Central College Board Acts After Fire Damages Campus
The Central College Board met on March 21 1917 in a church Sunday school room after the auditorium fire. The Executive Committee reported a satisfactory status and state accreditation enabling teaching certificates, with 166 students enrolled. Plans include rebuilding the auditorium as a library and adding a gym and dormitory, plus fundraising and appointing agents to stabilize finances. J Wesselink secretary notes ongoing search for a new president with the executive committee empowered to act.
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Board of Trustees
Central College
Second Reformed Church
J. Vander Beek
Maurice
Iowa
W. A. Phillips
Washington
C. Kuyper
Cedar Grove
Wis
George Schnucker
Aplington
EB. Reikts
Little Rock
K. de Jong
Orange City
University of Illinois
University of Chicago
Central
Academy
Bailey
Central Colleege
B. F. Brinkman
Des Moines
Reformed Church
J. Wesselink
Sec’y
Change in Football Rules for 1917 Season
Football rules committee adopts changes to curb sideline instruction carry, bars field goal from multiple kick formation, and allows referee discretion on penalties for unreported substitutes. New foul penalties include five yards for running into kicker and fifteen yards plus disqualification for roughing. Place kicks and drop kicks only for field goals. artificial tees barred. ball awarded to offended side on illegal interference at goal line.
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Football Rules Committee
Lecture Postponed to Friday May 4 for Parlette
The Redpath Vanter Co telegraphed that Ralph Parlette could not attend due to his father’s death. A later message confirmed he will arrive Friday May 4. All previously sold tickets remain valid for the rescheduled lecture.
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Redpath- Vanter Co
Ralph Parlette
Parlette
Security Bank to State Bank Rebrands as Security State Bank
Notice announces the private bank changing to Security State Bank to better serve customers. Capital increased to 50,000 dollars. J H Van Vliet signs as cashier thanking customers for their business and support.
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Security Bank
Security State Bank
Vanden Berg Elected Mayor in Pella Vote
The Monday election produced one of the largest city votes in Pella history with 758 for mayor, surpassing last fall’s numbers. Vanden Berg claimed victory while Sheehy cut votes, and alderman races showed Wormhoudt beating Plender by 79 in a tight contest. The council will see new faces but capable leadership, and the city lauds the peaceful, decisive outcome.
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Pella
Wilson
Hughes
Vanden Berg
Sheehy
Weekblad
Harding
John Vander Ploeg
Wormhoudt
J. Plender
Plender
Rhynsburger
van Doorninck
Old Timer J H Lewis Recounts Early Pella Visit
Monroe resident J H Lewis, born in Illinois, recalls visiting Pella in 1845 as a boy of five, before the Holland colony. He notes a single log cabin near the square, his service in the 15th Iowa, coal hauling last winter, and a 36 hour escape after being prisoner of war.
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J. H. Lewis
Monroe
Pella
Mr. Lewis
Illinois
Sand Ridge
Peorian
15Th
Iowa
Rural Mail Carriers Examination Notices
A civil service exam for rural mail carrier positions will be held at Pella and Knoxville on April 28 to fill vacancies in Bussey and any later openings in Marion county. Eligible applicants must take the exam as vacancies will be filled from those who pass. For details, contact the post office. Tunis Kempkes, Local Secy C.8.
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Pella
Knoxville
Bussey
Marion County
Tunis Kempkes
Sec'y C
Easter Cantata by College Chorus at First Reformed Church
Mr H J Brouwer led a thirty voice choir in Master Message and Resurrection Hope at the First Reformed Church last Thursday. It was the college Music Department's first concert in the repaired auditorium with a large audience. Soloists included Mrs Hesselink Miss Lautenbach and Carla Byers among others. Mr Sadler accompanied at the piano.
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H. J. Brouwer
First Reformed Church
Brouwer
Hesselink
Liggett
Randall
Choir to Sing The Good Shepherd at Sunday Service
At the church the choir will perform The Good Shepherd by Bain with solo by Mr. Lon Wormhoundt during Sunday evening service. Eleanor Thompson will also have a solo. The choir cancels Thursday rehearsal and voted to attend a band concert at the First Christian Reformed church in courtesy to Mr Tunis Kempkes. Charley Crum travelled to Des Moines Thursday to take an examination at Rock Island offices for a clerkship in the freight office after serving as depot messenger.
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Bain
Lon Wormhoundt
Eleanor Thompson
First Christian Reformed Church In
Tunis Kempkes
Charley Crum
Des Moines
Rock Island
Charley
School Notes On Vacation Plan And Garden Drive
Spring vacation of one week starts next Monday as students raise funds to aid Belgian children. High school grades plan entertainments, led by the Junior high, to raise money for relief with all proceeds to the American Relief Commission in Belgium. A state official urges cultivating waste lots to grow tomatoes and potatoes to ease rising living costs, warning of wartime scarcity and encouraging home gardens. Miss Verna Halbert and classmates represented the local high school at a district declamatory contest in Albia, with the winner noted for extensive preparation. Fairmount College debaters Marion Le Cocq and team won both sides in a triangular debate with Bethel and McPherson on a proposed Hague Federation police power.
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American Relief Commission
Belgium
Pella
Verna Halbert
Ruth Grandin
Glenn Grandman
Albia
Halbert
Drake University
Wichita
Kan
Beacon
Fairmount College
Marion le Cocq
Bethel College
McPherson College
L Hague
Prominent Negro Lecturer Discusses Alabama Education
Professor James Dooley of the Southern Normal and Industrial Institute in Brewton Alabama spoke at the First Christian Reformed church last Thursday. He outlined racial disparities in Alabama public schooling noting black per capita expenditure at 1.49 versus white 8.50 and described private efforts, including his 1911 Brewton project seeking 18000 to build dormitories a trades building and to cover salaries, debt, and improvements.
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James Dooley
Southern Normal and Industrial Institute
Brewton
Alabama
First
Christian Reformed Church
Dooley
North
College Notes On Campus Activities And Appointments
College notes report preparations for the new library building and spring music lessons with Mr Sadler. Elections for next year named Miss Van Nimwegen editor in chief and Mr Buerkens business manager, Carl Byers as assistant. Tom Greene chastised a faculty member at Friday chapel. Prof Bosch preached at First church. Carl Byers departs for Washington to begin Radcliffe program.
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Sadler
Old Central
Miss van Nimwegen
Buerkens
Carl Byers
Thomas Greene
Chapel
Tom
Bosch
Verrips
Sunnyside
Liggett
Central College
Germany
Schnucker
America
Brouwer
Washington, D. C
Radcliffe Bureau
Carl
Prof
Lincoln school beats Webster in a 16 to 13 game
The Lincoln school team defeated Webster 16 to 13 after school on Monday. Webster players included Van Roekel Grandia Wynia James Lautenbach Delano Bruinekool Kuyper. Lincoln players were Mitten Rouwenhorst Breuklander Jaarsma Sack Ver Steeg Pearson Wormhoudt and De Winter. Harry Mitten signs off.
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Poys
Lincoln School
Webster School
Webster
van Roekel
Grandia
Wynia
James
Lautenbach
Delano
Bruinekool
Kuyper
Litcoln
Mitten
Rouwenhorst
Breu
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Central College Board
J. H. van Vliet
Vander Ploeg
H. J. Vander Berg
J. J. Sheehy
A. N. Vander Linden
Coz Geo. W. Kimmell
J. Pender
Cc. H. Wormhoudt
H. J. Rhynsburger
John J. Blommers
James Verhey
T. J. Fultz
J. S. Wilson
Vander Heiden
M. W. van Doorninck
H. A. Veenstra
Simon de Haan
Industrial Institute In
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