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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1924
Page
7
Pella residents and relatives from nearby towns journey to Minneapolis Des Moines Ottumwa and Des Moines for business family and social visits. Several travelers halt at relatives homes including Y T Van Niewaal and the De Bruyns while others attend meetings and attend commencements at Calvin College and Asistant Postmasters.
Spike Grotenhuis is at the Garden Cafe this summer where he will be glad to all his friends. We are glad Spike likes us so well that he has decided to stay with us during the summer.
Young women and men are urged to enroll with promises of earning while learning through stenography bookkeeping and basin writing. Board room and permanent opportunities available in Milwaukee Chicago or Iowa with immense benefits and wonderful success. Only school of its kind in the United States. 219 Wells St Milwaukee Wis.
Plans for the annual Sunday School convention in Lake Prairie Summit date Sunday June 15. Speakers include Des Moines businessman W G Burris state adult superintendent and Church of Christ leader Dr H E McGrew Penn College president. Afternoon sessions at Second Reformed First Reformed host evening program with other churches. Vesper service 6 30 at College Campus. Local notables W H Howell and J Lloyd also scheduled to attend.
Two youths from Monroe and Grinnell, aged subjects in Newton county, faced indictment for stripping tires lamps and tools from a Ford abandoned near Galesburg last week. They had been in Grinnell en route to Grinnell when the theft occurred and posted $1000 bond each. Both waived to the grand jury after a hearing before Justice Carey in Newton.
Leonard Schakel and Gertrude Sels wed at the groom’s parents’ home three miles southwest of Pella on Wednesday afternoon June 4. Rev Gordon of Indianola officiated. The bride is the late Peter Sels’s daughter. The couple will settle in Pella as the groom farms nearby.
June 14 marks the anniversary of the Stars and Stripes adoption. Pella residents are urged to display the flag all day to honor the national emblem.
W H Allen returned home after a month away from Knoxville Journal reports he sought treatment in Savannah Mo for a failed eyelid grafting operation to restore a missing eye part. He then stayed with daughter Mrs Ed Gamble in Des Moines and now faces probable loss of his eyeball.
Jake Van Balle of near Fairmount faced repeated replanting across ninety five acres after bad seed corn weather and cut worms damaged crops. He replanted twenty five acres Saturday and a week earlier had to redo fifty five acres. Mrs Margaret Clark of Knoxville joined her sister Mrs Laura Thomas during her visit to town last week.
First Christian Reformed Church messages list sermons by Rev. John De Haan and Rev. B. M. Brown with times. Baptist Church announces services Sunday and midweek hours. Vacation School runs through June 27 for ages four and up with a friendly kindergarten program and daily activities from nine to eleven.
More than sixty relatives gathered at the F. P. McAdoo home to celebrate the 84th birthday of Mr McAdoo’s mother. A noon picnic followed by a program and a dinner brought together the Clark Patterson Phillips Tandy Barns Tandy and McAdoo families from Knoxville Melcher Tracy Oskaloosa and Indianola with plans for an annual reunion.
The passage lists numerous families and individuals from Des Moines Gilmore City Runnells Indianola and Roy Brown with Mrs Harry Keller and daughter Gretchen visiting the McAdoo home for commencement and notes Miss Lucile Cochrane spending a few days in Des Moines this week.
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