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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1931
Page
4
Electric Sparks highlights local sales and gadgets from Van Den Berg Electric Co. features include Hoover cleaners Frigidaire appliances Westinghouse ranges Emerson pans and Atwater Kent radios with humorous quips and a Fly Catcher device using an electrified screen to destroy thousands of flies daily.
Central celebrates a strong year with higher enrollment and staff growth including a PhD holder Dr Stuart. plans for more PhDs next year. Despite fiscal woes at other Iowa colleges, Central expands endowment and increases programs while sustaining athletic success with top state finishes in extempore speaking and debates. The piece credits Dr Wesselink for promoting the school and notes a spiritual dedication.
In a rustic scene a newlywed man asks a tramp at his weekend country cottage if he will breakfast or work. The tramp answers both, prompting the man to return with his wife’s bread and demand the tramp eat it, setting a tense, terse tone.
Ed Van Ginkel, recovering from a severe infection on his left hand caused by a scratch at the Pella Produce plant, basks in sun at his East First Street home and hopes to return to work soon. Harold Goad, eight, injured below the left eye by a golf ball. John Van Arkel had an appendectomy at Mahaska hospital. Martin De Jong back after illness. Scarlet fever cases reported in city and countryside, quarantined to prevent an epidemic.
Agricultural guidance details an all mash ration for confined chicks including 40 percent yellow corn meal 22 percent ground wheat 10 percent corn gluten meal 10 percent buttermilk 10 percent meat scrap 3 percent fine oyster shell 2 percent alfalfa leaf meal 2 percent yeast 5 percent salt. Add 1 to 2 percent cod liver oil every ten days to prevent vitamin D related leg weakness. HE IS GONE a poem is included with a funeral tone and religious imagery about a departed figure and hopeful afterlife.
Grubs left over from cooking fruits and canned fruit pulp may sweeten punches and fruit drinks. Try a mock duck as a palatable inexpensive baked meat, rolled and carved across the muscles. Children should eat cereals and fruits without sugar to avoid spoiling appetite for other foods. Candy should be given sparingly at meal end. Dustless cloths can be refreshed with kerosene or light oil. French toast uses eggs milk salt and dry bread slices fried in butter until golden, served with bacon or syrup.
The guide advises reducing silage and hay several days before calving and limiting grain to 3 4 pounds daily if fed. Ground oats with wheat bran and linseed meal are recommended, water should not be very cold, and a warm bran mash helps before calving. After calving feed sparingly, and expect cows dry two months and previously fed liberally to be in good flesh. Thin cows regain appetite and should begin full feed in about two weeks, fat cows in about four weeks.
The column notes that owners get higher prices for timber when sold as sawlogs rather than standing timber. It cites Washington prune crop marketing by cooperatives. It warns red gauill rat poison is unsafe for children and animals. It also reports over 34 million pounds of beef graded by Federal inspectors in the last six months of 1930, about half more than the prior period.
The article recounts local school history including teacher appointments in 1905 with Leona Reuver earning $30 monthly, and 1925 plans to enlarge the Black Oak and Scott Center school grounds. It lists longstanding directors, secretaries, and a long roster of teachers and past pupils, noting Mae De Prenger leaving after three years and many student names from the register.
Music departments under Miss Hackemack and Miss Peterson presented a well attended recital in the chapel Tuesday evening. Performances included Butterflies Wink Their Primrose Wings, Hanging Gardens, La Cinquantaine, Solfeggietto, One Memory, Villa Op. 69 no. 1, Tally Ho, Romance in D Flat, Rolling Down To Rio, Valse Op. 63 no. 1, and Messiah excerpts. Each performer showed talent and training, earning commendation.
L M Allen vice president announces a special round trip rate of 1.08 cents per mile in coach and chair cars on all Rock Island trains east of the Missouri River for Friday and Saturday April 24 and 25 with a return by May 4. Sleeping car passengers may travel round trip for one fare within ten days. He cites highway competition and notes the deal tests whether the 3.6 cent per mile fare deters riders while stressing superior service and a forthcoming summer tourist rate of 43.05 dollars beginning June first.
A special round trip fare from Chicago to the Colorado Rockies is offered at $30,000 for travel on July 1 and July 10 and August 1. The tickets are valid for travel in sleeping cars and include a fifteen day return limit.
The first annual Forensic Association of Iowa Colleges tournament, held in Oskaloosa March 25 28, drew twelve schools and featured 28 women and 45 men debates plus extemporaneous speaking and oratory rounds. Central placed in final men extemp and both final oratorical contests with Hermann Kregel earning second in extemp and Gertrude Bensink and Herbert Van Wyk receiving honorable mention for fourth in oratory. The women’s team Martha Gull and Margaret Van Raden tied for third in seven debates. Men’s team included Henry Eggink as a permanent member with Van Wyk and Dick Kolenbarger as alternates. they won three of nine debates. Final rankings listed Iowa State Teachers and Parsons top in women and men, with Central and others placing in various categories. A banquet at the Christian church closed the event with music and stunts and a sense the experience was worthwhile.
An old lady asks why the liner travels slowly in heavy fog. The captain explains the fog limits visibility and safety rules. He notes that they will not head toward danger unless the boilers burst, implying caution over speed. The exchange highlights naval prudence in poor conditions.
M Vander Linden markets tailored to order suits with measurement precision emphasized as crucial. Prices listed are 20.25 and 23.50 dollars.
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