Do Use the Parks and Signage for Pella Visitors
A column urges graduates to shape their futures and promotes Pella parks with open pool and softball season. It notes residents and officials collaborate for a welcoming summer, encourages country drives, and recounts a Madison visitor who proposed clearer town signs after getting lost en route to Pella and the tulip festival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Madison
Wisconsin
Chronicle
Grinnell College
Grinnell
Mariah
Dominie Hendrik Pieter Scholte
Dominie
Burden or Privilege in Russia This Party Warning
Four educators and Academy of Sciences members urged forming a second party to prevent a Stalinist dictatorship. Khrushchev rejected the idea, expelling them and warning a second party risks right wing deviation and unrest. He defended one party and internal discipline amid tense borders. A reflective question ends with did you exercise your right to vote and choose your party.
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Russia
Stalin
Academy of Sciences
Communist Central Committee
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
People’s Democracy
Editorial Highlights on Taxes and Supreme Court Power
The column discusses National Tax Freedom Holiday from May 7, urging citizens to push for government efficiency. It also defends the Supreme Court as a check on legislation, warning against congressional efforts to raze or mock judicial authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talmadge
Georgia
High Tribunal
Supreme Court
Legislative Branch
Back Through Memory Lane items of interest
The Chronicle revisits notable items from 10 20 30 40 and 50 years ago. Each column highlights brief snapshots of events people and places that left a mark on the community with terse reflections and archival resonance.
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Chronicle
1906 Pella news highlights of a bicycle injury and college fund efforts
Fifty years ago Clara Vander Meulen of Los Angeles fell from a bicycle and broke a leg below the knee after moving from Pella. The issue notes college fundraisers, Endowment bids from Andrew Carnegie, a mower drive, and a drive led by Rev. P. H. McDowell. Local civic matters include sidewalk replacements, a no dynamite rule for 4th of July, and a smoke stack study for the light plant.
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Clara Vander Meulen
Los Angeles
California
Pella
L. A. Garrison
Fats
Rhynsburger
Croll
Warner
Ballenge
Ver Dught
Versteeg
van der Meide
Bruinekool
de Reus
Leans
Stubenrauch
John de Bruyn
Birth of Nation praise noted. voter trips outlined
The report mentions Jesse Curtis of San Bernardino visiting the John De Cook home before attending the Bull Moose and Republican conventions in Chicago. He plans to visit his Indiana birthplace and attend the Democratic convention in St. Louis as a delegate.
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Jesse Curtis
San Bernardino
California
John de Cook
Chicago
Indiana
St. Louis
Tulip Time finances reported as expenses paid
Tunis empires treasurer reported that all expenses of the 2nd annual Tulip Time had been paid and a sum placed in the treasury as the Chamber day opened. Joe E. Brown and Joan Blondell starred in the Warner Brothers film Sona O' Guns shown at an Oskaloosa theatre. Burglary alarms being repaired at Marion County State Bank and a new system installed at the Pella National Bank. Supervisors met with farmers at the Legion Hall to discuss grading and graveling the Sully road from Mathes bridge to the Jasper County line. Jasper County plans graveling the road into Sully.
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Tunis Empires
Wielard Building
East First Street
Joe E. Brown
Joan Blondell
Sona O' Guns
Oskaloosa
Warner Brothers
Marion County State Bank
Pella National Bank
Board of Supervisors
Legion Hall
Sully
Mathes Bridge
Jasper County
Ten Year Ago News Highlights June 6 1946
An item notes Gerald Koopman severely injured after leaping from a pickup into a crowbar in the ground. Governor Robert E Blue renominated. Frank Miles the Democrat. Central College plans five new housing units for married couples and reports a strong Auxiliary pledge. Memorial Day observances with Lt Col George Hise speaker and Legion sponsor. Graham Hall used for summer school with 100 plus students. WHO Des Moines to sponsor a record breaking plowing match and field day.
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Gerald Koopman
REA Line
Robert E. Blue
Frank Miles
Central College
Women of College Auxiliary
College
H.W. Breuklander
George Hise
Des Moines
Legion
Graham Hall
WHO
Twilight of the Toll Roads
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission plans a 41 percent toll hike for passenger cars and a 20 percent cut for trucks amid debate on toll roads as a national solution. Critics note parallel routes and limited cross-state demand, signaling a possible decline in toll road prominence.
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Turnpike Commission
Pennsylvania
Crossmountain Road
Ohio
United States
Milner farm to be rebuilt in Knoxville area in one day
Marion County reports a 140 acre Milner farm northwest of Knoxville to be rebuilt in a single day in September. Staff Sergeant Earl Vander Zyl was discharged after thirty four months service including seventeen months overseas and five months in China. Death notes Antonie J. Kuiper age 88 who died in a Chicago hospital after living in Pella and Sioux prior to Chicago.
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Marion County
Milner
Knoxville
Earl Vander Zyl
China
Antonie J. Kuiper
Chicago
Death of Jennie Van der Zyl Noted in County Records
The death of Jennie Van der Zyl of Orange City Iowa is recorded. She had traveled with Pella residents to settle in Sioux County as a young woman.
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Jennie Vander Zyl
Orange City
Iowa
Sioux County
Reverend Goulooze Sees Growth At 8th Reformed Church
Twenty years ago Reverend William Goulooze served at the 8th Reformed Church of Grand Rapids Michigan with four calls in three months and a church membership gain of about 100 families over five years Myron Nollen a young farmer received an award from Mr Stacy of International Harvester Company for top farm records The region endured a wind and electrical storm at noon on June 5 blowing down electric and telephone wires and radio antennas uprooting many trees.
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William Goulooze
8Th Reformed Church
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Myron Nollen
Stacy
International Harvester Company
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Frankin Pella
Pressy Association
Lasgbelgr Ign
Official County Newspaper
Publishers Editor
H. H. Sadler and
M. M. DE Zwarte
George Ver Steeg
Laws
Dominic
Wilcox
Ariz
Range News
Funk and Wagnall
Odebolt Chronicle
Grinnell-Herald Register
Ed TeVeltrup
McMasters
Philo
Philos
TeVeltrup
Main
Franklin
Washington Streets
Cornelia
Anna Rhynsburger
Kalispel
Montana
Nellie Rhynsburger
Elzie Wheeler
Newton
Ray Bousquet
Hattie Cox
Henry Carson
Charlie Croll
Bertha Dykstra
Myrtle de Bruyn
Paul Edmand
Pearl Manley
Martin Paardekooper
Lucy Rodlofsen
Herman Todd
Margaret van Niewaal
Caroline Gezel
Lulu Schakel
Rock Island Railway
Murray Cox
Cox
Stoddard and
Carson
Wabash Railway
Fifield
Women’s Federated Club
H. P. Vander Meulen
J. W. Boyd
C. N. Cole
H. D. Wormhoudt
Public Library
P. G. Gaass
R. R. Beard
H. P. Scholte
Lake Prairie
Carl de Vries
Pella High
The
Security State Bank
George Lankelma
Iowa University
State Board
Udell Hendricks
D. S. Huber
Mr. Huber
Kernal Bowers
Swan
J.C. Mitten
J. S. Franklin
Lewiston
W. C. Franklin
McAdoo
Auld Park
McAdoos
Keokuk
Christian Science Monitor
Rere Prete
Welding & Repair
Bernie Menning
Federal Discount Corp
Livermore
Martin Naaktgeboren
John M. Ven Dyk
Buick
Bossman of the
Getter
VOS
Pella, Iowa
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