Marion County Fair to Move Toward High Moral Program
At a joint Marion County Ministerial Association and Fair Board meeting, plans were laid for a revised fair in August 19 to 21 with a Homecoming Day on Sunday August 20. The midway will undergo rigorous censorship and a county wide worship service, basket dinner, youth vesper and night pageant are planned to elevate entertainment. Local ministers and fair officials emphasize shaping farm youth through church led influence and higher standards.
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Marion County Ministerial Association
Marion County Fair Board
Marion County
Fair Board
L. L. Bond
Knoxville
B. H. Finch
Bussey
E. V. Goad
Pella
B. F.hamilton
Columbia
Father Horan
J. B. Pritchard
Melcher
F.L. Sheppard
Pleasantville
Fair Association
C. M. Gilson
S. N. Appelgate
C. C. Dargell
M. M. Pigg
County Ministerial Association
Memories of Pella and Its People Across Time
Narrator recalls Pella Iowa memories including Levi Nossaman, the Farm ers House near the depot, and the Welchs. He recounts his mother’s 1874 marriage, a smallpox epidemic, and the families Weane, Bliss, and Croll. A Tacoma connection surfaces through a former classmate named Mrs. Bliss and a letter exchange.
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C. M. Moore
Tacoma
Washington
Pella
Levi Nossaman
Old Towne Place
Cole Place
William Olney
Illinois
Pirot
Peero
Wellington Nossaman
William
Eva Nossaman
Caroline
Sarah Welch
Nossamans
Welchs
G. A. Stout
Keokuk
Weane
Des Moines Valley
Rock Island
Nossaman
Columbus
Ohio
Ella
Henry Croll
North Seventh Avenue
Mrs. Bliss
News Tribune
Iowa
Ella Weane
Hattie Stallard
Around the State with Iowa Editors on WSUI
Jack Chase of the University of Iowa hosts a 15 minute program on WSUI Iowa City titled Around the State with Iowa Editors. It features editorial opinions from about 400 Iowa newspapers covering farming business humor philosophy and education. The Pella Chronicle has been featured on two programs since February.
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Jack Chase
University of Iowa
Iowa
WSUI
Iowa City
Pella Chronicle
When We Meet Old Friends In Youthful Times
A reflective verse urges not to grieve as memories surface and old joys revive. It weighs time’s passage and the choice to stay cheerful, laugh, and seek the good, even as life’s end approaches.
Lautenbach Couple Plans Move to Knoxville
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Lauten bach of Sioux City spent a week at the Renaud Lautenbach home and plan to settle in Knoxville Tennessee where Eir Lautenbach has accepted a teaching position at a business college.
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Bliss
Tacoma
Ella Bliss
Lawrence Lautenbach
Sioux City
Renaud-Lautenbach
Knoxville
Tennessee
Eir, Lautenbach
Cyrenus Cole Back in Pella at Funeral
Cyrenus Cole returns to Pella for the funeral of his brother F. Cole. The longtime journalist and former Library of Congress staffer discusses his late start in writing in his seventies and his advocacy for public radio, highlighting WHO’s 50,000 watt station and his stance against concentrated high power in cities like Chicago and Cincinnati.
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Pella
Cyrenus Cole
F. Cole
Mr. Cole
Central College
Journal U.S
Library of Congress
Washington
Prof. Osler
Congress
Cole
Chicago
Federal Reserve Banking System
Cincinnati
Ohio
Baby Play Ideas for Physical and Mental Growth
The article describes how babies learn through play by exploring objects their senses attract, grasping and shaking to produce sound, mouthing to explore texture and taste, and transferring items between containers. It advises safe, colorful, varied objects like buttons, cloth pieces, paper, spools, and gravity-based play, with parental supervision and clear safety cautions. Reverend Albert Vander Ploeg, pastor of the Baptist church at Colfax, visited earlier in the week.
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Albert Vander Ploeg
The
Baptist Church
Colfax
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East Franklin Street
Specias
Penn
Coronado
Radio Repair Dept
Albert Wanders
Gamble Stores
Joe Stientjes
East Franklin
Marion County Fair
Midway Entertainment
Cyril Reese
Justy
Vin
Penney's
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