Local notes and society items in Pella area
Tom Livingston visits his sister in Monroe. Fire company to elect officers at city hall. Mrs M L Dilly attends her brother’s wedding in Garden Grove. Geelhoed store orders goods in Chicago. Central City relatives mourn Mrs William Kruger. Artie Wormhoubt hosts First Reformed class. Obie Temple joins Pella Steam Laundry. Vander Linden moves to Langerack’s. New passengers at Buerkens Wagon Factory. Lace curtains offered at Vanderpol’s. Eight-year-old Breuklander in reform school case dismissed. Texas land swindle hits Knoxville. Enoch Billiu marries in Westport and moves to California. Ladies aid tea at Second Reformed Church. Iowa Baptist Annual printing completed. Wheat crops green in Oklahoma. Vanderpol’s spring suit promotion. Ed. Eddy family ownership court action discussed. Morris Van Helden and Hattie Lubberden wed. floor accident but no harm. Dawson Yukon trip and mine profits noted. Maude McConney advertises in Denver for kiss-based employment. Young lady clerk wanted at Sybenga’s.
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Tom Livingston
Monroe
J. E. Dunn
Central City
Pella
William Kruger
Artie Wormhoubt
First Reformed Church
Obie Temple
John Vander Linden
Langerack
James van Disseldorp
Vanderpol’s
Eddy
Christian Science Church
Concord
N. H
Morris van Helden
Hattie Lubberden
Knoxville
Vanderpol 'S
Lewis Witt
Dawson
Yukon Territory
Garden City
Kansas
John Stotts
Marion County
Seattle
Dale
Chas.Freeman
Sweden
Hunker Creek
Knoxville Express
Maude McConey
Des Moines
Denver
Sad Plight of a Dutch Boy Verses from 1877 Chronicle
A reader submits verses clipped from Youth's Companion 1877 showing a German dialect speaker lamenting mistaken identity among brothers. The speaker recounts two boys who resembled each other, with confusion over who is Yawcup or Hans, and a mother unable to tell them apart. The piece ends with the narrator claiming to be Hans living as Dr Yaweup who is dead.
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the Chronicle
The
Youth's Companion
Vich
Toder
Yawcup
Hans der Oder
Mynheer
Hans
School Convention A Meeting of the Electors Peladlo District
A school convention meeting of the electors in the Peladlo District will be held on a day to be named. Citizens are invited to attend and participate in the discussion of district matters and upcoming educational plans.
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Peladlo
Good Words for Farmer From the Bacone I T Baconian
The Baconian publication from Bacone Indian Territory features Prof W C Farmer, newly head of the institution. It praises his leadership, enrollment growth, and discipline while noting Baptist support and his balanced, firm approach to guiding students and faculty.
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W. C. Farmer
Pella High School
Farmer
New State
Barone
Norar
President Farmer
Democratic Convention Nominating Meeting at Opera House
A Democratic convention will be held at the opera house on Thursday evening March 14 at 7 30 for nominating officers to be voted on Monday March 28. Officers include mayor city assessor city treasurer city solicitor and one alderman from each of four wards. All Democrats invited. By Orper or Com.
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Opera House
Orper
Bank Totals Show Massive One Week Business
The Pella Nation Bank reports weekly business at 1.65 million dollars with over a million in the first two days of March. The figures imply about a thousand dollars per minute in the morning and two thousand per minute in the afternoon, illustrating the enormity of a million dollars and noting it would take a man three thousand years to save that sum at one dollar per day.
Pella Favored as Site for New Baptist College
L A Garrison reports a Baptist State Convention committee meeting in Des Moines that adjourned to consider Pella as the site for a new consolidated college. Mason City Waterloo and Des Moines donors plot bids and endowments totaling about 500000 while supporters in Pella emphasize local loyalty and Dutch heritage.
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Baptist State Convention
Des Moines
Mason City
Memorial University
G. A. R. and Sons of Veterans
Baptists
Minnesota
New Consolidated School
Waterloo
Des Moines College
Rockefeller
Shaw
Pella
Central College
Iowa Baptists
L. A. Garrison
Injury Brings Eye Damage to Lynnville Man
C C Arthur of Lynnville suffered an eye injury while unloading hay when a hay fork struck one eye. Five weeks later he wore heavy green goggles to work, but the glasses caught and damaged the other eye. He was taken to Iowa City for treatment and doctors hoped to save sight in one eye.
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C. C. Arthur
Lynnville
Iowa City
Snake found in Bussey department store bananas
A three foot boa constrictor was found coiled in bananas at a Bussey department store. clerks discarded the fruit and removed the live snake, warning customers to be cautious when handling bananas.
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Bussey
Bussey Press
Big Horse Sold In Knoxville For Record Price
The largest horse in the country, Hiram the Wonder, bred by Hiram Clark, sold in Knoxville yesterday. The gray 21 hands high, 3000 pound animal changed hands for 1200 to buyer Frank Frauntelter of Easton, Pa. Clark had bought him four years earlier in Nebraska for 80. He was lean but gained flesh under Clark’s care. The sale signals a notable event in regional horse trading and will be sent to market with upcoming sac season.
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Knoxville
Hiram Clark
Hiram the Wonder
Matrimonial Licenses Issued Since Last Report
The clerk has issued marriage licenses to wed including Elisha Viers and Lydia Failor William Bogaard Avice Veenschoten Morris van Helden Hattie Lubberden Wiley Beaver Sabra Spaur Joseph Meekma Bernie Amos. The list reflects multiple couples approved for marriage and filed in the county records.
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Elisha Viers
Lydia Failor
William Bogaard
Avice L. Veenschoten
Morris van Helden
Hattie Lubberden
Wiley Beaver
Sabra Spaur
Joseph Meekma
Bernie Amos
A Tribute to Mrs Kruger
A poetic obituary notes a beloved figure, Mrs Kruger, passing beyond the mountains of death. The verse reflects hope in heaven, guiding beliefs, and the belief of reunion in the summerland. The name J B Beard appears as author or tributor.
Tragic Death Shocks Small Town
A grim tragedy unsettles the community as residents recall the life of a longtime spinster who lived alone in the village. Neighbors report sorrow, cautionary whispers, and a somber mood prevailing after the event. Authorities continued investigations.
Mystery of a Plumber’s Fatal Invitation
A fragment tells of a woman distressed by exposure to a man in daylight and fear of revealing her singing. The narrative centers on her swoon at curtains hiding him at noon and a fatal, careless invitation from a plumber leading to her death.
Dyspeptic patron swaps orders amid restaurant mix up
A Cleveland globe report describes an Atchison man derailed by a playful language misunderstanding in a local restaurant. He orders fried catfish, the waiter protests, then requests country sausage, leading to a humorous abortive meal and the man leaving with his hat.
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Atchison
Globe
Grim Reapers Harvest Claims South Pella Woman
Mrs. O. Veen, aged, who fractured a limb weeks earlier, died last Wednesday at her South Pella home from the injury. Funeral services were held at 11 Saturday morning from the home, conducted by Rev. Van der Ark, with burial in North Cemetery.
Hole in the Sun Reported by Allegheny Professor
An Allegheny Observatory professor announces a sun hole 118000 miles long and 30000 miles wide, the largest ever observed. He predicts severe electrical disturbances on Earth as a consequence and treats the discovery as a major astronomical event.
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Allegheny Observatory
Billy Sunday on money among professing Christians in America
Sunday lectured in Kankakee claiming nineteen-twentieths of American wealth is held by professing Christians but not by God. He warned that some men never give away even ten cents and urged divine guidance in giving.
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Billy Sunday
Kankakee
America
Army Stories by the Author of Emmy Lou
The American Magazine serialization by Mrs. Martin the author of Emmy Lou draws attention for charm and controversy. A story about a children's party illustrates lingering divisions between commissioned and noncommissioned army men as Mr Dooley weighs in with views on the army canteen debate.
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D. G. van Zante
Gray
Ottumwa
Ladies’ Aid Society
Baptist Parsonage
Vanderpol's
Breuklander
Reform School
Russell
Orange City
Enoch Billiu
Westport
Ind
California
Second Reformed Church
John D. Gaass
Chronicle and Record
Iowa Baptist Annual
L. A. Eysink
H. W. Eysink
el Reno
Okla
Iowa
Oklahoma
Sybenga’s
Hans Vot
Dr.Yaweup Vot
Muy
Indian Territory
Business of the
Pella Nation Bank
Mrs. Kruger
J. B. Beard
Our Town
Pella Plumbing, Heating and Repair Company
Franklin Street
Main
Fairbanks-Morse
Pella Plumbing, Heating & Repair Co
Pella, Iowa
Pella Drain-Tile and Brick Co
Peter Piper
Emmy Lou
Pella Markets
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