Opened V R Briardale Supermarket in Van Houweling Building
October 29, 1953 notes the opening of V R Briardale at the Van Houweling building corner Franklin and East First Streets with stock moved from the former store. It lists local election candidates on Citizens and People's tickets, UNICEF fund collection, Pella Kiwanis bulb project, homecoming events at Central, queen Beth Gosselink and attendants, a 100 foot J C White Co boom for First Reformed Church, and local notices including travel, surgery, and auction sale of Yella Menninga properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V&r Briardale
van Houweling
Granklin
East First Streets
Virgil Vander Linden
Ralph de Cook
Turis Klein
J. BE. Vander Zyl
Lorén G. Vander Zyl
Park-Connisioner
Ike. Ho
Unicef
United Nations Organization
Pella Kiwanis Club
Sunken Garden Park
Central
Flying Dutchmen
Dubuque
Ver Meer's Pond
Mr. Roberts
Beth Gosselink
Modesto
Calif
Beth
Marlene Sels
Pella
Audrey Keuning
Foreston
Ill
Marie Jaume
Paris
France
Anta Nelson
Brooklyn
Iowa
J. C. White Co
Des Moines
First Reformed Church
Max Hoeksema
Grand Rapids
Melvin Hagen
Tulip Toren falls in Garden Square in 1943
Front page photo trio shows the Tulip tijden tower at Garden Square in stages of erection and collapse as it is dismantled after serving as the festival center. Architect John Lautenbach of New York designed the temporary tower. Local notes cover cafe sale talk, charter members, football scores, and civic events from 1933 through 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden Square
John Lautenbach
New York City
Meulpolder Brothers
Don
Marinus
Lane
Pella
Ray Rouw
Buck Vander Ploeg
Pete van Gorp
Chronicle
Storm Lake Pilot Tribune
Iowa Press Association
Ames
Howard Vander ‘Linden
Jerry Heslinga
Camp Roberts
Calif
Pfc
Johnny Ver Heul
Jefferson Barracks
Pvt
Ray de Wit
Camp Kohler
Signal Corps
Billy Core
Central College
Army Air Base
Douglas
Arizona
Piano Students Recital At Central College In 1923
Forty years ago piano students Edith Toom Lois Grandin Marjorie Baron Elta Van Baren Grace Van Ryswyk Edna Mae Vander Meer Sara Van Baren and Nickolas Gosslink performed at Central College. The issue notes Trades Day prizes, a high school movie misfire, and a Klan stance reversal by the American Legion in San Francisco. Community reunions and local economy details complete the brief. Fox hunting clubs formed in central Iowa with active packs in Marion county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central College
Edith Toom
Lois Grandin
Marjorie Baron
Elta van Baren
Grace van Ryswyk
Edna Mae Vander Meer
Sara van Baren
Nickolas Gosslink
Legion
American Legion
San Francisco
Calif
Ku Klux Klan
Nossaman
John Nossaman
Harvey
Pella
Mary Todd
John Ulrich
John Plender
Chevrolet
Iowa
Marion
High school football player breaks leg at Webster parking
Lawrence Van Nimwegen, a Webster High School football player, suffered a broken leg after stepping into a hole in the Webster school parking lot, while men in the area face fewer opportunities due to husbands earning good wages reducing available training or work chances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence van Nimwegen
Webster School
50 Years Ago Leighton Dedicates New Ebenezer Church
The Ebenezer Reformed church at Leighton was dedicated debt free with gas lighting and an auditorium for 350. Rev. A Rozendaal served as pastor. Also noted: a piano recital by Mary Livingston, burns on two workers from power tower construction between Oskaloosa and New Sharon, cold snap with 20 degree snow, car purchase of an Overland, horses and mules for sale, a two reel feature at The Electric Palace, corn at seven cents a can, a farewell party for Rev. Vander Werf, and a Holland singing group attendance. A Dutch magazine reprint comments on Pella's Garden Square and White Way Picnic memories despite distant Amsterdam connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ebenezer Reformed
Leighton
A. Rozendaal
Mary Livingston
George Francis Sadler
Oskaloosa
New Sharon
A. C. Rogers
Alex Divan
Bert Vermeer
J. B. Grandin
Star Auto Co
R. J. Baker
de Cook
Electric Palace
Universal Pictures
J. H. Kuyper and Co
Rev. S. Vander Werf
Dick den Adel
Hollandsche Zang Gezeschap
Vander Werf
First Reformed Church
Michigan
H. F. Keables
Amsterdam
Hemisphere
Pella Wizard Pancake Flour Production Details
Bakker & Rus produces Pella Wizard pancake flour in Iowa, using 12 ingredients with wheat as the main component. The flour is packaged in two and three pound bags and mailed nationwide through Hy-Vee Chariton, Thomassen in Pella, and other distributors. Production now uses ground wheat purchased externally, with only one or two workers needed for blending and packaging. Annually about 20 tons of flour are produced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella Wizard
Pella
Bakker & Rus
Hy-Vee
Chariton
Thomassen
Iowa
Peila
Pella Receives $94 Match in Maytag Drive
Maytag Employees Consolidated Fund drive totals 13 584.85 in contributions with Pella adding 94 as its share. Maytag matches the $94 through its Foundations program. 68 communities participated and 86 percent of contacted employees contributed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
Pella
Maytag
Maytag Company
Community Chest
Boy Scouts and
Iowa Children's Home Society
Also Mentioned on This Page
Calvin Seminary
Melvin
Yella Menninga Properties
M. A. Witnenburg
Otley
Tulip Toren
Black
Grimes Cannery
Jacob Plender
Red Cross
St. Louis
L. D. Teter
Knoxville
Chamber of Commerce
Henry Kersbergen
C. C. Taft Company
Ralph Menning
Bevan
Bosveld
Pella High
Pleasantville
Ray Vander Heiden
Richard Hoffman
Civilian Consevation Corps
CCC
Ray
Richard
Winterset
Concengus
J. M. Cook
Taylom
Schibbout Tire CO
New Ebenezer Reformed Church
Colfax Sale
Steddy
Colfax Sale Company
Sures At
Coop
Bakker & Rus 3
Wizard
Tive
the Pella A Chronicle
Searsboro
Marion County
Melcher
Dallas
Pershing
Pugeey
Mahaska County
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