West Market Square of Pella Recalled in Park History
The article reminisces about West Market Square in Pella, planned by Dominic Scholte nearly ninety years ago as a market site later becoming a boys playground. It recalls youth games like Workup and Duck On the Rock, balloon ascensions by Vossie, water works developments with a deep Sitler well, and local figures such as the Kempkes family shaping the park’s trees and pool, with notes on the standpipe and early city water system.
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Dominic Scholte
Pella
Central Park
Scholte
West Market
First Christian Reformed Church
Koopmans Boys
Will and
Wiebe
Johnnie
Buckie
de Reus
John F
Ballie
Dykstra
Will
Jacob Maasdam
Jacob
Ike
Abe
Braam
van Nimwegen
Jacob Slot
Fred Ulrich
Martinus
Tienie
van Dalen
Walter
Henry Dingeman
Tygie Vos
John
Bob White Braam
John Blommers
Jaco
Vessie
Yossie Ishi Tights
Vossie
Mr. Vos
St. Peter's
Will Schreiner
Edward’ Schreiner
Wm. van Peursem
W. Washington St
Iman
van Peursem
van Pietje van Peursem
Henry
Lippy) Bruinckool
Kempkes
Tunis Kempkes
Matthew
Tunis
Matthew Kempkes
Martin Vander Heiden
Federated Club
Women's Club
West Market ParkTulip Bowl stage shaping Tulip Time venue
The Tulip Bowl stage in West Market Square grew from community effort by Pella women led by Mrs. J C Mitten. Since 1926 the park has seen cement walks shrubs and playgrounds added, a shelter, wading pool and fountain. Tulip Time uses the amphitheatre for gatherings and events.
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Federated Club
Ladies of the American Legion Auxiliary
van Veen-Van Hemert Post
J. C. Mitten
West Market Park
Ion
Ropes Available In Tiny 3/16 Inch Diameters
Ropes can be had in diameters as small as three sixteenths of an inch, offering compact strength for light load use and tight ropework where smaller sizes are required.
Entomologist Collects 100 Spider Species in Great Smoky Park
An entomologist has gathered more than 100 spider species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The find highlights the park's rich arachnid diversity and ongoing scientific work within protected areas.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Tulip Town on North Main Park Becomes Joint Project
After neglect following the 1938 festival, Tulip Town on North Main received help from the Senior and Junior Chambers. B F Vander Linden led the effort with Verle Ver Dught managing junior work as payroll exceeded three hundred dollars for labor. The park now features a Dutch mill, pond, walks, and additional tulips planted on filled soil.
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North Main
B. F. Vander Linden
Fultz
Vander Linden
Verle Ver Dught
Get Best Results By Planting Corn Soybeans Separately
Planting soybeans with corn bound for hogging down or silo is not recognized as profitable by experience. The note stresses separate planting to maximize returns and avoid mixed yields or inefficiencies.
Soybeans Cut Corn Yields In Mixed Plantings Says Culbertson
C Culbertson, animal husbandman at Town State College, reports tests show soybeans reduce corn yields by up to six bushels per acre in wet years. He advises planting a strip of beans along one hogged down field edge to supply a home grown protein supplement. The piece also notes a maxim about greatness and Kansas leading mining states.
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C. ©. Culbertson
Town State College
Culbertson
Plement Culbertson
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West Market Square
Diller Vander Ploeg
Henry and
Paul Ver Stoog
Andrew (Brooks
Henry Klyn
Ward Dillon
Herman Braam
Leonard
Tickey) Braam
Marion
Bee) Wormhoadt
Tulip Bowl
West Park
Women's Federated Club
Mitten
Kate van Gorp
George Ramsey
Minnie Vanden Berg
Writers’ Workshop
University of Iowa
Eric Knight
Herbert Krause
Iowa
Winifred van Etten
Tulip
T. Kempkes
Matt) Kempkes
Wynbergs
Sargents
John Wynberg
Main
Tulip Town
Young Men’s Project
Whitman
Kansas
West
Alaska
Wes
Marion County
J. H. Shinn Hatchery
Pella, Iowa
Cabiek Filia
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