Cooking School and Food Show Draws Big Crowd
Hundreds attended the Chronicle Cooking School and Food Show at the American Legion hall across Thursday to Saturday. Miss Dorothy Covert, Westinghouse home economics expert from Omaha, demonstrated quick meals on electric ranges and explained refrigeration and the 57 Heinz varieties. The event, with booths and coffee tastings, showcased local products like On Top flour and Maasdam sorghum, and drew about 1600 total attendees.
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American Legion Hall
Chronicle
Dorothy Covert
Westinghouse Electric Company
Omaha
Nebr
Covert
Miss Covert
Westinghouse Electric
Tone Brothers
H. J. Heinz Co
C. W. Oran
Majestic Radio Corporation
Cuba
Oran
Mr. Goad
Dora Sybenga
H. J. Heinz
Pella
Coasting Party Leads to Widespread Injuries Near School
A Saturday night coasting party near Bunker Hill school house ended badly when three sledders collided with a barbed wire fence. Wilbert Vande Noort required 16 stitches for facial cuts, Mae Vogelaar suffered a forehead wound, and Nellie Heemstra had a serious chin cut. They were taken to Neal Vogelaar’s home for medical help with surgeons summoned from Pella. The group had been bobbing earlier, tired, and chose a hill they were unfamiliar with, leading to the crash and injuries.
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Bunker Hill
Happy Group
Wilbert Vande Noort
Mae Vogelaar
Nellie Heemstra
Neal Vogelaar
Pella
Mother of Mrs. George Gosselink Is Dead
Mrs H Scholten, mother of Mrs George Gosselink, died Monday afternoon at 2 45 in Boyden Iowa after a coma. Funeral held there Thursday. She was a woman of splendid character and her loss mourned by a large circle of friends.
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G. Gosselink, Jr
Big Liquor Raid At Knoxville Hits Verbino Stronghold
In Knoxville Iowa federal Prohibition agents sheriff and police raided the Verbino bootleg stronghold about one mile north of Tracy and confiscated 106 gallons of alcohol hidden in the floor. Officers search for Pete Verbino and Miss Flossie Comstock as evidence suggests the house had been vacated recently.
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Knoxville
Iowa
Pete” Verbino
Marion County
S. E. Cronkhite
Ira A. Ward
Roy Crawford
Verbino
Tracy
Flossie Comstock
Red Cross Offering Planned by Pella Reformed Church Leaders
Ministers of the Pella Classis of the Reformed churches met at the Second Reformed church parsonage on Monday to discuss Red Cross relief efforts for breath-stricken areas. They endorsed the cause and will take a special offering next Sunday in all seven churches. The group also approved discussion of the World Court and supported U S entry into the court.
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Pella Classis
Reformed Church
Red Cross
United States
Want Ad Brings The Passengers O K
Mrs Hazel Manning from San Francisco placed a classified ad seeking a man and wife to accompany her to the Golden West. The trio of the preacher, the bride Mildred Cole and groom Harold Kaldemberg arranged the journey, and the couple travels with Mrs Manning amid friends’ congratulations.
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Chronicle
Hazel Manning
San Francisco
Cal
Golden West
Harold Kaldenberg
Mildred Cole
Mrs. Mann
Land of Sunshine
Black's Style Shoppe Holds Spring Frock Show
A large crowd attended Black's Style Shoppe Wednesday afternoon for a spring showing of ladies ready-to-wear and millinery. Living models displayed frocks for house and street wear while visitors toured the store and previewed lines, with doors offering chairs for seating and compliments on design and price, none exceeding 2.98.
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Black
Elva Klein
Edith le Cocq
Jean Tharp
Viola de Winter
Anthony van Zante
Helen den Burger
Elva Mae van Houweling
Melba Hoekstra
Dorothy Johnson
Marcia Kuyper
Dolores Lankelman
la Verne Lee
Cars collide on Main Street injures bakery truck and cars
On Tuesday afternoon alderman A. Vander Wal failed to stop his vehicle causing it to hit the Jaarsma bakery truck. The impact sent the truck onto the sidewalk where it struck a Dodge car, creating a triangle collision. All three vehicles sustained damage requiring repairs.
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A. Vander Wal
Jaarsma Bakery
Dodge
County Farmers Union Meets in Marion Thursday Night
The Marion county Farmers Union held its monthly meeting Wednesday evening above the old opera house. A thorough discussion covered the county program and several important matters were discussed. A full report is promised for the next issue.
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Marion County Farmers Union
Opera House
Calf Reunited Through Classified Ad
G Gosselink Jr outside Fella advertises a missing calf in the Chronicle. Walter Nollen claims the calf, which had been shipped to Chicago, after owner identification and paid ad costs. the ad connected owner and calf through the community paper.
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G. Gosselink, Jr
Gosselink
Chronicle
Walter Nollen
Your Chance To Have Your Car Refinished
An advertisement by the United Paint and Body Co offers a 16 percent discount on a complete car refinishing job. The deal targets motorists preparing for spring and presents a sizable saving on service.
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Unied Paint and Body Co
Bargain Prompt From Ramsey Piano Store
Only twenty pianos and players remain from the initial fifty at the Ramsey Piano Store near Over Pella Motor Company. Fewer items mean sharp discounts as stock dwindles and customers line up for the final sales drive.
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George Ramsey
Pella Motor Company
William Van Gilst Dies Suddenly at 62 in Pella
William Van Gilst aged 62 died Saturday night after entering the M P Van Gorp home. He had lived in Pella 16 years as janitor of the First Reformed church. Funeral was Tuesday at the First Christian Reformed church, with interment in Oakwood cemetery. He was born in Holland and survived by four brothers and three sisters.
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William van Gilst
Lato
M. P. van Gorp
First Christian Reformed Church
Rev. B. Mulder
Oakwood Cemetery
van Gilst
First Reformed Church
Mr. van Gilst
Holland
James W. Huyser
Pella
Jacob Colyn
Pasadena
Cal
C. W
M. W
J. W
Lena Huyser
Twenty Answers To One Want Ad in Chronicle
A Chronicle notice reports a local ad for a girl drew no fewer than twenty applications last week. The result confirms the newspaper’s effectiveness in selling, buying, obtaining, renting or fulfilling the advertiser’s aims through want ads.
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Chronicle
Legion Hall Expansion Urged for Community Use
Van Veen Van Hemert American Legion members push enlarging the hall to seat larger crowds. With available ground space, the project could widen seating, enable banquets, meetings, and shows, and seek county or public fundraising to fund a several thousand dollar upgrade.
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van Veen-Van Hemert
American Legion
Legion Hall
Hall
Local Post
Knoxville
Pella Students Win Club Declamatory Contest Distinct Titles
High school students earned spots to enter county and state declamatory contests after last Thursday’s final event. Winners include Lenita Ustermarkt and Rudolph Ulrich in Oratory, Margaret Vanden Berg and Alfred Vander Ploeg in Dramatic, and Hospers Kuyper and Irvin Jelsma in Humorous. County series contests set for Pella, Bussey, and Pleasantville with pre-district at Monroe on Feb 27.
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Pella
John Hollebeck
Liberal College
Ralph Menning
Navy
Arnold Schippers
Lenora
Tom O
Gleam
Virginia Klein
Man In
Alfred Vander Ploeg
Humorous Sockey
Dodge Donovan Dykstra Junior
Lamar Hankamp
Sockery
Irvin Jelsma Tobias
Hospers Kuyper
Faro
Joan Schakel
Miss Bailey
Lenita Ustermarkt
Rudolph Ulrich
Margaret Vanden Berg
Irvin Jelsma
Bussey
Pleasantville
Monroe
Notice to Farmers on Discounted Farm Equipment Work
Farmers urged to bring disk plow cultivator work to H Gezell shop with ten percent discount on all services and new plow shares through March first. Prompt service promised to save money for spring planting.
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H. Gezel
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George Gosselink
Want
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Black's
Black’s Style
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