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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1931
Page
7
A fragment from The Pella Chronicle recalls early prices for staple foods and a 16th century calendar shift, then shifts to a sermon on temperance. The author argues for strict prohibition as a moral necessity while warning against segregation as a solution to evil, urging ongoing education and enforcement to curb alcohol and related vices.
The Reform Bulletin notes leaders and institutions aiding civic and moral betterment. It cites John D. Rockefeller J C Penney S S Kresge Ganett group papers Colgate Co Welch Grape Juice Empire State Pickling Co and The Christian Herald The Christian Science Monitor urging support for socially beneficial causes. Ends with a call for peers to combine efforts in backing those who use wealth and influence for social progress.
Mrs E Richardson, former resident, received the distinguished service medal in Boston for support of agriculture. She told younger women to become a farmer's wife, claiming rural home offers the greatest happiness and a sunnier life on the farm. Pelia women have followed her counsel, finding contentment in farm life.
A New York University professor says radio causes hopeless dissension at home as family members argue over what to hear. The clash stems from diverging tastes in music, sports, and shows, with static and poor reception cited as aggravating factors.
The piece traces historic fear of tuberculosis as hereditary and fatal within families. It notes medical shifts to airborne contagion, contrasts with typhoid transmission, and highlights preventive measures such as fresh air and deep breathing to reduce contagion.
A news release cites a national grocery bill of 15.35 billion dollars to sustain 120 million people. It breaks down per hour and per minute costs, estimates 450000 grocery outlets, and presents a per person yearly diet totaling about 1603 pounds with dairy, vegetables, cereals, meat, sugar, eggs, canned goods, and dried fruits.
The earliest known account places April Fool’s Day in 1564 with France observing a new year on a different date. Vassals and tenants allegedly paid gifts to landowners, magistrates, and authorities on the first day of the year, a custom tied to calendar differences of the era.
A discussion contrasts opposition to prohibition with support for temperance. The text argues that intemperance means excessive use of any intoxicant and critiques legal controls on individual conduct, emphasizing personal restraint over government governance.
Verlan Sedrel recalls a spin with two girls and fuel woes while playful city banter notes Dutch phrases and a joke about not slobbering. A string of ads and anecdotes follow about bills, stores, and local characters including Plender, De Wit, and Ruth Hanna McCormick. The piece ends with social quips on economy and luck.
Tom Wyatt, a hospitable Mississippi planter at Belmont in Holmes County, hosts a dissipated young lawyer guest who claims to have read the Bible cover to cover. Wyatt recalls an old Delta saying that any man who claims to know all of the multiplication table must be a liar.
The piece contrasts past and present life through quotes on politics, taxes, cars, gender roles, and leisure. It laments modern excesses from autos and gaming to prohibition and high taxes, while recalling simpler times with farms, work, and frugal living in Pella.
An anonymous lament of a restless speaker who longs to return to Iowa from California. The narrator rejects the Pacific coast, warns against earthquakes and flowers, and declares a desire to end wandering and return to a simpler life among familiar people and fields. The verse blends pride in Iowa with scorn for West Coast ambitions.
A survey of editorials from several papers reports pro birth control groups in New York favoring some effective family control while noting population growth and class contrasts. Other clippings probe Prohibition advertising by John J. Raskob and editorial independence in journalism. The Monroe County piece urges fearless opinion as essential to newspapers. The Jasper County note questions Hoover era deficits and fiscal forecasts.
An editor argues truth tells, ministers leave town, and a minister laments virtue magnification. The Chariton Leader notes churches joining in birth control stance, with twenty seven Protestant denominations endorsing a Federal Council position. Consolidations may unite Protestant churches into one vast body, signaling modernization.
Twenty years ago the Chronicle reports the municipal election results with names: Nick Gesman mayor A Waghter first ward J Wilson second ward B H Sack third ward K Van Dusseldorp fourth ward John Faassen and Jake Plender aldermen at large Vander Linden treasurer and G W Kimmel assessor. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Lester Tice. A crew unloaded pumps at Howell. H H and L H Sadler attended Ben Hur in Des Moines. Prof William A Young went to Des Moines to aid a senatorial deadlock. Gerrit Boertje’s two brothers arrived from Holland to settle here. Baptist leaders discussed uniting Central University with Des Moines College. Ralph Adams died at his Wichita home and Mrs T J Tighelaar died aged 79.
Ten years ago in the Chronicle of March 81, 1921: Pella approved a 40 thousand dollar bond issue for waterworks. Edward Hoeven placed second in the district declamatory contest at Sigourney. Weddings listed include Fred T Lam and Lizzie Synhorst Jacob Bogaards and Nellie Synhorst J H Blacquere and Pearl Branderhorst Henry Nikkel and Bertha Sjaardema. Deaths were Mrs Abraham Goemaat 61 Mrs Samuel Hess 79 and Mrs E J Overing. Beurkens Manufacturing Co long established here for 56 years. Sherman Hedrick Knoxville hospital guard hurt by inmate. Peggy Sybenga hosted an egg social. Eugene Weeks found guilty of murder of Des Moines grocer George A Fosdick. death sentence imposed.
A Chronicle report notes over 200 people attended Central college basketball team’s banquet at Legion Hall. A highway collision on a bridge near here involved Louis Van Roe kel driving a truck and W J Way of New Sharon in a Willys Knight. The Board of Supervisors finished plans to gravel Pel la Harvey road. Mr and Mrs John Fr Van Gorp and son Franklin survived a crash east of the city as their car overturned after hitting a gravel pocket. W S Riddle was recovering from a long illness. Central college trustees endorsed a ten year program by President John Wesselink for 495000 dollars. Ernc Hoeksema and Leonard Popma died at their homes in this city.
The announcement is expected to spark argument and dissension within church bodies as leaders must explain their ruling to various member ships.
Knoxville Journal reports the county assessor bill was decisively defeated in the Iowa House, signaling likely failure of the income tax measure in the Senate and jeopardizing the administration’s tax revision plan. The Journal contends reactionary forces blocked relief from tax burdens, but affirms tax revision is needed and that ability to pay should guide levies to share the tax load with farms and homes.
Four round trips daily with three connecting at Monroe for Knoxville. Special round trip rates between all stations. Pella to Des Moines departures 8 81 a m 12 31 p m 5 01 p m 7 46 p m. Des Moines to Pella departures 8 00 a m 12 00 p m 4 30 p m 6 15 p m. Pella to Oskaloosa 9 34 a m 1 84 p m 6 04 p m 7 49 for Pella 8 00 p m 7 15 p m. Oskaloosa to Ottumwa via through service. Read the Chronicle Want Ads.
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