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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1936
Page
8
Hoeksema Bros Garage lists Trico windshield wiper service and a complete stock of repair parts plus flywheel and starter gears for all makes.
Van Gorp offers rebuilt washers wringer rolls electric motors and gasoline engines from ¼ to 4 hp. All kinds of machine work.
Local notes describe continued dry warm weather in Peoria and a wish for rain and cooler days. Community events include multiple family reunions at Vander Hart and Ver Meer groves, visits from relatives in Rock Valley and California, and church activities. The Richings Company held its annual meeting in a Vander Hart grove with coffee and a social, while the Christian school society reported paid expenses, debt reduction, and staff reappointments. The envelope and term-system changes for school board elections were approved, and Rev J Vander Meer will lead services next Sunday.
Attendees at the Farmers Union picnic included Mr and Mrs Ferdinand Vogelaar and families, Mr and Mrs Sam Van Rheenen and families, Mr and Mrs Wm Den Hartog and family, and Peter Van der Wal. Several residents attended prayer meetings, vacations, and visits in Grove church. Ted Tredwell of Waterloo narrowly escaped injury after falling through a bridge into five feet of water, rescued by police.
Out of town visitors may park with foreign license plates during the Council centennial celebration August 2 to 12, per Mayor William Guilfoyle. Drivers may park as they wish, under the program.
An on-set riot scene for the MGM melodrama Fury starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy was filmed at a replica three story prison in Hollywood. The mass attack involved hundreds of extras and involved arson and destruction while cameras recorded the climax for a Princess Theatre showing in Oskaloosa starting August 28 for three days.
Prairie View residents describe failed hopes after brief showers turned hot 105 to 113 degrees. Hoppers threaten young crops as farmers plan future sowing and wheat and corn efforts. Community mourns Hilko Jager and notes deaths, travels, and family gatherings amid drought and migration pressures.
The piece recalls a harsh summer lasting nine weeks with a grasshopper epidemic that devastated crops and a drastic atmospheric shift. Crowded out last week, locals describe how the invasion nearly erased harvests, leaving farmers with dwindling hope for winter supplies as fields withered under hot winds and encroaching locusts.
The long drought scorched fields as thermometer spiked to 116 and farmers weighed selling livestock. A midwest rain arrived after midnight easing parched soil, reviving sprouts and grasshoppers diminished by about 40 percent. Community notes friend visits, travel plans, and the arrival of seed shipments for millet cane and sudan.
Colfax Sales Company reports heavy interest in small pigs outpacing three weeks ago with top quality bun ches offered. Quality feeder pigs arrive from long distances as northern Iowa farmers enter the market, underpinning prices. Outlook favorable for six and six month hogs and cheaper feeder calves bought now to carry through winter and into next grass year amid drought.
Market report lists Western calves and various livestock prices by category. Hogs, sows, gilts, feeders, roars, stags, sows and pigs, vealers, bulls, lambs, ewes, fat cows, feeders, Mitch, canners and cutters are priced per head or per hundredweight with specific values such as hogs at 11.00 ewt and bulls at 54.50 head. The note also states cattle are not being dumped as previously reported.
Galesburg residents aid neighbors with housework while families plan moves to Newton for work. August gatherings include the Lust clan reunion at Westwood Park Newton and the Poortinga reunion at Maytag Park Newto. Visitors from Pella join local households as relatives, with illness reported for Nes Steenhoek and several other locals.
Recognition marked Miss Kate Den Adel on her 76th birthday at the News Of Home For The Aged. Visitors include Sully residents and locals from Loomis and nearby towns. Updates note health of several residents and a death from the Our Gang actor Chubby Chaney.
Chaney aged 17 died following treatment at John Hopkins Hospital after an operation. He failed to rally post surgery.
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