City considers buying a motor fire truck
The council heard a fire equipment firm about purchasing a motorized fire truck for the department. They weighed cost against gains in safety and potential savings on volunteer pay and poll taxes, with maintenance costs possibly similar to current expenses. A future report and investigations were ordered amid discussions of water, pumping plant needs, and typhoid epidemic measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Electric Light Fund
Carl Aschenbrenner
Aschenbrenner
Howell
Pella Council weighs cattle TB testing plan
The council discussed testing all milk selling cows for tuberculosis in Pella and directed the health and sanitation committee to inquire further. The health officer cited other matters, none prompting council action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aschenbrenner
Pella
Committee On Health and Sanitation
Present from California Box Forms Flower Arrangement
Mrs. P Baer received a box from her son Frank in Los Angeles filled with California grown pears prunes apricots raisins figs almonds and walnuts. The contents were arranged to create a floral surface and viewed as both beautiful and valuable by Mrs Baer and others who saw it.
Church Notes at First Christian Reformed Church
Sunday service at 7 30 p m. features a sermon on The Necessity of Personal Decision drawn from I Kings 18 21, inviting congregants to consider personal commitment.
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First Christian Reformed Church
Choir Anthem and Solos Invite Parishioners Next Sunday
On January 18 1921 the church invites worshippers to Sunday morning worship with the anthem Holy Art Thou sung by the choir and a solo by Mrs Hoffman. Evening service features additional music and a solo by Miss Lucile Cochrane. Will you join in worship if duty carries you elsewhere.
Second Reformed Church Services Announce Choir Anthem
Morning service features the senior choir performing an anthem and the pastor preaching on Bearing the Mar theme. Evening service has the junior choir leading singing and presenting music as the pastor preaches on The Bread of Life.
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Second Reformed Church
Evangelists Form Group To Restore Vocational Evangelism
Leading evangelists under Rev. W Blederwolf have organized to supply evangelists whose ability character and fitness for vocational evangelism can be assured. The effort aims to reclaim the honored place of evangelists in church work and national life.
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Whitefield
Finney
Moody
W. . Blederwolf
Desperate Holiday Suicide Attempt In Swan
W L Cass, 62, known as Lew in Swan township, attempted to impale his head in a red hot stove on Christmas Day, suffering severe facial burns and wrist injuries. After multiple prior suicide attempts, he was deemed insane and taken to Mt Pleasant State Hospital. he feared being shot and spoke of compulsory reporting to army headquarters, eliciting sheriff Cronkhite’s sympathy.
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Knoxville Journal
Marion County
Swan
W. L. Cass
Cass
Knoxville
State Hospital For
Mt. Pleasant
Des Moines
Mt.Pleasant
U. S. Army
Cronkhite
S. P. 1S Elect Officers At Cornie Muilenburg Home
The S. P. I fellows met January 4 at the Cornie Muilenburg home on East First Street for a monthly business meeting and stunt night. John Rouwenhorst was elected president Connie Muilenburg vice president Harry Beyer secretary Arnold Mathes treasurer. Two new fellows were voted in and underwent a four degree initiation in one night with a great feed and a jolly time.
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Cornie
Coffee by price will be daughters of Ruth
Coffee by price becomes focus as a local society column notes a quirky phrasing. Daughters of Ruth referenced in the notice appear to be the subject of an event or discussion, with social or charitable ties implied by the era and context.
Memories of Pelila Golden Wedding in Pella Chronical
C M Moore recalls the Vermeulen family's golden wedding celebration of A J and Mary Vermeulen in Valley Junction on November 18 1920. He muses on Pella memories, kin, and old newspaper offices, mixing nostalgia with reflections on marriage home life and local fate.
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A.J. Vermeulen
Pella
Valley Junction
Pella Chronicle
Vermeulen
League of Nations
Puget Sound
Pacific
Bastian Vermeulen
Pella Blade
Mary
Sebastine
Sebastine Schwackenberg
Brother Young
Tax rule lets merchants value inventories at market or cost
Washington officials announced a new 1920 income tax rule allowing merchants and manufacturers to value inventories at the lower of cost or market. The regulation allows deduction of price declines and notes inventories will be investigated for correctness. future changes require bureau consent.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Houston
Internal Revenue Bureau
Revenue Bureau
Huber Hurt Named Chicago Boy Scout Executive
Dr. H W Hurt of Glen Garden New Jersey former Oska loosa high principal and long time Boy Scout educator has been chosen as Chicago executive. He led East efforts and helped rewrite the handbook and will serve from January 1 with family remaining temporarily in the past. He has been active on the National Council educational committee and in conference work.
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H.W. Hurt
Glen Garden
New Jersey
Oskaloosa High School
Chicago
Dr. Hurt
East
Mr. Hurt
Boy Scouts
National Council
Income tax in a nutshell for individuals in 1920
The notice explains who must file by March 15, 1921, and where to file with the Collector of Internal Revenue. It outlines the tax structure: four percent on taxable income up to 4000, higher rates on excess, and surtax from 1 to 65 percent on incomes over 6000. It directs use of Forms 1040A and 1040 and notes full law and regulations.
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Internal Revenue
Local Paper Announces Year Ahead in Brief Notice
A compact local notice outlines plans for the coming year with basic details. It references community events, scheduled items, and broad aims without specific dates or names.
Evangelist Swift to Lead Pella Church Meetings
The Baptist church of Pella will host a series of evangelistic meetings led by Rev. Franklin W. Swift D D of Chicago. Swift, once a civil engineer, is praised for vigor and a forceful message, and is said to have guided churches and branch ministries to revival and growth.
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The
Baptist Church of
Pella
Franklin W. Swift
D. D
Chicago
Evangelist Swift
Otley Community Club Recounts War Knitting to Charity Work
The Otley Community Club, once a knitting group at wartime outbreak, reorganized after the war into a community club of eighteen members. Each biweekly gathering at homes includes light refreshments as clubs work proceeds, supporting a French fatherless child for three years, contributing $40 to Near East relief, and preparing a quilt for the Ottumwa Orphan Home.
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France
Near East
Ottumwa Orphan Home
Improved Roads for Schools in Consolidated Districts
Cedar Falls and Des Moines report that the state consolidated school legislative committee will draft recommendations for the general assembly. Chair Macy Campbell announces the plan at the Hotel Savory. The proposals include road improvements for consolidated districts, raising the tax limit from 80 to 100, and a wider gauge bobsled law, with other measures. Committee members cited include M. Z. Albers Bondurant Consolidated, R. G. Griffen Glidden Consolidated, C. E. Hearst Ideal Consolidated president, and H. C. Moeller Waterloo County Superintendent.
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Cedar Falls
General Assembly
State Consolidated School Legislative Committee
Savory
Des Moines
Macy Campbell
Department’ of Rural ‘Education
State Teachers College
M. Z. Albers
Bondurant Consolidated School
R. G. Griffen
Glidden
Consolidated School
C. E. Hearst
Board of Education
Ideal Consolidated School
Black Hawk County
H. C. Moeller
Waterloo
Eastman and Miss Crary Wed in Grand Forks Wedding
D. W. Eastman and Miss Margaret Crary united in marriage at Grand Forks North Dakota on October 9 1920. They will live in Grand Forks where the groom serves as president of Eastman Battery Company.
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D. W. Eastman
Margaret, Crary
Grand Forks
N. D
Eastman Battery Company
Eddyville
Tribune
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California
James Henry Larson
Ruth
Pelila
C. M. Moore
Huber
Oskaloosa Herald
Our
Isste
Swift Coming
Baptist Church’ of
Swift
Bromfield Street Methodist
Baston
Otley Community Club
Eastman-Crary
Steenhoek
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