College Notes Highlight Commencement Concert And Society Banquet
Simpson loss noted amid a solid game. Commencement Concert slated for Saturday night June 2 in the chapel. Alethians selling coffee. Dunn Cottage heating upgrade announced. Summer music courses urged. The Advance Society held its annual banquet at Mr A T Van Houweeling’s home with 36 members and four tables. Harold Bauer toastmaster, praised program and the ladies auxiliary dinner. Ralph Westervelt listed in Des Moines selling the Cole. Loyde Hill anticipated at commencement. Glee Club set to banquet with Loyde for the Goat. Bogie, Leo and Enos prominent on campus. Connie De Bruin to give a recital reading Turmoil by Booth Tarkington. Two fine chamber trios performed at chapel. The Annual issue on sale through Bert Vander Ploeg with delivery by old Ford.
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Advance Society
A. T. van Houweeling
Sadler
Harold Bauer
Connie de Bruin
Expression Department
College
Booth Tarkington
Pella Boy Scouts Hold 7:30 Meeting For 15 Members
News from Pella reports a scout meeting at 7:30 with 15 boys and two officials. They played Poison, awarding patrol flags to winners Fox patrol, sang multiple songs, and concluded with extended Taps due to conduct. Patrol leaders met to plan Spider and Fly and a tree search across city limits with defined boundaries.
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Fox Patrol
Casey
Franklin
E. 3Rd St
W. 3Rd St
Amendment of Security Bank of Pella Articles of Incorporation
A special stockholders meeting at the Security Bank of Pella in Marion County Iowa on April 28 1923 adopted amendments to the articles increasing capital stock from 50000 to 75000 and changing the board of directors to a size not less than five nor more than eleven with VAN VLIET as president and H W VAN VLIET as cashier.
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Security Bank of
Pella
Iowa
Marion County
Security State Bank of
van Vliet
J. HW. van Vliet
WOC Radio Schedule May 20 26 1924 City Stations
Radio program schedule from station WOC Davenport Iowa with daily listings May 20 to May 26 including sacred chimes concerts pipe organ baseball scores church service educational talks and lectures by various persons and groups plus weather time signals markets and river forecasts and musical programs and tours including names like John Richards Walter D Milligan Erwin Swindell C A Russell Jos Kimmel Major R E Carmody and Calvary U S A along with Davenport High School Orchestra and Washington Band
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John Richards
W. M. Boaz
First Presbyterian Church
East Moline
Itt
C. A. Russell
Sandman
Erwin Swindell
Davenport High School
Julius Schmidt
America
Walter D. Milligan
Crook Bros. Laundry
Davenport
Marc
A. G. Hinrichs
Tri-City
D. K. Kirk
Swindell
Grace Harper
Gertrude McKinsey
Elsie Dack
Roscoe Williams
Jos. Kimmel
Delco Light Company
J. Dwight Clark
John McGreevy
Blanch Whitcomb
Karl G. Stephan
Washington Band
Washington
Iowa
J. P. Magnusson
August College
Rock Island
Marand
C. E. Wilent
P. 8. C. Orehe
R. E. Carmody
Calvary
U. S.A
C. C. Hall
Evening Entertainment Schedule at Local Hall
At 6 30 p m Sandman visit followed by a 7 p m musical program featuring Erwin Swindell Apollo Mandolin Club Henry Dis mer and Louis Crowder. A 9 30 p m to 10 30 p m dance program by the P S C orchestra concludes the event.
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Sandman
Erwin Swindell
Apollo Mandolin Club
Henry Dismer
Louis Crowder
P. S. C. Orchestra
City Council Proceedings of Pella Iowa May 15 1923
The City Council of Pella Iowa met May 15 1923 at the City office. Minutes from the prior meeting were approved. Grants included erecting an oil filling station and moving existing structure. Sewer projects were approved with cost sharing conditions on blocks 41 and 23. A cement rewalk along block 8 was approved and bids called for. Finance recommended partial boiler and steel truss payments totaling $38,767.76 and related coal costs. Labor rates set at 40¢ per hour plus 75¢ for team work with poll tax at $4.00. Street flushing contract let to G J Vander Beek at 80¢ per hour. Bonds: $15,000 of 1908 funding bonds due, street improvement bonds, and $2,000 of improvement fund bonds authorized. Heavy traffic on paved streets to be studied by Finance Committee. Council adjourned.
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Eemison Hough
University of Iowa
Newton
Judge Byington
Hough
H. H. Carter
Lotus
C. B. Egil
Blanden
Harding
Edward Cunningham
Iowa
Federal Reserve Board
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Council Bluffs
Clifford Solon
Shenandoah
Kendall
Solon
W. H. Bush
Denison
40Th General Assembly
Prairie City
Jasper County
Nels Haggard
Northwood
Association of State Manufacturers
Pella
Towa
Aegular
Johnson
East 2Nd Street
Block 41
G. J. Vander Beek
A. G. Kuyper
Craver-De Bruyn rs M Graver Fern De Bruyn Married
Craver son of Charles Craver and Fern De Bruyn of Oskaloosa wed at Rev Elam’s home 702 Fourth Street with the ceremony Saturday afternoon in May 1928. The bride, longtime Lender store employee in Oskaloosa, hails from John De Bruyn and Mrs De Bruyn’s home on Avenue 1105. Newlyweds will reside near New Sharon after June 1. Purity Nut Coal advertised by Pella Supply Co.
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Avenue
Oskalo
Craver
New Sharon
Oskaloosa
Tanlac credited for illness relief by Chicago man
I R Goldberg of Chicago says Tanlac restored his health after a run down condition. He details sour appetite, acid stomach and headaches before five bottles improved appetite, digestion and a 15 pound gain, enabling him to work hard while traveling for American Advertising Co. and living at 822 S. Wabash Ave.
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I. R. Goldberg
Goldberg
American Advertising Co
Philadelphia
S. Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Tanlac
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Alta
Story County Farm Bureau
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British Legion
London
North Superior
People’s Water Company
Des Moines
Sioux City
New York
C. H. Crooks
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railway
Frazier
R. A. Hart
Lamont
Willam L. Wade
Wyoming Anti-Saloon League
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
R. S. Holsaple
State Board of Control
Woodward
A. G. Halverson
McGregor
A. R. Corey
Johnson Brigham
Shaw
Law Library
State Faft Board
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Farm Bureau
Burt J. Thompson
Forest City
Simpson
Dunn Cottage
Ralph Westervelt
Locust Street
Cole
Ralph
Glee Club
Loyde Hill
Loyde
Bogie
Leo
Enos
Bob Vander Wal
Paul Bruins
Nicholas Gosselink
Bert Vander Ploeg
News OF
BOY Scouts
The
Security State Bank
WOC
Palmer School OF Chiropractic
Castor
Castoria
Pella Supply Co
Colorado
California
Golden State Limited
Garrico ‘Corte
Rocky Monn Fais
Colorado Way
Dykstra
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