Kensington and Oskella Club Host Gatherings
Society items note the Kensington club meeting at Mrs C F Dykstra home and Hattie Gezel hosting the Oskella club with two bridge tables. Other events include Betty Hudson's Happy Seven club costume party and an informal afternoon for Mrs H J Vanden Berg. Public notices cover an Eastern Star installation led by Mrs Ed Van Gorp and officers listed, plus many local social gatherings at area homes and clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskella Bridge Club
H. J. Vanden Berg
Handy can opening and cleaning tips from an old guide
A reader shares a method to open asparagus cans by turning the can upside down and cutting the bottom to protect the tips and ease extraction. Additional home tricks include using hot vinegar to remove paint and dry soda with boiling water to lift grease spots from floors.
Chili Con Carne Recipe Notes
A recipe fragment lists pound round steak onion tomatoes kidney beans black pepper cayenne water and a cooking time of at least 1% hours. It reads as a hand written guideline for making chili with basic ingredients and a rough simmer duration.
January recipe notes by Betty Webster
A compact cooking note presents three methods for a January dish. It describes browning ground round with onions, then adding apricots and crushed pineapple, and sugar. Variations use dried apricots in different quantities and involve soaking, mixing, and slow cooking.
Spinach Loaf with Cheese Recipe Note
Spinach loaf with cheese uses one peck spinach and one cup grated cheese plus crumbs and green pepper. Mix with three tablespoons fat one tablespoon salt paprika onion. Wash spinach thoroughly and cook carefully with just a small amount of liquid.
Bread with Tomato Sauce Pairing
The recipe instructs to finely chop all ingredients then mix with little water, bake in a small bread pan for an hour in a moderate oven, grease the pan, and serve with tomato sauce.
Molasses Cookies Recipe Steps
A traditional mix with sugar shortening eggs and molasses. The method creaming sugar and shortening then beaten eggs add salt dissolve soda in molasses stir in spices flour hot water and fold in raisins if desired.
Hint for Making Cooks Sometime
Make cookie batter ahead and chill overnight in the ice box. In the morning the process is simpler, dough rolls easier and does not stick, needing very little flour.
Farmers Union speech highlights Reno for senate support
Music scene featured John McConnell Murray Van Hemert Ed Schakel and piano solo by Bessie Bogaards. Rev Gordon of Indianola praised the Farmers Union program and Reno as the greatest man in agriculture. He urged farm unity and teamwork. Next meeting set for February 12 at Union hall. Also notes G T A Society First Reform church event at Nellie Heemstra’s home and C B Club contract bridge gathering hosted by Mrs G A Stout with guest Mrs George Gaass. Missionary Society met at Mrs I G Roorda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Refuge
The
Farmers Union
Union
Ed Schakel
America
Martha van Schevikhoven
Arleene Schakel
Minikes Schakel
John van Schevikhoven
Wilma Betty Schakel
John McConnell
Clifford Paltzer
Palmquist
Murray van Hemert
Bessie Bogaards
Gordon
Indianola
Reno
United States Senate
Union Hall
A Cleansed Temple and a Saved Soul Sermon Notes
The article surveys John chapters two and three, urging revival themes in churches. It contrasts Jesus turning water into wine with the temple cleansing, warns against worldliness, and stresses being born again. It cites Finney, Moody, and Biblicals like John 3 16 and Ephesians 3 18 to urge a robust, gospel centered rebirth emphasis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Christ
Jesus
Cana
House of God
Charles G. Finney
J. Heinrichs
Northern Baptist Seminary
Baptist Church of
Chicago
Church
God
Paul
Begbie
Scott
Shots at the liquor traffic and prohibition era critique
A pointed critique of liquor traffic and prohibition arguing against licensing and for stronger enforcement. It contrasts science with vice, warns of ruin from drinking, and urges moral action, labeling speakeasies and bootleggers as harmful to society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joy
Prohibition Critics Debate Liquor Use and Enforcement
Sorrowful arguments against prohibitions rise as critics claim more liquor sales would worsen crime and poverty. They argue banning sale fuels illegal markets, drives needful drinkers to desperation, and that regulation would reduce vice.
Frank Wheatcraft Dies In Lincoln
Frank Wheatcraft died yesterday morning in Lincoln Nebraska from double pneumonia He was middle aged and survived by two children Frances of Knoxville and a Newton resident His wife had died earlier Also noted is a family connection to Miss Vande Keift a Pella area cousin of J H Vande Keift The piece ends with a quoted remark from Dr Nicholas Murray Butler about thoughts and the year 1932.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Wheatcraft
Pella
Vande Keift
J. H. Vande Keift
Lincoln
Nebr
Mr. Wheatcraft
Frances
Knoxville
Newton
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Gerald Paardekooper
Black
Kensington Club
Happy Seven Club
Betty Hudson
Happy Seven
Ed. van Gorp
Norman
Len Denberger
John Nieberg
McCombs
Bert van Haaften
van Haaften
Tressurer
H. C. Payne
Frances Pals
Paul Grundman
Adah
Ruth
Wayne Wilson
Esther
Connie Smorenburg
Martha
B. W. de Bruyn
Electa
B. F. Vander Linden
Ross Schakel
Warder
Leona Reuvers
Carl Byers
Waechter
Freda Gezel
George Francis Gezel
G. H. Waechter
H. L. Sherman
H. Grundman
M. G. R. Club
H. L. Renaud
Tunis Klein
L. A. Kuyper
W.C.T.U
Womens Christian Temperance Union
Wesselink
Henry Grandman
Henry
St. Louis
Ralph Grandman
George Ver Stee
Holland Singing Club
Women’s Federated Club
Womens’ Federated Club
Elmwood Inn
B. H. Langerak
C. van Domselaar
Florence Larsen
Irma Beman
Murray Nesbitt
H. W. Pietenpol
Moonlight Mission
Moonlight Mission Band
Dorothy Wormhoudt
Sara Schakel
Emily Kuyper
Mary
Jane Baron
Betty Carter
Young Women's League
John Groenendyke
Young Women’s League
the Second Reformed Church
N. E. Crook
John Ulrich
Prescott Steenhoek
Murray Grandin
Jeanette de Jong
Steenhoek
Miss de Jong
Nellie
Jeanette van Heukelem
Anita Vander Linden
Clara Meinders
Bessie
Katie Bernice van Engelhoven
Janella Meppelink
Emma de Bruin
Stevanna
Tena van Roekel
Irene van Haaften
Clara de Bruin
Jeanette Ter Louw
Jeanette
Adelphine Bakker
Marie Vos
Home and Garden Club
James Huyser
Peter de Cook
Richard Lewis
R. Vander
the Chronicle
Gertrude, Bruinekool
Central Upper Iowa
Verle Ramsey
W. A. Anderson
Dariene
George Ramsey
C. F. Dykstra
Dan Meulpolder
Meulpolder
Mr. Dykstra
Betty Webster
Marmalade
G. T. A. Society
G. T. A. of the
First, Reformed Church
Nellie Heemstra
C. B. Club
G. A. Stout
George Gaass
R.T. Nordlund
D. L. Moody
Clow
Glasgow
Scotland
Judea
Samaria
David Livingstone
Africa
Samson
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia
Vander Linden
Cole
Bottling Co
P. S
Penney
J. C. Penney Co
Department
Franklin Street
Pella, Iowa
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