Pella visitors and local social notes seam Saturday travels
LillIan Mc Reynolds visited Sunday with home folks. Dorsey Parker visited his grandma Mrs Eliza Parker in Pella for a few days. Families of J B Vriezelaar and W O Frazer spent Sunday with Nellie Vrieselaar. Otley and Knoxville residents noted. Cramped news with weather and social updates. Roads improved for sleighing and rabbits hunted. many locals attend funerals and gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Van
Houweling
Dorsey “Parker
Pella
Eliza Parker
J. B. Vriezelaar
W. O. Frez
Nellie Vrléxelaar
Otley
Neil Bruinekool
Fred ‘Lankelma
Abe Dykstra
Thoreday
T. H. Kaldenberg Sr
Herman
John Stineman
Os- Kaloosa
Alex de Geesta
Frank Adair
John A. Davis
P. Davis
Valley Junction
Olivet
Stephen de Geest
Pleasantville Area Social Notes Reflect Mild Weather
The column records residents enjoying good weather as they visit and host over the weekend. Names include Art Kleinenhorst visiting the Wervers, Maranda Micksell with her brother Chas Houck, Harlie Carpenter and A C Weavers with a sister near Pleasantville, and Nellie Brown visiting with Mrs P Woliver. A few trips and domestic matters are noted such as Cordova trips and a visitor from Mouiton spending the winter nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Kleinenhorst
Wervers
Maranda ‘Micksell
Red
Rock
Chas. Houck
Harlie Carpenter
A.C. Weavers
Harry Moomaw
Pleasantville
Grandta Ranger
Iowa
Otterances from Greely residents report frequent Oska loosa and town calls
Cold weather sets the scene as residents list Oska loosa callers Pete Burgraaf John Van Maanen and Chas Vous plus visits to Oliver Leighton Pella and Chicago. Hog deliveries continue with Jno Moody Paul Zylstra and John Moody attending events including a funeral for John Davis at Valley Junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pete Burgraaf
Geo.i Ryan
Oliver
Chicago
John van Maanen
Philip Olivier
Paul Zylatra
Gladys Moody
Jno. Moody
Neil Heemetra
Leighton
Jno
Moody
Olivet
John Davis
Valley Junction
Jno. van Maanen
Oska Jooss
Paul Zylstra
Pella
Bethel Reformed Church Sermon by Rev Dé Bruin
Sunday services featured Rev Dé Bruin of Bethel filling the pulpit at the Reformed church. The Willing Society met with Mrs Gerrit Van Houweling Tuesday due to cold weather, with all coats accounted for except those worn by helpers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dé Bruin
Bethel
Reformed Church
Mre
Gerrit'Van Houweling
Community bids farewell as Dr Howe family moves west
The Howe family departs for Keokuk on Saturday, leaving Boon with best wishes. Dr J Sybengai joins the midwest town, replacing them as the new general merchandise store opens soon. Local residents Peter Stavia and Albert Van Duren small tasks in the blacksmith shop amid cold weather delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howe
Keokuk
J. Sybengai
David de Cock
Sam
Burgraet
Win. Visser
Pella
Esther _ Van “Zee i
A. van Duren
Childéers
van Duren
Peter Stavia
Albert van Duren
BIDS FOR ROAD WORK IN LAKE PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP
Township clerk announces bids for public highway work for 1912 with eight hour days. Contracts cover man and team two men two teams three men three teams or man only, divided into four parts. Lowest responsive bid wins. board may reject any or all bids. Bids due by January 31, 1922. Also seeks applicants for road dragging superintendent. Chas. Porter, Township Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Prairie Township
Board of Trestees
Chas. Porter
Prizes at Pella Corn Show at Langerak’s Drug Store
At Langerak’s Drug Store in Pella prizes awarded in Class A to L Vander Streek M J Kempensar Jno Langerak and C H J E Bauma Class B winner A E Roorda with others named Class C lists several claimants and the winner Jno Van Newenhuizen Class D notes several entries and a largest ears award to Jno Hagens and A Meidems L Vander Streek among those cited The note adds that on Tuesday afternoon this week members met and elected officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Langerak's
Hara Yellow Corn
L. Vander Streek
M. J. Kempensar
Jno. Langerak
C. H
J. E. Bauma
A. E. Roorda
Mi. J. Thomassen
A. Meidema
Jno. Vanden
Jno
van Newenhuizen
Bernard Bewalda
Corneline Dileman
Origins of the word dad across languages and eras
The passage surveys sixteenth and seventeenth century usage of father terms noting Italian pappa as a teaching word for fathers, compares dad ded die bad variants in English, and cites Nausicaa in the Odyssey with pappa phile while mentioning Greek tata Welsh tat and Irish dald as equivalents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florio
Pappa
Deddie
Nausicas
Pappa Phile
Papa
Tata
New York Water Supply Suggests Drastic Rainfall
A historic note argues that the world population totals about 1,600,000, and that an inch of rain on New Yorks watershed would yield two gallons per person. It claims if every person on earth poured two gallons into the sources, it would last New York less than ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York City
Infant mortality as measure of social welfare in cities
Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare or sanitary administration, especially under urban conditions. A heavy infant mortality implies a heavier death rate up to five years of age, and districts with high child mortality show higher overall death rates than those with low infant mortality. Neusholme in the National Food Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neusholme
National Food Magazine
Limited coal supply sparks lecture remark
A scientist warns that coal reserves are finite while a heckler in the back row laments wasting fuel heating the hall. The Washington Star quotes the exchange with a sharp aside about the lecture's energy usage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jongs
Scott
Washington Star
Ideal Room Temperature For Sedentary Persons
An ideal room temperature for sedentary individuals lies between 66 and 70 degrees. Temperatures below this range trigger the body's heat regulating system to constrict peripheral vessels, causing internal congestion and creating conditions favorable to catching a cold.
Reluctant Criticism Amid Moonlit Bay Window
A girl gently pushes Augustus aside in a moonlit bay window while teasing his hair dye and mustache. The scene shifts to a note on coconuts highlighting their value as food and drink in tropical regions and as shade for plantations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus
Ungallant Man and a Woman’s Suffrage Theory
A fragmentary note reflects on an ungallant man who argues women’s suffrage will not change anything. It mentions a wife angered by her husband who diets and avoids meals, and references a novel, dusting methods, and paintings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Daily acts of heroism keep a race of heroes alive
The passage praises ordinary daily courage, noting many deserve thanks but seek no recompense. It extols heroic conduct beyond stars and calls on brave men and grand women to perform unselfish deeds. It argues that such selfless impulse preserves humanity on earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stara
Britain’s Tongues and the English Linguist Claim
The passage lists seven languages spoken within the British Isles English Welsh Erse Manx Gaelic French in the Channel Islands and Cornish in Cornwall It notes the Englishman is said to be the poorest linguist despite the limited tongue set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
British Isles
Ireland
Manx
Isle of Man
Scotland
Channel Islands
Cornwall
Flaubert's First Novel Revealed as Novembre Publication
The Athenaeum notes that Flaubert's debut novel Novembre, written in 1842 when he was twenty one, stands out among recently published hitherto unpublished works by Gustave Flaubert for its dreamlike lyric quality and imaginative focus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flaubert
Gustave
Conrad
Athenaeum
Striving Must Prevail Thoreau Quote Reflected
A condensed quotation from Henry David Thoreau on the value of striving toward noble aims. The speaker questions whether persistent effort toward heroism sincerity and truth ever fails and suggests continual ascent through virtuous pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. D. Thoreau
Italic type origins and humble greatness in science
The piece covers Italic type origins from 1500 Venice, noting Aldus and a British Museum copy of Vergil. It also quotes Ruskin on humility as a test of greatness. Additional items describe palm treatment with castor oil for skin scales and a shellac varnish recipe for bed prasa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manutius
Venice
Aldus
British Museum
Good News and Good Health in Odd Bits
A jumble of clipped notes and reflections covers opinions on critics versus teachers, a tree feller device, health wealth and luck, and a stray accident. Miss Bess Berg sprains her wrist after slipping on a peel while an osteopath advertises in a local issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ick
Bess Berg
Free Eye Clinic Offers Free Examinations This Week
Dr. C F Avhenbrer announces a free eye clinic with Fred C LaGr ialist presenting refraction methods. On Thursday Friday and Saturday 18 19 20 1920 local residents with eye strain or vision trouble may receive complimentary exams at his office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred C. LaGrialist
C.F
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Etley
W. Everett
Des Moines
Dirk Vander Ploeg
W. O. Frazer
Newton
Gerrit van Houweling
Pells
Red Brush
JT. Tk. Carpenter
Harry. Steincamp
John Sytama
Joe” McCombs
Fifield
Greely
Otterances
Pete Burgaaf
Oskaloosa
Chas. Vous
Samuel
Geo. Rys
Frank ‘Bartlow
John’ Moody
M. J.thomassen
W. Bockhoven
Erd
GLASS
New Idea Magazine
Ruskin
Lisa
Mamma
papal—Fiegende
J. M! Dyer
Deljes
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