Pella A City Of Industrial And Commercial Life
A description of Pella highlighting its thriving trades and services. It lists numerous shops including hardware, clothing, seeds, and beauty salons, plus four barber shops and three newspapers. Major industry is Rolscreen Co employing about 200, with factories for cigars and wagons, plus a hotel theatre bowling alley and ample service facilities. The piece touts low living costs and strong local shopping, arguing residents shop at home.
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Mercantile Hooves
Stor
Pella’s
Rolscreen Co
Pella
Bert Van Zee Keeps Shoes Bought Fifteen Years Ago
Bert Van Zee of near Fifield owns a pair of shoes bought at the Gossclink shoe store for five dollars about sixteen years ago. They have given much service yet still look and feel sound, raising a question about how long shoes can last.
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Bert van Zee
Near Fifield
Gossclink
Dutch Language Barrier In Pella Store Memory
Mrs. P Ten Hagen of West Washington Street, Pella recalls how years ago people struggled to communicate in a store kept by someone who did not understand Dutch. She describes gestures used to convey meaning and a humorous incident with a washboard that brightened the moment.
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P. Ten Hagen
West Washington Street
Pella
First Air Conditioned Bus Fleet to Start This Summer
The first fleet of air conditioned buses will operate this summer by Interstate Transit Lines, Chicago and North Western Stage, and Union Pacific Stages on routes from Chicago and Kansas City to Los Angeles, Portland, and Spokane via Salt Lake City. The system, tested for two years, includes year round filtration and dehumidification, automatic temperature control, and uniform air circulation. A fleet of 140 buses will be in transcontinental service by May 1. cooling to begin in parts of the country as weather dictates.
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Interstate Transit Lines
Chicago and
North Western Stage
Union Pacific Stages
Chicago
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Portland
Spokane
Salt Lake City
E. J. Condon
North Western Stages
Condon
West Coast
Elimin
Omaha
Neb
Denver
Boulder Dam
Mountains
California
Cholera year marks sorrowful 1854 in Pella
The 1854 cholera year brought great bereavement to Pella with a toll of deaths. Records note as many as three funerals in a day, coffin-making by hand for emergency needs, and wide attention to the sick.
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Pella
Many New Homes Built Here in Recent Years
In the past three to four years, a building boom has grown in Pella. Despite an acute housing shortage, there is awakening to invest in worthwhile property and homes have been built. Recent constructions include homes of Leonard Allen at 306 Broadway, Henry Vander Beck at 911 Union Street, and J. C. De Bruin at 214 Union Street.
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Pella
Leonard Allen
Broadway
Henry Vander Beck
Union Street
J. C. de Bruin
Pella Builds Homes as Growth Expands Around Town
The Pella area sees multiple residences listed as occupied by residents including Lucy Huber, J C De Bruin, Mrs C W Huyser, Edward Schreiner, and others on Broadway Franklin street Main and nearby streets. Paul De Wit plans two five room houses near the college and several business houses and dwellings are remodeled. Dick Gosselink builds a home west of Pella on highway 163 with much remodeling and farm building construction nearby.
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J. C. de Bruin
Morningside
Lucy Huber
Broadway
L. W. Hartley
C. W. Huyser
Franklin Street
Edward Schreiner
Hazel Street
Elyn Bros. Hatchery
North Main Street
John de Prenger
W. A. Ver Meer
Independence Street
Marion van Nimweg
Bert Hoksbergen
North Broadway
J. W. Huyser
Casper Lautenbach
West First Street
Paul de Wit
Dick Gosselink
Pella
Highway 163
They Were 30, But Said "Dirty"
The late William De Witt recounts a tale from the Home of the Aged about a Dutch immigrant who struggled with the new vernacular. When asked his age he answered I am dirty and my wife is dirty two meaning 30 and 32 in a humorous misstatement.
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William de Witt
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ella
Indas
Atta Td Homee
THE
Hoeksema Bros
W. Washington ST
West Third
Liberty Street
Ted King
Lincoln School
George van Vark
Boy Scouts of America
Santa Claw
Farm
Iowa
Viahan
Rolscreen Company
Pella, Iowa
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