Liquor sale sting and local protests in Colfax 1905
A 1905 Knoxville Journal clipping reports out of state men soliciting liquor via COD express, selling Lone dack by the gallon amid Colfax dry talk. Citizens oppose Sunday games, General Weaver leads anti-prohibition effort, KP van Gorp touts sales during a nine day run, and towns discuss sidewalk spit prohibitions for tobacco chewers.
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Knoxville Journal
C.O.D
Express
The
Chronicle
Knoxville
Colfax
James B. Weaver
KP. H .van Gorp
Pella-Stacker Company
Threstiermen
Huxter wagons tour area as roads open for harvest
From the files a note recalls Huxter wagons from Pella stores touring the countryside as roads became passable. Many shops closed Monday evening for proprietor and clerk attendance at a Baptist church illustrated temperance lecture. The season’s high of 85 degrees had been recorded the prior Sunday. Ezra Temple, a wandering evangelist, visited town and spoke in the Galesburg region about the need for such work.
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Pella
Baptist Church
Ezra Temple
Galesburg
Billie Richie in films at Electric Palace with The Master Key
Advertisement on the front page states Billie Ritchie the original comedian stars in weekly movie showings at the Electric Palace on Saturdays along with the serial The Master Key. Violet Mercereau and Hobart Henry appear in She Was His Mother. The newly elected city council sets city wages for city work.
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Billie Ritchie
Electric Palace
Violet Mercereau
Hobart Henry
Leighton News Notes and Advertisements Review
The column notes wage figures for special police and road workers, a salary increase for SUPT F M Frush, and re-election of four high school teachers Gladys Chrisman Mabel Jones Will J Rhynsburger and Carl Ver Steeg. Kuyper Lumber Co advertises a church message and a large Maxwell car promotion dominates the page. Dr Kuyper of Orange City will not relocate to Leighton while Dr Ayers plans to practice there.
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Kuyper
Maxwell
Orange City
Leighton
Dr. Ayers
Peoria
Observations and local notes from Pella area 1925
Four decades back in April 1925 the Wright area Lundy farm sold at eighty dollars per acre amid rolling land and dilapidated buildings. Iowans faced higher postal rates and a two cent gasoline tax while students Qon Waechter and Robert Beyers sang for Cen tral College in a Des Moines contest. Mrs A N Vander Linden urged Pella Historical Society members to gather April 20 at the City office. vandals damaged traffic signs last Sunday night. Nellie Curtis, daughter of pioneer I C Curtis, died wealthy in Fresno and left her mansion to Pella for an art gallery valued at about two hundred thousand dollars.
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Wright
Iowa
Lundy
Qon' Waechter
Robert Beyers
Pella High
Central
Chapel
Des Moines
The
Pella
Frank Hamilton Short
City council approves boilers and water system upgrades
The city council voted to buy high pressure boilers for the light plant and approved tanks for water softeners. The formal opening of the Overall Factory in its new location at the Woodrow Washer building was scheduled for Saturday, with John Klein pictured as manager in the story.
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Woodrow Washer Building
John Klein
Pella News Highlights From The Chronicle Contest Wins And Local Plans
The Chronicle won a silver trophy in the Iowa Press Contests for best circulation methods, a first for the paper. Citizens approved funding a $12,009 pool project by drawing from the light plant fund. total votes 1348, 693 yes to 655 no, ward breakdown 1st ward 192 for, 234 against. CORN-HOG checks totaling $425,000 reached 1,637 Marion county farmers. Pella High plans to enter ten boys in a conference field meet at Valley Junction and compete at Oskaloosa. listed are Fred Bosveld, Max Dillon, Marvin Klein, Don Menning, Kenneth Van Zee. Wilkins coach. Current films include Ruggles of Red Gap starring Charles Laughton and Charlie Ruggles with Ronald Coleman and Frances Lister, plus Clive in India. Tulip Time operetta at the high school, directed by Anne Tysseling, called a sensational event and inspired Pella merchants to launch the Tulip Time Festival.
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Chronicle
Iowa Press
Marion County
Pella High
Valley Junction
Oskaloosa
Fred ‘Bosveld
Max Dillon
Marvin Klein
Don Menning
Kenneth
April 12 1945 U.S. relief drives aid war efforts
Famine and disease hit Holland as relief campaigns unfold across the United States. Queen Wilhelmina War Fund chaired by Tunis Kempkes aids Holland. March of Dimes donor Ella contributes 228.15 while Mrs. Murray Nesbit leads the drive. Matthew Kempkes earns Chief Pharmacist rank in the Navy and plans retirement on April 24. Corporal Lloyd Vande Krol of Sully is wounded in Germany and Clarence Griep of Afton suffers a leg wound on the island after attending Central College.
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Sully
Germany
Clarence Griep
Afton
Central College
Iwo Jima Marines and other war notes reach readers
The page reports on Iwo Jima veterans including a leg amputation, Sgt Johnny P Ver Meer arriving in England for Air Force duty, Pvt Glen Ver Steeg of Knoxville earning the bronze star with the Fifth Army in Northern Italy. It notes Fisk University Dean Faulkner addressing Kiwanis about Negro men in the war, his son killed on a P 51 mission. Also details a federal plan offering Marion county farmers corn crop insurance in 1946, with limited local interest.
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Iwo Jima
Johnny P. Ver Meer
England
Air Force
Glen Ver Steeg
Knoxville
Fifth Army
Italy
Dean Faulkner
Fisk University
Kiwanis Club
Germany
Herbert Mentink
Faulkner
Marion County
Iowa
Pella Area Honors Graduates and Polio Help
Ten years ago on April 14 1955 Pella community noted Av is Ver Hoef named to Hawkeye Girls State at Town State Teachers College Cedar Falls. Latin week ended with a Roman banquet and a procession to Holland Theatre to view Julius Caesar while Sully High students aided a polio stricken ninth grader Harris Terpstra with an intercom linked classroom. Gysbert Terlouw farm field day featured Pella FFA members plowing 70 acres with equipment donated by local dealers.
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Avis Ver Hoef
Ruth Ver Hoef
Pella
Pella American Legion Auxiliary
Hawkeye Girls State
Town State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Holland Theatre
Julius Caesar
Cornie Terpstra
Sully Road
Elk Creek
Harris Terpstra
Harris
Sully High School
Sully Lions
Gysbert
Family Faces Hard Times After Injury and Draft
In a Pella household Gysbert suffers a broken leg from tree cutting and son Reuben is drafted, leaving Norman, a Pella High senior, to shoulder most of the work as the family adapts to hardship.
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Gysbert
Reuben
Norman
Pella ‘High
Lynnville News Highlights Local Health and Travel
Mrs. Melvin Ver Steeght took her daughter Karla to Iowa City for a medical checkup after a prior surgery and was reported in good health. Bonnie Freeborn suffers a fractured ankle after a fall and remains a patient at Community Hospital Grinnell. Dr. and Mrs. Sparks with family joined Rev. and Mrs. Stanley at Easter in Michigan, then toured Indiana to view tornado damage.
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Lynnville
Melvin Ver Steeght
Karla
Iowa City
Bonnie Freeborn
Community Hospital
Grinnell
James Perkins
R. E. Sparks
Iarry Stanley
Sturgis
Michigan
Indiana
Easter Dinner Guests and Family Gatherings in Pella and Surrounding Areas
The report lists numerous Easter Sunday visits and gatherings in Pella, Lynnville, Oskaloosa, Searsboro, Baxters, and nearby towns. Families including Petersma, Dunsbergen, Beyer, Ver Steeght, Van Zee, Willemsen, and Stanley share meals and celebrate birthdays with extended relatives and friends.
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Ben Petersma
Pella
Jeanette Petersma
Milton Talbot
Lynnville
Ray de Jong
Oskaloosa
Ben Petersmas
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