Pella Press (Newspaper) - February 23, 1928, Pella, Iowa A Pella and Its Ov Industrial aii tional of Its JHE PELLA PRESS is supreme as an advertising medium in Pella and trade Let The Press be your 15 PUBLISHED AT IOWA FEBRUARY 1928 PER YEAH POLITICS SLOW AGRICULTURE NEEDS ARE MOST IMPORTANT ARE GETTING ACTIVE WHILE DEMOCRATS HAVE NOT YET SHOWN PROMINENT IOWA CONGRESS MAN SAYS VAST NAVAL PRO JECT DEMANDS ARE UNTIME LY Unlike former campaign 11128 political activity in so far as state office is has been slow to warm Democrats thus far have failed to come forward with a single candidate for major state of fice the campaign for the republican gubernatorial nomination has brought to light but two seekers for the both advocating similar and the third term boom for Governor Hammill is yet to be set in Only six of Iowas eleven bent republican congressmen are ac circulating nomination altho with the single exception of of the Eleventh have shown signs of activ ity toward a Repre Thurston Hau Kopp and Dowell are well launched on their respective cam The Eleventh district has a num ber of announced candidates on the republican side to succeed Repre sentative They are State Sen ator of Battle Creek Onawa law yer Gerit Orange City lawyer and Sioux City live stock commission Two republican candidates are in the field intent to wrest the nomina tion from of the Sev They are Charles DPS Moines and former collector of Des Former State Senator Milton of is seeking the re publican nomination for representa tive to succeed William Green in the Ninth man Lloyd Thurston thus far has In the Eighth district Congress no republican but James newsboy for radio sta tion a demo has nomination papers in cir DEATH OF GEORGE WELLS George a highly respected farmer residing in the Coal Ridge died at his home nine miles southwest of Friday He was born in Marion county on 15 1860 and has continued to live here until the time of his He was the son of Samuel a pioneer of the He was married to Minnie New ton To this union five were one died in in fancy and Maude died at the age of 20 The wife and three daug survive Other living re latives are one brother and a foster He was a man of good character and had the confidence of the people in the neighborhood where he lived so He united with the Baptist church at Coal Ridge many years ago and remained a faithful member until the time of his Funeral services were held at the Coal Ridge church Sunday afternoon at two oclock in charge of of this Interment was made in the cemetery near the PELLA WON FIRST HONORS It is a mistake to interject de mands for vast sums to be appropria ted on our military establishments beyond what means adequacy for protection until the nation has cour met the greater need of this farm relief advises Gilbert X Congressman from Elected from the Fourth Iowa Dis to the HOth Congress and succes sively Congressman Hau gen is at the head of the important Agricultural Upon him rests the great responsibility of bringing together the varied plans and ideas on farm relief and devise a legislative measure which the Con gress can approve for meeting the demand for legislative enactment necessary for the solution of farm With a responsibility this venerable while assuring his sympathies with a Navy adequate for sounds a just warn ing when he says in his statement that now is no time to interject a de mand for vast military let Congress solve the farm problem for protecting the basic ele ment of our national life Compare the rate of farm failures from 19H to which shows an increase of over per in contrast to that of commercial fail ures which have remained practically the same per year during this same period and there can be no doubt as to the importance and sincerity of the effort towards constructive farm legislation in The important thing in the life of any nation is to sustain its in fluence and There is al ways some basic element in a national America has always boas ted that this basic element was agri culture and our Kami distress has overtaken America and the basic element of our national structure suffers to the point of im pairing our national We have to relieve this Myself and colleagues of tural Committee are strenuously de voting our striving to evolve a workable and acceptable plan to be put into law to relieve this Any plan put into effect is going to have to look for some form of help from the particularly in its It is the Nations problem and duty to meet this squarely and to do whatever is I deem it of the highest inadvisability to interject an excessive demand for vast sums of money to be appropria ted on extending our military estab beyond what means ade protection until the nation has courageously met the greater need of this farm relief We might as well face this squarely now and get the thing Year after year we put off complet ing the work of creating the neces sary machinery to work out our relief and it makes it that much harder to We all ought to appreciate the value of our Navy anil we We want to sustain it on an adequate but we do not want to go into extraordinary expenditure at any rate while this other problem is hang ing over We Fear the Fanner is Losing His Patience By Albert Reid You CAN PASS AND CALL IT TARIFF AMD LEGISLATION AND CALL IT 5ui AMY NOW I WANT ME YOU GUARANTY EARNINGS RAIL ROADS AMD CALL AMD You CALL A SPECIAL PLAN THE BANKS A FEDERAL SYSTEM DONT CARE A You CALL IT WASHINGTON PROGRAM AND BANQUET OTLEY FARMER LARGE NUMBER OF KN JOY SPECIAL PROGRAM THAT FOLLOWED HAN I The Washington Banquet was the important event of this week at the A large group of about guests assembled at 7 oclock at the There were some now combinations which aroused interest as the girls had made use of the tra dition of leap The Ladies Auxi liary treated us to a delicious meal and the High School girls served it deftly and The orchestra favored us with several numbers be tween Dean acted as The program ted of music by Miss IV a reading by Miss music by Mar ind Laurel and a Nations Father bv WAS WELL KNOWN IX THIS PART OK THK COUNTY HE HAD LIVED ALL OF HIS CHURCH BEING DEDICATED Central College represented by Miss Angelyn Van won first honors in the oratorical contest at Fairfield last Friday her subject being Does Justice Hold the Balance The contest was sponsored by the Iowa Collegiate Womans For This is the second con year that first honors have come to Central College and is an lumor of which the citizens as well as the student body is Miss Mildred won third place in the extemporaneous speaking con test which was held during the after Seven colleges were represented in the those taking part Central Ienn Iowa State Teachers Upper Iowa Iowa College and Beuna Vista The contest next to Iowa Wesleyan College at ac cording to a decision reached at meeting of the officers held Friday ROCK ISLAND TO BUILD VIADUCT UNDER TRACK According to information from Des the Rock Island rail road ex the coming summer to construct a roadway beneath its tracts on Pri mary a few miles east of Des The railroad here has two tracks about a hundred yards apart so the under pass will be quite long and will probably cause a detour for a few The improvement will do away with one of the few remain ing grade crossings between Monroe and Des adding to the safety of the This improvement has been contemplated for some and when the Polk county pavement was laid a few years a stretch of nearly a quarter of a mile was sur faced only with cinders as a temper ary arrangement until the subway should be A viaduct is also to be built at the crossing west of Prairie OUTSIDE JUDGE Chief Justice Truman Stevens of the supreme court of Tuesday assigned Judge Homer of Ayr to hear the ouster against Homer Clark and members suit Peter of the board of A supervisors of Marion Our readers no doubt have heard great deal about the ouster case which is brought under the Cosson law and re quires that an out side judge be ap pointed to hear t The trial has been set for March 6th at the next term of the district court to be held at The new American Reformed Church at Orange City is being dedi this Services began on Tuesday and will throughout the week until Sunday The dedicatory service takes place Sunday morning ten of this city will have charge of the splendid new pipe and during the week he will give a pipe organ Many people in Pella will be inter ested in the new which has just been It is a hand commodious building em bracing all of the things that are modern and go to make the plant one of the very best in northwestern The present pastor is John The pastors who have ser ved this church since its organiza tion are as follows De to Zwener to 1891 1891 to De 1896 to James Sterrenberg 1897 to 1899 lo David 1911 lo 1920 De lo OF CHURCH IS DEAD HAH BEEN IN ILL HEALTH SEV ERAL MONTHS AND PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY AT CEDAR Many people in Pella and Otley will be pained to learn today of the death of Drost which occurred at the home of his Richard in Cedar Rapids Wednesday afternoon at two Drost became pastor of the Christian Reformed Church at Otley in the year 1922 and continued in the service of the Master until sev months when his illness preven ted him from filling the For several months he tried many spec in the hope of getting relief from his but medical science was unable to bring him his wonted He was about 06 years of He is survived by his three of Cedar near Leighton and of and two Dena of Washington and Grace of Tain The body was brought to his late home in Otley early this At the hour of going to press funeral ar rangements are being It is quite likely that a short service will be held at Otley on Saturday and later a service held in DEMOCRATS OF IOWA TO HAVE FULL TICKET WELL KNOWN WORKERS M ET A T DES MOINES TO SELECT CANDIDATES It PELLA PLEASED DIED AT OTLEY PINNED UNDER MILK TRUCK Saturday morning John Meyer and John Van Gorp started out about to deliver milk to the patrons of the Van Gorp When they reached the corner near the Renaud farm the milk truck they were driving up spilling 150 quarts of milk and breaking 308 Both men were pinned underneath the car and the seat rested on their making it impossible to extricate They remained in that position for more than a half hour before help came to release Fortunately they were not badly Meyer suffered a bruised shoulder blade and Van Gorp sustained an injury to his Both however are able to be An icy spot in the road was the cause of the car skidding and com for they were driv ing slowly when the accident happen JACKIE COOGAN WINS POST OP BUGLER AT SCHOOL Jackie Coogan won a victory that he was prouder of than hed have been of even a great screen during the filming of his new vehicle coming to the Alamo theatre Friday and he received post of company bugler at the military school he is Jackies new picture is a romance of the laid aboard an Atlantic Lars Ger trude Olmstead and many notables are in the Srarks died at her home in Otley February 17th at the age of 7l two months and sixteen She had been ill for She was born in She was married to Edward Snarks June 8 He survives There wire no Funeral services were held at the undertaking parlor in Oskaloosa Monday afternoon and interment was made in the cemetery at PELLA LOSES BOTH GAMES The Pella First and Second teams played a return game with the Rnox ville teams at the latter place on last Tuesday night and lost bolh games by a score of 27 to 9 and 22 to Republican Caucus Was Well Attended The republicans of Lake township and the four wards of the city of Pella met in caucus at the American Legion Hall at 8 oclock Tuesday The caucus was well attended and there was consider able No attempt was made at instructing the delegation for any particular person for the pre sidency and the delegates go to the county convention at Knoxville Sat morning The caucus was presided over by Sack and Ver Steeg act ed as The deliberation of the caucus from the various precincts resulted in the selection of the follow ing delegates Lake Prairie Will Walter Neal Bawman and Van Pella 1st Joe Kelt and Pella 2nd John George Ver Cole and Pella Van Simon Douwstra and Van der Pella 4th Jacob Qe Simon De Haan and If weather is at all it is quite likely that a large number of delegates will attend the Leaders of the democratic parly in met in Des Moines Monday to prepare a slate of candidates for the June primary selected Housel of Humboldt and Norman liaker of Muscatine as candidates for The called by state attended by the United States Senator Dan indorsed a com plete list of candidates for state of Housel two years ago was the partys candidate for lieutenant gov and Baker is proprietor of radio station at For lieutenant Robert Finch of Des alumni secre tary of Drake university was approv Others indorsed as candidates for state offices are Auditor of Walter Dewey of Chariton secre tary of Becker of Dubuque secretary of Vinton Lloyd Corydon attorney George Fort Madison railroad com Dwyer of long term and Galvin o Hampton short The nominating committee that its action not be construed as bar to other democratic Charles Storms of Fort Madi son was recommended as a tive member of the state board of Senator Steck will be the tempor ary chairman of the democratic dele irate convention on Opril Mrs Maulsby Madge ONeill of Columbus Junction will be vice HEAD OF REFORMED CHURCHES OF AMERICA GIVEN MANY WHILE IN THE TO BANQUET RAINBOW At a meeting of the Des Moines Chapter of the Rainbow Division Vet erans last final plans were made for the Tenth Annual March 5th Banquet to be held at Hotel Sav ery on that This will commor ate that ten year when units of the now famous 168th Iowa first met and defeated the attacking Ger On that date Captain Mc Henry and twenty others were kil led and many Elaborate plans have been made notices have been sent out to 1700 men and a large attendance of both men and women is National Bar re Blumenthal of Major General Matt Timley of Council Howard Smith of and Charles Riley of are among those who will pe The local chap ter is trying to make this event lar ger each year and of statewide Every Rainbow whether he was in the old 168th or any other unit of the is Reserva tions must be in by March 3rd and should be sent to Harley State Des CARD OF THANKS I desire to express my sincere thanks to the many friends who inter ested themselves in my behalf in cir a petition for my release from the hospital at and to those who looked after property during by Simon Vander my CARD OF THANKS We hereby wish thanks to the to express our and the many friends and neighbors for their kind expression of Also for flowers and letters of conscience senz to us in the bereavement of our dear daughter and Allie and and Dirk Van Gorp Joseph Addison pus tor of the Reformed Church of and president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church spent two days in Pella last week Thursday and was the first stopping place in a tour of several Western Centers of the Re formed Jones is making the tour in the interest of Home Visitation was decided at the General Synod meeting f the Reformed church at Asbury last June that the denomination should celebrate its anniversary by a very special effort to increase its both by having folks unite by letter and on confession of In the doubling of the membership of the churches was set up as a Jones related several instances of how teams went out two by two for a period of a weeks campaign and where as high as KK members I were taken into the church at one time as a This method of evangelism recommends itself to the churches because of the fact that no great outlay of money is needed for the erection of a tabernacle or tent and the work in done thru the mem bers of the church in cooperation with the It can be put on by one church or bjj a group of church A large group of people raised their hands in support of a campaign of this sort in this community th committee on Evangelism of the Classis of Pella should see fit to put it Junes spoke three times to groups from the churchs gathered at the First Reformed The first meeting was held for delegations from the country churches last Thursday The next meet ing was the reception supper on Thursday evening where 15K were A large group gathered again on Friday evening where Jones explained the Home Visitation Meth od of Evangelism in All who are familiar with the sit know that there are a lot of people in and around Pella who are not actively connected with any church and are not professing Chris It is hoped that Jones visit will result in stimulating all the churches to increased activity in soul winning and greater devotion and individual churches will put on campaigns or a united effort on the part of all the churches will come out of Jones Central is of two of he State contest Sp held at on Straks and celebrating the victory in placing in the of Oratory and The contest was ield at Parsons Miss Mildred Angiline Van Duren GREEN ACCEPTS APPOINTMENT Representative William of was nominated by President Coolidge Monday to be a judge of the United States court of The nomination is to be sent to the senate Reports fre have had it that the chair man of the powerful ways and means committee would be named to mem on this but Green has declined to comment except to say that that was something for the pres ident to Jn addition to service in congress since Green has had experience on the bench as a state district judge in Green is chairman of the house and means committee and has been in congress since In a conference at the White House Satur day morning Green assured the pre sident that he would be willing to re linquish his present post in the house to accept a place on the federal bench The appointment leaves a vacancy in the Iowa delegation and moves Representative of now up to the chairmanship of the ways and means drove over with William A business meeting was held in the morning to deride on some questions which came up and arrange for a meeting next There were right schools taking part in the Iowa Hue na State Iowa and contest was held in the State Teachers placed 2nd and Mildred Staks as Centrals repre sentative took ird The subject she drew was Present Day Problems in The oratorical contest was held in the Miss Van Duren had as her subject Does The report is that it was a very good State college took third Ienn and Central This means that Central may keep for an other year the hiving cup which Miss June Sinnman won last If Central wins the cup another it is hers to Kadi of the also received small Karh oay this week we have some thing extra in Chapel to observe Drama On Tuesday Wesse link spoke on the Drama in The Col lege On Wednesday Liggett talked about Music in the Stachen favored us with short parts from each of the four parts of the William Tell Over at the Wood ford also provided some music in the form of a violin Laurel Bert Earl Van and On Thursday morning Miss Graham spoke about the history of the Drama and the presented ir one act play My On Friday Addi son Jones the president of the He formed Church Synod addressed the students and spoe about our nation al Washington and One of these came from the common people and the other from the more wealthy and prosperous class but both were distinguished by unfailing determination to win and the ability to work exceedingly hard and never give To take the things that others set aside an useless and make something fine anil useful of is the ability that the world needs to Miss Firth took charge Chapel morning and read about some College students who built a larger Tin story came from who made an ax The point she tried to make was that the man felt so bad because the ax was The people of Latin Ameri ca accuse us of being discourteous and We think we have the real moral superiority but there is no im possibility of beng polte We need in remember our Excuse Mes and Thank Yous and Please of The Mens Glee Club broadcast from station WHO last week Thurs day at Car trouble delayed one group and they arrived in time only to take part in the last The quartettes were received very Van Olden sang a Lau rel Hoot played a violin and the club sang some songs which cer tainly sounded very We shall be quite anxious to hear them in their home concert which is to be given in abouth a Evans proved to b very pop ular as a The crowd was large and thoroughly enjoyed his talk of wit and As he has traveled quite a bit in several European coun he had a view of American ways and idioms which are so fami liar to us and presented his views of them in a way which sent the aud into gales of The game last Friday night was a swift one and an exciting Cen trals team no longer has any reason to be ashamed of her The teamwork was much better than ever The scoring was near enough a tie to keep the crowd in suspence throughout the The final score was 26 to 28 in our The cast of the Florist a one act the quartette and Miss Bailey and Shrahan accepted the invitation to give their program at The young people are surely doing their bit to advertise Central for which we owe them The three mens literary societies had a joint meeting last week Friday The and the Philos proved that their society life is not exclusive and narrow but they can have just as profitable a time when they meet There will be a debate on Febru ary the 29th with College of The girls will defend Later on there will be a split debate with The boys will be taking their places on the ros tar again soon Graham celebrated his 80th birthday on Tues John Van a well known fanner in this died at his home four miles west of Pella February 18th from ane an ailment with which he had been afflicted for several He was born and raised in the locality where he has lived all of his life and was highly regarded by all who knew While he had no particular church yet he was a man who lived his religion lie was born on a farm near Otley lie was united in mar riage to Bertha of the same neighborhood October They went to housekeeping on the farm which is still their He is survived by his wife and two Eva Mae and Other relatives who survive are his aged Eva De one De both of Pella and one who resides in Funeral services were held at the church Monday afternoon at two oclock in charge of Van der Ploeg assisted by Interment was made in Oakwood WELL KNOWN WOMAN DEAD of tin died at shortly Dirk Van one well known residents of Pella her home Main street after midnight on Saturday after an illness of two weeks Her health had not been nigged for over three but she fell as well as usual until her last illness which re in her Colyn was born south of Pella in and lived in this com munity all of her life She was married to Dirk Van and soon thereafter located on the old home farm one mile south of town where they continued to reside until M years when they moved to the city of The husband and father passed away five years Two children died in infancy and the remaining children left are Jacob Van Leonard Van Van and Van all of Pella and Other relatives who survive arc her Miss Kate of this city and two Jacob and Leonard of Long Van death will be mourned by many close personal friends for she was a splendid neigh a trusted friend and a devoted wife and Funeral services were held at the Third Reformed church Tuesday afternoon at in charge of the Menning and interment was made in Graceland BEEN GONE 15 YEARS The body of Murl Clear Lake young man who was murdered in his oil station at two weeks reached his home Tuesday and burial rites were held that with the Clear Lake American Legion post in Word received from Texas author states that charges of murder had been filed against oil field in connection with the fatal who had changed his name to Mc was shot thru a A woman is also being A signed made by her is said to fur nish the basis for untangling another mysterious death at is the son of and and was born in Clear He is brother of Red killed in a gun fight with police at Sioux City in following a and of sening a life term at Fort Madison for the murder of Morris Van Cerro Gordo coun ty He left home when lie was years old and the message telling of his murder was the first word received from him in almost fif teen CARD OF THANKS We wish to take this means of thanking the many neighbors anil friends who assisted us during the sickness and death of our beloved Dirk Van It is in times of when we all need help and that we come to fully realize what friendships The FOR COUNTY TREASURER I hereby announce that I will be a candidate for treasurer of Marion county on the republican sub to the decision of the republican voters of Ihe county at the June pri Your support will be appre Herman BAKED GOODS SALE The League of Service of the Third Reformed Church will have a baked goods sale at Van Slore room on March AH kinds of bak ed goods will be on sale and coffee and buns will be SECOND REFORMED CHURCH White Church Sermon on Christian Sermon on Where FIRST REFORMED CHURCH February The in charge of John Essentials VII
