Fragmented Local News Teems With Names and Oddities
A garbled town chronicle blends personal notes, marriages, weather jests, and civic names. It mentions Gerri Kiembar planning to leave, Doctor visits, a professious call, and a wanderer, with local officials and sheriff figures cited. Weather quips joke about groundings, post signs, and ice. mentions Newton LS Biggs, Dr B F Keablee hosting a 50th anniversary, and vague references to local firms and farms. Names like Marcio Paerdvkooper and Jacob Vander Pol appear amid scattered dates and places, painting a fractured, satirical slice of community life.
Chronicle Food Show and Cooking School March Dates
The Chronicle promotes a March food show and cooking school with weather permitting. It invites housewives to view exhibits and receive culinary instruction, describing it as a social event that unites merchants manufacturers and jobbers, boosting public interest and newspaper presence in the trade territory.
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Punctuation, Duties, and a Public Mood in a Fractured Note
The piece muses on care workers facing harsh weather, the neglect of punctuation in modern writing, the idea of a deadline at seventy, and the balance of rights and duties under the constitution. It ponders misused telegraph style, aging, and strategies to shift public mood from present concerns to a past-moment outlook.
This Week in Pella Comes From Local Friends and Laughs
This Thursday morning February 9 8 40 o clock in freezing weather the column shares light remarks from Howard Vander Linden Gordon Nesbit and others about stone cars hot Mayer patie e and stopping sangeter films. A Metho dist preacher story and notes on age youth and humor appear with light hometown commentary.
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Howard Vander Linden
Gordon Nesbit
Howard
Gordon
Bert Roelofser
Klyn
Flight O Tylem Flying Pitch From Chronicle Date 1903 1913
The Chronicle reports on Flight O T yme items dated 1903 and 1913 outlining aviation milestones, experimental flights and public interest in early air travel, including notes on aircraft design, routes and notable pilots of the era.
Twenty Years Ago Hews from the Chronicle of Feb 12 1912
The item recalls a 50th anniversary with ceremonies and notes Rev L R Bobbit and family leaving for Huron Dakota after accepting a Baptist pastorate. It mentions Sam Monroe fined, injuries from a scaffold incident, multiple weddings, licenses issued, and several city incidents including burns and glass injuries at the high school.
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L. R Bobbit
Huron
The
Baptist Church
Sam Monroe
Joe Veennra
Dick Koopmans
Ben van Zante
Gertrude van Zee
Arthur D. Gaupe
Ida van Steenis
Maria van Helten
Tunie Vander Berk
Louis van Toorn
Mary Alta Grendia
John A. Grandia
Jovena Klyn
Arie G. Klein
Grace B. Vander Linden
Benjamin Vogelaar
Gertrude van Ommen
John C. de Brain
Hendrika de Wild
Henry van Zee
Anna Hugens
Frank van Essen
Anna Keuning
Ben Kuyk
Adam Hasselman
Huntley
Mont
Ure. C. Ver Ploeg
Plender
van Zante
Ben Bynhorst
Elizabeth Gezel
Burglars Take $1700 From Oskaloosa Farmer 1903
Thieves entered the home of a prominent farmer near Oskaloosa and stole 1700 dollars hid in a sock, as reported in the Chronicle dated February 18, 1903.
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Oskaloosa
Local social notes from Leighton area are listed
Leighton area residents visit friends and family across nearby towns. Jeke De Bruin and A C De Jong families attend gatherings near Leighton and in Pella. Elmer Van Duren hosts a pleasant surprise with neighbors. Dennis Groenendyk hospitalized in Ossk? Orke Joons Mercy hospital. Church events noted at Christian Reformed church with twice monthly services.
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Jeke de Bruin
Var
Oskeloon
John de Bruin
Leighton Mondey
A.C. de Jong
Anna
Peorie
de Jong Sundey
Reformed Church
Gerrit Hsselman
Southead
Leighton
Har Welman
Pella
Elmer van Duren
Rene Vander Linden
Carl
H. W. Vander Linden
L. van Boekel
ZA. de de Jong
Riday
John Veenstrastowie
Andrew Steenhoek
A. P. Hasselman
J. A. de Jong
Mmre
J. van Zook
Dennis Groenendyk
Inglich
Christian Reformed Church
Eighth graders take exams at Leighton school in Black Oak
Numerous boys and girls from Black Oak township took eighth grade examinations at Leighton school on Friday February 4. The annual congregational meeting of the Reformed church was postponed from last Tuesday to this Tuesday due to bad weather.
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Black Oak Township
Leighton School
Congregational Meeting of the Reformed Church
Porterville News social notes and exam reports
Porterville news items list visits among local families near Monroe and Pella. Several eighth grade pupils from Pleasant Grove, Rock Island and South Porterville passed their February 2 exams. future tests set for May. Numerous relatives and neighbors share weekends and evenings at various homes, with multiple visits among the Van Zante, Olivier, Verrips, Huekstra, Goeme, Mons ter, and Van Weelden households.
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Jacobs van Dene
Richard Olivier
Jouhn
Emme Kaldenberg
Florence Huckert
Sporotiy de Zwerte
Elizabeth van Sehevikhovep
Herry Monster
South Porterville
Mabel van Zante
Derlene Robertus
Cornelia van Gene
Rock Island
Edna Huckertwacher
Gladys
Evelyn de Jong
Mise Antoinete Monster
Gerrit Huekstra
Pella
John Ver
Ploeg
Daugster
Eleanor
Logan
Jacoba
Cornice Vanden
Setar
Olivier
Beve
Jacoba Ven Oene
Marie Goeme
Miiss Antoinette
Marion Monster
John Cameride
Bute
Anni- Anna van Dene
Murray Sytema
Gertrude
Johanna Wielard
Albert van Zante
W. A. Jansen
Connie Vanden Baard
Gerrit Hoekstra
W. J. Monster
C. H. Keuning
Harold
Frank van Essen
Otley
Mee Ihard Olivier
H. van Oche
Mise Ella Wolver
Laconia
Herman van Weelden
Conference notes on Ver us Epic Technique at Iowa City
Mgr Pietenpol attended the 15th annual conference of the Classical Teachers of Iowa in Iowa City on February 10 and 11. He presented a paper titled Ver us Epic Technique. Despite cold weather and low mood, the event drew strong attendance with notable numbers on the program.
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Mgr. Pietenpol
Classical Teachers of Iowa
Iowa City
Excavations at Lasta Lecture and College Debates
An illustrated lecture by Prof. Wylonas on The Excavations at Lasta precedes two papers by Prof. Oldfather of Illinois University on The Extra canonical sayings of Jexun and Rome's Decline. Debating teams from Central and Parsons College schedule events with aims on War Debt and other topics.
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Wylonas
Oldfather
Illinois University
Rome
van Framerik
Indianola
Saxainal Binpron
Airl
Dorothy Payne
Edna Kooi
Central
Harold Schut
Henry Rolenbrander
Willard Langerak
Nick Roozeboom
Parsons College
Tona Wesleyan
Herman Stuart
Y. W
Nordlund
Foreign Mission
College
Dorothy de Wit
Prairie City
Clara Alferts
Alda Mae van Duren
Philo-Arethian Literary Societies
Ruth Dykstra
John E. Toms
Central College
Sakeway
Ives
Passenger Bus Schedule for Pella to Des Moines and Oskalooks
Bus service from Pella to Des Moines leaves at 9 30 a m 3 30 p m and 7 p m. Pella to Oskaloosa departs at 5 25 a m 3 25 p m and 7 40 p m. All buses depart Central Park Gate.
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Pella
Des Moines
Funeral Held For 90 Year Old A C Shaffer
Mr and Mrs R A Awtry Mr and Mrs John Varenkamp and Ifay Moshier traveled to Delta Monday afternoon to attend the funeral of their uncle A C Shaffer conducted at the Methodist church at 1:00 Interment was in New Sharon cemetery Shaffer was 90 years 9 months old He died Saturday morning from a fall down cellar stairs at his son Harry Shaffer's home in Oskaloosa Friday evening The deceased is survived by a son Harry and two daughters Mrs Ed Hynes of Newton and Mrs Will Grace of Clarinda Much of his life was spent around Galesburg where he was well known
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R.A. Awtry
John Varenkamp
Ifay Moshier
Delta
A. C. Shaffer
Methodist
New Sharon
Shaffer
Hison
Harry Shaffer
Oskaloosa
Chronicle Office Sells Yellow Second Sheets
Classified notice states 500 sheets of yellow second sheets available at the Chronicle office for 40 cents each.
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