Weekend Fair and Community News From Iowa Town
Rol screenings and Labor Day outings at Ledges State Park Boone Bloomington NL weddings at Merle Andersen. baby joy for John McMurray. many locals visit fair and Lake Okoboji. 4 H and Farm Bureau youth tour Iowa Valve and John Deere plants in Ottumwa and Oskaloosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Boozeboom
June van Wyk
Pete de Boer
Neal Schuring
the Ledges State Park
Boone
Charles Husted
Bloomington
Merle Andersen
Bob Lowles
John McMurray
Ralph Dykstra
Edward Olivier
Will Verploeg
Melvin van Honweling
Alia Mae Heyveld
Marjorie
Art Kuiper
Eleanor
Vernon Boot
Lake Okoboji
Betty Vander Werff
Bynie Boender
Fort Riley
Kansas
Ray Hagen
Dorothy van Veen
Mary Kempkes
Evalena Vander Zyl
Bill de
Bruin
Shirley van Zee
Dorothy de Cook
Margaret Sprague
Clariena Meppelink
Rock Creek Lake
Louise Bruce
Fairfield
Sigourney
Future Farmers of America
Rural Boy Scouts
Farm Bureau
Iowa Development Commission
Towa Farm Bureau Federation
Towa
Ronald Hallock
Charles Cavagnaro
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Iowa Valve
Oskaloosa
John Deere
Ottumwa
Leighton area notes weekend guests and school opening
Weekend guests from Illinois included Mr and Mrs Vernon Brunkow and their three sons, brother of Mrs De Prenger. Leighton Public School opened August 28 with 20 pupils. Several residents traveled to pick up Mr Kuperus from Pella Rest Home and attend church picnics. New marriages, job updates, and local visits are noted along with church society meetings and student moves to Ripon California and nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald de Prenger
Illinois
Vernon Brunkow
Brunkow
de Prenger
H. Kuperus
Pella
Leighton Christian Reformed Church
Wm. Schimmel
Kuperus
Leighton Public
Joe J. Dahm
Bernice Memmelaar
B. Memmelaar
Leighton
Doris
van Zomeren
Walter van Zomeren
Ripon
California
Bernice
Alvin Goemaat
Connie
Nancy
J. A. van Zouk
Mary Versteegh
Frank Heimstra
Oskaloosa
Alvin de Jong
Wm. A. de Jong
Arlene Tuinstra
Herman Tuinstra
Sully
Geels of
Second Christian Reformed
Joan Memmelaar
Vande Voort
Ladies Aid and Dorcas Society
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Mr. H. Kuperus
Leighton Christian Reformed
Bobby de Jong
Pella Church to Launch Extension Crusade Sunday
The Rev. Cye Coller of the Church of the Open Bible announced a National Church Extension Day observance next Sunday morning. The plan, called Extension-Americal, aims to mobilize thousands of lay volunteers and 250 Open Bible Standard churches to widen outreach and bring the Open Bible message into expanding American life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella Church
Cye Coller
Church of the Open Bible
United States
To Build Churches Adopted at General Conference in Des Moines IA
The plan calls for a 50 per month per member pledge to fund new church buildings. In addition 25 percent of all national funds will be returned from headquarters for building churches in various sections of the constituency. Each local church member will be asked to contribute and every church in the division participates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Open Bible Standard Churches Grow via Church Extension Plan
The conference aims to cultivate missionary spirit and expand church planting. Des Moines pastors note seven of twelve Open Bible Standard churches originated from a single parent church. By 1932 a three year program organized. There are about 250 congregations in 24 states with 44 adult missionaries in seven foreign countries. A goal to found 100 new churches in three years is set, with full time mission directors appointed and youths called to ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coller
Open Bible Standard
Des Moines
Iowa
Open Bible
Bible Training Schools Offer Path to Christian Ministry
A brief note explains that individuals may attend one of five Bible Training Schools operated by the organization to prepare for Christian ministry. The program aims to equip students with foundational scripture knowledge and practical ministry skills.
Mail Carrier Uses Golf Cart to Ease Daily Rounds
LeMara postal carrier Arnie Robinette devised a lighter load during a recent heat wave by mounting his mail sack on a golf cart and pulling it on his daily rounds, easing labor and exposure to high temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnie Robinette
LeMara
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bob Klyn
Ardis van Rees
McGregor
Town
Prairie du Chien
Wisconsin
Backbone State Park
Leighton News
Carol Ann Sedrel
Allied
Mutual
New Sharon
Iowa State Fair
Chronicle News
Mr. Kuperus
Connie de Jong
van Gorp
Dodge and
Fafnir
Lincoln and Balbach
Large Box Wheaties
Glosstex
Farmers Coop Exchange Grocery
Machine Age
Paardekooper's
Ideal Pharmacy
Thunder Creek Watershed Conservation Day
Penney
Carmen
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