Thought of the Week on values and Tulip Time
A civic message stresses spiritual values over wealth and a town’s worth by its entertainment and hospitality. It highlights Tulip Time as a non commercial festival showing simple joys. A Community Service Project note praises Grinnell Rotary for bike safety tape and invites other groups to help protect children riding at night.
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Grinnell
Rotary Club
Pella
South Africa
Supreme Court
Netherlands
Walnut Bureau
Walnut
DeMille on Education for Liberty at Iowa State College
A Des Moines Register report recounts Cecil B. DeMille’s campus talk on education and indoctrination. He argues schools must teach liberty and the rights of man, challenging neutrality and urging teachers to defend enduring American principles while encouraging students to question and seek truth.
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Cecil B. DeMille
Iowa State College
Veishen
Des Moines Register
DeMille
Education For Liberty
Mr. DeMille
Iowa flood control plan divides Democrats and Republicans
Document outlines a plan of operation for flood control in the Missouri Valley. Democrats favor federal control while Republicans push for the conservative Pick Plan. Iowa voters weigh Eisenhower's stance amid debate and socialistic fears.
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Iowa
Eisenhower
Public warnings on scams and Cold War dangers
Editorials warn readers about fast talkers and price traps in Walnut, urge checking local shops, and caution about postwar Communism. Laurens Sun notes Rotary speakers liken America to pre Soviet takeover and urges vigilance to avoid losing freedoms.
Back-Through Memory Lane: Items from The Chronicle
A concise look back at notable Chronicle items from 10, 20, 30, and 40 years ago. Highlights reflect local events, notable figures, and developments that shaped the community over decades.
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Chronicle
Foundations for houses offered at popular price per day
The State Historical Society prepared to release the Book The Hollanders of Iowa by Professor Jacob Vander Zee of the University of Iowa. The project promised to cover foundational work for homes at a popular rate of $3.00 per day and found.
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The
State Historical Society
Hollanders of Iowa
Jacob Vander Zee
University of Iowa
Pella Meteors Triumph Over Prairie City in 11-10 Scoring Thriller
Forty years ago the Pella Meteors edged Prairie City 11 to 10 as Veen and George Boyd delivered clutch hits. Lankelma pitched strongly. Van Gorp and Frank Stubenrauch traveled to Des Moines to arrange a Ford roadster. A wild week features an Aviation Meet at the Fair Grounds with three daily flights and horse races, admission 60 cents adults.
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Pella
Prairie City
Veen
George Boyd
Aini
Lankelma
H. P. van Gorp
Frank Stubenrauch
Des Moines
Ver Meer
Star Auto Company
College Auditorium
Laura Kramer
Vander Waal
A. J. Klyn
Klyn
Nick de Winter
Garden Square
Newton
First Christian Reformed Church
F. W. Brinkhoff
Commercial Association
Carrie de Haan
Grinnell College
Pella High
Hattie Klyn
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Nelle Veenman
Los Angeles
California
Henry de Wild
James Ver Ploeg
Jackson Automobiles
Pella News Bits From A Long Ago 30 Years Ago
Notes from the period describe a high school band concert downtown led by Mr Crawford with members who had only two months of training. Town canvassing for funds to rebuild Old Central after a fire reports gifts including 1000 dollars. Baptist project on Skunk River near Pe ella includes labor and 300 dollars in materials. river set planned for boaters and bathers. Pella baseball and semi pro results, Miss Throckmorton to teach music and drawing, Van Gorp urging support for Central College, limestone for band stands arriving, basement dug, George Heeren building floats for fall parade, Legion members seeking recruits on July 4th.
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Crawford
Old Central
The
Baptists
Skunk
Peaches Bridge
Peella
Pella
Bussey
Oskaloosa
Throckmorton
Garden “Grove
Iowa
Hadeen
P. H. van Gorp
Central College
van Gorp
P. H
Clarence van Niewaal
Garden Square
George Heeren
Legion Post
Scouts seek payment for paper collection in town area
The Scouts hoped to earn 100 dollars for gathered and baled paper, but the market offered only 18 dollars per ton. They held 105 bales. In other notes, Professor F M Frush was in a minor car accident on an Oskaloosa street with an Overland sedan, causing little damage and no injuries. Leon Gouloore bought a new Dodge sedan and toured Rock Rapids with his family. Reverend and Mrs. John R Mulder visited relatives in Michigan by auto.
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F. M. Frush
Oskaloosa
Leon Gouloore
Rock Rapids
Iowa
John R. Mulder
Auto
Michigan
Twenty Years Ago Welfare Board Notes Aid Drive
Welfare Board meeting reports sixty families in need while ministers pledge help and urge a broader fundraising drive. Other items include a murder mystery in Knoxville, local civic efforts, Camp Fire girls cabin plans, Chamber of Commerce membership drive, and a three cent per ounce rate rise for first class mail.
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Welfare Board
Ary Bruins
Women’s Medical College
Philadelphia
General Hospital
Madison
Wisconsin
Camp Fire
Chamber of Commerce
Knoxville
Jennie
Letitia
Winfield Dudgeon
Central College
Iowa State College
Ames
India
Harry Boland
Casey Vanden Berg
On the Evils of Idleness and Gambling
The speaker condemns idleness as a root of vice and extols work. He cites Spurgeon Solomon Ford and others, arguing gambling corrupts character and society. He rejects betting on elections and horses, trusting only his wife for bets, framing personal discipline as moral progress.
Ten Years Ago in Pella June 18 1942 Remembrances
Ten years ago on June 18 1942 Pella mourned the loss of three teachers Maurice Bird Sall, Kenneth Rankin, and Robert Ruby who moved on to other posts. The town recalled coping with war service, school improvements, scrap rubber drives, metalworking classes at the high school, and new civilian pilot training at Pella Airport.
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Pella
Maurice Birdsall
Kenneth Rankin
Robert Ruby
Grundy Center
Marvie Kooyman
Pearl van Gorp
May Thomassen
Scout Rubber Collection
Star Oil
May
Pearl
J. A. Vander Wal
Tunis Kempkes
Ration Board
J. B. van Hemert
Robert Lautenbach
Kenneth , Dekker
John Hoeksema
Pella Airways
Navy
George
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Marion M. DE Zwarte
J. Richard Sneed
Community Service Project
Freedom
Warpath
Kefauver Committee
Congressional
Gallup
U. S
Hiram Cole Houghton
Red Oak
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Minneapolis
America
Missouri Valley
Ike
Pate
Cedar Rapids
Fred White
Marshalltown Times
Joe McCarthy
Benton
Hollywood
Laurens Sun
Waverly Rotary Club
Czechoslovakia
Germany
United States
Roger Bacon
Roger Gacons
Colonia
Dudley Reid
West Des Moines Express
Spurgeon
London
Solomon
Sluggard
Henry Ford
Kansas
Nebraska
Earl Schweppe
Robert Nemmers
Don Davis
Air Force
Marion County
Pila
L. P
Nita
Kerry
Ben Vogelaar
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