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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1948
Page
3
A reflective column blends rain theology with farming life. It notes farmers embracing rain aided by weather reports, describes jeep and radio farming trends, and quotes The Denver Post on farming solitude and family life. It ends with a humorous jab at modern building plans and a nod to American innovation.
Chief Solu tion Service head Bennett tells San Francisco business leaders two billion more mouths will need feeding in a century with only one acre per person available. He warns erosion slashes topsoil, urges universal soil conservation and prudent land use to avert famine for future generations.
Knoxville editors urge dam construction to unlock tourism and regional growth while Salem, Sigourney, and Winterset essays warn about the fate of small towns, leadership, and soil stewardship amid changing transport and population pressures.
A Waterloo and Pella area newspaper issue recounts stockholders backing the Waterloo Pella and Southwestern Railway with funds from John Short and Son of New York and hints at forming a construction company to start work. It notes plans to complete the Howell to Grinnell line that year, local political calls for Democratic caucuses, and a Des Moines river bottom to Pella survey for a new town water system. The paper also mentions real estate trades, a new Electric Palace theater brickwork, Memorial Day windows, a cheap buggy sale, a Memorial Day program, and various local civic items including harness business changes, a college field meet result, and church event plans.
A fragmentary 30 year old column from Pella highlights local names and events. It mentions residents Hareld Sack Arthur de Van Waardhuizen Leo Van Gerkum Ad Buyabi Joseph Milledge and Arie De Gest plus families traveling to Camp Dodge with Rube Brand. It notes a car breakdown puncture rain and a broken axle on the trip to transfer Harry De Rous. The piece also references Woodrow Wilson announcing registration for men reaching 21, Red Cross drives with local contributions total 4451.55 and 5183 overall, and local civic notes including Central College, Prairie City schools, and a Helena/Des Moines visit. Multiple residents are described with job changes and military assignments along with a poem by Jennie June Stureman about soldier dead.
The body of Reuben Adams, the boy who drowned in the Van der Zyl pond, was laid to rest in Eureka Cemetery. He was the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. J. Durham of Ola and the grandson of pioneer Josiah Adams of Clay township, also buried there. Men in the area were buying walnut logs for shipment to other locations during Memorial Day season.
Twenty years ago on May 31 1928 a girl Freda Swank was struck by a car at Washington and Broad Way streets with cuts and bruises. Central College commencement speaker Reverend Rollo Speer of La Grange Indiana spoke. Forty seniors graduated including Mansford Ver Steeg Melvin Tandy Minor Alsip Marion Frush William Rosch Chris Kersebergen Anne Tysseling. Pella baseball beat a team from Reasner with players Henry Ruyert Verlo Ver Dught Dale Tupseed Reno Rysdam Bill Sheppard B Van Arkel Dan Beyers Richard Tysseling Marty Braashart N Van Veen. A blind seminary graduate received a call to serve a Reformed Church at Twin Lakes Michigan. The Pella Band under George Ramsey planned summer concerts. Reverend Bernie Mulder gave the Memorial address.
Ten years ago the largest Central College enrollment on record reached 402. The piece notes Sisson of American Baptist Missions as commencement speaker, unrest and revolutions discussed, Lubbers as president, and local items such as the Tulip Town park plan, Memorial Day pool opening, notable twins Eddie and Johnnie Donai, and Legion youth programs. It also mentions a traffic safety PSA stating twenty percent of crashes are due to improper right of way.
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