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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1938
Page
20
The Pella system uses Lincoln and Webster for grades 1-6 and preschool, with 7th and 8th added in Webster to form the Junior High. Senior High comprises grades 9-12 in a central building, serving about 275 students and offering Normal Training, Commercial, shorthand, and vocational courses.
The Pella Public Schools emphasize excellence in academics and citizenship with a council led rating and award structure. Report cards feature sides for subjects and citizenship while a large share of tuition pupils from surrounding districts boosts high school enrollment to about 38 percent. The progressive board, including Dr. H. C. Wormhoudt and Dr. W. C. Verploegh, shapes policies for Tulip Town students.
A sweeping portrait of Iowa’s economic prowess cites leading ranks in farm land value and livestock production, statewide wealth over ten billion, and grain output of 617 million bushels in 1935. It notes per capita wealth at 4422 dollars, 221,986 farms averaging 155 acres, and rail accessibility across the state.
E. V. Good, editor of this newspaper, marked his birthday on April 20 despite illness. He managed to bake a cake and insisted on serving the first slice to a dog named Hub, a small note of cheer amid the paper's ongoing troubles.
The excerpt notes the occasion did not go by unnoticed and questions the subject's age, calling him young and foolish while urging to forget the rest of it.
W. A. Butts announces his candidacy for Marion County board of supervisors. He notes his prior service and quips that getting his feet wet will be only one foot.
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