Local Notes From Otley Area Echoes Community Life
Little Florence Demonia attended by Dr Sybenga. Clarence Grandia surprised by friends at Bempe home. Rev Muller lecture well attended. Pastor Drost given a library table by Christian Reformed youths. New baby born to Ira Verheul. pneumonia ill infant near Otley. Revival at German Reformed Church. many visits to Pella and Des Moines doctors.
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Little Florence
al Demonia
Sybenga
Clarence Grandia
Jae
Bempe
Clarence
Muller
Sam Carver
Christian Reformed Church
Drost
Jake. van Dusseldorp
D. A van Houweling
Andrew van Zunk
Otley
Aaron Brummel
Prairie View
Kansas
Brummel
German Reformed Church
Ira Verheul
Pella and area residents noted in weekend visits and illnesses
Saturday gatherings at Setz Mennings and others marked by visits from Van Zee, Peter M linta, and Teunis Keuning. Numerous family visits in Pella and nearby towns noted, with illnesses including pneumonia affecting Edna Brunner and Anna Wisgerhof while Mrs. Haines improves after surgery. A birthday dinner for M S Brunner featured goose and familial toasts.
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E ‘Teunis Keuning
Cornelius ‘Kool
Mae Anil
van Zee
Peter M Linta
Setz Menning
Miss Leulah Stuff
Knoxville
Hugh Steenhoek
Setz Mennings and Family
Walter Ver Duff
Pella
Weekend Social notes in Pella and surrounding towns
Sally Verenkamp and Ed Haines drove to Pella to fetch Gertrude Verenkamp for the return to school after holidays. Mr and Mrs Oscar Holdsworth celebrated their 8th wedding anniversary with 23 invitations, decorations in cobra green pink and cream, a two course supper, and music by local performers. Several guests were sick. Others visiting included Mrs Mose Van Gorkum and son George, Mr and Mrs John Eldridge with friends near Murphy, and Mr and Mrs Ray Ager of Killduff. Miss Bruce Wickham of Ft Smith Ark and Billie Layfield of Des Moines visited family. Various locals returned to duties, with Milton Haines finishing carpentry in Monroe, Mrs Vin Campe visiting Murray, and Bert Shutta seeking eye treatment in Newton. Mrs Eliza Haines and daughter Mrs W E Moore of Edmond Okla returned home after planned winter visits in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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George Morrison
Des Moines
Saily
Edna Brunner
John Kuyper
Pella
van derWal
Milas Lula Moore
Grandma Haines
Sully
Fred Gaines
W. E. Moore
D. F. Haines
Grinnell
Edmond
M. S. Braaner
Adam Kling
J. P. Brunner
Philip Kling
Edger Steeg
John Verenkamp
Ed Haines
Hattie Boat
Edna Holdsworth
Nannie Hammer
Fay Brayton
Lillian Tool
John Boat
Mose van Gorkum
George
Dr. Smith
Laura van Gorkum
John Eldridge
Jim Moore
Murphy
Ray Ager
Killduff
Ager
Fred Haines
Bruce Wickham
Ft. Smith
Ark
Billie ‘Layfield
Des. Maines
George Stevensland
Gerald
Win Castorf
Milton Haines
Monroe
Vin Campe
Ralph
Murray Iowa
Ralph DejJong
Bert Shutta
Newton
Bert
College Notes and Upcoming Recitals at Ames
Misa Orpha Webster offered a piano solo at chapel, Rev. Fred Catlin spoke, and a piano recital for Mr. Sadler’s students is set for Thursday night January 23 at 8 o clock in the auditorium. Admission is free and all are cordial. Dr. Bailey led a gospel meeting last Sunday afternoon. President and Mrs. Beyl will host a formal academy reception on Tuesday evening. The Alfred Hastings party enjoyed a social at the Owl's Nest. The Male Glee Club plans to travel to Harvey next Friday night.
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Misa Orpha Webster
Fred Catlin
Ames
Sadler
Bailey
Pelican
Male Glee Club
Harvey
Learn Composition From Love Letters
Dr Arthur Holmes promotes exchanging love letters to teach writing. The technique echoes Samuel Richardson, who wrote and drafted letters for young women and later inspired the Pamela tale. The piece notes printers proposing a complete letter writer for country readers.
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Arthur Holmes
Samuel ‘Richardson
Richardson
Medley of Gargoyles and Hardware Buys Inspire Dream House
Anne and her husband raid a box of bric a brac including gargoyles hinges latches and Dutch hooks as they plan a medieval inspired home. Neighbors joke about legality and theft fears while the couple imagines a setting with ravines crags and a harmoniously European architectural blend.
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Holland
Anne
Tom
Alma Mater as Island of Utopia in graduates memories
The quotation reflects on the golden age of college life, calling it an Island of Utopia where memories outshine the campus flaws. It notes that American college life gave lasting joy, strength, and inspiration beyond books, as graduates recall Alma Mater with enduring affection.
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Mfe
Fost
Alma Mater
Paul van Dyke
Scribner’s
We Are Losing Our Secrets in This Shabby Age
An architect laments the erosion of ancient crafts and materials. He cites steel blades, enduring medieval ink, durable antique dyes, and mortars of ancient civilizations to argue modern methods fail to match historical quality and longevity.
Parson's chilled bars fail to stop chicken thefts
In San Francisco Star style, a neighbor is brought to police court after four Leghorns vanish overnight from Parson White's yard. Barred coop security proves useless as the judge offers a suspended sentence if the prisoner can file an alibi, with the suspect quipping about Padson White’s coop bars.
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Parson White
Padson White
San Francisco Star
Poking Fires as a Living in Jewish Sabbath Law
A Victorian note describes poking fires as a livelihood for Britons. Rabbinical law forbids Jews to kindle or mend fires on the Sabbath, prompting employment of others from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset to light and tend fires and lamps in houses, especially where Jews are numerous.
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England
Study Note on Prepared Rock Sections and Calorimetric Ice Refractors
The fragment describes a double walled receptacle containing a superior ice cream freezer packed with a mixture of ice and copper sulphate for study. Stones can be removed and sliced in very thin sections and photographed by polarizing microscope or autiochromatic plates, as is done with anatomical preparations.
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children Ad
Folio advertisement offering Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders to relieve feverishness teething disorders and regulate bowels. Claims 22 years use by mothers, never failing, available at druggists for 2 cents with a free sample. Address listed in Le Roy New York.
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Gray
le Roy
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Jake Blot
Mise Emma van Pearsum
Percy
Dr. Rawson Sr
Mise Maggie Muijenberg
Pela
Frank Ademeil
Oskaloosa
W. Silli
Henrietta van Ginkle
W. Klein
Jake Slot
R. Hart
Ottumwa
Jim Ricabaugh
Tone Klien
Ira Vriezelaar
M. Rathurs
Emma Dykstra
Tom Ricabaugh
R. Scheffers
Scheffers
Ralph Huisman
Leberty Corner
Cornelius Keuning
Cornelius Kotsre Pella
Waardhoizen
Albert Colyn
C. W. Ver Duff
Dirk Weyers
Martis Klyn
Will Dykstra
Will de Vries
Ott van Speren
Fidae Kool
Skaloosa
Henry Kenning
Art van Zee
Son Tone
Missouri
G. de Vries
David Dykstra
G. H. Fennema
David
Herbert Fennema
John, van Bonzel
Tunis
Lena
Kii
Smith
Famil Cheir Fine New
Ella
Carpenter
Gale
Sant
Ed’ Haines
Jake E. Cornelous
Pella, Iowa
Sally
Eliza Haines
Okla
College
Chance
Trimmer
Chicago
Commercial Hotel
Brindt
Ben Trimmer
F. M. Trimmer
Oakwood Boulevard
Chicago, Ill
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John Braarn
Benton Ave
Addition Street
Thomassen
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