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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1976
Page
3
A reader extols Willard Espys An Almanac of Words at Play praising its breadth of word curiosities like puns mnemonics and tongue twisters. The piece lists playful examples and odd word pairings reflecting linguistic humor and oddities.
Harvey, Iowa grew from railroads and shops into a busy market town. It boasted three railroads, six passenger trains, ten freight trains daily, a national bank, a brick plant, two churches, a four-teacher school, telegraph and express offices, and multiple stores. By 1915 it was the largest town in Clay Township with a 1910 population of 346 and municipal property valued at 156,492 dollars.
Mr and Mrs Marvin Tysseling of Pella announce the engagement of their daughter Jill Diana to Michael A Golrick son of Mrs Edwin K Golrick and the late Mr Golrick of Shewsbury Massachusetts Jill is a 1971 Pella Community High School and 1975 Central College graduate now at University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science Michael earned a 1975 Brown University bachelor’s degree and is also studying in Illinois A September wedding is planned.
The weekly Pelladium section is missing due to bad weather icy roads illness among staff and other school activities.
Women's Federated Club members are invited to a convention at the First Reformed Church in Pella Thursday. Registration at noon precedes a salad luncheon, with attendees bringing salad and table service. The meeting, chaired by County Chairman Mrs. Louis Jensen, begins at 1 pm and includes a China and Mandarin program by Dr. Louis Jensen. The Pella Community High School senior trio will sing the Pella Bicentennial Song composed by Joyce Kuyper.
Three Pella area students earned degrees at Iowa State University. Ivan Eugene Vos of Leighton earned a B.S. in agricultural education. Chag A. Van Waardhuizen of 1015 Hazel St. earned a B.S. in agricultural business. Rudy Vern Renaud of Sully earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering.
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