Hagerman Lecture Loves World In Which We Live
Dr B T Hagerman spoke at the Pella High School auditorium on The World in Which We Live The talk was uplifting and inspiring and praised for its ideal and humane vision The audience stayed attentive and left with renewed determination to do right and live kindly The Y M C A is commended for bringing such a speaker to Pella
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Pella
High School
B. T. Hagerman
Dr. Hagerman
Hagerman
Charlie On the Stage Comes to Pella for All Star Show
The Topeka Daily State Journal notes the touring production Charlie On the Stage features Charlie Chaplin Fatty and Mabel with a twenty man company and Challenge Orchestra. The live stage show promises scenes like the real estate office and a cowboys out west sequence plus a brass band of diverse Charlies. The engagement arrives Friday November 3 with special scenic effects.
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Topeka Daily State Journal
Charlie
Fatty
Mabel
Pella
Fatty and
Charlie Chaplin
Lean
Tall
Short
Fat Charlies
Quality Store In Eddyville Changes Hands
R H Walker sold stock of general merchandise to Gerritt Verrips and Adam Hasselman of Pella. The Eddyville store closed Tuesday for invoicing and will reopen as The Quality Store with the same clerk force. Verrips and Hasselman, enterprising young men with Pella clerking experience, are praised by the Eddyville Tribune.
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R. H. Walker
Gerritt Verrips
Adam Hasselman
Pella
Vernips
A. DeWild
A. P. Hasselman
West Des
Moines
Eddyville Tribune
Five Year Program Day Observed by Iowa Churches
The Baptist churches in Iowa plan to observe next Sunday as Five Year Program Day. Activities will align with denominational aims, including morning preaching on The Baptist Crusade and a brief talk for children. Special services will follow with supper and a 7 PM meeting, featuring gospel acts. Mrs Coppoc of Cher e Iowa visited the first of this.
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Iowa
Lora
P.heeting
Fourth of July Celebration Plans in Pella
Citizens of Pella organize a strong revival of Fourth of July festivities after a lukewarm previous event. Rural Marion county figures Rube Corntassel Bushwood Miller Timothy Hayworth join city residents Laurie Appleby J. Wesley Cruikshank Aunt Becky Miller and Widow Pinkham in planning. Committee action underway with December first opera house date set for a major community celebration.
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Pella
Rube Corntassel
Bushwood Miller
Timothy Hayworth
Marion County
Laurie Appleby
J. Wesley Cruikshank
Becky Miller
Pinkham
Opera House
Dr Hall Delivers Eugenics Talks at Pella YMC A Meetings
Dr Winfield Scott Hall of Chicago spoke at multiple Pella Y M C A events on Eugenics. Sessions included college, high school, and a 7 p m community meeting at the High School auditorium. Hall led audiences through laboratory demonstrations, impressing attendees with his lectures. He is touring fourteen of Iowa’s forty colleges under the state Y M C A board.
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Pella
Central College
Winfield Scott Hall
Chicago
Hall
Hin
Iowa Gubernatorial Race Speech Endorses Prohibition
The candidate appeals to Iowa voters urging calm assessment of issues on November 7 while recounting attacks by saloon interests, defending a pro temperance record, and pledging impartial enforcement of liquor laws regardless of election outcome. He cites support from John T. Clarkson and Democratic allies, claims vast funding against him, and asserts his anti-saloon stance as central to his campaign.
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Iowa
Commonwealth
Democratic Party
John T. Clarkson
Democratic Party of
Harding
Towa
Meredith
Henry Wallace
Iowa Homestead
James M. Pierce
Wallace
Pierce
Iowa Homstead
Waterloo
Dubuque
der Demokrat
Davenport
Jack Dalton
Corporation Centrol
Meeting of the Federated Club on Eugenics
The Women s Federated Club met October 30 1916 in Opera House rooms to discuss Eugenics with Mrs A B VanHouwe ling presenting a paper and Dr Scott Hall of Northwestern University Chicago delivering an instructive lecture A business meeting preceded the program and J G VanderPol arranged lecture bookings refreshments followed and the group adjourned to November 13 1916
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Women's Federated Club
Opera House
A. B. VanHouweling
Scott Hall
Northwestern University of Chicago
Womens Club House
J. G. VanderPol
High Prices Hit Coun cil Bluffs Orphanage Hard
H R Lemen, manager of the Christian Home Orphanage in Coun cil Bluffs Iowa, reports rising living costs and scarce winter supplies. With 270 homeless children to feed, the need for extra donations grows as prices for essentials soar and cash receipts fall.
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H. R. Lemen
Christian Home Orphanage
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Becaus
Otley couple wed at bride’s home in November 1916
Albert Sandmeyer of Otley married Miss Gladys Moody near Oskaloosa at her parents' home at 4:00 pm on Wednesday November 1, 1916. Moody taught music in Pella, couple plans a monthlong wedding trip to Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. relatives from Pella attended.
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Albert Sandmeyer
Otley
Gladys’ Moody
John Moody
Oskaloosa
Pella
Sandmeyer
the Chronicle
Dunnink and Steenhoek Wed at First Reformed Church
Peter Dunnink and Miss Bertha Steenhoek united in marriage by Rev J Wesselink at the First Reformed parsonage on Wednesday November 1 1916 They will reside on a farm near Fifield The Chronicle offers best wishes and congratulations A faithful supporter of Pella now asking your support at the polls next Tuesday Vote for Jim VanderPol for county treasurer Ady
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Peter Dunnink
Bertha Steenhoek
J. Wesselink
First Reformed Church
Fifield
Chronicle
Pella
Jim VanderPol
Ady
College notes on chapel talks and student life
Central College notes report slim chapel attendance as Mr. Harding spoke, Miss Fern Smith from Grand Junction plans three years of study with Prof Sadler, and plans to perform Der Freischutz in Reform churches. Visits, lectures, ticket info, and social life remarks follow with updates on students Ella Condiff, Jessie Dunn, and others plus upcoming games and the new Union College in Des Moines.
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Harding
Sadler
Fern Smith
Grand Junction
Colo
Central College
Lettie Condiff
Condiff
Winfield Scott’ Hall
Chapel
Perry Peterson
Boys’ Chapel
Lark
T. Braam
P. Davis
K. Byram
M. Boat
C. Byers
Jessie Dunn
Julia Dunn Rollins
Penn
Parsons
Brouwer
Allison
Geo. Baitsell
Iowa
Meredith
George
Bryan
Dean Prentepol
Dr. Bailey
Union College
Des Moines
Incipient Fire In Gosselink Home On Franklin Street
A small blaze was found in an upper room of the Wm Gosselink residence on Franklin Street near nine by S H Viersen Jr. The fire started from a stovepipe with items touching it and was put out by Mr Gosselink and the lodger without calling the fire department. This was reportedly the third fire detected by Sip Py, noted as a keen local detective.
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Wm. Gosselink
Franklin Street
S. H. Viersen, Jr
Sip Py
Choir Social at 1st Reformed Church Delights Youth
The 1st Reformed Church choir entertained the church youth with a program of anthem style music by the full choir and solos by Miss Thompson Miss Jones and Miss White. Speeches praised a new pipe organ. Refreshments followed and an evening of games was enjoyed.
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1St Reformed Church
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Edpyville
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Dunnink
Steenhoek
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