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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1925
Page
3
Central College resumes activities as students return Monday evening and the first basketball game is set for Saturday night next week. The note invites attendance for those who enjoy something good.
Miss Fern Smith, a Central graduate with a Bachelor of Music, teaches piano and pipe organ in Orange City and Maurice. She splits her week evenly, three days in each town, and reports abundant work. Bachelor of Music graduates from Central are thriving as teachers nationwide.
The Cantata given at the First Reformed church Thursday evening was a most beautiful and helpful production telling the story of the Birth of Our Saviour. Delwin De Haan directed with much of the praise going to him for a successful production.
Bert Baron crafts a mantel tableau using lights and colored paper to depict the Birth narrative. The sequence features angels and shepherds, an inn, the stable with Mary and Joseph, the Wise Men, and the village, presented with beauty and fitting for Christmas time.
Martin Punt and Marion Grotenhuis attended Christmas Day festivities at Sunnyside. The brief social gathering highlighted personal connections during the holiday season.
Verna Halbert spends the holidays with her mother at the dorm. Carman Trembath and Chet Chilton will room at the Tysseling home next semester.
Marion Toom performed a solo recital at the First Reformed Church last Sunday evening, delivering a focused debut of her vocal repertoire before a modest pewside audience.
Lee Lautenbach is spending the vacation at Hospers with an uncertain return date. It is suggested pupils start piano lessons now with Mr. Sadler at the studio or by telephone. Nelson DeJong of Maurice visited in Pella during the holidays.
Calvin Bosch of Iowa City is spending the holidays at home, enjoying a quiet season with family routines and local festivities.
Deep vein Indiana lump coal quoted at 27 ets per bit and 30 ets delivered by car order. Contact Van der Zyl Bros at phone 64 for details.
The piece argues that church attendance shapes a child's soul between ages five and ten more than Sunday School. It cites Dr. Swain's views from What And Why Is Man and stresses the importance of religious nurture at home, in prayer, and in church. It notes books by Swain and suggests leaders study these questions for informed Christian discourse.
A minister and scholar discusses evolution and the soul in a new Macmillan publication. The book addresses sin, man, prayer, and the atonement, highlighting the author’s religious conviction and scientific interests. Published by Macmillan Company in New York, priced at $1.75.
A 1924 Western Newspaper Union piece argues ancient cultures valued fresh fruits and raw vegetables for health. It cites Daniel and his friends avoiding rich kingly foods and highlights scurvy in long sea voyages corrected by citrus. Vitamins, the text says, drive growth and prevent diseases like rickets and eye ailments.
A public sale will be held at the John Rietveld farm five miles southwest of Pella on January 14 1926 at 10 a m. The catalogs list 57 head of stock including 17 milk cows 9 fresh and 15 spring calves 10 small calves one registered Herford bull three years old one black Angus bull pure bred three years old two yearling steers 6 head of horses and 6 head of hogs plus farm machinery tools and equipment. Nine months credit on notes with approved security. Tram Cemetery Aid serves lunch. Auctioneers Van Zante Worth. Clerk John P De Cook. 53-21 ANTONIE VAN VEEN
The remark notes that some men do not switch jobs as often as preachers because they literally cannot. It contrasts career mobility with sermon careers, suggesting practical limits rather than preference drive such changes.
Complete Closing Out Having sold my farm I will sell at the farm 5 miles west of Pella on the White Way and ½ mile south or 3 miles southeast of Otley on Thursday Jan 7 1926 beginning at 10 00 oclock a m 163 head of stock 6 head of horses 34 head of cattle 95 sheep 28 hogs 30 dozen chickens with listed grain and equipment includes 75 good burr oak posts harness gear plows machinery and tools terms at sale lunch on grounds owner Reuben Shakel note irrelevant closing remark.
John Vanden Baard attended his cousin Johnny Vanden Baard's funeral in Pella on Monday. Various Otley residents hosted or visited relatives including the Van Hemert, Vriezelaar, Kaldenberg, Dekker, Renaud, Saandstra families, and Misses Marie and Frances Saandstra who spent Christmas in Des Moines. Abram Van Houweling improves from pneumonia after illness. Gen Van Speren spent Christmas with Otley family and escaped minor injuries from a Prairie City bus wreck while returning to Des Moines.
Mr. Swartz of Grinnell died suddenly from heart disease while driving in a buggy to his daughter Mrs Clyde Chadwell’s home in Jasper County six miles southwest of Gilman. He had visited the Chadwell home and delivered articles for a Christmas bazaar at Union chapel. He was en route to his daughter's residence.
Mrs Chadwell found her father, Mr Swartz, dead in a buggy at the family home after delivering mail. He had been in Grinnell for dental work and was over 70. A physician attributed death to heart disease. The mail from the mailbox was discovered in the buggy.
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