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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1939
Page
8
Local society notices list meetings and events across Montezuma Pella and Oskaloosa. Topics include adult conversation groups, homemaking seminars, mission circles, birthday and wedding anniversaries, a farewell party for visitors, and multiple church and auxiliary gatherings with speakers from Prairie City and Sully.
Barion hosts a potluck dinner this week as a day winds down with sewing for Missions. Wednesday Club guests were Mrs. Nelle Vander Linden of Leighton. WCTU dinner at Mrs. Marie Dykstra featured Rev. Vanden Berg. production Ten Nights in a Bar Room planned. Second Reformed Aid met at church to plan year’s work. Reading Circle meets Friday with Mrs. Jessie Sadler at Sunnyside. Marion Van Dusseldorp birthday observed with 27 cards. Mrs Menninga’s 79th birthday observed with family. Masonic lodge held regular meeting. Mahask Study Group met with Pella lodge. school bus from Eddyville to join. Pella feeds noted.
Allan Lee born July 15 1936 at University Park dies October 1 in Pella. He leaves a father mother one brother Earl Gene two grandmothers a grandfather a great grandmother and many relatives. Also included are brief notes on Henry Shea divorce remarks a Boston arrest and Chariton murder case near miss plus Officer J W Scales recovering from a thigh wound after arresting Willard Passno.
Rev A Haverkamp leads Sunday school at 9 30 a m with The Forerunner of the King Morning worship at 10 15 Jesus Is All the World to Me Holland service at 2 00 p m and evening praise on The Christian and His Bible Third Reformed Church 30 p m
Reverend R J Vanden Berg pastors Second Reformed Church with a Sunday school at 5 am and a 2 pm service titled A Believer's How Should God's Be held at the usual meeting house.
Leader Bob Evers hosts an evening session on Is God Real to Us at 00 p.m with Mary Meulpolder leading the 6:30 p.m. Senior C. E. on What Do We Expect of My Church led by Chester Brock. First Christian Reformed Church, Rev. J. Vander Ploeg pastor, 11:00 a.m. Sunday School, 2:00 p.m. preaching door den Jeeraar, 2:30 p.m. The Great Battle of Armageddon text Rev 16:12-16.
Rev P J Christensen leads morning service at 10 45 with a sermon on The Responsibility of Hearing The B U P U hosts guest speaker O G Herbrecht Hawkeye Leadership Training School director and Iowa Council of Christian Education superintendent He will speak at youth meeting and supper follows Evening service at 7 20 features Rev Little Maywood Orphanage supervisor who shows pictures and collects canned food donations
Dispatches show Britain and France determined to crush Hitlerism while Parliament debates honoring peace offers. Lloyd George urges caution over Poland defense and military consultations. In the U S Senate debate grows over war goods embargo with bipartisan resistance and radio speeches. The Chicago convention lessons pass without action as Congress remains in session. A curious cash find ends with three old twenty dollar bills found in a repair shop case.
The Rev. F Van Houten of Otley will address listeners on KSO next Saturday morning at 9 45. The program time has been changed to nine forty five AM.
Pastor G Menning leads Sunday school at 9 30 with The Fore runner of the King followed by Divine Revelation at 10 45 and a 2 00 afternoon service titled Onder Zijne Viengelen plus an evening talk at 7 80 on Spiritual Insight for men.
Reports say western front activity has slowed while air battles yield limited gains for both sides. Germany claims a North Sea raid sinking another carrier, later denied by an American observer. Russia presses Baltic states with troop movements and coercive diplomacy, Estonia ceding de facto control. Berlin hints at a peace faction leveraging Italy and Mussolini amid potential Russian-Italian collusion.
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