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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1940
Page
10
A collage of farm notices and used car listings from 1930s era ads. Includes rental, hatchery supply, hereford calves, red clover seed, lightning rods, tires and welding services, plus a batch of used Ford vehicles with prices ranging from $85 to $625. Local businesses and residents advertise goods and services.
A vintage car and tractor listing shows multiple used vehicles for sale by A. B. Van Houweling Auto Company and White Way Auto Co. at Ulrich Motor Co On the Square. Models span 1929 to 1988 including Plymouth Chrysler Chevrolet Ford and Dodge cars plus tractors and a John Deere D. Buyers are offered a wide array of temptingly priced autos and equipment.
A mixed ads page lists FOR SALE items including 240 A. stock and grain farm prospects in Iowa with rental terms, various farm supplies like wallboard and nails, alfalfa hay, and several used cars and trucks from Vogelaars. Also notes wallpaper deals, printing prices, and local services such as well drilling and painting cleaners. Names include Harold Sack, Floyd G. Roberts, Kuyper Builders, and Vander Waal among others.
Farmers urged to sell cattle to Morrell's with a buyer visiting weekly or biweekly. Ben Vos appears listed with contact, plus a window and door screen service and health insurance agency notes for American Republic Insurance Co. in Des Moines and Oskaloosa, Pella.
An assortment of nursery stock is advertised including fruit trees and ornamental plants at Oak Grove Nursery. April only offers on BPS Super Spar and a penny add-on with regular size cans at Van Den Berg Electric & Paint Co. Readers are urged to subscribe to Des Moines newspapers, inquire about monuments from New England Granite Works, and explore automatic oil heating and air conditioning details from Paul De Wit.
A Navy selection board led by Lt. K. M. Krieger and HM G. T. Ayers will tour Kansas Nebraska Western Missouri and Southern Town to recruit applicants for flight training. Applicants need US citizenship age 20 to 27 unmarried two years of college. cadets start at Fairfax Airport with one month training then Pensacola Flight School and commission as Ensign. Pay starts around 105 dollars monthly in Pensacola with life insurance and quarters. a 10,000 dollar policy is provided. Indefinite monthly batches begin the 15th. boards will be in Grinnell Iowa April 26 and Des Moines Fort Des Moines April 28.
Peoria reports Henry Bosveld visiting his wife in Cutlerville Michigan last Tuesday and returning Thursday with news of her improved condition. Fred Westerkamp, longtime Peoria resident, died near Oskaloosa at 72. Funeral at Christian Reformed church in Oskaloosa, burial at Oakwood cemetery, Pella. Rev. Hoitenga and family updates, census work by local officials, church socials, and a sermon at Oskaloosa highlighted. Local ministers planning moves to New Mexico, Minnesota, and Pella, plus a column urging avoidance of minced oaths in daily speech citing Matthew 5:37.
The Rev Carlson of Monroe preached his farewell sermon on March 31, with a well filled church and radio audience from Marshalltown. Attendees from the community included Mr and Mrs Ed Carter, Mr and Mrs Cornie De Goey and family, and Mr and Mrs Harry Boat with son Arvin, plus North Country residents who visited Otley for various affairs.
Mr and Mrs Nick Ter Louw host visitors including John Vanden Berg family S J Keuning and Mrs Metcalf from Fifield and Marion Verwers from Kelsoe Little Miss Norma Swank visited Delores Swank then school with Delores House cleaning and redecorating widespread Andrew Dykhuis moved front rooms Will Jansen relocated for work Carl De Goey suffered a cheek injury from a pitch fork and is recovering Bethel Aid met at Mrs Frank Boat with devotions a hymn and a bible verse roll call Mothers blanket sewn by Mrs Henry Stursma Luncheon served Next meeting at Mrs Andrew Boats home.
April activities at the Home for the Aged include birthday anniversaries for Mrs W De Witt aged 64 on April 10 Mrs K P De done aged 74 on April 12 and I Van Zuuke aged 77 on April 15. Residents received visits from family and friends including Mr Richard Van Dyk Mr Jacob Van Gorp Mrs Dick Hagen and others from Leighton Sully Knoxville and Monroe.
Farmers may see another big year as demand for farm products could lift income, with TAUREN K Seth of Town State College extension noting the outlook is still favorable after 1939 when farmers earned their best returns in a decade.
A report from AAA indicates extensive involvement in the adjustment program with expectations of large government payments in the coming year. Prospects of cattle marketing are also noted, boosting overall income projections and signaling another strong year.
Sully plans a new 10 000 dollar bond issue for a proposed addition to Sully schools. This will be the fourth election on the proposal. The last vote in March ended in a 141 to 141 tie. A 60 percent majority is required for approval. Previous ballots failed 133 to 105 and 18 to 113. Voting will be at the town hall in Jasper County.
Trees are being planted at about 10000 daily on government and forest preserve land in Van Buren county. Most trees come from the federal state nursery at Keosauqua. The spring program covers Farming ton and Keosauqua state forest tracts and state parks. The nursery aims to produce about 1000000 trees this year. Last year nearly 500000 were planted in Lee and Van Buren counties. about 260000 are planned this year. The AAA arranges low price tree planting for farmers with government support.
Interest in local 10 acre corn yield contests has led the Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Association to reprise the contests in 1940. Joe L. Robinson, secretary, announced the plan follows last year’s structure with two key changes. An entry fee of 50 cents will be required.
Local contest rules set entry charges per participant to qualify for state recognition with gold medals for yields of 190 bushels an acre or more under state association standards. Past no entry fee, but 225 medals for 100 bushels in 1939 pressured financing. Five entrants needed per local contest. 10 acre rectangular plots. 36 inch row spacing. Morley election joke yields real outcome Ada Smith elected mayor with Ruth Smith assessor and husband Dwight Pulver as lone veteran councilman amid a husband and wife on the city council.
No Teacher Miss Bertha Cadwell, a Logan educator whose current pupils include the children of many former students, has resigned after thirty three years in the public school system.
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