Pella Society Hosts and Club Meetings Recap
Community notes from Pella detail hostesses entertaining friends at 908 East First Street, with a dinner at 6 30 and playing bird after. Reports cover an Eastern Star joint meeting in Oskaloosa, Legion Auxiliary activities, Fortnightly Literary Club at Mrs. Grandman’s, Second Reformed Aid and Women’s Missionary events, Young Women’s League programs, and visits by Des Moines guests. farm bureau women in North Porterville and Knox County gatherings highlighted, including lectures on floor coverings and china shows, with upcoming sessions scheduled in Pleasantville and Knoxville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Eniing
Amicon Brand
Vs. Hotaling Chase
Dusta
Mr. Strachan
Miss Biotone
Mes Bailey
Young Womens League of the Second Reformed Church
Jay Hesselink
W. D. van Sittert
India
Katherine Ways
Nora Workman
Ames
Farm Bureau
Legion
L Stroud
Knoxville
Nora
J. E. Ver Ploeg
A. P. Bewalda
Holland
Knoville
Pleasantville
Church Notes at Feecad Reformed Church May 6 1928
Feecad Reformed Church notes list services for May 6 1928 with morning and afternoon programs. Christian Endeavor at 7 30 p m and evening sermon "Thy Will be Done" followed by series "From Generation to Gener Hallan 7 30" and "The Tragedy of Neglect" at First Reformed Church. Reverend Prof Jacob Heemstra and pastor De Haan lead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feecad Reformed Church
Church School
Christian Call
Christian Endeavor
Gener Hallan
First Reformed Church
God
Vening
Prof
Jacob Heemstra
First Christing
Reformed Church
de Haan
Holland
Bea
Firestone Company Banquet Highlights Tire Tread Changes
Firestone Company hosts a banquet discussing road safety and tire design. The article notes manufacturers' need to update tread patterns, citing Firestone’s ball tire tread as an example and describing current tires as maintaining that tested tread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firestone
Fragmented note on Tire Service Station profits and Tires
The brief mentions the Sirestone tire line and a public audience. It references the Chronicle, the 0. & P., and Tire Service Station possibly profiting from Lirestone tires. The readable fragments indicate promotional or business activity without clear event details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fay Sirestone
Chronicle Force
Lirestone
Gat
New Trick By Check Artist Continues Defrauding in City
A veteran check artist known as Brown duped several local firms by passing bad checks for motor vehicles, harness, and livestock while posing as a farmer. He purchased a 1925 Maxwell club coupe for 350 dollars, and fled with two young women after the scheme collapsed. Police recovered a weapon on a hired man and tracked the suspects to a departure from a farm setup at Kimberly with no lease valid. The car bears license 56 3696. registration is held by police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas & Bremer
Paul Roskopf
Gimre & Rinden
Kimberly
Brown
J. D. Palmer
Missouri
Lorraine Owings
Chicago
Traer
Marshalltown Times Republican
Remember To Oil the Hog Louse
A report from the National Association of Farm Equipment Manufacturers warns hog lice cut 2 to 6 percent from market value and weaken hogs. Mange mites also cause damage. crude petroleum and disinfectants, applied by spray pumps or hog oilers, offer economical control alongside sanitary hog house equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natornal Association of Farm Equipment Manufacturers
Otley News highlights and local incidents
Special correspondent reports on Otley notes including Mrs John Van Ginkel improving from tonnilitis, wind damage to a gas tank window, farm activity with wood sales, funerals, hospital visits, and several local fires and injuries. Community members attend, move, or recover as Otley sees repairs and self-help actions.
Amsterdam notes family visits and local events
Special correspondence from Amsterdam reports Mr and Mrs Clarence Mathes visiting the P G Klein home near Otley with no Sunday church service at West Amsterdam. Rev Gordon preached a funeral Monday while Mrs Ray Mathes of Attica visited. Henry Van Lint stayed with his parents N Van int, Geo Underhill of Knoxville and Dick Schippers with Edna visited. The T lam cemetery meeting occurred Saturday at Anna Rietveld’s in Pella with a good crowd. Farmers Union of Pella shipped another carload of hogs from Lowell. West Amsterdam school reopened after a chicken pox week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John van Ginkel
Ira Vheselane
Wallace Thomassen
Newton
Loren Rickabaugh
Dunreath
R. V. McKeever
Nellie Vriezelaar
Pella
G. J. Vriezel
Otley
J. de Haan
Christian Reformed Church
Connie Vanden Berg
Frank Héndee
Colfax
Dave Penman
Mrs. Bricker
Earl Failer
Will Meyers
Lorena Bricker
Oskaloosa
Dorothy
Abram van Houweling
Paul
Clarence Mathes
P. G. Klein
West Amsterdam
Gordon
Ray Mathes
Attica
Henry van Lint
N. van Int
Geo. T. Underhill
Knoxville
Dick Schippers
Edna
N. van Lint
T'lam
Satui Fternood
Anna Rietveld
Farmers Union of
Lowell
Marquaret
Visit to the Van Lint Home Mentioned
Le Bee of cris and family visited Sunday evening at the C F Van Lint home with Jr and Mrs Arie Toom and Mr and Mrs C F Mathes and baby attending.
Sau Jer ties resident warns of leaving home dispute
A Sau Jer ties resident advertises a domestic quarrel involving an instruction to leave bed and board, a ham bone striking the right ear, and a disclaimer that the speaker will not be responsible for any liabilities while noting his wife Lillian contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sau
Jerties
N. Xe
Lillian
Sheriff Helen Dolder Re elected in DeKalb County
Mrs. Helen Dolder of DeKalb County Illinois after failing then expired term of her dead husband was reelected sheriff over three male opponents. She maintains strict discipline among prisoners. Once mutineers refused to eat she had a fire hose used to restore their appetites. A local citizen praised moonshine in Columbus Mississippi declaring it was good stuff with not a coffin in a carload.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Dolder
DeKalb County
Illinois
Columbus, Miss
Hanor
Also Mentioned on This Page
Paul Ver
Steeg
Legion Auxiliary Meeting
the Legion Auxiliary
Will Bear
P. Bear
Hattie Gezel
Ralph Grandman
H. de Reus
Pictorial Review
Second Reformed Aid
Gradys de Kock
J. Hacke
Will van Sittert
N. Boggs
G. de Kock
Womens Missionary Meeting
G. I. Roorda
Second Reformed Missionary Society
North Main
G. B. Ver Steeg
Second Reformed Church
Young Womens League
H. Wormhoudt
Des Moines
Firestone Tire
American Legion
Legion Auxiliary
Womens Federated Club
George Stout
Geo. Ramsey
H. Bauman
T. H. Liggett
Miss Payne
Mia
GH. Lankelma
JH. Kynsburger
Iowa
Eip
North Portersville
F. B
North Forteraville
Farm Bureau Leaders Meeting
van Ness
Beauty Shop
Southwest Corner Square
Firestone CO
Shell Products
Shell
Shell Gas
Shell Oil
Shell Oil Station
Fred Veenatra
Northwest Corner Square
Otley News
Mother
Anklin
Amsterdam
Chiropractic
Esther L. Ketman
Over Puritan Drug Co
Vita-lac
John Wynberg
Main
Spear Brand
de Jong Floral & Seed Co
Pella, Iowa
Gruen
Thomas
Ually
Thomas’ Watch Department
Oskaloosa, Iowa
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