Management Day proposed by Chronicle staff in place of holiday
A reader letter suggests creating a Friday Management Day to fit the newspaper’s tighter schedule after three 1976 Monday holidays. The note cites coping with workload, mentions Carter and a football seat at Kuyper stadium, and adds editorials on driving advice and a pedestrian definition before recounting a reader’s anniversary visit to Pella.
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Sheldon Mail
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Central College
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Stanton embraces Swedish town image with coffee pot landmark
Stanton in Montgomery county earns its nickname the Swedish capital of Town through heritage and a 125 foot coffee pot water tower lit nightly. The landmark symbolizes hospitality and draws visitors while noting Virginia Christine known as Mrs Olson promotes Folgers coffee from Hollywood.
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Mrs. Olson
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Constitution Week Observance and Swedish Heritage Notes
Ware recalls Constitution Week September 17 23 highlighting the signing at Independence Hall 1787 with 55 delegates and 39 signers and DAR urging study of the Constitution. The piece also describes Santa Lucia festival in Sweden Stanton Swedish traditions and Viking Lake State Park 21% miles east offering fishing swimming boating and camping.
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United States of America
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
George Washington
Mary Marion
Daughters of the American Revolution
Winona M. Davis
DAR Constitution
Stanton Chase
Stanton
Pella
Viking Lake
Pella notes milestones mark school gym fund and church anniversaries
Looking Back recalls a ground breaking for a Christian grade school gym costing 62 500 dollars and election of Edward Wesselink as Pella school board president. Monroe high school beat North Mahaska 20 14 with Tom Munson scoring twice. Army inductions included Gordon Nesbit Fred Brummel Edward Goemaat and Marvin Tysseling. Other items mention a concrete plant opening by Pella Construction Co Hoeksema Bros adding to a West Washington garage and King radios, Jelsma buying a 142 acre farm for 12 450 dollars. 70 years ago First Reformed church marked 50th anniversary and Rev George Monkman became Methodist pastor from Chillicothe Missouri.
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Pella
Tom Munson
Monroe High School
North Mahaska
Gordon Nesbit
Fred Brummel
Edward Goemaat
Marvin Tysseling
Army
Pella Construction Co
First Reformed Church
George Monkman
Methodist Church
Chillicothe
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