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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1927
Page
4
Robert Roorda and Dora Kuiper were married at the bride's parents home 1101 West Third Street at two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon February 23. Rev G Menning officiated. The couple will live on a farm and the Chronicle offers best wishes.
Leonard Hoksbergen and Anna Vos marry today at five o clock in the home of the bride's parents Mr and Mrs Wm B Voss 1208 Broadway Rev Bernie Mulder officiating The groom is a son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Hoksbergen and they will reside on a farm The Chronicle offers best wishes and congratulations.
Gysbert Ter Louw and Winnie Engbers were married at the bride’s parents home on February 28 in the noon hour with Rev J De Haan officiating. The same day Mr and Mrs Engbers celebrated their own twenty fifth wedding anniversary as Rev De Haan spoke. The couple will reside on a farm four miles east of Pella. The Chronicle sends best wishes.
A concise editorial emphasizes the home as foundational to national strength and civic life. It argues stable households support enduring institutions, morality, and communal resilience, urging readers to invest in families, housing, and local communities to sustain national progress.
Farmers in Marion county gathered at the Farmers Cooperative in Pella for an alfalfa, sweet clover, and soil acidity testing session. Attendees tested soil, discussed high yield forage crops, and shared success stories including a three acre field yielding fifteen tons of alfalfa hay. Participants touted legumes for livestock feed and soil fertility.
W. A. Hollowell, president of the Marion County Farm Bureau of Melcher, wins the open pollinated class in the eleventh district of the State Corn Yield contest with 64.77 bushels per acre from his Rieds Yellow Dent. He seeds early each year and saves ears from vigorous stalks to plant. The Hybrid class in the eleventh district was won by Cassidy and Wallace of Polk County for a crossbred high yielding corn.
Sunday schedule lists morning worship at 10 45 with sermon The Fathers World Our Relation to It and choir music, afternoon service at 2 00 in Hollands Language with sermon The Friend of Sinners, and evening worship at 7 30 with sermon First Essentials Third Reformed presents 9 30 Qualifications of the Meditat 1 30 The Other Sheep 7 30 Lot s Wife
First Christian Reformed Church notes Rev. J. De Haan as pastor with morning and afternoon services listed. Program items reference scripture readings and sermons including How to be Children of Light and The Law of the Lord and Idolatry. Dutch and English language references appear alongside times 9:30 a m 3:15 pm 7:30 pm.
Otley reports guests from Newton including Mr. and Mrs. Brownie Frazer and Mrs. John De Goey visiting local households. G. Sandstra underwent stomach ulcer surgery at Mercy hospital Oskaloosa and rests well. Mrs. A Wittenberg improves after bowel inflammation. L W Beyer moves into a new home from Dirk Freeken as Henriett Van Roekel recovers from an acute illness.
Laurens Iowa reports a unique record with seven pairs of twins enrolled across grades from first to twelfth in the consolidated Laurens School. Named pairs include Frankie and Freddie, Gale and Dale Peterson, Jean and Jeanette Coffman, Inez and Irene Fohner, Millard and Milred Carlson, Doris and Butler Parris, and Everett and Ernest Rees. Also notes muskrat hunting policy clashes as Benny Goldstein pleads guilty to possession of four muskrat hides with fines totaling 108.40. Deputy Miller arrested the suspect in Oakville with warrants following suspicions of fur dealing.
M. Vander Linden markets a full line of 300 wool suits at 21.75 each. Every one tailored to measure with perfect fit and quality.
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