School Notes and Upcoming High School Events
The public schools close for summer next Friday with Thursday as a partial day and Saturday at 1 30 p m for report distribution. The Class sermon is at Third Reformed Church Sunday 7 45 p m and seniors perform What Happened to Jones next Tuesday. Admission 35c for the play and 25c for commencement, advance 40c. Junior high and other students receive certificates to enter high school next fall. The annual school display runs Wednesday to Friday 2 00–6 30 p m and 7 15–9 00 p m in the high school gym. The Cantata of Flowers featured kindergarten, with Miss Renaud praised. A Belgian relief collection netted 12 76 after costs, plus year-round fundraising over 100. Potatoes from Thanksgiving and other drives boosted charity funds.
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J. Wesselink
Third Reformed Church
Jones
Gerald Rysdam
Ebenezer Goodly
Mark Rillihan
Antony Goodley
Ballarat
Oren van Niewaal
Richard Heatherly
George Kaldenberg
Thomas Holder
Harold Thomassen
William Bigbee
Marie Gaass
Helene Freda Slob
Sarah J. Ter Louw
Lee C. Lautenbach
Dora van Haaften
Charles Klein
Renaud
Lincoln School
Memorial service highlights patriotism and kindness lessons
The report recalls a fitting memorial service in Pella with veterans and students honoring Civil War dead. Dr Bailey argued for democracy against German aims, urging U S effort. Speakers extolled kindness virtues, citing Lincoln and personal conduct, and attendees laid flowers at cemeteries and at Central College Marble Slab. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs J H Van Vliet on May 29.
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Pella
Mr. Wesselink
Doctor Bailey
Ladies’ Circle
Central College
J. H. van Vliet
Mortuary notices from May 1917 in Oskaloosa and Pella
Obituaries note Mrs. L. Neels of Pella died May 25 1917 at 74 with paralysis. Survived by husband and several children. Funeral in Oskaloosa. Also Nellie Lucas of Pella died May 27 1917 at 55 after tuberculosis. Funeral at First Reformed church. Also a farming tip urges planting pumpkins in cornfields to feed hogs and boost hog output, detailing hole-poking method with a stick and seeds reportedly in late stand fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Klein
John Klein
First Reformed Cemetery
PHANT PUMPKINS IN CORN SAY IOWA STATE FARMERS
Iowa State college crop experts say pumpkins will fill harvest ranks in corn fields this season. Farmers expect strong yields as pumpkins become a prominent companion crop in diverse crop rotations.
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Iowa State College
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Ad
Patent medicine advert touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for feverishness bad stomach teething disorders and worm remedy. Claims 30 years use by mothers and universal efficacy. Sold by druggists at 5 cents with sample free from Mother Gray Co LeRoy.
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Mother Gray Co
LeRoy
Kindness as a Virtue That Grows the Soul
A reflection extols kindness over wealth rewarding not by spending money but by investing character. Kindness draws people who think kind thoughts and speak kind words, creating a positive social debt that enlarges one’s inner principal rather than diminishing it.
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Lincoln
Want column style ads with varied items listed
Classified style notice of small ads and offers including chick feed drilling services horses wanted rooms for rent eggs for hatching old teeth buyers, salesman job, and refinery company position. Mentions prices and contact details, all in a dense, period advertisement column tone.
College Notes from Commencement Week at Central College
Students register with Doctor Bailey on June 5 and attend all exercises through June 14. Commencement events include a June 11 concert at First Reformed Church and a baccalaureate at the high school with graduates and faculty honored. Athletics, music, and class sales support missions as seniors reflect on discipline and school spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey
Chamberlains Tablets Bring Relief Says Mrs Kadin
Mrs Anna Kadin of Spencerport New York says Chamberlains Tablets relieved her long standing stom ach trouble after many remedies failed She endorses the medicine as giving positive lasting relief and notes it is available from F D Stubenrauch.
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Chamberlain
Anna Kadin
Spencerport
F. D. Stubenrauch
Pain Relief Promise From Stubenrauch Liniment Ad
Advertisement touts Chamberlain's Liniment for chronic rheumatism and muscular rheumatism with claimed pain relief worth many times the cost. For sale by F. D. Stubenrauch.
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Chamber‘Tain
F. D. Stubenrauch
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Committee For the
Literary Digest
Mother Gray
Chronicle Advertisers
Vander Linden
the Chronicle’s
Roorda
Flanders
Knoxville
C. R. Davis
Robert M. McIntire
First Street
R. R. Sadler
Main Street
Domestic Supply Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Riverside Refining Company
Cleveland
Ohio
College
Central
Hoffman
Holland, Mich
Chapel
Professor Sadler
Hazel White
Choral Club
First Reformed Church
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Central Summer School
Phillips
Sadler
Walter Halbert
Arthur Renaud
Dave Bogaard
Jessie Sadler
Mrs. Bailey
Y, M
Y. W. CG
Brown Herd CO
Murray St
New York
Gtr
H. S
H. S. Auditorium
Ebenezer
Minerva Bess van Spanckeren
Helma
Kathrine de Koning Alvina Starlight
Mrs. Goodley
Dora Grandia
Gosselink’s
Citizens National Bank
Shhaeffer
Puritan Drug CO
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