Election drama at high school hilarity fuels student vote
High school pupils staged an onstage secret ballot election with three parties. Lillian Payne won as Progressive candidate with 74 votes while Willard De Winter received 70 for Conservatives. Independents backed Francs Huiser. Campaigns ran at noon, posters forgotten, and armistice vacation teased.
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Progressive Party
Lillian Payne
William de Winter
Francs Huiser
Willard de Winter
Girl Reserve Notes Discuss Honor and Courtesy Talks
The Girl Reserves held a meeting with Miss Bertha Plette's piano solo and talks on A Girls Sense of Honor and A Girls Standard of Courtesy led by Miss Henrietta Vanden Oever and Miss Lillian Payne. They performed an enjoyable stunt declamatory contest with informal singing.
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Bertha Plette
Henrietta Vanden Oever
Lillian Payne
Pella High Beats Prairie City In Afternoon Clash
Monday afternoon the Pella High school team defeated Prairie City in a high school match. A large crowd was planned but many stores closed early that day.
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Pella High School
Prairie City
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Twin Cities
Christine B
Minnehaha Minn
Pella
Knoxville
Pella Triumphs In Muddy 9 0 Victory Over Prairie City
A drizzly Monday rain kept the field soggy as Pella beat Prairie City 9 to 0. Rempe and De Winter scored, Waechter added a conversion, and a late safety sealed the win. The game ended after dark in heavy mud with no other scoring.
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Prairie City Boys
Pella
Rempe
de Winter
Waechter
Prairie City
Kellogg
Farmers Must Avoid Waste and Use Corn Stover Shredders
With rising land feed and labor costs farmers should minimize waste and utilize all by products. Corn stover, if properly cured and shredded, feeds young stock and winter cattle. store in barn space, avoid weather exposure, and allow sufficient curing time to prevent mold or heating in the maw.
Rain disrupts local corn husking and harvest quality
The Otley area saw rain interfere with corn husking and noted that much of the corn is not fit for cribbing. Wm. Vriezelaar Sr. has recovered enough from his operation to leave the hospital, and his brother...
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Wm. Vriezelaar Sr
Local notes on Otley and Pella area from Des Moines traffic to Oska loosa line
Henry of Pella drove to Des Moines Sunday to bring him home. Otley sale to Anne Klein of Fi field with March possession. Des Moines Electric plans Oska loosa line. work to start soon creating local employment. Numerous Otley and Pella residents visited Des Moines and nearby towns. family trips to California noted. lumbago illness. Sandmeir brother in Utah ill. bridge contractor Christian son finishes sand and gravel supply for White Pole Road bridges and culverts east of Otley through Jasper county line.
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Er Henry of
Pella
Des Moines
Rob Kaldenberg
R. V. McKeever
Ed van Ginkel
Martha Kelderman
Oskaloosa
Huisman
Otley
Delis Wittenberg
Rex Ryan
Little Son
Gerrit Saandstra
Leen Komer
Jasper County
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Christine Bruins
Charlotte van der Ploeg
Marie Shultz
Gerrit Wormhoudt
Anna de Cook
High Ave
Oskaloosa, Iowa
J. C. Penney Company
Ecru
Katie Cochrane
Lenore Ballange
Miss Verhuel
Lawrence
Miss Bonar
William
Bill
Mr. Bute
Mr. Manuel
Kenneth Fox
Stephen van Roekel
Helen Gaass
Marion Frush
Irene Boot
Bruins
Otley News
Wm. J. Klein
Anne Klein
Fifield
Des Moines Electric Company
Jelle Jelsma
Vande Gaarde
Ira Vriezelaar
Clarence Renaud
H. L. Renaud
Carl Freeken
Advance Mfg. CO
Dock Street
St. Louis, Mo
Springs
Simmon
Whittall
McGregor
West High Ave
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