Iowa News Digest Highlights in Clayton County to Des Moines
Iowa reports show two snow plows bought in Clayton County to improve all year roads. Prairie chickens wander Cedar Falls grounds during winter. J J Wilson of Pella sold a six foot hog to Barnum Bailey Circus for $100. Iowa fire losses run about $600000 monthly through nine months. Des Moines ranks fifth in postal gains among 28 cities in November.
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J. J. Wilson
Pella
Barnum-Bailey Circus Company
Iowa
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Iowa Supreme Court
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Nell Louis Crone
Marshalltown
Oxford University
Teachers College
Kendall
Towa
George R. Kellogs
Story
United States
American Legion
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Iowa Co-operative Livestock Shippers
Corn Belt Meat Producers Association
Verne C. Green
Keosauqua
Penn College
Oskaloosa
Greene
Penn
General Assembly
Burlington Postace
Washington, D. C
Anamosa
Fort Madison
State Department of Public Instruction
Wright County
Charles D. Reed
Board of Education
B. L. Hogue
Labor Department
St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital
Sioux City
Scott County
New Armory
Iowa State College
State Department of Health
Iowa National Guard
Air Service
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Congress
State of Iowa
Good Roads Association
B. L. Quaife
Iowa State College Extension Service
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Jackson
Linn
Jones
Cerro Gordo
Worth
Wright Osceola
Sac
Crawford
Adams, Clark
Guthrie
Madison
Mills
Montgomery
Page
East Pottawattamie
Ringgold
Town Child Welfare Commission
Iown University
Marshall County
Linn County
Community notes highlight holiday visit and local events
Pella residents share Christmas visits with relatives in Des Moines and Ames. The National Quartette appears at the High School on January 9 at 7 30 pm with 75 cent admission. Several locals return home for holidays, attend funerals, or welcome newborns while noting charitable ads and local travels.
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Henry Edmand
Ames
Pella
H. H. Sadler
National Quartette entertainment at Two Vans this week
Seats reserved for the National Quartette show all day Thursday and Friday January 8 and 9 at the Two Vans. The event opens at 7 30 Friday evening. Also notes Byers selling good batteries cheap. Des Moines visitors Mr and Mrs N K Vos spent Monday with relatives in Pella. Mr Vos is brother of A Vos and Miss Lena Vos of the city.
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National Quartette
iThe
Byers
N. K. Vos
Des Moines
Pella
Mr. Vos
A. Vos
Lena Vos
Mortuary Notices for Mrs De Winter and Herman Meppelink
Mrs William De Winter died at the Home for the Aged on December 24 1924 at 2 00 p m aged 78 2 5. Survived by six sons and one daughter. Funeral at the Home at 1 30 p m Friday Rev George Hankamp. Interment Oakwood Cemetery. Herman Meppelink died at his Leighton home December 25 1924 at 8 30 p m aged 75 10 5. Survived by wife and several children including son Nicholas a rural carrier in Pella. Funeral at Leighton Monday Rev Voortman. Interment Evergreen Cemetery, Leighton. Large attendance from Pella.
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William de Winter
Herman Meppelink
Leighton
Nicholas
Pella
Evergreen Cemetery
Local Obituaries From Otley and Nearby Areas
Harold Durward Lubbers age 2 years 4 months 29 days died at home near Otley from diphtheria. Burial private with service by Rev. J De Haan at home. Interment Oakwood Cemetery. Helen Lucille Soetens died at home near Richland age 18 years 4 months 6 days from heart leakage. Funeral at McDowell chapel and burial at McDowell Cemetery. Deen Augustus Deen died at Home for the Aged December 31 1924 age 73 years 4 months 22 days from bladder trouble. longtime resident who worked errands. never married.
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Helen Lucille Soetens
Anne Soetens
Richland
McDowell Chapel
McDowell Cemetery
J. H. Soetens
Pella
Deen Augustus Deen
Deen
Funeral Services for Mrs Vander Werf’s Sister Planned
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1 30 o'clock at the Home for the sister of Mrs Peter Vander Werf who died several years ago. Interment will follow at Oakwood Cemetery.
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Tives
Peter Vander Werf
Oakwood
God's Dreams Dreams Are They But They Are God's Dreams
A poetic meditation on dreams of love equality and moral change. The speaker urges acceptance of aspirations for harmony across races and humanity, envisioning a world where greed lust and prejudice diminish and people meet with the divine.
Dreams of peace rise from forgotten verses
A fragmentary verse expresses hopes that men cease hatred, wars diminish, kings lose glory, dominion fades, and human love will prevail, capturing a timeless dream of harmony.
Adlerika touted by banker’s wife in Pella ad
A Pella advertisement promotes Adlerika as quick acting relief for stomach gas and constipation. It claims fast results with no griping and highlights its use for general gas relief unless due to deep seated causes. Ideal Pharmacy is cited as the source.
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Garden City Feeder Co
Regina
John Andeweg
Baby
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Dick van Gorp
Chronicle
Jake Elliott
Vance
Knoxville
Dave Welle
Ottumwa
Eva Welle
Gerrit Hagen
Carl Beyers
Abram van Nimwegen
J. W. Vander Linden
Laurence Lautenbach
State Teachers College
Laurence
Y. T. van Niewaal
Orin
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Lewis Ryan
Ruth Stoddard
Nora Scholte
Helen Kuyper
Holstein
Town
B. H. van Ness
Newton
Harriet Frush
Jefferson
Reuben Schakel
J. H. Reuvers
Prairie City
R. Synhorst
Bertha Veenstra
Tom Doyle
the Chronicle
Flora Thayne Shaw
Marion Veenstra
Marion
John Sterling
Sheffield
A. D. Ver Steeg
de Winter
Meppelink
God’s Dreams
Pella, Iowa
College Club
H. W. Pientenpol
Jacob Heemstra
Pella Produce CO
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