Local notes from Pella and surrounding towns
Weekend visits and social events fill Pella and nearby towns with activity. Miss Nancy Renaud of Ames visits home, while Des Moines guests and Des Moines professionals are noted. A Braar and Ex change at Van Niewaal Building, church-affiliated events, radio programs from Station WHO feature Marion Frush and Lucille Cochrane performances, and local business updates include Puritan Drug Co. ads and Langerbartles ros clothing firm purchase. Major births, sickness updates, and upcoming sales are listed among community updates.
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Dane Ete Lra
Norman Langerak
Owatana
Minn
Dudok
Pillsbury Academy
Marion Frush
Pella
Lime and fertilizer yield doubled profits on tested soils
The Kentucky and Iowa Experiment Stations report lime with fertilizer greatly boosts yields. Liming plus fertilizer outperforms fertilizer or lime alone, with oats responding well and clover failing without fertilizer on limed ground. Both inputs are essential for phosphate-deficient soils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Iime
Iowa
The Sword Lily by Norman Lewis review
A compact publisher notice and critique praising Norman Lewis's The Sword Lily. It highlights four stories from Nebraska plains life to prehistoric cave dwellers, noting modern epic quality, ethical tone, and the author’s experiences in the Penobscot region, Wyoming, Oregon, and Colorado Rockies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Lewis
Nebraska
Lewis
Chadron College
Canadian Northwest
Penobscot
Sasketchewan
Wyoming
Oregon
Colorado Rockies
Movies Made in Pella Screen Local Photos
Local residents will see their pictures shown at the Alamo theater on Friday night. Wark and Mrs. Park with Mrs. Geo Ries and Betty May traveled to Des Moines to visit their sister Mrs. Joe Clark.
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Pella
Alamo Theatre
Wark
Ark
Geo Ries
Betty May
Des Moines
Joe Clark
Boomerang play delights Central students in senior society
Advansonians staged The Boomerang with Vernon Nagel and Grace Ty in lead roles. Dorothy Mayske as a nurse and Hilda Palmquist as Grace drew praise. modern doctor Herman Vander Well and other cast members delivered strong performances. The club notes Mother Carey’s Chickens previous and Little Women upcoming after Spring vacation.
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Central
Advansonians
Bud” Woodbridge
Vernon Nagel
Grace Ty
Hilda Palmquist
Preston de Wit
George Gauer
Bud
Dr. Sumner
Herman Vander
Ellamay Benkes
Mother Carey
Chresto Delphis
Philo- Alethians
Itinerary of the Men’s Club Across Cities and Dates
The schedule lists multiple stops for the Men’s Club from March 16 to April 3 across Fulton and Kalamazoo, Detroit, Albany, Coxsackie, New Paltz, Walden, Poughkeepsie, Peterson, Passaic, Boonton, New Brunswick, Millstone, and Plainfield. Entries include a.m. and p.m. sessions and a Sauger ties note on March 25.
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Fulton Illinois
Chicago
Ilinois
Kalamazoo
Detroit
Mich
Albany
N.Y
Coxsackie
N. Y
A. m. Saugerties
New York
P. m. New Paltz
Walden
Poughkeepsie
Peterson
New Jersey
Passaic
Boonton
New Brunswick
Millstone
Plainfield
Breen sells residence. possession next fall
Otley Breen has sold his residence to M Aalbera for 1200 dollars and will give possession next fall. Mr and Mrs Gerrit Dykstra welcomed a daughter born Tuesday March 13. Hemert returned home from Pella after hospital release and is recovering. Gysbert Heeren progressed from surgery and is home and doing well. Mrs Ben Inglehoven caring for her new granddaughter at the Dykstra home. C Huisman in Prairie City less well and in pain. Flu epidemic spreading, few families spared, doctors kept busy. John Van Ginkel improving after flu and complications. Roy Vriezelaars son from Monroe rushed to Des Moines hospital for appendicitis, recovering. Monday brought a spring rain with thunder and lightning.
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Breen
M. Aalbera
Gerrit Dykstra
Hemert
Pella
Gysbert Heeren
Ben Inglehoven
C. Huisman
Prairie City
John van Ginkel
Roy
Will Vriezelaar
Monroe
Des Moines
Central College Ladies Glee Club Tour Plans and Scout News
The Ladies Glee Club will undertake its thirteenth annual spring tour through northern Iowa and southern Minnesota. Members are selected for Christian character and leadership. many past members are missionaries now serving in India, Japan, China and Kentucky. Director Mrs Mary Taylor Liggett guides the tours. Six English Boy Scouts depart for South Africa for four years of free agricultural education. Meanwhile researchers report improvements in parachute systems for safe landing of small airships after failures.
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Ladies Glee Club
Iowa
Minnesota
Glee Club
India
Japan
China
Kentucky
Central
Mary Taylor Liggett
South Afria
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nancy Renaud
Town State College
Ames
van Niewaal
Central College
Edith Kyger
N. de Winter
Puritan Drug Co
Cornelius Vander Wert
Larrabee
Town
Will Black
Paul Grandman
Ener
Dorothy Jean
Marvin (Blackhawk) Vander Waal
Lorimer
Rece
Des
Bev
George M. Derbyshire
F. M. Frosh
Anne Ross Setekel
Margaret Billin
W. W. Sadler
Chronicle Force
Jack Murphy
Knoxville
Lois Brooks
Swan
Charles Marsh
Marceline
Fairfield
Peter van Hemert
Otley
Knoxville Express
Lyle Langerbartles
Esther den Hartog
C. M. Maddy
Maddy & Langerbartles
Langerbartles Ros
White Way Auto Co
The
Manhattan Oil Co
Paul Ver Steeg
SWORD
Meador Publishing Company
Beach Street
Boston
Mass
John Lasschuit
Main Street Grocer
Dorothy Muyskens
D.p.m
van den Berg Electric Co
Pella, Iowa
Vander Linden
Tae Fencll
Central Bay
Hold Heet Co
Alvyan den Beng
I Franklin
John Wynberg
Main
Rex Flintrote
Rex
Waechter Lumber Co
Fisher
Seeond
Mini Seria Paso
Gorana
Pella Motor Company
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