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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1950
Page
3
Thought of the Week cites Judge Learned Hand. The Iowa Fallsons and Rotary Clubs launch a vacant lot basket project to provide year round basketball for youths. Central States Electric workers install lights and poles. A minstrel show funds part of the effort. Pella could benefit from similar equipment.
Errol Flynn, with Patrice Wymore, visited Salina to meet her parents but claimed he did not know where Kansas was until shown on a map. He joked about geography and Texas. The incident sparked local amusement and mockery of Hollywood publicity.
A humorous letter notes gossip harms reputations when true or false. It cites three tales, two false, causing embarrassment. It compares to a Humboldt Republic column about a neighbor's drunk rumor, and recalls Belgrade horn rules provoking noise and annoyance.
A fragment discusses a self-important person who calls music noise to others and critiques horn signaling on highways. It notes courteous driving as rule and urges proper horn use only for warning to avoid danger or striking a person.
The speech to druggists argued against accepting mediocrity and settling for less. He listed four reasons that curb effort and described a national decay when people seek only security. He warned personal ambition fuels progress and cautioned against complacency in all walks of life.
The piece questions Harold Fleck of Oskaloosa for criticizing the drive against gambling and illegal liquor sales while urging strict law enforcement. It argues for enforcing all laws and reflects on debt, economic caution, and farming practices to protect topsoil amid spring rains. The column blends political opinion with agrarian concerns about soil erosion and farm management.
At a September 15 1910 special session the city bought a Murray Corliss engine ideal high speed engine a Murray boiler and a Westinghouse generator and motors for the new light plant and awarded a 6390 contract to K A Verhey to build it. The issue also notes a local baseball game the Leans defeating the Fats 19 to 12 and a Methodist Conference discussion on drinking water in Pella.
The item recounts an array of notices from Monroe and Pella including Lelia Droz sailing for China on the China Mail with 150 missionaries, pastor shifts at Pella and Lynnville, Central College enrollment predictions, generous gifts to Sadler children Ivan and Kathleen, wool growers setting a low bid, editor Young at the Iowa State Fair, World War II veterans receiving medals, Frank Baer’s return to Los Angeles, grain prices in Pella, a Kiev evacuation story, C. Farmer’s regional visit and law practice, Mrs. Nf bootsma’s hip fracture, and a Rook party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Kuyper.
Condiff of Storm Lake reports all teachers assigned to the high school. Enrollment across the district totals 599. A robbery at Leighton’s Ver Steeg Tysseling store yielded $50 in cash and $25 in checks after explosives and heavy blows damaged the safe. H Kuperus discovered the crime. A Homecoming ad occupies half a page, set for October 3. Soldiers' monument dedication in Garden Square slated for the following Monday. B H Van Spaneleren chaired the merchants Homecoming Committee.
Twenty years back a front page photo showed Lincoln school eighth graders who would become Pella High’s Class of 1909. It lists graduates like Fdna Van Doren Peter Kuyper Bernie Croll Nellie Dew Adel Harold Van Maren and others amid notes on community projects and local events such as airport sponsor talks, a fall festival at Central College Homecoming, and a silo accident on Ralph Grundman’s farm.
Ten years prior nk Jaarsma bought the bakery from his father N Jaarsma the elder Jaarsma had run it for years The elder was seventy in 1940 A Horse and Mule Show was set for October 10 1940 with breeders merchants boys and farmers aiding Orange City women asked neighbors to plant Four O Clock beds along curbs after tulips faded to keep flowers blooming all summer Four high school football letters were shown Max Kuyk Ray Klootwyk Tom Grundman and Howard Halverson Claypool coached the team with Lynnville next on September 13 Eddie Davis Central grad coached at Lynnville Dr H H Severn planned to return to Pella to teach English.
Lake Prairie township farmers exceeded their signature quota in a final push for the project. Amid fair excitement, Marion County residents pursued interest in fine horses as Ward Dyer of Pleasantville dominated Percheron classes at the Town State Fair, securing multiple grand championships and prizes.
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