City Council approves sidewalk and lays budget items in Pella Iowa
The Pella Iowa City Council met June 7. Mayor De Haan presided with most members present. Petitions for sidewalk on Peace street and near Lincoln street were handled and referred. A street light and culvert at East 2nd and Huber streets, plus Scholte Heights improvements, were referred to committees. May funds totaled 32,509.85 with reports adopted. Ordinance 169 setting light and power rates passed. Bills were approved across funds including General, Grading, Sewer, Sanitation, Park, Band, Water Works, and Electric Light. The engine repairs at the light plant were referred to the Light Committee. The meeting adjourned.
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Pella
Iowa
de Haan
van Zante
Peace Street
Lincoln Street
East 2Nd and
Huber Streets
Scholte ‘Heights Addition
Electric Department
Sewer Fund
Sanitation
Electric Light Fund
Cce
A. C. Kuyper
Lerk
Fragmentary medical note on urgent patient care guidance
The readable fragment describes handling an unnamed patient with care as a physician is summoned. It mentions using a palmator if available and keeping the mouth clear while attending to the patient. The text is scattered and lacks clear context or identifiable persons.
Women’s Missionary Society Celebrates 50th Anniversary
The Women’s Missionary Society of Second Reformed Church marked its 50th anniversary on June 8 with a service at the church. Mrs. D. Gosselink opened the meeting as prayers were led by several members and readings from Isaiah and Revelations were shared. greetings came from Mizpah Guild and Y W League. a correspondence from Miss Leona Vander Linden in Amoy, China was read.
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Woman's Missionary Society of the Second Reformed Church
D. Gosselink
Taylor
Bruins
D. Vander Pol
P. G. Gaass
Mizpah Guild
Y. W. League
Mary Bruins
Leona Vander Linden
Amoy
China
Anna Tysseling
Briggs
Lillian Payne
H. H. Geelhoed
A. D. Ver Steeg
Pietenpol
W. B
F. Mo
Woman's Board Meeting Highlights Service Work
The president spoke on the importance of homelands work at the Woman's Board gathering. Carl proposed an offer as prayer and hymn singing closed the program with social time and refreshments removed by attendees.
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H. M. Bruins
Carl
Peter
Court House Statistics Gleaned from Records
The following births were recorded during the past week Mary Ellen Lewis daughter of...
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Court House
Mary Ellen Lewis
Births and a CPR guide amid 1927 notices
A list of births in various townships with names such as Osie Lewis Rankin Bacus Vander Meer Hoksbergen Crosby Little Daniels Rankin Rinehart Willedge Allen Mallory and others. The text also provides a CPR technique instruction detailing how to position a person face down kneel beside the body place hands on the back and apply steady pressure every five seconds until breathing returns.
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Osie Lewis
Pershing
Helen Joy Rankin
Lester B. Rankin
Clay Township
Marcella Helene Bacus
Dughter
Jordie Bacus
Franklin Township
Gene Elizabeth Vander Meer
Cornelius de Meer
Harvey
Betty Jean Hoksbergen
Raymond Hoksbergen
Phillip Crosby
Boyd Crosby
Washington
Glenn Eugene Little
Archie Little
Liberty Township
Robert Eugene Daniels
Judson Daniels
Katherine Lorene Rankin
Lloyd Rankin
Knoxville
Willis Glen Rinehart
George R. Rinehart
Union Township
Mrvina Mae Willedge
Ollie Willedge
Bonnie May Allen
Miles Allen
Indiana Township
Donald Leroy Mallory
Everette Mallory
Pella Band Plans Summer Concerts In Park Schedule
The Pella band will give concerts in the park on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the summer months. The first concert will be June 14. These performances supplement the regular Saturday evening concert series.
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Pella
Safety Rules for Swimmers and Water Activities
For beachgoers and pool users general rules include limiting canoe use to those familiar or competent swimmers, ensuring a lifeguard or observer is present for swimming lanes, and exercising caution in unfamiliar waters. Avoid stunts, venturing far from shore for bravado, and entering water when overheated exhausted or after a heavy meal.
Hogs and grains report terse market terms
The bulletin lists hogs weight categories, shelled corn, oats and rough prices, noting price levels for hogs, corn, and oats in a concise agricultural market update. Multiple items imply a small, utilitarian farm price sheet from a rural newspaper.
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Orville’ Dykstra
Ase Oge
The
United
United Self Serve
Pella People
van Camp
Prunes
P&g Soap
Thompson
Santa Clara
Caer
Kuyper
S Korner
Spreek Met
ETY
Treasury
United States Treasury
Federal Reserve Bank
A.W. “Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury
Ramseyer
Anconas
Ramseyer Hatcheries
First Ave
Oskaloosa
Earnest Gamerius
Aldine Parker Cree
Harvey A. Long Peers
Edna W. Seversike
H.A. Martin Eer
Gerrit J. Rozenboom
Bertha Plette
Howard Sole Ee
Ruth. Thomas
Co-operative
Farmers Exchange
Corn Ness
Farmers Produce Co
John Wynberg
Pella Produce Co
Jas
van Dusseldorp
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