Illness closes part of school in Peoria Iowa
Local notes recount illness delaying Peoria Christian School primary classes led by Miss Ella Vander Schaaf. The item lists visitors, church events, and community updates from Peoria and nearby towns, including obituaries, elections, and a Red Rock school result showing Lloyd Shilling 29 votes, James Donahue 26, Harry De Heer 24, George Haning 19, Roy Karr 17, Walter Wing 3.
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Red Rock Church
Albert Vander Ploeg
Pella
St. John
Red Rock
Beryl Vanden Berg
Maud Richerd
Jack Donahue
Gerry Price
Roy Shilling
Ruby Richerd
Robert Shannon
Indianola
Frank Baltimore
Marion
Eddyville
Calvin Talbot
Donald
Tracy
Leonard Palmer
Moravia
Enid Murdy
Albia
Cynthia Johnson
George Fry
Mary Cook
Des Moine
Lloyd Shilling
James Donahue
Harry de Heer
George Hanning
Roy Karr
Walter Wing
Boy Arrives At A Bogaard Home In Otley Iowa
Otley Iowa March 14 Mrs Elton Cade and children and Miss Hat tie De Joode visited the C Huisman home. Mr and Mrs Jim Klyn of Pella spent Thursday evening with Avie Bogaard Jr and Mrs Bricker and family. Baby boy born March sixth to Mr and Mrs Andrew Bogaards. mother and baby doing fine. Various local residents visited in Pella Des Moines and Newton areas.
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Otley
Towa
Elton Cade
Hattie de Joode
Sophia Verwers
Thomas Bloodgood
Pella
Andrew Bogaards
Arie Diekema
Dick Postma
Wm, van Zee and Son
Des Moines
Clayton Postma
Newton
Richard Postma
Cordova Mourns William Karr
Cordova Iowa March 14 The river has receded leaving ice in low and level areas. Herman De Heer and Bill Saunders visited George Dailey’s home. Fred Karr family and Bart Klyn’s relatives have been ill. The new agent who bid for Dunreath visited about boarding. Dunreath station reportedly may close. Clarence Talbot Des Moines and Calvin Talbot Tracy with son Donald visited Roy Karr for William Karr’s funeral. Van Den Berg family moved back to Fifield farm. Connie Vanden Berg attended Mrs Everts aunt’s funeral in Knoxville. W R Karr visited Sunday.
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Fred Karr
Maye van Hemert
George Dailey
Clarence Bricker
Des Moines
George Roff
Farmers Co-operative
Pella
Howell
Arie van Waardhuizen, Jr
Joe Vanden Berg
Fair Oaks
Albert de Joode
Jess de Raad
Ellen Murdy
Wm. Karr
Cordova
Iowa
Herman de Heer
Bill Saunders
Bart Klyn
Dunreath
Clarence Talbot
Calvin Talbot
Donald
Tracy
Roy Karr
Talbots
Pete van den Berg
John
Fifield
Connie Vanden Berg
Knoxville
Vanden Berg
Everts
W. R. Karr
What Do You Read This Week at Carnegie Library
A weekly department presents a local reader and library patron review from Carnegie- Viersen Library. The column shares personal impressions of a chosen book and invites community discussion and recommendations.
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Carnegie- Viersen Library
Black Soil Excerpt Chronicles Prairie Hardship and Dutch Settlement
Josephine Donovan follows Tim Connor and his family fleeing New England to Northwestern Iowa where drought, hail, grasshoppers and prairie fires devastate crops. A Dutch colony forms by the Sioux river as schooling begins with teacher Jerome Loutch, while the Connor children endure blizzards and cold sheltering a pup.
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Little Connors
Benny
Tim Connor
West
Wil
Witchy
Little Benny Hurd
East
Casvales
Sioux City
America
Shiela Moore
Tom
Nell Connor
Wild Goose
Shiela
Father Learman
Mid-West
Sara E. Gosseline
Josephine Donovan
New England
Prairies
Iowa
Nell
Connors
N. W
Sioux River
Jerome Loutch
Connor
Benny Hurd
Ten Commandments for the Wives
A compact list outlining marital duties and virtues. The opening commandment elevates a wife’s own womanhood to ensure a long life in the husband’s house. The second commandment cautions against expecting the husband to match the father’s earlier luxuries. The third hints at valuing the virtues of good conduct.
Auto crash hospitalizes Delta man Reed with broken ribs
H T Reed of Delta was seriously injured when his auto slipped from the pavement into soft mud and collided with a truck near the Charles Miller home on No 2 about three miles west of Delta last Thursday night. Reed suffered several broken ribs and severe facial and head wounds, while George Heming Jr escaped serious injury.
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H. T
Tank
Mr. Reed
Chas, Miller
How to Grow by J Sherman Wallace
The author stresses that proper food clothing and exercise build strength while condemning harmful diets as sinful. He argues health must be protected from unsuitable foods just as from intoxicants, noting many people overlook this moral duty to care for the body.
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God
J. Sherman Wallace
He Never Told a Lie
Johnny admits his mother warned him that lying bars heaven. He asks if she ever lied, and she confesses she likely did when very young, unaware of its wickedness.
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Papa
Heaven
God
George Washington
Johnny
Mamma
Are Johnny A's flunks due to lack of brains
A witty exchange suggests concern over Johnny A's academic performance and possible frustration. The dialogue uses playful archaic phrasing to question whether his failures stem from mental acuity, signaling light banter in a school setting.
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Johnny A
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