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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1948
Page
9
Community column reports on visits to Grand Rapids and Holland Michigan, weddings, illnesses, and church events. Names include De Jong Nibbelink Van Wyn Stursma Bandstra and De Jong families. mentions trips to Yellowstone and Shenandoah radio. and notes recoveries and hospital stays.
U P dispatch from Oberlin Ohio reports that the general council of Congregational churches approved a merger with the Evangelical and formed church. Final union delayed until after January 1, 149. Effort to canvass more churches to lift backing from 65.5 percent to 75 percent. Delegates to the centennial convention showed overwhelming support.
After three days of debate the merger won approval by factions Split over immediate endorsement and a 75 percent affirmative threshold. The newly formed United Church of Christ will unite roughly two million members under a single church body.
A brief listing notes T-Bone steak and hamburger, sausage available by the pound. Also mentions various priced cuts and meat offerings, reflecting a local butcher or grocer’s ad.
Reuben Schakel John Ed Klein Wm Vander Molen Marion Verwers and Alfred Steen hock attended an Oil Sales meeting in Council Bluffs last week leaving Pella Wednesday morning and returning Thursday noon except Schakel who went to the west coast for business in Portland Oregon and California He will deliver in Portland then California. New Co op Electric Refrigerators and Co op Sweepers are in stock Hop Mitchel is a full time lumber department member and rumored to be married Martena Vander Molen stays until fall school starts
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