South Holland Woman Mamie Gouwens Dies at 60
Mamie Gouwens nee Enyersberg died at home in South Holland on December 19 after a long illness from cancer at age 60 years 10 months 25 days. Funeral services were held December 23 at 1 30 PM from the South Park avenue home and 2 PM from First Reformed Church, Rev J S Ter Louw officiating. Burial in Oakridge cemetery. Survived by husband three children Gerrit Jimmie and Harry and five grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamie Gouwens
Anne A. Gouwens
Mamie Enyersberg
South Holland
South Park Avenue
First Reformed Church
J. S. Ter Louw
Oakridge Cemetery
Gerrit
Jimmie
Harry
Zoning Rules for Farm Residences Explained
Farm Adviser explains that only residences in farming areas require a building permit. Permits cost 5 percent of a house under 5000 dollars and 10 dollars for larger houses, additions cost two dollars per thousand, and related wells or sewage systems may be included in the same permit. Separate residences must have separate tax units and maps accompany land descriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Hughes
North la Salle Street
Chicago
North
LaSalle Street
Local Christian school plans Thursday reopening
The article notes the school will open Thursday with Miss Van Melle and Miss Lena De Nooy visiting relatives in Michigan and Iowa. Birthdays, holiday gatherings, and Christmas celebrations are mentioned, including charity parties and a Messiah performance by the First Reformed church choir.
Zandstra Family Under Close Medical Care After Rabies Bite
Four children Edna Jean 11 Shirley 8 Edward 7 and Arlene 3 were bitten by a rabid dog three weeks ago. Inoculation serum shots are given twice daily with uncertain effectiveness. Dogs killed and heads sent to state lab confirmed hydrophobia. Officials monitor the children’s condition as delays hindered early treatment. Local health authorities and police pursue the case. Rev TW Muttenbore is ill with heart trouble. Randall W Wood recovering from pleural pneumonia. Mr and Mrs James Voss visit relatives in Aurora on Christmas Day. Kinas Rinkema turns 88 last Thursday. Paul Van Bodegraven family from Columbia, Missouri visiting relatives.
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Somers
TW. Muttenbore
First Reformed Church of
South Holland
Holland, Mich
Randall W. Wood
South End Hospital
James Voss
Aurora
Mr. Voss
Salt Lake City
Utah
Kinas Rinkema
East 9
158Th Street
Paul van Bodegraven
Columbia, Mo
van Bodegraven
First Reformed Church Services Sunday December 29
Rev J S Ter Louw preaches at 9am on The Blessed Man according to Psalm 62 Trolland and 8 pm on Clearance of Conquest Over Sin with communion meditations. Toom Christian Endeavor meetings at 7 pm. Services in charge of Student Warry Deukema of the Western Seminary.
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First Reformed Church
J. S. Ter Louw
Trolland
Toom
Warry Deukema
The
Western Seminary
Retinue Christian Reformed Church Communion Services
Communion services announced with sermon by Rey RL O De Groot from Mommence. Sunday School program includes Poem and choir items. New Year’s Day service at 9 am features New Year Welcome and installation of officers plus miscellaneous choral society program and organ music.
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Retiuany Christian
Rey RL O. de Groot
Mommence
Choral Society
Van Dyke Tiers Reappears on Eleventh Quiz Kids Run
Van Dyke Tiers, an 18 year old junior at Thorptown Township High School, competed in his eleventh Quiz Kids program appearance on Wednesday December 18. He faced Cynthia Cline, 15, and Joan.
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van Dyke Tiers
van Dyke
Setness and fixed views in small town life
An essay discusses how narrow perspectives persist in country towns and among educated people. It notes matrimonial quarrels and labor disputes often stem from obstinate minds that cannot consider alternative viewpoints, hindering fair resolution.
Anxious for justice, all faces life’s storms the same
The text argues that people who rush to distribute justice to others also seek it for themselves and prosper, while suggesting that being content or “set” does not pay whether a rural countryman or a European dictator seeks power.
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Europe
Mrs. Mary L Rundin Funeral Services Held
Funeral services for Mary L Rundin age 42 of 31 West 141st Street Riverdale were held at Bachmann funeral home at 1 30 PM with Rev Benson F C Belliss of St Paul Episcopal officiating Interment Cedar Park cemetery She died of a heart attack at home December 22 She was born March 11 1898 in Chicago She leaves husband Carl D Rundin son Robert sisters Mrs John Line and Mrs Ralph Bonacker brothers Ben W and James Rochfort. On Friday December 20 Lena Schmuck celebrated her 64th birthday with family including Bertha Miller Norma Miller Betty Berndt Minnie Kollenkarn and others A luncheon featured home made pempernickle bread.
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Mary L. Rundin
West 141St Street
Riverdale
Bachmann
Benson F. C. Belliss
St. Paul Episcopal Church
South Dorchester Avenue
Cedar Park Cemetery
Lena Schmuck
Bertha Miller
Norma Miller
Inlaw
Betty Berndt
Dalton
Minnie Kollenkarn
Whiting
Indiana
Gantlet of Tomahawks to Dates Through Generations
The old colonists ran the gantlet between armed attackers and later descendants faced a gantlet of single women seeking dates. A reporter once described a singer as having a bird like voice and may note whether the bird was a robin thrush or Plymouth Rock hen.
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van Melle
Grand Rapids
Mich
Holland
Lena de Nooy
Pella
John C. Gouwens
Vincennes Avenue
J. J. van Drunen
Harry van der Aa
Morse Var. Drunen
Willis Mulder
John Schimmel
Wichert
Jacob Salm
Ted Paarlhere
Reeer Rotma
Mildred
Lorraine Messell
Betty van der Aa
Evelyn Rietveld
Etta Marie Ter Louw
Connie Shilling
Melvin de Boer
Shirley de Young
Carol Fagan
Shirley van Schouwer
Fay Thompson
Meryl Gouwens
Doris de Young
Marge Brouwer
Leona
Joyce van Drunay
Adeline Anderson
John F. de Young
Ingalls Memorial
John de Young
Alvina Elben
Glenwood
Til
Reuben Kickert
Sarah Kickert
Henry Kickert
First Reformed Church Choir
Gerarda Verduin
Jeanette van Kiley
John Sorgie
Hobart van Blarcom
Clarence Tysee
Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Jacob Weld
West 159Th Street
Roel van Vuren
William A. Swets
Hager
Roseland Bethany Reformed Church
Roseland
Bethany
Moody Institute
Moody Bible Institute
Terry- Gray
Chicago Avenue
Rowan C. Pearce
Philadelphia
Africa
China
South America
United States
Bishop
Mary Clare McHugh
Gerard Darrow
WLS
Joe Kelly
Ladies Aid and Woman’s Choir
Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church
Dale
Wade
E. 137Th
Atre
Johnny Downs
Vera Vange
Jerry Colona
James Dunn
Francis Gifford
Victor McLagren
Ann Nagel Diamond Frontier
Billy Sewerd
Adele Pearce
Clark Gable
Spencer Tracy
Claudette Colbert
Heddy Lamaar
Rita Hayworth
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Thomas Mitchell
Doltche
John Barrymore
Peter Lorre
London
Lucky Duck
Brigham Young
Frontiersman
Louis Bromfield
Tyrone Power
Darnell
Brian Donlevy
Jane Darwell
John Carradine
Mary Astor
Vincent Price
Jean Rogers
Ann Todd
Dean Jagger
Mickey
News of the World
Jack London
Wrickford Rich
Shirley Temple
Jack Oakie
Charlotte Greenwood
Turkey
Young Home
Leon
Theo. Koch
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