Tulip Time drives community pride and wide publicity
The piece highlights Tulip Time in Pella driven by citizen effort led by women and volunteers. It credits local and regional media and nearby towns for publicity, noting visitors’ positive impressions and the role of friendly agencies in spreading the festival story.
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Pella
KBOE
Oskaloosa
WHO
Who-Tv
WOI
Woil TV
Krnt-Tv
Radio
KIOA
Des Moines
Ktvo-Tv
Ottumwa
Wmt-Tv
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines Register
Des Moines Evening Tribune
Oskaloosa Herald
Davenport Times
Omaha World-Herald
Chamber of Commerce
New Sharon
Sedalia Visit Suggests Idle Billboards For Town Promotion
The piece recalls James K. Sparkman on Sedalia Missouri and urges Pella to use simple bullet board messages on highways. It proposes historical facts local industries and employment, parks churches schools and Tulip Time to lure travelers and transients by conveying a compact, factual town profile.
Voting ages and tax burdens in editorials
Editorials urge lowering the voting age to 18 or 21 debate new youth influence in elections. Kefauver cites younger voters could dilute old opinions, while Georgia and Kentucky already lowered age. Storm Lake editors rail against adding withholding tax and rising employer bookwork, calling for tax simplification and ending state income tax.
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Clara City
Minn
Estes Kefauver
Kefauver
Georgia
Kentucky
Storm Lake
Iowa
Uncle Sam
Back Through Memory Lane items of interest from The Chronicle
A compact retrospective recalling notable items from The Chronicle from 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years ago. Highlights include community events, notable local figures, and milestones that shaped the town’s history, presented in brief biographical and snapshot form.
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Chronicle
Central College president declines offers for endowment hope
The May 17 1996 issue notes President L A Garrison of Central College turning down presidencies at larger schools to pursue a $100000 endowment fund, while seeking a suitable home for his family. Local items include a Knoxville man losing his arm in a farm accident, Elocution recital plans, and Central College football notes.
Pella News Highlights May 1916 Dedication and Local Happenings
Forty years ago in Pella May 25 dedication of the new high school with grade exhibit in the gym. John Iollebrands survives a snake under his Ford as it lifts feet and swerves to a yard. Hunters Reynolds travel to Thunder Creek bottom to show a wolf with broken teeth. Park naming idea for Robert G Hamilton Park surfaces. Death of D S Huber noted in Stockport. Seventeen students to graduate from Pella High including Synhorst and Vander Wal. City installs five Main Street street lamps. chautauqua jobs lined up. South Park trees planted. electric palace to show The Broken Coin finale.
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John Iollebrands
John
C. B
F. W. Reynolds
Coalridge
Thunder Creek
South Pella
Robert G. Hamilton
Pella
Robert
J. L. Warren
G. T. Clark
H. McPherson
D. S. Huber
Kate Beswick
Stockport
Iowa
Lucy
Pella High
Alfred Synhorst
Ray Vander Wal
Walter van Doorninck
Arthur Renaud
Louis Kuyper
Carl de Vries
Marion Wormhoudt
Lois Brooks
Cunera van Emmerik
Florence van Zee
Main Street
Franklin
Liberty Streets
Carl Beyers
Herman Braam
Joe Boyd
Chautauqua
South Park
Grace Cunard
Francis Ford
Electric Palace
Local notes from 1926 May 20 in Pella region
30 Years Ago May 20 1926 reports Vander Waal 36 run over by a train in St Joseph Missouri while employed by Pitts burgh-Des Moines Steel Co. Rosscreen Co begins a four acre factory project on Main and South streets near Rock Island depot with July 1 completion. Rain followed a long dry spell. Rock Island train coach bound Knoxville to Washington passes through Pella. Instructor Amidon showcases high school manual training works in a vacant square building. Ground broken May 27 for Central College new campus building. Historical Society elects officers H F Johnson president Y T Van Niewaal vice president Kate Beard curator Mrs A N Vander Linden treasurer Mrs B H Langerak secretary. directors include L F Bousquet H J Vanden Berg Simon De Haan Nora Scholte. J H Stubenrauch cites Rev H P Scholte letter warning Betten about swindlers aboard ship. Left handed children forced to write right may stutter. Iral College Rev R C Oudersluys to give baccalaureate at Milwaukee. Louis Swank takes Standard Oil corner Square lease from Peter Lubberden. Tom W Graham aged 83 in Os kaloosa, longtime Pella resident, sister Elsbeth Dean of Women Central College. Fred Rhynsburger and Paul Van Zante of Chicago noted as associates.
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William A. Vander Waal
St. Joseph
Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co
Rosscreen Company
Rock Island
Knoxville
Washington
Pella
R. C. Amidon
Manual Training Department
Central College
the Historical Society
H. F. Johnson
Pres
Y. T. van Niewaal
V. Pres
Kate Beard
A. N. Vander Linden
B. H. Langerak
L. F. Bousquet
H. J. Vanden Berg
Simon de Haan
Nora Scholte
J. H. Stubenrauch
Rev. H. P. Scholte
A. J. Betten
Betten
Iral College
R. C. Oudersluis
Milwaukee
Wis
Louis Swank
Standard Oil
Peter Lubberden
Tom W. Graham
Oskaloosa
Elsbeth
Women Central College
Fred Rhynsburger
Paul van Zante
Chicago
Ill
Ten Years Ago Honorary Degrees and Local News At Central College
Ten years ago four men were slated for honorary degrees at Central College including Rev. Anthony Haverkamp of Pella and Rev. David R. Evans. A Holland community auction raised over 7000 for relief funds as a crowd in Dutch dress gathered. Dr. Frederick Bosch reached retirement after 30 years on Central’s faculty. The Chronicle editorial page won Iowa’s top prize. A Holland VFW post organized with 121 members. A Holland radio critique blamed crime reporting for juvenile delinquency. Nylon hose sold at seven dollars a pair. Everett Bell of Tabor was injured by a falling tree.
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Central College
Anthony Haverkamp
Pella
David R. Evans
Louis Benes
Karl Ver Steeg
Wooster
Ohio
Leighton
Otley
Frederick Bosch
Central
Holland
Chronicle
Iowa
Iowa Press Association
Veterans of Foreign Wars
U.S
Nick Vander Ploeg
Tulip Time festival coverage and railway wreck noted
Twenty years ago a Tulip Time feature on Neighbor Day shows on the front page with a one column recount of three day events in Pella. Ten freight cars derailed near Howell Station on the Wabash line with oil and stock cars piled along the track. No injuries. Tulips care article cites plans to order thousands of Holland bulbs for fall 1936 planting. Dr Wynand Wickers of Hope College named commencement speaker at Cen.
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Pella
Howell Station
Wabash Railway
Tulip Time Committee
Holland
Wynand Wickers
Hope College
Cen
Excelsior Institute Non-Surgical Cure Claim Ad
An old newspaper ad touts treatment for glandular inflammation in men over 40. It warns of night pains back hips legs and loss of vigor, claims non surgical methods as a cure, offers a free book with no obligation, and provides the Excelsior Institute’s address.
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Excelsior Institute
Popular movies of the year noted in Milwaukee diary
A Milwaukee observer recalls two top films of the year, Captain January starring Shirley Temple and Mr Deeds Goes to Town with Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, reflecting local cinema tastes of the period.
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Cousin
Captain January
Shirley Temle
Mr. Deeds
Gary Cooper
Jean Arthur
Lester Welle
Milwaukee, Wie
Oakland Mills Dam keeps recreation, but river silting harms flow
An open forum praises the natural resources council for preserving the Oakland Mills dam as a recreation site. Readers argue silted upper Skunk River and the warm water release affect fishing, with tales of illegal snagging and a petition of about a thousand names to keep the dam. An accident near Peru Nebraska leaves a man with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
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Open Forum
Natural Resources Council
Oakland Mills
Skunk
Mississippi
da Feslossiel
Upper Skunk
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Sedalia? Where Is That
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Christian Science Monitor
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Girls’ Seminary
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San Francis
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van Cleave
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Te Veltrup
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Strickland
Kempkes
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John Mollebrands
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