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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
6
Iowa State Fair marks its closing day with a parade of prize winning horses and cattle. This year the event will be held on September 8 under the new amphitheater, offering a rare sight of livestock valued at about half a million dollars.
A busy series of August Chautauqua events with morning lectures and afternoon concerts. Notable names include Mabelle Wagner Shank, Bohumir Kyrl Band, Rita Rich Concert Co, Gov. J Frank Hanley, and William Jennings Bryan. Evening programs feature prelude acts and farewell lectures on tuberculosis and temperance.
Among the Churches Sunday school class meeting preaching service junior league Epworth league preaching service prayer meeting Wed evening all are invited to attend Gro Monxwan pastor.
Baptist notice invites attendance at Sunday school preaching Young People’s Meeting and Wednesday prayer service. Encourages bringing Bible to devotional services. Address 7130 A LeGranp, pastor.
The notice lists church activities for Sunday morning at 9 00 A M with Sabbath school and morning worship at 10 30 Junior C E Society Intermediate C E Society 4 15 Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor evening worship and a prayer and conference meeting Wednesday at 7 30 P M A cordial welcome to all from Pastor Wn J VAN Kersen
The schedule lists a preaching service in Holland at 9:00 A.M. on Sundays every other Sunday with English language service. Sunday-school is noted as ongoing. A prayer meeting and teachers meeting are set for Wednesday evening at 7:30. The Moonlight Mission Band meets Friday evening at a member’s home.
An advertisement promotes Mother Gray's Australian Leaf for back pain urinary bladder and kidney trouble claiming safe reliable relief from female ailments. Sold by druggists or mailed for 60 cents with free samples from The Mother Gray Co. Le Roy NY.
Kansas City market report shows smaller spring cattle receipts with slight advance on top fed cattle and a weak finish for steers under 625. Stockers and feeders held relatively steady. Hog market rallied late week but remains pressured by packers pushing lower prices. Lambs steady with strong feeding demand. Utah feeding wethers sold at 450 and feeding lambs around 575. Correspondent J. A. Rickart reports.
James Helmie of near Columbus Junction creates an artificial fish pond by damming a ravine to form a one acre lake fed by tiling from his farm. The pond, 10 to 15 feet deep, hosts channel cat, black bass and crappies. Stocked last fall, the fish have multiplied and grown, drawing interest from nearby farmers as Helmie pursues supplying fish to markets.
An anecdote from Edward Everett Hale showing his humor in youth and age. In New York a crowded surface car led Hale to thank a boy who gave him a seat promising to repay the kindness when he is eighty if he is still around. The tale appears in Woman's Home Companion for August.
An aged Scot proclaims a deep, personal sense of divine love, asserting God loves him beyond his own affection or any earthly good. The speaker emphasizes gratitude for grace that excludes sin from his life, and praises the extent of God’s love surpassing even that for his Son. The text mixes reverent reflection with a quirky aside about Gold Medal Flour.
A Louisa County resident installed an air key and wiring to ring an electric bell in his bedroom if intruders approach a 200 yard distant pond. The system aims to protect the pond at night and news of its success leads to the exhibit of his pond hatched fish at the county fair in September.
To whom it may concern a written instrument purporting to be the decedent’s last will is on file in the clerk of the District Court of Iowa Marion County. The notice states that such instrument exists and may be examined as provided by law.
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