Pella area notes on church school and travels
Local item roundup lists Alvin Evers Willard Langerak and Miss Pearl Shinn at the Iowa State Leadership Training School in Penn College Oskaloosa with church affiliations. Families attend vesper services, World’s Fair plans in Chicago, various visits and outings in Minnesota Des Moines Rochester and Des Moines. Children ill with Brights disease and local church events noted.
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Alvin Evers
Willard Langerak
Penn College
Oskaloosa
Second Reformed Church
Miss Pearl Shinn
First Reformed Church
Activities of City Churches at open Bible church
Church notices list weekly meetings at Church of the Open Bible with sessions on Wednesday 7 46 p m Saturday 7 45 p and Sunday services including 6 45 a m Sunday school 6 46 p m Young people's meeting and 7 30 p m Evangelistic Services.
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Church OF the Open Bible
Sunday worship and sermon schedule announced
Sunday school begins at 9 30 morning worship follows at 10 45 with a sermon titled Patience Have Taken Away My Lord P U services at 6 30 evening worship at 7 30 with a sermon titled In the Toils of Sin including brief notes on services and attendance
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Patie
Bondage and Liberty Observed in Dutch Communion Services
Sunday school at 9:00 a m and communion services at 8:00 a m are noted with Dutch phrasing Bediening van het Heilige Avondmaal. The fragment mentions religious services and themes of bondage and liberty tied to the Sunday rite.
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Het Heilige Avondmaal
Christian Access to the Holy Place Service Schedule
A fragmented church notice outlines morning communion and evening events with unclear times. It mentions Christian access to sacred space and morning communion, but the full schedule is garbled and partially unreadable.
Superintendent's School Report and Finance Summary
The Superintendent's annual report shows total public school enrollment at 658 for the year ending June 2, down from 690 in 1932. Instruction cost fell from 6.13 to 4.66 per pupil per month in grades, and high school costs dropped from 10.00 to 9.00. Country-tuition pupils totaled 69 in high school and one in grades, with tuition earnings of 5343.06. Only three boys came to high school from country districts, one remained all year. Pella schools employed 26 teachers. average high school salary was 1269, grade teachers 970.20. Athletics suffered due to losses from last year, but about 60 percent of games were won and prospects for next year look excellent. Gate receipts were small, with programs and lay plans funded to cover running expenses. the year opened with a deficit of 181.60, now cleared by costs containment and organizational support. Totals from gate fees: football 54.89, basketball 178.25, baseball 7.96, 86.09. Without away games support, the deficit would have been larger. A humorous aside notes twins named Thunder and Lightning, with a fortune teller gag about spirits.
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Pella
Perps
Amidon
A Vision of Taxation
A humorous poem from G. A. Haywood sent to the Chicago Daily News lampoons high taxes. The speaker, a farmer, imagines taxes invading every room of his home and life from ceiling to windpipe, concluding with a satirical forecast of further levies on air.
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The
Chicago Daily News
G. A. Haywood
Practical Household Tips From a Past Era
A round of concise advice covers saving money on food by buying day old bread in bulk, avoiding harsh cleaning with heavy suds on linens, deterring beetles with sugar and soda, and using turpentine on woodwork. It also notes sunlit canning harms color, rose buds stay closed if singed, and delicate silks respond to dry cloth stain removal.
Wooden Leg Money Deepens Colfax Record History
Colfax California history notes a 1919 tale from The Record about publisher Thomas G Nichol son dying with a wooden leg containing a $1000 gold note kept by the county treasurer. Teachers’ warrants were paid with the note, later used as change at a bank, and the note faced cancellation in Washington. Miss Schillinger, later Mrs. Spanger, toured with her children to view Hamilton’s portrait on the note.
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Colfax
Cal
Record
Thomas G. Nicholson
Mary Schillinger
Alexander Hamilton
Angles for Death Sentence in Budapest Doctor Hoax
A Budapest medical professor faced chest pains and staged a desperate ruse by posing as a patient to confirm a feared cancer verdict. He visited a Vienna consultant, who affirmed the diagnosis and prolonged the hoax by two weeks before his life ended in a reckless spree. Mr and Mrs Jacob Neet of Tracy visited Sunday at the A A Van Roekel home.
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E. V. Goad
Edward
Richard
Harold
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Barnes City
Henry Kool
Goad
Springville
Iowa
Mary Russell
Chillicothe
Anita Vander Linden
Dena Vander Pol
Lester Gates
Marilyn
Des Moines
Joe Helt
T. H. Klein
Luella’ van Rees
H. W. van Maren
N. van Maren Ome
A A. Dietrich
Robert
R. M. Smith
Harriet Helt
J. W. Helt
N. van Maren
Augustine
Knoxville
W. H. Button
Assam
India
Pella
Marjorie
Katherine
Robert Lee Lautenbach
Lester van Gorp
George Kennedy
Nevada
A. A. van Roekel
Chas. Lautenbach
Lee Lautenbach
Chris le Cocq
New Sharon
Brommers
Tone Brom
Fairfield
S. Beerends
Perry Smith
George Way
Herman Welle
Newton
Kate Karl
Budapest
Vienna
Diag
Jacob Neet of
Tracy
A. A
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James West
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Helen
Marion Tooms
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Iowa City
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Elsie Mae
Percy
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Sam van Vliet
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Jack and
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Clarence Oosterburger
Dubuque
Bob Baron
Sioux Center
Henry W. Muilenberg
Corsica
S. D
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Herman Groetveld
Wm. Groetveld
Century of Progress
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Clara
Lenora Hartman
Marengo
John Vander Linden
Mr. Vander Linden
Bondurant
R. Smith
Carson
Billie Bientema
Mahaska
D. S. Barr
Ww. van Vark
Sully
Prairie City
Harvey
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van Houweling
Albert van Houweling
Detroit
Frank de Wit
Eva Mae
G. G. Vander Wilt
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Town City
Andrew van Drimmelen
Tunis Brom ‘of
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R. M. Shall
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Arthur Renaud
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