Local life notes and passing events in Pella area
A busy week of personal visits, illnesses, births, marriages, and community events across Oskaloosa, Pella, and nearby towns. Notable items include A J Swanson Jr visiting friends in Pella, a Oskaloosa marriage license for Leonard Neels and Margaret Stouwie, several local visits by relatives, multiple ill or recovering residents, and ongoing social and church activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Swanson Jr
Oskaloosa
Pella
E. V. Gond and Sons
Edward
Ruddyville
J. M. Cox
Leonard Neels
Margaret Stouwie
Y. Neels
Peoria
Fay Peoria
Olive Hodges
Knoxville
Leavin
Mrs. T. Plette
Alton
Will Rogers film at Pella Theatre Life Begins at 40
Will Rogers in Life Begins at 40 heads to the Pella Theatre for two screenings Friday and Saturday as the feature attraction. The review hails Rogers as the maestro of laughter with antics, wit, and romance, supported by Rochelle Hudson and a strong ensemble including Richard Cromwell, George Barbier, Jane Darwell, Slim Summerville, Sterling Holloway, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Cromwell
George Barbier
Jane Darwell
Slim Summerville
Will Rogers
Pella
Pella Theatre
Rossers
Rogers
Rochelle. Hudson
America
Mrs. Lora Cole Fuller Dies at 40 in Washington
Mrs. Lora Armilla Cole Fuller, 40, died at a Washington hospital after septic poisoning. Born in Pella in 1898, she married Burton Fuller in 1919 and moved to Washington, D C, where he worked as examiner for the Interstate Commerce Commission. She attended local schools, graduated from town university in 1919, studied at Cedar Falls State Teachers College, taught near Pella, and pursued a law course to aid her husband. Surviving are her husband, her parents S F Cole, two sisters Mrs Edgar Wiggs and Mrs Harold Kaldenberg, with another sister having died in 1938. Funeral was held in Washington on Thursday. burial there.
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Engelenhoven
van Engelenhoven
Reformed Church
van Mouweling Auto Co
Mymouth
Ben Monsma
Fred Lok
Dick Vander Ploes
Alfred
Martinsburg
Henry Boeyink
M. F. van Gorp
New Sharon
Roc. Allen
Ames
J. E. Forbes
Main Street
Edward van Zante
Kentucky
Tenn
Ohio
Washington, D
Wheeler
Fairfield
Keeler
Spirit Lake
S. F. Cole
Burt Fuller
Washington D.C
Baltimore
Catherine Branshart
Town Falls
Neal Petty
Sarah Klyn
Loren
Jimmy
Will Vanden Dever
Oskaloosa
G. Zandstra
Otley
Rosscreen
B. van Ommen
East First Street
Gertrude Ver Schuur
Monroe
Harold Walraven
Harriet, Frush
Washington, D.C
FB. M. Frush
G.zylstra
Alamosa
Colorado
Martin Zylstra
Zylstra
First Christi Reformed Church
S. Lubbers
Grand Rapids
Mich
Charles Barnam
Faith
Dak
Tagenhom
van Niewall
Con
Orin
LaCrosse
Wisconsin
Balad
Cr. Fox
Charles City
Dr. Fox
Henry Ver Steeg
A. Veenstra Sun
Virgil
Robert Pettit
Des Moines
Pella
de Haas
Mart van Essen
Krum
Grinnell
Agnes Mathes
Jennie van Quyen
Dena Vander Pol
Anna Poole
Ome
Los Angeles
Cali
Kate den Adel
Washington
P.M. Flash
Harriet Frash
Washington D. C
P.M. Frash
Carl B. Cruzen
Longview
M. M. de Reus
Leighton
Aric Ty
Austin
Minneapolis
Willow Lake
St. Paul
H.C. Payne
Lillian
Dorothy
Nelie Barnett
Fred Keithley
Katherine Dick
Kilduff
H. Brouwer
Alice Breuklander
Gertrude Jaarsma
Dena Brouwer
Lyle Williams
William C. de Bruyn
Galesburg
Louis Klopping
Newton
Ulrich Motor Co
Ford Agency
Ford
Tom Bloodsworth
Fred Veenstra
H. H. Sadler
Lora Armilla Cole Fuller
Washington, D. C
F. Cole
Full
Puller
Stetson University
Dland, Via
University of Town
State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Edgar Wiggs
Quebec
Canada
Harold Kaldenberg
Pasadena
Calif
Kenneth Byram
Logan
Iowa
Baptist church ties strengthen in January unity event
The report notes a Baptist church uniting in January and mentions affiliation with the local chapter of the PLE, along with other societies. The fragment highlights community organization and meeting dates within the church and affiliated groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Baptist Church
PLE
Peoria Pastor Declines Sioux Center Call
Members of the Christian Reformed church at Peoria celebrate Rev. J Weidenaar after he declines the call extended by the Sioux Center church. The pastor is praised as able faithful and diligent and his decision shows care for the Peoria flock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian 2
Peoria
J. Weidenaar
Sioux Center
Weidenaar
Fine
Corn Hog Data on Way To Capitol
The Allotment Committee of the Corn-hog Association reports state audit of corn-hog contracts completed and ready for transmission to Washington. Field supervisors will begin next week to measure land planted to field corn, plot fields, and enter data at the county office to compute areas. This early work aims to allow excess plantings cannot be rushed to other crops to avoid fines. The piece also notes a mob attack in Wiggins Mississippi and announces the Farmers Independence Council of America formed by Dr. E V Wilcox to oppose governmental regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Washington
Farmers Independence Council of America
E. V. Wilcox
Utterback Aims to Secure Farm Road Funding
A 1936 letter from Congressman Hubert Utterback to Rural Carrier W. J. Van Hemert discusses efforts to secure funding and approval for improving farm to market roads. Utterback, chairing a special committee, reports talks with the Master General, Agriculture Secretary, Public Roads chief, and Federal Works Progress Director Hopkins, and hopes for a conference with President Roosevelt to formalize the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Hemert
Hubert Utterback
Washington, D. C
William S. van Hei
Pella
Iowa
van Hem
Imaster
Bureau of Public Roads
Harry Hopkins
Federal Works Progress
Roosevelt
A Prayer for Honest Living and a Simple Epitaph
The text pleads for moral discipline and daily humility before God and neighbors. It contrasts practical vows with a wary view of society and ends with a stark obituary line about more than 100 physicians gravely ill in France after attending a medical society banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
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Frank Dedome
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R. R. Moser
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J. J. Lubbers
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Henry Aalbers
Alberta Bogaard
Ted van Dorland
Sully
Alberta de Joode
Mollie Bogaard
Anna
Elmer Gysen
Walter Heyveld
White Way Auto Co
Ruby Lust
H. P. van Gorp
B. J. Brom
E. H. Mulock
Herring
Ralph Kittinger
Relief Administration
Hudson
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Sol M. Wurtzel
Welter B. Pitkin
New York
Una Merkel
Maurice Chevalier
Follies Bergere
van den Berg Electric Co
Everything Electrical
Sargent
John Wynberg
B. Fuller
Capitol
Wiggins, Miss
Pertney
Children’s Bloomers
Penney’s J. C. Penney Company
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Reasnor Rendering Company
Cary
GomDrip
Roe
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