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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1919
Page
8
Floyd Willard, a Des Moines auto race driver, won first money in fifty races last season with his Monroe racing machine. He plans to return this year to race at the state fair, driving the 156 horsepower Monroe again.
Sunday August 24 will be one of the most interesting days at the Iowa State Fair this year with a morning Sunday School program and afternoon and evening concerts. The Thavin Band and Grand Opera Singers perform at the Amphitheatre while the Henry Band and singers play the Stock Pavilion. A special admission price of 25 cents for adults is set for that day.
Mark was wounded in action and arrived in New York then Camp Dodge before Knoxville with his mother. G W May marks forty years in Columbia with a social celebration from 4 to 10 pm featuring music, speakers, a ball game, and moving pictures. The event celebrates May's four decades of business in southwest Marion county.
Mr and Mrs Herman Van der Linden welcome a baby girl. Local visits include Rev and Mrs Ossewaarde returning from Michigan and Mr and Mrs Geo L Shoemaker of Oskaloosa visiting grandmother Mrs Shoemaker. Shoemaker returns from France. Des Moines callers and Pella visits noted. Gosseling and Groenendyke families appear in multiple scenes. Rena Meppelink on vacation from Mercy Hospital, Oskaloosa. Local property matters involve Mendenhall estate in Leighton.
The Mahaska county line debate considers moving areas from township to county systems. The board votes in favor of the change. Discussion also covers road status between Pella and Knoxville, with emphasis on improving service for Lake Prairie residents and seeking fair road money allocation.
The City of Pella Iowa held a regular council meeting August 5 1919 with all members present. Petitions on water mains sewer on East Second Street and Columbus Street crossing were referred to committees. A cement sidewalk on Jefferson Street was approved and July payrolls reviewed totaling warrants from Corporation and Electric Light funds. The special election result was accepted and a sewer tapping fee of 25 was levied on lot 1 block 10 South Pella. A petition to exempt lot 4 block 59 from connecting to water main was denied.
William Whitelaw of Des Moines Iowa reports a man told how his dysentery stricken daughter recovered after giving Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. Neighbors advised use and the family physician had given up. The father credits the remedy with saving her life and notes his own use produced relief. For sale by all dealers.
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