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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1934
Page
2
Local notes report pneumonia recovery for Verlan Swank and ongoing improvements for Mrs Hugo Steenhoek. A long list of visitors, travels, illnesses, and small events fills a week in Pella with many residents visiting kin or shopping in Des Moines and Oskaloosa.
Five local residents answer if higher education is needed for work. Albert Vanhrukelom favors education in clerical and professional roles but notes its variable necessity. Henry Garil cites most work requiring limited schooling and cites artisan skill. Roy D. Wild argues against the claim and defends higher education. Irene Waardhuizen suggests some work needs no degree and education aids effort. Harold Vanger recalls mixed effects of schooling on ambition and work drive.
Wilber Johnson manager of the J Penney department store announces large spring shipments for the 22nd Universal Celebration starting tomorrow. He says March was strong and April should set records, with prices kept low through advantageous buying to aid customers during the recovery period. Joyce Russell, a graduate nurse, is visiting Anita Vander Linden near Leighton.
North High beat Pella High 6 to 0 in Des Moines on Tuesday. North avoided scoring until the sixth inning when Pella errors and three timely hits opened a six run lead. Gallagher earned the win and allowed five Pella hits. Joe Van Arkel pitched well until the sixth, when errors produced four unearned runs.
A Monday morning crash on the Knoxville Pella road spilled 3240 eggs from a Young Bros produce truck and John Liter coal truck. The Liter truck shed metal and pushed its nine cases into the other vehicle, wrecking eggs and four stakes. damage to the produce truck was settled by Lautenbach and Ver Dught.
Robert W. Colfiesh, Republican gubernatorial candidate, will address Marion county residents at the Memorial building in Knoxville on Tuesday April 24. All are invited to hear him outline campaign positions and respond to questions.
The American Opera Company presents Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at the High School Auditorium tonight April 19. Willard Rhodes conducts a professional performance with English translation, deluxe scenery and costumes, one show at 7:30 p.m. Admission is seventy-five cents on the main floor and first two balcony rows, fifty cents from the third row up. Read the Chronicle Want Ads.
The School Board met to review the teachers' committee report and elected staff for Webster Building Junior High Webster Grades Lincoln School and the High School. New appointments include Miss Bootsma Miss Lautenbach Mr Bishop Miss Avery Miss Te Hews Miss Grant Miss Brooks Miss Reavers Miss Miner Miss Ver Heul Miss Ver Steee Miss Palmquist Miss Ver Hey Miss Dodson Miss Tysseling Miss Plette and Principal Wilkins with Frush contracts. The Lincoln enrollment and grade consolidations prompted some positions to be withheld and a note on future use of the building. Earl Van Rees, a Grinnell-trained Pella native, will join the high school music program. the glee clubs will attend a Knoxville festival and a new piano was purchased for the high school assembly.
Last week the Chronicle announced a contest to log unique Friday the 13th experiences. Two respondents note Dr J J Sysbenga's lucky break and marriage on Friday the 18th 1913 and Hi W Slob becoming a grandfather last Friday the 18th. Send yours for the next issue.
The Holland Michigan Classis of the Reformed Church unanimously passed a resolution recognizing Dr. John Wesselink, retiring president of Central College, for faithful service during ten strenuous years as he resigns from the post.
Marion county social worker Mrs. M. D. Twitty visited the city on Wednesday to assess needy family cases and plan distribution of seed potatoes. The visit aimed to organize aid and support for household gardening efforts and food security.
Mrs Twitty, head of the Woman's Federated Eli of Pella, will fund half the seed for a garden project at Scholte inhabitants. The federal government covers the other half. She will meet people every Wednesday to discuss needy families and summer and winter food needs. A man visited his wife injured after a fall, and Miss Dora Bootsma visited relatives in New Sharon.
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