Thought of the Week at New York State Parent-Teacher Congress
Delegates representing 279,000 members focused on training homes for cooperative citizenship. The keynote urged neighborliness, tolerance, and interfaith efforts, calling for closer teacher parent ties and equal educational opportunities for all children with strong support for the United Nations. Women and mothers dominated the Congress in shaping these ideals.
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New York State
United Nations
Halloween window art and Iowa road safety reform
A chatter about Halloween window washing shows merchants welcoming kid drawings and prizes. The piece urges Iowa to fix highways with wider shoulders, leveled pavements, and removed curbs to prevent deadly crashes, urging public pressure and safe driving habits.
Africa-Our Eyes Are Opened at Travel and Venture Lecture
The second program in the travel and ad venture lecture series featured Thayer Soule presenting Through the Eastern Congo. Color pictures showed Belgian Congo children and teachers learning sewing carpentry metal-working and art, illustrating rapid progress and potential. The audience urged directing aid toward agriculture and industry to empower communities rather than weaponry, aiming to win gratitude and friendship.
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Africa
Thayer Soule
Congo
Belgian Congo
Mr. Soule
America
Albia speed limit plan prompts city debate
The Albia city council moved to task the city attorney with drafting an ordinance setting speed limits of ten miles per hour around the square, fifteen within three blocks, and twenty five elsewhere missing a stated reason. A Monroe County News report notes local driving hazards mirror those in Pella with rule disregard, and residents urge strong enforcement and hearings to curb speed and restore order.
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Albia
Monroe County
Pella
North Main
Willys
Pella National Bank
California Truck Fenders Urged to Cut Splashing
Editorial endorses California rule requiring fenders mud guards or splatter pads on trucks and trailers to curb spray. Calls for similar law in our state at next session, arguing costs for violators are low and safety gains high.
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Red Oak Express
California
Central 1911 Thanksgiving loss at Oska loosa Penn 6-0
Forty years ago Central's football team traveled with 250 fans to Oska loosa for Thanksgiving Day and lost 6 to 0 to Penn in a hard fought game. Players listed include Bogaard captain and Van Spanckeren while Al Smith starred for Penn. The item also mentions a Thanksgiving party at Cotton Hall, a 71st birthday for A Hoogenakker, school preliminaries, local obituaries, new hires, and various small town notes.
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Rooters
Central
Oskaloosa
Penn
Beastie
Atha
P. Phillips
Visser
van Zante
Bogaard
Hendricks
Ver Steeg
Byram
van Spanckeren
al Smith
Marion Porter
McCretry Marble & Granite Works
Joe Porter
Cotton Hall
A. Hoogenakker
Pella
St. Louis
Jacob de Haan
Margaret Grundman
Mae Brom
Mary Helen’ Vander Linden
Mae Cole
Joe Bogaards
Artie Smorenberg
Cornelia Johnson van Ginkle
Old People's Home
Jeanette Wilma
H. P. Neyenesch
Josephine Grandin
Sybenga Bakery
Minnie Burgrant
Oskaloosa Y.M.C.A
H. P. van Gor
F. F. Carpenter
1Land Sadler
George Ganss
Knoxville
Jim Vander Pol
Page
Pella School Enrollment and City Actions Highlight Local News
The Pella schools enrolled 601 students with 120 in the high school. Miss Bootsma's room led in regular attendance and punctuality. The City Council condemned the mill pond behind Blommers Mill and ordered it filled by June 1, 1912, criticized merchants for rubbish behind stores, and tightened downtown fire code enforcement. Baptist groceries funded a Thanksgiving prayer meeting gifts for Pastor J W Bailey. H Sadler and Dean Severn arranged a surprise shower. Pete Schakel offered full blood Wyandotte cockerels for sale at his farm 1½ miles north of Pella at 60 to 75 cents each.
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Pella
Miss Bootsma
Blommers Mill
Pete Schakel
30 Years Ago Legion Auxiliaries Meet for Welcome
Members of the Legion Auxiliary gathered at the Chamber of Commerce for a business meeting that became a welcome party for Commander D C Van Zante and Corinne Lee Van Zante of La Grange Kentucky. Socializing followed with entertainment as reports of local incidents and a shooting scare at Howell Station unfolded.
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Legion Auxilie
P. de Reus
Chamber of Commerce
D. C. van Zante
Corinne Lee van Zante
la Grange
Kentucky
D. G. Gosselink
D. G
John D. Gaass
Irvin Tanner
Howell Station
Tanner
Iowa City
Joe Slycord
Polla Federated Club
Anna van Spanekeren
Polk County Federal Seeks Depositors With 2 Percent Dividend
Many people seek a safe place to deposit or invest money with good returns. Polk County Federal Savings Association invites inquiries. Accounts insured up to 10000 by a U.S. government agency. Dividend expected at 2 percent per year. Open by mail with check, account book, and withdrawal signature card mailed to you.
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Polk County Federal
Savings Association
United States
Pageant and lecture notes from College Auxiliary event
Miss Julia Watson directed a Hiawatha pageant hosted by College Auxiliary women. Jr Preston Bradley of Chicago gave a lecture on The United States of Tomorrow. Bud Vander Meulen and family visited H P Vander Meulen home at Thanksgiving. Elisabeth Pippel married Gerrit Van Halen on tentative date. Sara Gosselink, Fremont librarian, returned home to help care for injured parents D and M Gosselink after a car crash.
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Julia Watson
Hiawatha
Preston Bradley
Chicago
United States of Tomorrow
Bud Vander Meulen
Monroe
G. A
Elisabeth Pippel
Gerrit van Halen
Sara Gosselink
Fremont
Nebraska
Ben
D. Gosselink
Christmas Shopping Issue Highlights Local News and Floods
Lead story details Chief Paul Grundman chasing a holdup suspect through Ottumwa streets. City contracts a turbine generator from Murray Iron Works. Relief efforts coordinated by Weyers Paardekooper De Cook committee with Welfare League and Chamber. Flooding hits Reasnor and Cordova areas, high Des Moines and Skunk rivers. Two pages advertise Bell Clothing sale with coats and sweaters.
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Fred Faassen
Shi- Joh Temple
Zion City
Illinois
First Reformed Church
Faassen
Betty
Old Rugged Cross
Wilbur
Central College
Murray Iron Works
Burlington
Towa
Paul
Welfare League
Chamber of Commerce
Federated Club
Pella
Reasnor
Reasnor Creek
Skunk
Coach Winter
Wonder
Fort
Connie Muyskens
Clarence Ilkins
Letty Schnack
Babe Tysseling
Des Moines
Fifield
Cordova
George Hart
Bell Clothing House
Ten Years Ago In Pella Front Page Portraits And Plans
A front page portrait titled My cup runneth over showed Aunt Sally De Cook seated knitting with a kitten at her feet and a Thanksgiving message praising health and friends. The issue also featured the First Christian Reformed Church architect drawing with corner stone laid November 27, 1943. Dr C R Wierenga was announced to conduct Religious Emphasis Week at Central Campus, a classmate of Dr I J.
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Sally de Cook
Sally
Pella
First Christian Reformed Church
C. R. Wierenga
I. J
Parker urges schools to stress moral values in schools
Miss Jessie M. Parker state superintendent speaks in Des Moines during United Nations Week urging Iowa citizens to rededicate themselves to moral and spiritual values in education. She cites the Bible and Bill of Rights as parallel texts and says literature can teach virtue while stressing human rights and global perspectives.
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Jessie M. Parker
Des Moines
Iowa
Republic
Miss Parker
Mi Parker
Hope College and Arcot Mission Ties Noted In Local Scene
Front page photo shows Lubbers and Professor Tunis Prins of Hope College with Dr and Mrs Mason Olcott connected to the Arcot Mission of the Reformed Church in India. A. A. Rockwell’s Central College band planned a Dec 14 concert at Douwstra Chapel featuring The Netherlands Rhapsody and The Insect Suite. Maurice Birdsall to MC a Show Boat program Dec 10. Farm page conservation feature includes Clarence King near Knoxville evidencing soil depth. Descriptions of soldiers’ discharges and inductions follow, with Camp Claiborne, Polk, Grant, and Des Moines noted. Local merchants offer free coffee and doughnuts to traders Saturdays. Pella Spirit reports on On Borrowed Time staged by Central students, directed by Maurice Birdsall with Gramps portrayed by Jerry Carpenter in a wheelchair. Multiple campus performers praised. A survey on Pel trade directed by Professor Karl Kettering is shown.
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Maurice Birdsall
Clarence King
Knoxville
Hickory Creek
Ridenour Brothers
Case du Pree
Pvt
Robert Walter Roorda
Des Moines
Will Nibbelink
Camp Claiborne
Sam Menninga
Claiborne
Earl Ver Meer
Camp Grant
Inl
Gilbert van Dusseldorp
Pella Hi Spirit
School News
Jerry Penter
Gramps
Bob Lubbers
Carl Ver Steeg
Jeanne V. Gorkum
James Kempkes
Connie van Gorp
Marcia Kuyper
Semon Sandren
Bob Black
Rudy Schilder
Bloomfield Call Sale Draws 80 Producers
A Bloomfield event recently hosted a call sale with 80 producers participating and a gross of $95,000.
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Bloomfield
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