey granting citizenship, and Albia elector Preston Parks voting for Thurmond, urging reform of the Electoral College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa ‘Tribune Press
Oskaloosa Herald
Moving pictures lecture at Central College by Rev S I Vinton
40 Years Ago item notes Dean H H Severn praising Rev S I Vinton for a lecture and moving pictures on Burma missionary life to be shown in the College Auditorium. Vinton was born in Burma and the feature storytelling is part of a January program at Central College.
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Dean H. H. Severn
Central College
S. I. Vinton
Burma
Vinton
W. F. Charman
Des Moines
A. S. White
Mahaska County
Peoria
Judge Prouty
Marion County
Adam Woolard
Henry P. Scholte
John R. Needham
Oskaloosa Herald
Parsons-Central
Central
Parsons
Town
Pella Canning Company
Commercial Association
Frank Stubenrauch
Rinehart
B. F. Keables
H. H. Severn
H. Rhynsburger
Winfield Dudgeon
Pella
Patty
P. H. van Gorp
Lincoln
Nebraska
Garden City
J. B. Jones
Opera House
Dena Eysink
The
Chronicle
30 Years Ago In War Era Pella And Transport Tales
January 23 1919 recalls the Von Steuben a former German liner turned transport and its narrow escape from a June 1917 torpedo attack and its sinking of the submarine. Local items include Tigers basketball versus Camp Dodge, real estate moves, Victory Liberty Loan plans, pavement debates, a bank sign honoring heroes, soldiers returning home, and community events as peace talks frame postwar settlement.
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von Steuben
Lester Welle
Henry Ver Steeg
Tigers
Camp Dodge
B. Ver Meer
Farmers Produce Company
Kuyper Lumber Company
Farmers National Bank
Pella
Christenher Wickhart
Dave Ver Dught
Bernie Vander Linden
Eq’ Wickhart
Fern “Smith
Geo. F. Sadler
Woodrow Wilson
Bert Baron
Arie
Deaths and hometown notes from Pella twenty years back
Twenty years ago, January 31, 1929, civil war veteran Martin Engelsma died at 75, astronomy hobbyist. Dave Ver Dught underwent a second operation with leg amputations and high spirits. Strand theatre billed The King of Kings. Walter Van Zomeren chased a fox for a shot. Fire damaged the Van Brogen home at 605 Columbus. Recollections on the Earp family, Wyatt Earp’s lineage, and early Red Rock lore appear from Stubenrauch. Pella High lost to Dallas High 16 11. Declamatory winners named: Langerak, Mater, and Jelsma. National Petroleum Institute head Robin L. Welch buried in Knoxville, once born in Marion County, long connected to Pella.
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Martin Englesma
Engelsma
Dave Ver Dught
de Mille
Strand Theatre
Walter van Zomeren
Henry van Brogen
Columbus Street
Earp
Des Moines Register
Chronicle
J. H. Stubenrauer
Nicholas’ Earp Wyatt
Nick Earp
Sherif
Marion County
Studenrauch
Pella
Langerak
Vander Ploeg
tVeld
Ver Dught
Beyer
Pella High
Knoxville High
Willard Langerak
Alberta Mater
Knoxville
Lester Jelsma
Robin L. Welch
National Petroleum Institute
New York
Phoenix
Arizona
Miracle of Christmas and the Puritans Fateful Holiday Invention
The piece recalls how Puritans rejected Christmas yet created Thanksgiving while Christmas endured as a wider, world spanning festival. It lauds Christmas as tender, sweet, and transformative, making people kinder and reminiscent of childhood. It calls Christmas a miracle born from divine love within us.
Pella notes include travel talk and basketball win
Randall Jones of Union Pacific previews Sun Valley and western parks for Chamber members while Camera Club views Kodachrome color films at Van der Linden. In Pella, naturalization exams loom for May. Webster School hosts a new class. Pella High beat Valley of West Des Moines 28 to 18 with Stientjex and Vander Linden top scorers. Anne Tysseling leads cast for operetta Blow Me Down with a long listed student roster.
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Randall Jones
Union Pacific Railway
Chamber of Commerce
Sun Valley
Idaho
National Parks
Camera Club
van der Linden
Eastman Kodak Co
Pella
Webster School
Mary Spencer
Pella High
Valley of West Des Moines
Stientjex
Vander Linden
Anne Tysseling
Bill Black
Tom Byers
Floyd Mathes
Lee van Arkel
Howard Grundman
Ralph de Cook
Willard Kaldenberg
Margerie van Heukelom
Martha van Berkum
Margie Veenman
Leona Vos
Central loses a close game to Simpson 32 to 28
Central fell 32 to 28 to Simpson in a tight contest as Loupee and Wagaman starred for the tars. Central held Simpson scoreless for ten minutes in the first half. Dr. I J Lubbers was set to speak at a Father and Son banquet at First Baptist Church of Des Moines Friday evening, with Fred Lautenbach assisting. Relief recipients were ordered to surrender licenses to the welfare office until self-support resumes. County Supt. J F Tracy of Knoxville addressed the Rotary Club on Education as Big Business. Reporters earned $15 to $30 weekly in 1860-70.
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Central
Simpson
Loupee
Wagaman
Will van Hemert
West Washington Street
Jacob Kuiken
East Washington Street
I. J. Lubbers
First Baptist Church of
Des Moines
Fred Lautenbach
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Pella Chronicle
Official County Newspaper
OWA Pre Association
Association Te Ember
H. H. Sadler George Versteeg
By Sadler Publishing Co
Mate Stalla
Iowa
Vella
Mary G. Brainard
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ono Atomic Leadership—A Trust
United States
Canada
England
Russia
David Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Town State Education Association
United States of America
Sam
California
Radio Proams
Muder
Ernest Lenn
Ao South
OWA
Extension Service
Soils Conservation Service
Kentucky
Hugh H. Bennett
U.S. Soils Conservation Service
South
Milan
Holy Writ
Morning Sun News-Herald
Liberty and Justice
Montezuma
Albia Union-Republican
Preston Parks
Parks
Mr. Parks
Truman
Tennessee
J. Strom Thurmond
Fapar UR
Aprile
America
Eliteo’tyme
Alexander Visser
E. J. Berguhn
Davenport
L. A. Garrison
Competine
Lucy Huber
Chicago
Chicago Art School
Laura Kramer
Madge Vander Zyl
Cook
John
Federal Land Bank Farm Loans
National Farm Loan Ass
M. D. Taylor
Clark Taylor Secretaries
North Market
Oskaloosa
Keeleman
de Jong
Phillips Station
Highway 163
Guernsey
Hampshire
Farrow
Poland
China
Ferguson
Wood Brothers
John Deere
Sunshine Mission Circle
Leonard M
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