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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1945
Page
2
A list of residents from Sioux Center Otley and nearby areas includes Ralph Van Vliet of Camp Texas and others with ties to Selective Service. The report notes several individuals visiting home for brief periods and awaiting overseas duty or reporting locations.
Local fall horse pony and mule show slated at Pella High School field with divisions for Drafts Light Horses and Ponies plus a Palomino class. Community items include furloughs, hospital discharges, church and school notes, and a fire-call salute dinner pose.
Rules for the Pella Horse and Mule show to be held at the First School Athletic Practice Field near Pella Square. Free show with premiums for Angene residents within 20 miles. outsiders may show for exhibition purposes. Entries from 8 a m at Konyin Shop Gamble Store or the FPA. All animals enter the class listed and may show in more than one division. entries closed by Friday 9 o clock after the parade.
A list of donors and premiums for the local horse show includes Pella Airways offering two plane rides, Marion County State Bank supplying various horse gear, Vanden Berg's Meat Market paying $3.00, White Way Auto Co and A B Van Houweling Auto Co supplying oil, and multiple merchants offering oil, gas, or trade credits. Several entries note premiums or prizes, with many more merchants promised next week.
Col. Joe Anderson, manager of the New Holland Theatre, showcases upgraded Pella cinema with the best producer rounds and the latest scientific lighting. The enhanced projector and lighting deliver deeper shadows and more lifelike, animated images, letting patrons enjoy favorites under clearer, brighter scenes.
Conversation fragment shows a flirtatious exchange where Boy Friend asks to meet this evening and Girl Friend responds describing plans as inexpensive and simple. The dialogue hints at a casual date choice with playful tone.
The college band announced a football season program featuring six drum major candidates led by Ruthie, with June Kiyn as head. The group lists names for brass, woodwinds and percussion sections, and includes guest speakers Lt. Cry Ver Dugt and Lt. M. Dockendorff among attendees.
The Ver Dught family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for support during Cornelius Ver Dughts illness and after his death. Mrs Elizabeth Ver Dught and Mr and Mrs Walter Ver Dught and children thank all who sent cards visited in hospital and offered aid and offerings of regard. Greda Vander Molen also thanks those who sent cards letters visited in hospital and helped after her accident.
Acknowledgments from Joe Van de Geest and Adrian De Jong family thank neighbors for saving farm buildings after a lightning strike. Mr and Mrs Henry Vander Horst express gratitude for community support. Bill Sheppard credits friends for hospital cards and letters from Iowa City.
Dr. William Vander Lugt of Central College spoke to the Kiwanis on personality. He declared personality links to time, stating the self is an organism and true growth comes from transcending space and time.
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