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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1945
Page
3
The Pella Chronicle lists annual subscription rates with outside town pricing at 3.00, service men 2.00, in town 2.50, and single copies at 0.06. No subscriptions accepted for less than one year.
A midwestern column urges strong youth education as the foundation of a free society and warns against wartime career temptation. It notes Iowa Highway Patrol speed enforcement, a Mackinac Island Governors Conference favoring state control with federal aid when needed, and postwar housing and 4-H Club expansion in Pella and nationwide. It highlights the value of public schools for citizenship, road safety, state rights, and national cooperation in building a better Midwest.
National Safety Council cites Pearl Harbor to 1946 losses urging a robust home front safety drive. Wallace’s Farmer urges returning service members to take grown-up farm roles with partnership autonomy while Newton Daily News notes renewed Communist activity under Foster and Browder, arguing radicals must be aired rather than suppressed.
Flite O'Tyme scored 96.46 in the baby health contest at the State Fair while John Re McCall of Lorimer Iowa posted 98.32. Gerald Mokma, two years in Nagasaki and one in Tokyo, retired to Leighton after three years in Japan and taught at a missionary school. A barnstorming aviator briefly landed near Abe Ver Ploegh’s field. plane damaged but no injuries. The Pella band performed in Leighton with a post concert feed at Masonic Hall. Andy Butt survived a severe three car crash on the St Cloud to Minneapolis highway. two died. Chris Nelson bought the Alamo Theatre in Avoca. Very dry weather halted corn canning. Robert Lautenbach returned from Ames to join his father in building. Josiah Petty, 87, won the old-timers sailing contest at the Iowa State Fair and last visited Pella in 1921.
Recap of items from September 5 1935 notes including Avie Kuyper death after paralysis stroke organist at Second Reformed Church, government land for post office site with three properties on Len Square offered at 15500, Keith Tait jaw fracture in kitten ball at college field, Terpstra couple at Friesian picnic in old Sears car, Sidney DeHann second in baby health at State Fair with 98.62 score, Marion County State Bank set to reopen in former Old Security Bank building, Walter Geurts opens grocery at 610 Lincoln St, Chamber to host Stanley Hoskins highlighting new electrical science demos, Ira Stoddard death former Pella city engineer, Paul Scholta on Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, postal workers on forty four hour week, rainfall and corn moisture impacting crop, Pella Christian Reformed Churches to open a Newton mission.
Twenty years ago on September 10 1925 the Federated Club staged a world tour entertainment with stops in Holland Japan Hawaii and China. Weather kept many away and the event lost money except at Holland. Also nearby a fire on the William Van Duren farm east of Pella destroyed two barns a cattle shed and a granary in a $7000 loss from an overheated clover hulling machine. Dr L M Henry chiropractor arrived in Pella to succeed Dr P G Van Dyk at Central College and Kenneth Cook is noted as a prize winner in the family segment.
A visitor cruising the Lincoln Highway River-to-River road and Pella Oskaloosa trips found the local road superior. Civil War veterans planned the 83rd Iowa reunion in Pella over three days while Iris boosters celebrated. The death of James Keables at 79 in Los Angeles was recorded. he had ties to Iowa and Oklahoma. City council moved to draw plans for a sower district after protests, and Federated Club women sought free water and light for a proposed rest room.
The column covers a busy period with church assignments in Cen terville and Marengo, a bus line sale by William De Cook, and local business moves including the Vander Meulen and Schermerhorn families. It notes dredging on the Skunk River, a visit to the Ringling circus, factory canning, and road work near the Pella Howell road.
The piece urges postwar plans to boost high school attendance. It warns unemployment will favor those with training and urges parents to push teens to complete schooling. Key points stress not delaying education, investing in oneself, and using school to prepare for soldier returnees and higher postwar standards.
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