Last Week to Vote for Tulip Queen in Pella
Final ballot week for Tulip Time Queen selection in Pella ends with voting at Rex Store before 6:30 PM Monday. Sixteen nominees listed alphabetically, ballots published, top ten to be chosen April 18 with results announced in the Chronicle. Tulips bloom as preparations advance and committee work continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Xall Drug Store
Chronicle of
Martha van Berkum
Lois Vanden Berg
Jean van Gerkum
Sophia Heeren
Anna Huisman
Virginia Kempkes
Helen Kiyn
Anna Mae Langerak
Marjorie Lautenbach
Cora Mac van der Linden
Eileen Sadler
Barbara von Sittert
Marcia Ver Steeg
Mary Isabel Thomas Margie Veenman
Theresa Wormhoudt
Rex
Tom
Card of Thanks for Mrs. Dan Kamp and family
The Kamp family expresses gratitude to friends neighbors and relatives for acts of kindness during Mrs Dan Kamp illness and after her death. Thanks accompany expressions of sympathy and floral offerings from Dan Kamp Ross Schokel and Family Mrs P Van Niewaal and Family
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Dan Kamp
Dan Kamp Ross Schokel
P. van Niewaal
Clarence Menninga Wins County Spelling Contest
Clarence Menninga of Valley Rural School won the Marion County spelling contest at Knoxville after a 32 round match. He will represent the county in the state contest in Des Moines on April 19. The event featured Beulah Caswell Marilyn Marsh Carroll Fast and others, with words such as hieroglyphics annihilation and meringue spelt during the final rounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chronicle Office
Gysbert Menninga
Otley
Clarence
Bertha Rouwenhorst
Summit Township
Clarence Menninga
Knoxville
J. F. Tracy
Beulah Caswell
Knoxville Junior High
Marilyn Marsh
Sunnyside Rural School
Carroll Fast
Pershing School
Valley Rural School
Battle
Clarence Menniga
Menninga
Marion County
Des Moines
Central Debate Teams Attend Mo Tourney With PI Kap Delta
Central College sends both men and women debaters plus advisor Miss Cunera Van Emmerik to Lamont College Graceland Missouri and Excelsior Springs for the biennial Iowa Missouri province PI Kappa Delta tournament March 27 29 at the Elms Hotel. Contestants compete in debate oratory poetry reading with gold and silver medals for 27 winners. social events planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central College
Cunera van Emmerik
Lamont College
Graceland
Missouri
Gould
Excelsior Springs
Iowa-Missouri
Pi Kappa Delta
Elms Hotel
William Jewell
Central
Larry Wright
Simpson College
P. Casper Harvey
William Jewell College
W. D. Clarke
Mae Reynolds
Geraldine Goodall
Roy Vander Kamp
Art Grull
Virginia van Gorp
Cord
REA Electric Appliance Show Draws Big Crowd
The REA sponsored appliance show at Legion Hall drew a capacity crowd with more than thirty five hundred dollars worth of equipment exhibited by Pella merchants. Bernice Strong of the Rural Electrification Administration demonstrated device operation as prizes were awarded to attendees. The event aimed to entertain and inform farm folks along the REA Line and prospective subscribers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella Co-operative
REA Association Tasegny
Legion Hall
Ladies of the Legion Auxiliary
Pella
Kuyper Music House
van den Berg Electric
Wormhoudi's
Hocksema Implement Co
Gamblestore
Klyn Bros, Hatch
Soils District Starts Strong Across County Plan
County agents and U S Soil Conservation Service staff report rapid farmer engagement as the expanded Soils District moves countywide. Meetings at Bussey Attica and Columbia drew twenty to thirty participants to outline area plans, urging neighborhood cooperation, early planning before planting, and timely soil maps and surveys to boost conservation work.
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Walter Brown
Lyall Mitchell
Clay Barnett
U.S. Soils Conservation Service
Verne Shhaeffer
Bussey
Attica
Knoxville
Columbia
Mitchell
Soils Survey Inen
Lake Prairie
Summit Townships
Usy
Pleasantville Joint Legion Meeting Draws Wide Attendance
Pleasantville hosted the Marion Warren and Polk Tri county joint Legion and Auxiliary gathering in the consolidated grade school auditorium on March 18. Legion Post Commander Earl Draper led opening ceremonies with the Auxiliary secretary Sarah Hollingsworth and color bearers. The program featured music by Pleasantville students and instructors and included an invocation by Rev. T Polk and remarks by Supt. Loren Bane.
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van Niewaal
Pleasantville
Marion, Warren, and
Polk
Marion County Auxiliary
Pleasantville Post
T. ©. Polk
Loren Bane
American Legion
Merton Frank
Ellon Newell
Bernice Draper
Marilyn Profit
Betty Johns
Etta Baker
Floy McClure
Bu Auxiliary Coed
McClure
Murray Nesbit
Doro
Carson
Betty Ries
Pella
Milo Hauser
Josephine
Henry Hein
Ider
Marion Areas
Post Office Urges Farmers to Use Parcel Post
The Third Assistant Postmaster General backs a parcel post pilot in Pella to boost rural route usage. Farmers can save money by mailing perishable farm products to town, with trained carriers handling delivery. Booklets titled Postal Information for Patrons of Rural Routes explain rates and services. Packets of stamps totaling 26 and 50 cents ease postage. Patrons urged to try mail deliveries to save time and miles.
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Pella
Washington
Busin
Post Office Department
Polla
Taxpayers Notice on Homestead Claim Deadline
Taxpayers are invited to the basement of the Marion County State Bank this Saturday from 1 PM to claim or amend Homestead applications. Attend before April 1 to secure the claim, says City Assessor L. A. Sents.
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Marion County State Bank
Homestead
L. A. Sents
Legion Post to Honor Memory of C F Aschenbrenner
Local Legion Executive Board votes to hold a memorial service for Dr. C F Aschenbrenner and urges large turnout at the next Monday meeting March 31. Adjutant Vander Ark and invited guests from Monroe and Bussey Posts to attend. National Legion questionnaires to be completed at 7 p.m. before the regular meeting.
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Legion Post
C. Aschenbrenner
C.F. Aschenbrenner
Dr. Aschenbrenner
Henry T. Vander Ark
Clint Knee
Adel
Iowa
Knee
Monroe
Bussey
National Legion
Gus van Houweling
National Defense
Oren
Public Invited To Hear Health Talk April 1st
The American Legion Auxiliary sponsors a health program as part of the Community Services Project. Dr. R. M. Sorenson of the State Department of Health Des Moines Des Moines will speak on health topics at 8 p.m. Tuesday April 1 at Lee Hall.
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American Legion Auxilary
Crommunity Services Project
R. M. Sorenson
State Department of Health
Des Moines
Tewa
Hekate, Jee
Lee Glon
Paschen Couple Mark 67th Wedding Anniversary Near Hanlontown
Mr. and Mrs. Wm Paschen celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary at their home near Hanlontown last week. Mr. Paschen is 92 and his wife 81. They have lived on the same farm for 57 years.
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Wm. Paschen
Hanlontown
Mr. Paschen
Dutch Seamen Far From Home Ask For Books
A letter from a Dutch seaman abroad asks Pella residents to donate Dutch language books and periodicals. The writer, stationed overseas for over 21 months, cites war-time isolation and nostalgia, requesting old books to ease confinement and noting plans to reach the United States soon. Donations can be dropped at Pella Weekblad or Van Sittert's Dry Goods Store.
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Pella
Dutch Society
William van Sittert
Historical Society
Manila
Holland
Geographic
Uwa
Winston Churchill
United States of America
Krull
H. M
Klipfontein
U. S.A
Transpacific Transportation Co
California Street
San Francisco
Calif
Pella Weekblad
van Sittert
Ankle Break Ends Clinic Visit in Car Incident
Dr J B Long of Eagle Grove was treated near the hospital steps after his wife accidentally started their car, which lurched forward and pinned him against the curb. He sustained a broken ankle but was not severely hurt.
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J. B. Long
Eagle Grove
City Election Ballot Heads To Pella Voters Next Monday
March election day in Pella features Citizens Ticket candidates led by F M Flush for mayor and James Van Dussel for mayor on the People Ticket. The Independent Ticket invites write ins with polling from eight in the morning to eight in the evening and the mayoral proclamation listing polling places appeared this week.
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Pella
Citizens
People
F. M. Flush
C. Boat
L. A. Senta Park
Ben Blommers
T. Plette
Abe den Adel
Clarence van Dellen
Ed. J. van Gorp
H. R.dieleman
Lester Liter
James van Dussel
D. Tor
Dorothy Renaud
Inaae Hoksbergen
Garret de Boer
Local Board Names Eleven Men for Induction in Marion County
Marion County draft board lists eleven men and four alternates selected for Army service. Inductees must report March 31 1941 at 9 30 a m to the Post Office Building Knoxville Iowa for transfer to Fort Des Moines. Replacements may be notified at least five days prior.
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C. M. Gilson
Marion County Draft Board
Marion County
Knoxville
Iowa
United States Army
Fort Des Moines
Lewis Thomas Morris Lloyd Vernon
Davies Jarney L
Morgan Clayton B. Moon
John Ryke Gilbert John Vande Wall
Archie Adrian Sinclair Frederick Davis Eddleman
Herbert Donald Furgison
Charles Donald Finch Oy
Paul Elliott Dickerson
Federsted Club Book Review Meeting Scheduled
The Federsted Club book review department will meet Tuesday at 2 30 PM in the Docke room. The selection is Married Adventure by Osa Johnson. Mrs H Bean chairs the hostesses committee.
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Federsted Club
Jorall
Kempkes
Osa Johnson
H. Bean
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the Historical Society
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Daniale Verstaeghy
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Sully
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