Local Notes Stir with Visits and Events in Pella
Mrs James Hammer visits in Newton while Knox guests plan a short stay with relatives. Des Moines visitors include H P Lankelma and Mrs, and Dykstra, Van Gorp, and Carpenter hosts host an Easter choir gathering. The Kodak contest prizes for photos of Farmers National Bank building awarded to Cornie Ver Ploeg, Fred Dykstra, and Lois Brooks. Swine advice warns farmers to fix hogpens to prevent runts. Des Moines talent Wilmer advertised for 50c. Several locals travel to Monroe, Des Moines, and Omaha areas for visits. Rev J De Haan departs for Rotterdam Kansas, Kromminga to preach next Sunday.
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Kodak
Ideal Pharmacy
Farmers National Bank
Cornie
Ver Ploeg
Fred Dykstra
Lois Brooks
J. de Haan
Rotterdam
Kansas
Kromminga
Grundy Center College
Learning by study and the privilege to learn
A reflection on personal effort as the source of knowledge contrasts with paid access to education at Central. The piece notes learning cannot be bought or stolen, only earned, and frames education as a rare personal privilege. In Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, fourteen-month-old Victor Guimes was bitten by a large rat in a second-story flat crib at 1:30 AM. Doctors treated the bites and no serious harm is expected.
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Central
Shenandoah
Victor
A. Guimes
Jury Returns Death Verdict in Weeks Case
Eugene Weeks, Des Moines man who first confessed to aiding Orrie Cross in killing grocer George Fosdick for his money, was found guilty by an eight man four woman jury. Hanging was named as the penalty with sentence due Saturday. Cross, who also confessed, is to be sentenced for his role. The trial spanned days with Weeks’ lawyers challenging force used to obtain the confession as alibi witnesses testified. Cross confirmed Weeks’s confession in court. The jury deliberated twenty hours.
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Eugene Weeks
Des Moines
George A. Fosdick
Cross
Weeks
Ben
Bank Work Starts on Knoxville National Bank Building
Preliminary work on the Knoxville National bank's new 100000 building began last week. Contractors placed a gang of men excavating under the rear of the present bank. When completed this will be Knoxville's finest building and one of the best in the southern part of the state. Local labor will be employed if men can be secured in town.
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Knoxville Express
Knoxville National Bank
Knoxville
Bruinekool Cleans Clothes Brand Slogan Ad Reflects Service Claim
A vintage ad extols Bruinekool Cleans Clothes with a catchy slogan promising thorough cleaning. The plea urges not to forget the brand and notes a contact line Red Three Seventeen to arrange jitney pickup for toy cleaning requests.
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Bruinekool
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L. Popma’s
James Hammer
Newton
Pella
W. M. Black of
Knox
L. F. Bousauet
J. J. Sybenga
Mrs. W. van Dam
Mary Stephenson
Leon
T. Beintema
H. P. Lankelma
the State University
the Baptist Church
H. P. van Gorp
van Gorp
F. F. Carpenter
United States Department of Agriculture
Mrs. N. Schuuring
Otley
N. Brand
Sully
C. F. Shaw
Indianola
B. Buerkens
John W. Bloom
Paul Boertje
Hudsonville, Mich
Harry Pearson
S. H. Viersen
Adel Hendricks
Lorel
Oskaloosa
Margaret de Reus
H. Bruinekool
George Oswandle
Dorothy
Joe Mutlenburg
Wilmer
Charles Hazeman
Eagle Grove
N. van Maren
Watkins
Blue
Diller Vander Ploeg
Clarence Dykstra
Mary Lowery
Ada van Zante
Monroe
Third Street
Black
John Wassenaar
Holland, Mich
Grinnell College
Herman Vander Meulen
Peter Breed
Inwood
Iowa
Anie Vriezelaar
Goodrich
Pella Tire Service CO
Geo. A. Fosdick
G. H. van den Berg & Co
Uptown Flower Store
the Model Clothing Co
Soriety Brand
Redfern
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