City Council approves purchase of People's Trust building
At Tuesday's meeting the council contracted to buy the People's Trust building for 7250 with 1000 down and 2000 due March 1 1917. Funds will come from the light fund. The move includes vaults for city records and space for light department work. A bid to rent the current office at 15 per month was discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Schreiner
Johnson
West Fourth Street
G. G. Gaass
F. W. Brinkhoff
People’s Trust
Monroe Bank
Light
Union Street
Main
Broadway
New School Board Member Elected and Faculty Changes
The school board met Monday evening and filled G J Thomassen's vacancy with John VanderWal, a capable business man. New grammar grade teachers are Anna Grant and Hattie Neyenesch, graduates of Pella high school with teaching experience. One vacancy remains.
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G. J. Thomassen
John VanderWal
VanderWal
Anna Grant
Hattie Neyenesch
Pella High School
VanDyk VanDam Wed In City Church Ceremony
Thursday morning last week Henry VanDyk of Gambell store and Minnie VanDam daughter of Mr and Mrs W VanDam of this city united in marriage at the First Christian Reformed Church parsonage by Rev C DeLeeuw. They left for a wedding trip to Des Moines as friends extend best wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry VanDyk
Gambell
Minnie VanDam
W. VanDam
First Christian Reformed Church
Rev. C. DeLeeuw
Des Moines
the Chronicle
Farmers Picnic At John Vroom Grove Near Town
An annual Farmers Picnic is planned for Tuesday August 22 at John Vroom grove four miles northeast of town. It will be an all day event with music and sports in a family friendly program. John VanderVoort and G Gosselink Jr urge attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Vroom
John VanderVoort
G. Gosselink, Jr
Free Admission to State Fair for Iowa Club Members
Statewide program offers 10,000 boys and girls club members free fair entry on club day August 30 if they submit completed work up to August 1 using blanks provided by Prof. B. C. Bishop Town State College. Credentials grant privileges and a special program. corn pig canning sewing gardening clubs all eligible. Arrangements coordinated by A. R. Corey with the state board of agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
B. C. Bishop
Town State College
State Board of Agriculture
Bishop
A. R. Corey
Board of Agriculture
Dan Fisk Home Fire Causes Heavy Damage
A Tuesday afternoon fire at the Dan Fisk residence damaged the north wing roof likely from sparks from a kitchen fire. Mrs. Fisk and neighbors moved furniture to safety before the flames were controlled by two fire streams. The house, fully insured, suffered extensive fire and water damage.
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Dan Fisk
New Sharon Star
Outline of Farm Loan Act and federal land banks
The act creates twelve Federal Land Banks with control by a Federal Farm Loan Board and allows joint stock land banks to extend long term mortgages on farm lands. Loans capped at 60 percent of land value and 20 percent of improvements. interest limited to six percent. borrowers become stockholders and mortgage terms range from five to forty years with amortization. The joint stock banks face geographical limits and must follow act provisions on fees and interest. Rev Gerrit Pennings preached at Second Reformed Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Farm Loan Board
Federal Land Banks
National Farm Loan Associations
Farm Loan Board
Yankee Robinson Circus Showcases 550 Fine Horses
The Yankee Robinson three ring wild animal circus fields over five hundred horses and ponies, including dapple grays and blacks from Dallas County, Iowa. Visitors may view many horses the morning of the street parade before the exhibition, as the wild animal show promises new sensations. The big circus will exhibit at Pella on Friday, August 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas County
Iowa
Yankee Robinson Circus
Pella
Van Niewaal family to perform Y M C A work in Europe
Y M C A worker W E Lauterbach and his wife Margaret, daughter of Y M C A worker W T Van Niewaal, plan to sail from New York to Stockholm for assignment with English prisoners of war in Germany or Austria. Lauterbach has been based in Duluth, Minnesota, for Y M C A work. contract is for one year. They have many friends in Pella awaiting their return.
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Y. T. van Niewaal
W. E. Lauterbach
Margaret van Niewaal
Germany
Lauterbach
New York City
Stockholm
Austria
Duluth
Minn
Pella
Prohibition Support Stated by Seattle Times Editor
The Times of Seattle argues in favor of the Washington prohibition law noting improvements in women’s welfare, safer streets, and better labor conditions since its enactment. The editor credits prohibition with fewer arrests, steadier labor, steadier bank collections, and fewer liquor-related crises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times of
Seattle
Washington
Ringling Bros Circus to Per form in Des Moines Monday
Ringling Bros will stage afternoon and night performances on Monday August 21 in Des Moines. The experience features an all new program headlined by Cinderella a fairyland spectacle with over 1000 participants. The main tent includes 400 aerial artists and a trained animal show with 1009 wild animals elephants numbered 41 with Big Bingo the largest pachyderm and about 300 horses. A three mile street parade will open show day in the morning and 60 clowns will entertain audiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ringling Bros. Circus
Des Moines
Ringling Bros
Faries
Ringlings
America
The Little Banty Rooster A Fable
A small rooster with a loud voice lives off filth in a poultry yard. He schools others with vanity and boasts to a new owner, who elevates him, provoking the crowd to expose his folly. The moral: a loud joker earns no real seat in life’s circus.
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Poultry Yard
Notice to Contractors for Third Reformed Church Build
Bids for a new church building in Pella Iowa will be received by the Building Committee. Plans and specifications available after August 10 from Jas Verhey Architect with a $10 deposit refundable on return. Bids due by 3 pm September 2 1916 with a $500 certified check payable to the Clerk G Bennink. Committee may reject any bid. D DeBruin Chairman. Also a short note on Mr and Mrs Chas Sipe visiting from Monroe and catching the noon shower en route home by train on Perey street.
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Third Reformed Church
Pella
Iowa
Jas. Verhey
G. Bennink
Chas. Sipe
Monroe
Infantile paralysis warned by Ames letter writer
A Burt Monitor reader urges Iowa health boards and doctors to scrutinize mail order packages as a potential source of infantile paralysis. He cites cases in Berwick and Ames, calls for safeguards on mail order goods, and warns that unsanitary shipments may spread disease nationwide.
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Berwick
United States
Mexico
Black Belt
South
Stoc
M. O
New York City
Towa
Runaway near Mathes bridge endangers Mrs Brom and child
Mrs H J Brom driving a buggy with her child along the Skunk river near Mathes bridge when a cabin drifting from a dredging boat spooked the team. They were thrown from the buggy but uninjured. R B E Chard of the dredge rescued them, tied the team, and safely sent Mrs Brom toward town. Only the buggy’s single tree broke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Brom
Mathes
Skunk
New Leadership Pleased by Homestead Favoring Harding
The Iowa Homestead, led by Jim Pierce, backs Harding for governor as the preferred candidate of taxpayers league. The publication portrays a Salinger Harding GOP leadership shift, attacks newspapers opposing special interests, and predicts a rude awakening for Town for politics returning power to sordid interests.
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Iowa Homstead
Jim Pierce
Harding
Taxpayers’ League
Homestead
Salinger-Harding
Republican
Iowa
Pierce
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Marshalltown
Why is a carnival in a sane clean town
A Knoxville Express editorial questions why a carnival, with gambling and immoral shows, is permitted in a decent town. It argues such attractions bring undesirable elements and distract from real work, urging authorities to avoid locating loitering fairs in front yards of law abiding communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Knoxville Express
Ten Nights in a Barroom at Pella Tent Show
Terry's Ten Nights in a Barroom was staged Friday evening near the depot in a large tent. A big crowd attended the demonstration of demons of rum, but the play felt short and the two hours featured music, ragtime, and sales pitches for popcorn, candy, and gum, with slow interludes between acts.
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Terry
Pella
Philomathian Society
S. P. V's 2nd Annual Des Moines Trip Big Success
The S. P. V party of 26 led by A. G. Van Houweling and others enjoyed an August 10 outing to Des Moines. Delays from morning showers, a Capitol visit, Kodaking, a Greenwood park picnic, Y M C A activities, a jail tour, and Riverview Park roller coaster rides marked a full day before returning to Pella.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Des Moines
Greenwood Park
Y. M.C
Riverview Park
A. G. van Houweling
A. T. Klein
Peter Schak~el
Jacob Fennema
Wm. van Rheenen
Coal bids sought for Pel la schools coal supply
Sealed bids for lump and mine-run coal for the Pel la schools must be in by September 1, 1916. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. D G Gosselink secretary.
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Pella
D. G. Gosselink
Sec
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Vandyk
Vandam
Gerrit Pennings
Maurice, Towa
Arabia
Second Reformed Church
Yankee Robinson
Big Circus
Y. M. C. A. Work
Prohibition
WAY
D. DeBruin
Pere Ey Ay
Ames
Casey
Coal Bids
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