Community Band Parents Sponsor Tulip Time Festival Casting
Band parents lead a Tulip Festival effort with casting for The Red Mill operetta and a folk dance program. Tryouts for chorus begin Monday March 29 at 7:30 pm at Jordan Mall, directed by M S Thostenson of Central College. The festival nears in six weeks with crowds urged to attend and prepare costumes.
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M. S. Thostenson
Central College
Jordan Mall
Red Mill
Victor Herbert
Parkers
Top Bracket In State Test For Pella High Class
Class of 1949 at Pella High School shines in state test results. Juniors score 45.6 of 100 in Social Studies while seniors and sophomores show strong lines. In Science, Grade 11 leads with 97 percentile and Grade 12 with 93, overallClass percentiles 79 99 and 90. Teachers Groendyke Gosselink and Vande Voort praised their students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella High School
University of Iowa
Iowa
Groendyke
Miss Gosselink
Vande Voort
Preliminary State Music Contest to be Held at Pella
The Preliminary State Music Contest will take place Saturday April 3 at four centers led by Pella. Events start at 8 80 a m with vocal competitions at the High School, piano solos at Central College Chapel, and instrumental solos at Jordan Hall. New Arrangement competition adopts four class divisions by enrollment with Classes D through A competing in upper brackets. Pella belongs to Class B and faces a reshaped top tier. Four judges Jas Melchoir Herbert Goodwier Mildred Luce and M H Baylor will judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Central College Chapel
Jordan Hall
Barnes City
Baxter
Bondurant
Deep River
Kellogg
Lacey
Mingo
Mitchellville
Newburg
Runnells
Searsboro
Altoona
Ankeny
Brooklyn
Carlisle
Colfax
Monroe
Montezuma
New Sharon
Pleasantville
Prairie City
Open House at Van Houweling Implement Co Store Saturday
Van Houweling Implement Co invites friends and customers to an open house on Saturday March 27 to view the new Ferguson line and preview farm implement features in the store showroom adjoining the Van Houweling Garage. Coffee will be served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Houweling Impl. Co
van Houwelinur Implement Company
Wee Aind Favor
van Houwelige
Safety film moves clubmen to action at noon meeting
Rotary members attended a safety education film titled Miracle in Paradise Valley arranged by Hi H Sadler and sponsored by the Town Department of Public Safety. Highway Patrolman Robert Darnold brought the film showing humor drama and romance as a farmer learns the value of safety and leads a countryside campaign to raise awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hi. H. Sadler
Joe
Central Choir And Ensemble Plans Spring Tours
Central College prepares a 40 member choir under Prof M S Thostenson for a March 29 to April 9 spring tour visiting churches across Nebraska South Dakota Minnesota and northwest Iowa with performances in Holland NE Springfield Corsica Monroe SD Clara City Edgerton Steen Sheldon Boyden Hospers Orange City and other towns. The 9 voice Women’s Vocal Ensemble directed by Mrs Edith Sedrel LeCocq also tours March 29 to April 9 singing sacred works in Illinois and Iowa churches and high schools including Oregon Fulton Pleasant Prairie Morrison Wellsburg Dumont Hampton Meservey and Chapin.
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M. 8. Thostenson
Nebraska
South Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Holland
Springfield
Corsica
Monroe
Clara City
Edgerton
Steen
Sheldon
Boyden
Hospers
Orange City
Fulton
Illinois
Wellsburg
Aplington
Dumont
Buffalo Center
Chapin
Hampton and
Meservey High
Ask Business Houses to Close Friday Afternoon
The Pella Chamber of Commerce requests all business houses close from 12 noon to 3 p.m. on Friday March 26 in cooperation with Good Friday church services.
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Pella Chamber of Commerce
Easter Service at Otley Church Featuring Cantata
The Choir of the Otley Reform ed Church will present an Easter service next Sunday evening, March 28, at 7 30. The program includes a cantata titled The Seven Last Words of the Cross and a children's chorus choir will sing several numbers. The public is invited.
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Otley
Valley Safety Paradise Inspires Local Clubmen
A tale told to listeners described who they represented and how they died, urging organization for safety. Farm groups cooperated as campaign wheels turned, followed by reconciliation with a sweetheart. The story impressed Rotary clubmen and Jess Halden of Iowa Public Safety Education plans to speak in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe
Jess Halden
Iowa
Rotary
Visitor Back from Holland Keen Observer
Andrew Molenaar of Grand Forks North Dakota returned from a three month visit to the Netherlands and Belgium with stops in Amsterdam Rotterdam Wageningen London and Paris. He traveled with a party of five aboard the Queen Mary and Veendam and noted rationing and prices abroad while praising Dutch brick houses and local cleanliness.
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Chronicle
Andrew Molenaar
Grand Forks
North Dakota
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Wageningen
Belgium
Paris
France
London
Jolenaar
United State
Mr. Molenaar
Holland
Molenaars
Pella
Hotel Pella
Andrew
Netherlands
Dakota
Christian High School Society Plans Building
At a large meeting in the First Christian Reformed Church on Friday evening March 20 the Christian High School Society voted to erect a new modern building. Rev B Vroon urged Christian education amid secularism and atheistic Communism, noting a U S Supreme Court ruling on religion in public schools and arguing for private or semi private schooling as the solution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Huizenga
First
Christian Reformed Church
Christian High School Society
Vroon
God
Supreme Court of the United States
College Group To Attend Meet In Cedar Rapids
Seven Central College students will represent the college at the Pi Kappa Delta forensic tournament in Cedar Rapids over the weekend of March 26 27 at Coe College. The event features contests in debate oratory extempore discussion and poetry reading with participants from four states. Representatives include Hesselink DeKock Bruggink Heide ran Weiss Kamerick and Vander Ploeg. Miss Cunera Van Emmerik directs forensics and serves as the debate contest chair for the 1948 provincial tournament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central College
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
John Hesselink
John de Kock
Don Bruggink
Eugene Heideran
Ray Weiss
Pella Community Plans New School Building Near Tulip Park
The Christian High School and Board report strong support for a new one story building with recreation hall on a site north of Tulip Park. Construction to start within weeks with a March 29 financial drive, reflecting local religious conviction.
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Vroon
H. L. Verhulst
Christian High School
Tulip Park
Pella
Easter Program at Open Bible Church Sunday
Children will present an Easter program at the Church of the Open Bible Sunday at 10 30 am. The program features recitations songs and exercises by various groups and individuals including Connie Schippers Karen Jacobs Karen Palmquist and the Boys and Girls Chorus. A concluding Easter pageant titled Ife Trives portrays the crucifixion burial and resurrection with about 26 children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Open Bible Church
Church of the Open Bible
Connie Schippers
Karen Jacobs
Linda Rae Vanist
Earl Jones
Junior Sheppard
Larry Schakel
Karen Palmquist
Jesus
Francis van Veen
Roger Palmaquiat
Robert
Ronald Olivier
Wanda
Rose van Derland
Joyce van Brogen
Charlene Anderson
Baptist Young People to Present Easter Playset
The Young People of the Baptist Church will present a short Easter playlet titled Morning Breaketh on Sunday evening at 7 in the church auditorium. The biblical setting centers on the creation and the public is invited to attend. The piece was originally staged two years ago and is being repeated due to demand.
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The
Baptist Chineh
Pople
Instruction in Music for Marion County Teachers
John Mitchell, instructor in music at Iowa State College Cedar Falls, led rural Marion County teachers and pupils in 16 to 18. Four groups met at Dallas, Attica, Otley, and Knoxville centers for half day demonstrations. Mitchell taught ninety teachers and three hundred elementary pupils, also working with Attica Consolidated, Tracy Consolidated, and Dallas Consolidated Schools.
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John Mitchell
Iment
Towa State Colleg
Cedar Falls
Towa
Marion County
Dallas
Attica
Otley
Knoxville
Mitchell
Tracy Consolidated
Dal-las
Macbeth to Be Shown at the High School
A special full length movie version of Shakespeare's Macbeth will be shown at the high school on March 20. Willow Corporation of Chicago arranged the new print for all high school grades with seniors given special interest after completing the study in literature. Interested persons may call the high school for the exact hour of the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willow Corporation of Chicago
High School
Farm Bureau Meeting At High School Gym
The Farm Bureau for Lake Prairie Summit and North Polk townships will meet in the high school gym Friday April 2. County Extension Director G Gross Rogers will lead a discussion on corn borer control. Men of the Polla Farmers Night School have a special invitation to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Lake Prairie
Summit
North Polk
G. Gross Rogers
Polla Farmers Night School
Legion to Host Hal Sheridan Talk on Rackets
The Legion Post welcomes Hal Sheridan of Des Moines Better Business Bureau for an educational lecture on sales rackets. He will explain how shyster salesmen prey on housewives and discuss curb measures. Chamber of Commerce members are invited. then a short social hour with refreshments follows.
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Legion
Legion Post
Hal Sheridan
Better Business Bureau of
Des Moines
Post
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Sheridan
Baptist Boys Pack Box to Send Overseas
Friday evening March 19 the Baptist Boys Sunday School class met at teacher Tom Price home to pack a relief box for needy persons in the Philippine Islands After packing the box and playing games refreshments were enjoyed Those present included Carl Russell Kenneth Van Rees Gary Iezelaar Sidney DeHaan Keith Vriezelaar Norman Vanden Baard and Harry Vander Veer Mrs Connie Vanden Baard and daughter Shirley were also guests.
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Baptist Boys
Tom Price
Philippine Islands
Carl Russell
Kenneth van Rees
Gary Iezelaar
Sidney de ‘Haan
Keith Vriezelaar
Norman Vanden Baard
Harry Vander Veer
Connie Vanden Baard
Shirley
Cast for High School Senior Play Announced at Pella High
Pella High School rehearses Seven Keys to Baldpate with thirteen seniors in the cast. April 16 performances planned. David Prins stars as Magee, joined by Elijah Quimby Dirk Van Zante and many others in a melodramatic farce with mystery and romance. Student director TaVelma De Penning and director Vera Gannadey lead the production.
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Baldpate
Geo. M. Cohan
Pella High School
Cohan
Wm. Hallowell Magee
New York City
David Prins
Magee
Pella High
Elijah Quimby
Dirk van Zante
No School On Good Friday Observed
Announcement notes no school on Good Friday with all three public school buildings closed for the day following the holiday observance.
Amateur contest promises fun and big turnout on April first
A Great Amateur Contest set for April 1 at the high school auditorium aims to draw a packed house. Entries span humorous hog calling and animal acts to serious vocal and instrumental performances. Prizes total 80 dollars with 25 top prize, 16 second, 10 third, plus multiple smaller awards. Admission 50 cents. Master of ceremonies Kenneth Vander Linden. judges record audience applause. Proceeds aid the Band Parents to fund new uniforms.
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Monroe
Sully
New Sharon
Peoria
Leighton
Tracy
Harvey
Justate Per
Roy Andeweg
George Ver Steeg
Music Parents Club
Kenneth Vander Linden
Lautenbach & Verought Insurance Office
Mass meeting on hospital project in Pella Friday
A community push to secure a local hospital in Pella gathers momentum with a mass meeting planned for Friday night at the School auditorium. A committee led by Rev. Richard Vanden Berg will organize discussions and assess sentiment and funding willingness from farmers, Chamber of Commerce, churches, the college, and other groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Chamber of Commerce
Richard Vanden Berg
Central College
Easter Vacation Brings Brief Break Before Spring Term
The article notes that classes close on Friday March 26 for a short Easter break and will resume Monday morning March 29, marking a brief intermission before the new term begins.
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Tunis Prins
College Chapel
Central Choir
Midwest
Jo Griffitts
Marilyn de Boer
Alton
Phyllis Te Selle
Firth
Nebr
Jean McLean
Braddyville
Dorothy Shhroeder
Me Rector
Verna Mae Rozeboom
Rock Valley
Priscilla Nycum
Kalamazoo
Marianne Walvoord
Sheboygan Falls
Wis
Joyce de Bruin
Carol Hall
Chatham
N. Y
Jennie Pell
Mort
Charlotte Poppen
Sioux Center
Jacoba Vander Lugt
Pell
Joyce Brunsting
Hull
Jeanne Hoving
Edo Scholten
Beydans
Joan Baker
Atiliss
Ellen Hulby
van Zante
Eddyville
Una Cornwall
J. Y
Joyce Ebert
Melvin de V
Robert Mosier
Closter
N. J
Jack Fulton
Midland Park
Wayne Groving
Dries Bosch
Minn
Howard van Pearsem
Maurice
Idris Jutting
Ruth Gosselink
Grayhawk
A Cappela
England
Baptist
Macbeth
Bureau
Will B
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