Memorial Day Plans for Community Observance
The American Legion post schedules Memorial Day activities with a park program led by Chaplain Tunis Kempkes, drum corps, color bearers, and a firing squad. parade will end at the cemetery for grave decorations with school children, then a bandstand program featuring Colonel Guy Brewer speaking. Residents urged to display flags and participate in the afternoon services.
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American Legion Post
Tunis Kempkes
Ladies Circle
Legion Auxiliary
Legion
Main Street
Central College
Old College
Pella
Riverview Park at Des Moines Opens for 1928 Season
Riverview Park at Des Moines opened last weekend for the 1928 season. With 40000 in improvements, Riverview becomes one of the nation’s top amusement resorts. On May 26 the Hipprodrome theater opens with the Hipprodrome Revue of 1932, a musical show by Ray Mack and Frank Berger, 30 cast and 32 ballet. Performances at 8 and 10 nightly with 3 p.m. matinees on weekends. New carousal and pool and ballroom decor boost the grounds’ appeal. Mrs. R. R. Beard visited Newton and returned Friday.
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Riverview Park
Des Moines
Riverview
Iowa
United States
Ray Mack
Frank Berger
Chicago
False report draws Pella into daily papers
The Des Moines papers last week ran a story that R. Clay Crawford, a former Pella band instructor, was arrested in Austin after a listener telegraphed a sheriff. The claim tied Pella locals to the incident, but the connection is without foundation and Crawford remains at large.
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Des Moines
R. Clay Crawford
Pella
Austin
Texas
Crawford
Commencement Week Program Schedule Summary
A detailed schedule lists events from May 29 to June 8 including senior academy class play at the High School Auditorium, women's oratorical contest in the College Chapel, field meet, commencement concert, baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Isaac W. Gowen, Y M and Y W C A address, tennis and declamation contests, alumni meeting, senior class play, commencement banquet, farewell chapel, board meeting, ladies auxiliary meeting, faculty reception, and the Seventieth Annual Commencement of Central College at various campus locations.
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College Chapel
Isaac W. Gowen
D. D
Weehawken
N. J
First Reformed Church
Y. M
Third Reformed Church
van Houweling
Jordan Hall
College
Board of Trustees
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Central College
Band fundraiser social on Schulte lawn attracts locals
Friends of the Band plan an old fashioned social on the Schulte lawn Saturday May 26 to raise over $100 for a tuba horn. Ice cream cake sandwiches coffee and candy will be served in the afternoon and music will be played in the evening. Also noted are details of nearby Masons visiting Monroe Fairview Lodge 194, a third degree, and road and paving delays due to asphalt shortage from a wreck destroying two carloads killed near Pella.
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Schulte Lawn
Scholte Lawn
Monroe
Fairview Lodge No. 194
Holland
Surprise sendoff for pastor and wife at Baptist church
Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Droz were surprised by about two hundred congregants Tuesday evening as they were called to return to the church closing his pastorate next Sunday. A farewell program included musical numbers, remarks from Professor Frush, a cash gift, and refreshments served by the Refreshment Committee. The couple plans an auto trip through the west before resuming work.
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A. C. Droz
The
Baptist Church
Droz
Girl From Colfax Likely Runs Away To Pella
Plain run away case centers on Alice Garret a seventeen year old Colfax girl who appeared in Pella with a young man. She stayed in a hotel attended school with local girls and said she left home due to trouble with her parents. Colfax authorities and her parents planned to take her back home. Mrs Bloem and daughter from Des Moines were visitors.
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Pella
Colfax
Alice Garret
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R. R. Beard
Dr. H. F. Keables
Newton
Central
Droz and
Fam
ILY
J. Bloem
Jennie
the Model Clothing Company
Wormhoudt
Kempkes
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