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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1939
Page
2
The column records New Year gatherings across Pella and South Pella with visits from Fox, Shultz, Vander Linden, Vander Pol, and Ver Meer families. It notes injuries from coal, a crushed chest from a car accident, appendicitis operations, illness recoveries, and travel to Des Moines, Chicago, and Michigan. Also mentions new jobs, funerals, house fires, and upcoming meetings of Farmers Union and burial associations.
Suggest use for Christmas trees it with popcorn or decorations to protected spots. It makes an excellent feeding station and shelter for quail partridge pheasants and other game birds. If you cannot move it from the city place in your yard for song birds. Boy Scouts can gather trees and construct feeding stations. Bits of suct tied on the tree and grain scattered beneath will attract the birds.
A Memphis shopper demanded an exchange for a husband book in a department store. The clerk offered an alternative title, Live Alone and Like It, from the Des Moines Register.
Sunday schedule lists multiple Des Moines area churches with morning worship, sermon titles and times. The Little Church with a Big Welcome hosts Bible readings and prayer services. Reformed and Chr. Reform churches provide sermons, Holland services, pulpit exchanges, and radio sermonette announcements for Jan weekend.
Rev P J Christensen leads morning gospel at 7330 The subject The Peril of a Closer Walk with God Evening message Everlasting Wheels College male quartet to sing B P U discusses The Good and Bad of Dancing Four talks on each side with open forum All welcome Baptists. Second Reformed Church schedule Morning worship at 9 15 Junior C E Bonnie Tender 5 00 Intermediate C E Under direction of Mrs Lub and Mrs Wacchter Guest preacher Rev Cornelius Vander Naald of Grand Rapids Michigan to lead both services Tuesday Jan 10 7 00 p m Young People's Bible Class.
Ruth Langerak wed H N Knopf in a candlelit home ceremony at six o clock on New Year’s Eve. Bride wore white lace gown and ivory veil, bouquet of talisman roses and babies breath. Mildred Knopf maid of honor in pale pink chiffon with yellow rose cor sage. Clarence Langerak best man. Anita Vander Linden sang At Dawning and I Love You Truly. Mendelssohn wedding march played by Mrs. Albert Langerak.
A wedding took place with vows and a single ring cere mon ias in the presence of nearly fifty relatives and intimate friends. Following the ceremony a wedding luncheon was served by several hosts and the couple plan to rest seven miles northwest of Pella where a new home is being built.
A district paper recalls Christmas greetings from The Chronicle and the city of Pella. A package arrived bearing a card reading Greetings Are Mostly Bologna Anyway Others praised Pella merchandise and advertising efforts, with letters from readers thanking the paper for promoting local goods.
The Iowa Farm Bureau anticipates a record convention with early meetings by the resolutions and research committees. Allan Kline chairs the resolutions panel with members Beeben Stewart Meyer, while Martin Lauterbach leads the research group including Sones and Keir. About 100 voting delegates and state executives will meet January 16–18 in Des Moines at Shrine Temple to streamline sessions. Brancis Johnson will attend an American Farm Bureau Federation social in Des Moines as a mid representative.
Want ad notes a possible ride to Miami with shared expenses. Respondents should be familiar with the Absent Ad dress Deim Care Chronicle area. No strangers please.
Readable content describes an executive meeting and anticipated presentation to Contes about Fay agmatine and a convention opening. Names are garbled. no clear dates, places, or outcomes can be determined from the fragment.
Fragmentary text mentions marriage, bandits, radio programs and a man who celebrated a birthday by paying, but no cohesive event or identifiable entities are present for a full news-style summary.
In a troubled courtroom scene a London boy who murdered his parents faces a request for leniency from his lawyer who argues he is an orphan and should receive mitigation. The brief notes the emotional and legal nuance surrounding the case.
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