Local notes from Pella area depict visits and events
Long list of visits, travels, and small events in Pella and nearby towns. People named include Miss Minnie Van Vark, Ray Van Maren, Rev. F. N. Byrem, C. Nootebloom, Wm. Van Rheenen, Mrs. Dieleman, Bess Dieleman, L. Stegeman, and many others. Activities cover Memorial Day addresses, visits to Des Moines and Ottumwa, car purchases, church conferences, a cantata, and community notices. Weather and farming notes mention delayed corn planting and good crop stands with some cutworms. Other items include a news note on Enid Oklahoma prosperity and local birthday celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. N. Byrem
Fremont
Roy Vander Linden
Oskaloosa
C. Nootebloom
Lynden
Wash
Wm. van Rheenen
Boyden
Iowa
Henry Roovaart
Prairie City
D. S. Barr
Bernice
A. G. Edmand
Bagley
T. J. Edmand
J. A. Edmand
A. Hoogenakker
Des Moines
Paul Scholte
Newton
Dieleman Auto Co
Chronicle
W A. Butts
A. A. Klein
D. Martin
Leona Berg
Lillie Viersen
R. R. Sadler
A. J. Hanna
Charles Grant
Ben Grant
Gertrude Schakel
Denver
Jack Shorts
Hedrick
John Faassen
G. F. Stegeman
Ottumwa
Pella
Enid
Okla
Daily Eagle
Will H. Scarff
Oklahoma Banker
Oklahoma
L. M. Donai
W. W. Dingeman
Nadine
Fred Quire
Sully
Lucile Donai
L. Reese
Knoxville
Theo le Cocq
Pollyana Club
Henry Brand
New Sharon
J. Brand
Albert de Laat
Chicago
Ln Pella
S. Poortinga
Dump Wormhoudt
Statement of the condition of Security State Bank at Pella Iowa
The Iowa bank report shows assets total 309 725 19 including cash 214 911 07 drafts 10 470 08 and real estate 6 000 00 with deposits 259 480 01 and liabilities matching 309 725 19 to the state auditor. Directors J G VerMeer Tania H Klein and Bert Baron attest with N Van Vliet as president A Klein as vice president J H Van Vliet as cashier sworn May 25 1917 before Notary Public John H Stubenrauch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dank
Fannnce
State OF
Iowa
Marion County
N. van Vliet
A. T. Klein
J. H. van Vliet
John H. Stubenrauch
J. G. VerMeer
Bert Baron
Tania H. Klein
Weekly Bulletin of Iowa Weather and Crop Service, May 29 1917
The week was unusually cool with temperatures about 8 degrees below normal. Frost occurred in several localities on two to three nights and ice formed in a few places on the 23rd, but overall damage was light. Heavy rains at the close of the preceding week affected conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Des Moines
Iowa
In Memoriam Adam P Van Nimwegen II
Obituary notice for Adam P. Van Nimwegen aged 56 who died May 23 1917 after illness. Born Pella May 11 1861, married Emma Van Sittert December 15 1892, one daughter survives. Family thanks friends for sympathy and flowers from Christian Endeavor Society and Central College youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam P. van Nimwegen II
Adam P. van Nimwegen
Mr. van Nimwegen
Pella
Emma van Sittert
Christian Endeavor Society
Central College
A. P. van Nimwegen
Wilhelmina van Nimwegen
Daughters Learn Kindness Through Father’s Aging Trials
An old man seeks kindness from a deaconess who helps his daughters see their duty. The daughters change, grant him a sunny room, and plan his birthday party. Months later they embrace Christianity, making the home a reprieve of faith and care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Father
New England Deaconess
Honest Respect and the Value of Honest Affection
Betty faces her father’s test of character as he questions her regard for Miss Enid Rivington. The exchange probes whether Betty values a person for status and wealth or for genuine qualities. A note from her father hints at a lesson on honesty and integrity in choosing companions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Enid Rivington
Miss Rivington
Mary Dean
Honest respect and paying our bills quote
A fragment shows Betty noting a Puritan quotation about honesty in paying respect as in paying bills. The scene hints at frugal discipline and moral economy shaping Ward and Betty's actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Thrift Before Business in a Village Grocer
A village grocer, Mr Merrill, adds a soda fountain to boost trade. Ten hotel guests order ice cream and three boys insist to pay. After a tense moment he sets a fifty cent cap per dish yet faces a chorus of protests, until the group agrees the boys will chip in to raise a dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Merrill
Remembering the Wolfes Letter of sympathy from Pella circle
Gordon Clarke presents a communal reply to W H Wolfe after his wife's death. Schoolmates and acquaintances in Pella sign letters of condolence, recalling associations and shared memories from earlier days. Names mentioned include Murray Cox and Ella Keables, C N Cole, Gordon B Clarke and wife, now of Lyons Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Clarke
W. H. Wolfe
Pella
Murray Cox
Prairie City
Ella Keables
C. N. Cole
Gordon B. Clarke
Lyons
Kan
Local Opportunity Ad Promises Easy Home Profits
You can make money right around your home as hundreds of men and women are doing. Work is easy pleasant and permanently profitable. Be your own boss and build your own business. You take no risk, make sure profit right along. Send name address one reference. L Brown 66 Murray St New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Brown
Murray St
New York
City
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Minnie van Vark
Whaat Peel
Ray van Maren
Otumwa
Ye Foto Shop
Fred
U. S
Udell Hendricks
State Bank
State
Vander Linden’s
Thrift
Wolfes
Pella Markets
Vanderly Bros
Pella Produce Co
John Barrymore
Earl Williams
Captain Jinks
Charles Richmond
Man From Home
Holbrook Blinn
Jane
Ohio
Emerson
Cushman
Wallis Cub Tractor
Florence Tie
van Dusseldorp
Welding Works
Pella, Iowa
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