Fire Prevention Week Aims to Cut City Losses
City observes National Fire Prevention Week from Oct 8 to 14 to curb preventable blazes. Pella fire chief records 11 fires since April with losses totaling 2336.38 dollars, 1819.80 from carelessness. Cited causes include bonfires and old shingle roofs. Recommendations urge building fires away from structures and inspecting furnaces chimneys and wiring. Loss list shows multiple incidents from April to September, including a large 1862.80 dollar warehouse fire.
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Chambers of Commerce
C. van Vark
Pella
van Vark
Rolsereen Co
D. van der Ploeg
State Music Ass'n adopts four district contest plan
The State Music Association approves a plan to split the state into four districts with a final in each, replacing a single state contest. Districts will hold four to eight preliminaries on April 5 and 6, with finals on April 25. Centers are Red Oak Cherokee Washington and Iowa Falls. Stakes include reducing travel costs and boosting participation.
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L. Watters
Pr Dent
Iowa City
Wrall
Wamembest Sumny
Hools
Red Oak
Cherokee
Washington
Iowa Falls
South Central
Pella
R. A. Hawk
Grinnell
Forewarned and cooperative urged to cut year-end losses
Citizens are urged to cooperate to minimize losses for the rest of the year. The warning stresses prudence and collective effort to keep costs down and prevent further damage.
Twenty two couples apply for Farm Security loans
In Marion county a group of twenty two married couples applied for Farm Security Administration loans to buy farms. An examining committee in Memorial hall heard their cases and will select about nine couples to receive long term government aid. The process included a morning discussion and private interviews, with specialists from Des Moines assisting.
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Farm Security Administration
Knox- Ville Journal
Memorial Hall
Marion County
Park Hammer
Mr. Hammer
Wm. L. Sheppard
Dale Core
Joe Templeton
Geo. H. Heikens
Des Moines
Iowa
Fifield News Highlights Local Social Scene and Funeral
Local notes report corn picking by Bryan Karr for John Vanden Berg and a flurry of visits. Funeral services held for Mrs. Luther Passmore at Ivy church with many community members attending. Numerous family gatherings, birthdays, and social events populate the week at homes in Knoxville Pella Otley and Sully.
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Bryan, Karr
Oliver
John Vanden Berg
Alice Kuiken
Joyce Kuiken
Luberta Klyn
Jasper de Raad
Frank Huntoon
Wm. Klein
Gradus Klein
Luther Passmore
Des Moines
Pete Vanden Berg
Passmore
Ivy Church
Connie Vanden Berg
Helen
Bartus Klyn
John Bloodsworth
Ivy
S. H. Keuning
Marie Heywood
Newton
S.H. Keuning
Knoxville
Otley News Highlights Local Social and Tragedy Updates
Otley residents attended Newton meetings while teachers and families shared visits at various homes. Carl and Barb Horton and others spent Friday at the Vander Kolk residence. Sorghum was harvested near Fifield by Gerrit Klyn. The Roush family faced tragedy with Virgil Muilenberg’s death in an auto accident, prompting travel to Grenola Kansas for his funeral. Clergy Rev Rozeboom and Rev De Jong officiated at Sully. Families from Oskaloosa to Manchester attended services and funerals, with relatives visiting in Otley and surrounding areas.
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Tom Slocum
Guthrie Center
CCC
Barb Horton
Harley
Matty
Newton
Anne van Waardhuiz
Alvin Rozeboom
Charles Vander Kolk
Wm. Roush
Gerrit Klyn
Fifield
Dick Kuiper
Gerrit Vink
Otley
Dora Lee
Anna Slocum
Irene Vriezelaar
Minnie Rozeboom
de Graaf
William Roush
Virgil Muilenberg
Neal Muilenberg
Grenda
Kans
Oskaloosa
Jennie Zandstra
James van Vliet
Lois
Ralph
van Vliet
H. C. Tumble
Manchester
Iowa
Henry Boender
Sibley
Town
Rob Kaldenberg
Leighton News Highlights Local Visits and Church Events
Local visitors include Mrs H Overbergen and friends calling on Mrs Howard Rowland at Rose Hill. Rev D Rlidstra hosted guests en route to Michigan. The Holland Ladies Aid refurnished the parsonage with new shades. The 33rd annual conference of the Women’s Missionary Union met at the Reformed church with speakers from Arabia and New York, dinner served for 300, and next year planned for Prairie City. The Leighton PTA met at the schoolhouse with community singing and a Japan slides program. A Harvester collision damaged a M M De Reus produce truck and a Douwstra car near Gradus De Cook home, no injuries. Several students earned top Dairy Cattle Congress honors in Waterloo, and pastors alternated pulpits in Oskaloosa.
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H. Overbergen
Connie Engelhoven
M. M. de Reus
Howard Rowland
Rose Hill
G. Spalink
New Holland
South Dakota
Michigan
D. Rlidstra
Holland
Christian Reformed Church
Classis of
Pella
Reformed Church
Ruth Jackson
Arabia
Marino
New York
Ira J. Hesselink
Fred van Maanen
The
Prairie City
D. Flietstra
Denver
Colorado
Christian Reformed
Leighton Parent Teachers Association
J. Arthur Baker
Oskaloosa
Lowell Turner
Dorothy Eveland
Gladys Rexroth
Turner
Betty Rempe
Betty den Hartog
Fred Jarvis
Japan
Henry Sedrel
Simon Douwstra
Gradus de Cook
Horse Judging Team First in National Contest
The Towa State horse judging team won first in the national collegiate horse judging contest held during the National Belgian Horse Show and Dairy Cattle Congress at Waterloo. The team, composed of Richard Bruene Gladbrook Paul Elam Plano Kenneth Falk Clarinda Robert Grammer Luzerne Royal Holt Rippey Vincent Kelley Waterloo and Phil Poland Winterset, all seniors in animal husbandry, also won the contest last year. Wisconsin won the dairy cattle judging contest and the Iowa State team finished ninth.
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Towa State
Waterloo
Richard Bruene
Gladbrook
Paul Elam
Plano
Kenneth Falk
Clarinda
Robert Grammer
Luzerne
Royal Holt
Rippey
Vincent Kelley
Phil Poland
Winterset
Wisconsin
Iowa
Streatham Church Bell Ringer William Shepherd Dies Long Service
William Shepherd has served as a church bell ringer in Streatham England for over six decades marking a life of faithful lay ministry at the parish.
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William Shepherd
Streatham
England
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Iowa High School Music Association
Fifield News
Rex Weddle
Cornie Vanden Berg
Rey, Rozeboom
Ep Roorda
Will Verwers
John van Zee
Girls’ Society of the Reformed Church of
Sully
Otley Society
Pete Montgomery
Ruby
Howard Caswell
Goldie McCombs
Tracy
Russell Post
Dick Kuipe
Alma Ruth
Arlene
John de Vries
Everett de Vries
Duane
Will de Vries
Kenneth
Henry
Arthur
Carl
Josephine de Vries
Irma Helen Roorda
de Vries
Paul Buwalda
Vernon Klein
Judith
National Fire Prevention
Kuyper Lumber Co
Otley News
Aia
Stalke
Lautenbach & Verought
Leighton News
Lou van Roekel
Aber Klaaren
Sheldon
Joyce Ver Ploeg
Nancene Lubberden
Eugene van Zee
Herman Vander Linden
William Huyser
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