Orange City Festival Draws Large Crowd
Sioux County Herald reports a wind chilly but festival days drew thousands to downtown Orange City on Thursday and Friday. crowds enjoyed street scrubbing, a parade, coronation ceremonies, tulip displays, an antique exhibit, and the home talent play In Dutch.
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Sioux County
Gerrit Beyer
Washington Street
John G. de Bey
Anthony Hasselo
Fern Smith
Arie Vander Stoop
Tn Dutch
A. J. Kolyn
Chamber of Commerce
Eye examination clinic by Dr Shepard at Verhey office
Dr William E Shepard, optometrist, will conduct a free eye examination clinic at Dr M C Verhey’s office on Monday June 6 starting at 9 am. The thorough exam diagnoses refractive conditions using modern equipment. Those with eye strain or considering glasses are urged to attend. next clinics occur every two weeks on Mondays.
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Shepard
Verhey
Suggestions for 1939 Tulip Time festival ideas
The Chronicle prints reader proposals for Tulip Time 1939. Ideas include a new daily program, one coronation day, elevated park seating, downtown entertainment for workers, multiple short specialties instead of a long act, universal tulip planting to create continuous lanes, daytime programs to avoid bad weather, and a circus tent to shelter crowds.
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West Park
Get This Straight Bill Bananas For Babies
Bananas are recommended as a first solid food for babies and praised for digestibility. Fully ripe fruit with brown specks is praised as nourishing and easy to handle for small hands. The Dionne quintuplets reportedly ate mashed ripe bananas before age one. Bananas offer vitamins A B C and G, minerals, natural sugars, and an alkaline gentle laxative effect, especially when mixed with milk to form a balanced meal.
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Jane
Tulip Festival Praise From Newcomer Letter
A reader commends the Tulip Festival organizers in Pella for a wholesome weekend with no drunkenness or gambling. The note lauds the committee, highlights the Sabbath closing at West Market Bowl, and praises community restraint and good time. Paul J. Christensen signs the letter.
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Pella
West Market Bowl
Paul J. Christensen
Dream's Mission by a 14 Year Old Sara Buwalda
A youth poem by Sara Buwalda aged 14 envisions sailing a ship named Way Pat toward eternity. The narrator describes cruising under velvet skies, amid star blossoms and salty air, steering hopeful vessel past silvery mist toward tomorrow's dawn.
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Sara Buwalda
Pre-Synod Conference Opens June At Asbury Park
A three day Pre-Synod evangelism conference will be held at the Reformed Church Sewall and Grand Aves Asbury Park New Jersey starting Wednesday June 1 and ending Thursday noon. Rev J Harvey Murphy will lead worship as Rev John A Dykstra D D will present devotional studies on Thine is the Kingdom The Witness of the Church and related topics with panels on leadership society economy and world mission led by noted church leaders from New York Grand Rapids and Hudson.
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General Synod of the
Reformed Church of America
Reformed Church
Sewall and
Grand Aves
Asbury Park
New Jersey
J. Harvey Murphy
Hudson
N. Y
John A. Dykstra
Central Church
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Sthine
Church of Christ
A. J. Muste
Labour Temple
New York City
Christian Leadership
C. H. Campbell
Flushing
Robert Searle
D. D
Federation of Churches
F. M. Potter
Board of Foreign Missions
Dykstra
R. W. Searle
Synod plans and women’s missions conference schedule
Three conferences on Christian witness cover personal spiritual problems missions in America and international relations. Led by Rev Lawrence H French and Rev Luman J Shafer, with an address by Rev Mark A Dawber and closing dedication by Rev H Campbell. Synod opens Thursday afternoon with president election, memorial service for deceased ministers, and a possible beach supper for young women with regional worship by Woman’s Boards. Dr Wynand ident presides. Friday features ladies day with Woman’s Boards in charge of morning and afternoon services, plus an anticipated beach supper and young women conference. Greater Things campaign review and multi-year plans to merge Woman’s Conferences Arabian Missions centennial into future meetings.
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Church of Christ
America
Lawrence H. French
Upper Red Hook
N. Y
Luman J. Shafer
Board of Foreign Missions
New York City
Mark A. Dawber
D. D
H. C. Campbell
Ph. D
Synod
Wynand
Woman’s Board of Domestic Missions
Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions
Wickers
Greater Things
General Synod
Our Neighbor Shares Spirit Of Tulip Time
A reprint from the Oskaloosa Tribune discusses Tulip Time in Mahaska County. It notes Dutch heritage in the area, common goodwill between Pella and Oskaloosa, and celebrates Pella Chronicle's 56 page special edition contributing to the festival’s success.
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Oskaloosa
Mahaska County
Pella
Okaloosa
Drunken driving urged as first degree murder stance
An editorial in the Baltimore Sun argues that fatal drunk driving equals premeditated murder, condemning speed and intoxication. It claims harsher penalties and compares driver blame to cold blooded murder, warning justice should hang negligent offenders.
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Baltimore Sun
Growing pullets for summer care and strong egg production
Poultry expert advises clean range established for two years, shade and roost shelter to house pullets, and simple summer feeding. Maintain fresh water, promote growth with a mix of grain and mash, and adjust ratios by age to ensure strong bone development and early fall egg production.
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Sudan
Mrs Slykhuis Dies in Oregon in May 1937
Mrs Martin Slykhuis died at a hospital in Albany Oregon on Saturday night May 21 She and her husband moved from near New Sharon to Oregon in 1937 The remains were brought to Pella for interment at Oakwood cemetery after a service conducted by Rev A Haverkamp The family formerly farmed three miles north of New Sharon and she had Brights disease and diabetes gangrene prior to three weeks hospitalization The story includes unrelated quips from Piobius Syrus.
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Martin Slykhuis
Albany
Oregon
Pella
Oakwood Cemetery
Rs. Slykhuis
Bright
Mr. Slykhuis
Angus Sale Brings Solid Averages at Knoxville Fairgrounds
At the Angus sale on Wednesday May 25 at Knoxville Fairgrounds fifty head sold for 7925 dollars an average around 46.63, top bid 505 dollars for a heifer to P. Address of Iowa City. Several lots changed hands including Burgess stock to E T Davis and Timberline Stock Farm, with top bull Burgess Revolution sold to Elliott Brown Rose Hill and J M Hamilton.
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Knoxville
P. Is
Iowa City
Iowa
Pleasantville
Davi
Ray
Burgess
Glyn Mawr
E. T. Davis
Miss Burgess
Timberline Stock Farm
Congerville
Ilinois
Elliott Brown
Rose Hill
J. M. Hamilton
Livestock Sale Averages Jump Across Cattle Types
In Little Rock, Minnoi the sale reported averages of $150 for ten cows, $153.38 for twelve bulls, and $163.75 for 28 heifers, reflecting varied market interest across cattle categories.
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Little Rock
Minnoi
Breeders Attend Iowa Sale as Nine Purchase Cattle
The sale drew breeders from within Iowa and beyond with nine buyers purchasing cattle to relocate out of state, signaling strong demand and interstate interest in the livestock market.
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Iowa
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