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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1948
Page
8
Miss Bergquist urged teaching keen observation in classrooms to develop listening and seeing skills. She cited color, fresh stimuli, and visual aids like Navy images as drivers of appreciation, recounting a Midwest mother’s lesson through her sons exposed to seascapes in their room.
A movie titled You and Your Children was shown to Pella High students on Monday April 12. The film aimed to offer child care guidance and real-life living lessons anchored to Ephesians 6 1 10 with Everett Vande Voort leading devotions.
Monroe beats Little Dutch 2 to 1 on the home field with two runs in the third after errors and a walk. Ray Pope started and took the loss, giving up three doubles and three runs, while Prins relieved for Monroe with four strikeouts in two innings.
Marilla Vander Menlen translates Enielel poem Hatin noting beauty as a lily. The lines mix Latin phrases on pulchritude and a rose garden image, urging contemplation of beauty and its paradoxes.
Science day included plane geometry and advanced algebra tests while Latin myths study Bancis Philemon Daedalus and Pyrrhus Fabricius. Metals topics span chemistry and industrial arts with soldering heaters copper brass tin. Shorthand and typing groups note several students earning 80 and 100 word marks and pins.
Roving reporter asks students what they like about school and what would improve it. Responses range from fun of classes and bus rides to appeals for fewer tests, vacation, study hall, and plans after graduation.
The Dutch Tulip Time project at Pella High requires guides and student help. A school float for the Tulip Time parade will be designed by students with prize money for the best entry. Home rooms to solicit designs and town input were discussed at noon meeting.
A garbled reminiscence recalls Vella High with scattered details about moving to Bethlehem, playing clarinet, farm life, and school pride. It notes height five feet four inches brown hair green eyes and a fondness for cream and collecting. The fragment ends with a graduation in 1951 and a playful riddle about Ronald Bruin.
Van Berkum, custodian of In, plans to visit relatives in The Netherlands this summer. He has booked passage for dunes and expects to be gone until the middle of Angu Mre. Van Berkum and Andy, of the junior class, will accompany him and urge Andy to master Dutch to converse with Amsterdam locals. Mr Buerkens filed an application with the war surplus office in Des Moines for a bookkeeping machine to be used in the Commercial department, hoped to be filled by September.
Marion County Schoolmasters club met in Knoxville on Thursday evening for its regular session. President Frank of Pleasantville proposed joining a new State Schoolmasters club, a motion tabled pending more information. Next year's Girly Basketball tournament is planned for Attica. The group voted to assist the Marion County council in a social picnic at Knoxville Country Club on Thursday May 6 with Pella representatives Superintendent Buerkens Gene Ar drew Elmo Hughes and John Kamp attending.
Harold H. Lisk, auctioneer, advertises remaining sale dates this month and offers service for any planned sale. Contact phone 1312 or write Oskaloosa, Iowa.
In a quirky classroom moment Mr. Graendyke asks what milk Carnation sells a student quips Content ed The exchange veers to misheard names and idle guesses about Myra Thornbill and Gertender The scene touches on student recall and hints at school life including a junior senior banquet and notes on report cards and class behavior
The first period Homemaking class visited Ulrich's Meat Market on Monday April T1. Arne Schiller demonstrated beef and pork cuts, grinding, and making bologna casings. The class thanks Avie Schiller for the educational demonstration.
On Highway 60 south of Knoxville a stray white mule blocked the road near English Creek bridge. Mrs J T Sents and passenger Honked, the mule crossed, causing a collision that killed the animal and left the car badly damaged, valued at over 400 dollars. the mule belonged to Jim Mart of Knoxville.
City engineer Hugh Patterson and D T Wieters state the proposed sewage disposal plant site on Competine creek will sit above the highest projected Des Moines river flood levels at Howell. The spillway height is about 120 feet, with plant elevation about 60 feet higher than safe depth margins, ensuring protection of water wells six miles away despite flood scenarios.
Feed lot prices list for hog and poultry rations with tonnage costs. Includes Hog Feed 40 percent at 113.00, Grain Balancer 32 percent, 16 percent Dairy Feed, Meat Scraps 107.00, Soybean Meal 92.00, Linseed Meal, Shorts, Bran, Laying Mash, Chick Scratch, Record Egg Mash, Starting Mash 5 4.85 with forms fine pellet crumb. Feeder and waterer prices 4.40 and 3.50. Premix cod liver oil available in feed or mash.
The message notes a 2 percent drop in highway deaths in 1947 from the previous year but stresses that over 24,000 people still were killed. It calls on drivers, pedestrians, and the community to stay vigilant for safety on streets and highways.
John Fitzimons, Town State College landscape architect, states that landscape development of the farmstead should yield efficiency, labor savings, and greater convenience for daily operations. He emphasizes thoughtful layout, functional pathways, and practical plantings to support farm work.
See me for farm and city property insurance and bail on crop and auto insurance. Start a savings account with life coverage for old age. Insure in good companies at low rates. Call 60 Sully or write P. O. Box 146. WM Dieleman, Sully, Iowa.
An Iowa Dairy Industry Commission note extols Butter for its matchless flavor suiting time or any time. It highlights its natural gold color from rich cream and states four pints yield a pound of butter, framing butter as a valuable nutrition and health choice for consumers.
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