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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1926
Page
5
Local notes report Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Van Gorp traveling to Des Moines and then Battle Creek Michigan for Mrs. Van Gorp to enter a sanatorium for about a month. Other items cover car sales, students on vacation, pulpit changes, visits, and Drake University activities.
Free delivery was established fourteen years ago with tramp like a postman. Langerak, a longtime clerk, remains active in covering ground with his pack. Mrs. C W Sipe of Indianola visited in Pella. Captain R W Edwards of the Salvation Army will visit Pella March 28 to organize a fundraising campaign. Lawrence Van Rees is home this week with a severe tonsillitis attack.
The St Patrick s Day shoot at the Pella Gun Club drew 22 local shooters amid muddy roads. E K Thompson of Oskaloosa led the 100 target event with 92, Earl Torrence 87, and Gerald Rysdam 85. Oskaloosa won the 250 target club match 216 to 207, with next meet planned for April 13 in Oskaloosa.
The First Reformed Church outlines morning worship at 10:00 with sermonette Where Make Ready the Passover, baptism, reception of members, Holy Communion, then 2:00 Holland Language afternoon service with sermon By His Stripes are We Healed and another Holy Communion. Evening service at 7:30 features sermon Personages in Passion History. Good Friday April 2 service at 7:30 with topic Christ is King. Cordial welcome extended. Prayer asks guidance in these Passion days.
First Christian Reformed and Second Reformed churches outline Palm Sunday to Easter observances with sermons on the deprav ity of man and Jesus trials. English services discuss Golgotha and last week pictures for Holy Week. Baptist Church highlights old and new chemistry of love and a stereopticon program.
The morning service will feature the Senior Choir with an anthem Blessed is the Man and a Palm Sunday message. In the evening, the Junior choir will sing and the Pastor will preach on Jesus in Gethsemane.
Ver Steeg Cornelius Ver Steeg aged 93 years and two months died at the home of his nephew M De Zwaart four miles south of Pella at 2:00 pm Sunday March 21 1926 from old age. He is survived by a son and a daughter the son resides in Armour South Dakota and the daughter Mrs Fox lives in New York She was at his bedside Funeral services held Wednesday at the home at one o clock and at the Third Reformed church at two Interment was at Oakwood Cemetery.
Central establishes a student quartet named The Central Pellicans drawn from soprano Edna Van de Meer tenor Nicholas Gosselink contralto Martina Korver and bass Robert Byers with reader June Stureman flutist Marion Frush and accompanist Mrs Henry. They plan a concert tour through Michigan New York and New Jersey, aiming to serve Christian missions and churches.
The Searsboro held high school declamatory contest eliminated Pella's representative. Placements show Cecil Le Grand of Monroe first with 93 percent, James Youtsler of New Sharon second with 84 1/3 percent, and 3rd place to Lee Martin of Colfax.
Fragmentary results list multiple contestants with percentages and placements including Mary Kaisand Eleanor Drennan Hessel Schwerdt M Montgomery Virginia Cassidy Hester Wehrle Phyllis Bridge Richard Bruins Gladys Goodrich Bernyl Jackson, with places such as New Shar on Montezuma Colfax Pella Grinnell Searsboro. The line ends with a quote about holiness not humble being a contradiction in terms.
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