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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1939
Page
7
The list outlines vocational and academic tracks across grades freshmen to seniors. Courses include English Mathematics Biology History U S History and Agriculture shop classes. Electives cover typing bookkeeping and homemaking with distinct semestral structures and department options.
A study list shows subjects including Chemistry, Physiology, Sociology, Economics and Physics with elective options in Physics and Homemaking III and Homemaking II indicating a broad curriculum and cross disciplinary electives.
Calendar lists start of football practice on Aug 31 to Sept 1 and a series of events including registration, teachers meeting, school opening, a freshman mixer, football games at Sigourney Lincoln Montezuma and other towns, class play, marching band contest, and basketball rule meetings. Ends with sub district declamatory and basket ball games in December.
A dense schedule lists basketball games by city and date including Indianola Colfax Chariton Eddyville and Knoxville along with declamatory meets district and state events. It covers end of second semester spring vacation music contests state meets and graduation related activities through June with multiple dates and locales.
Rural Ida County Scotch Rhythm Band entertains area pupils and teachers. A Chicago union gains full recognition by the city board as voices of teachers. Retirements mark 40 years in Sac City and Toledo schools. Renwick bus tragedy settles by arbitration with $1,500 to each estate. Ottumwa teachers attend summer school. Lenox board adds experience and mandatory summer study. Levy tweaks, snowball lawsuits, and shifting Le Mars staff noted amid nine month minimum schooling rule. Cedar Rapids diplomas awarded to nontraditional students.
Des Moines Iowa Aug 22 George W Hesalroad state car dispatcher today reported 607 state owned automobiles and trucks exclusive of the highway commission vehicles are in operation compared with 656 the first of the year Hesalroad said the elimination of 48 vehicles would result in a savings to the state of 31880 annually He said 14400 would be saved in the original purchase price and 17480 in maintenance expense The automobile total was reduced from 416 in January to 367 at present while the number of trucks remained at 240
Professor and Mrs Herman P Lankelma and their son from Cleveland visit friends in town. Barney Connett, a Chicago mechanic, traveled 35 miles beneath Lake Michigan in 10 hours 50 minutes in a homemade 11 foot 1,060 pound submarine.
Pella public schools announce a Monday start on September 4. Enrollment shows about 275 high school students and around 332 in grades, with plans for band orchestra play production and art credit through college courses. Bus routes remain similar with inter-district shuttles and a single downtown stop at the American Legion Building.
Attendance on nature walks in Town's State park areas averages about 2,000 per park per season, per National Park Service statistics. Self-guided trails attract many more. State committees created to boost park use, naturalists were assigned, and nature study activities rose, with naturalists also lecturing to civic and youth groups, focusing on recreation and conservation.
Southern Iowa Fair announces IMCA sanctioned dirt track races on Sunday September 2 and Wednesday September 6 at Oskaloosa half mile oval. Event draws top drivers including Bayliss Leverett Gus Schrader and Emory Collins with cash prizes and national title points. Track prep underway as pre race tests approach.
Poweshiek County sheriff warns residents to beware of house to house peddlers selling linoleum and cook stoves. He cites complaints from women about misrepresented stoves and notes some peddlers sell small models then ship full ranges later. He urges caution and favors local merchants. Illinois coal resources rank high nationally behind Colorado.
Southern Iowa fair in Oskaloosa runs September 2 to 7 featuring livestock grains vegetables fruits and flowers plus a strong 4-H Club show. Highlights include auto racing grandstand performances Manhattan Jamboree revue two days of harness racing Labor Day card and a closing performance by Jimmie Lynch's Death Dodgers. Special exhibits include Oskaloosa Camera Club WPA Farm Bureau Hobby Show and fireworks from Theatre-Duffield Fireworks Inc. Judging begins Sunday with club shows starting Labor Day and awards across open divisions.
Will Hamm head of the Mahaska County conservation organization told members of the Oskaloosa Kiwanis club that game in the county is more abundant now than at any time in his knowledge.
At a Monday noon luncheon at Elmhurst club the speaker said a county quail surplus exists but an open season date is not yet known. The county pheasant count stood at 5,000 with slower than expected growth. Guests included Ralph Allen a new public school teacher and William Sarver, 26 years in Indian service, visiting Prof. Paul Russell of William Penn college. Thomas J. Bray shared an eastern vacation tale focusing on low speed laws encountered.
Want ads list De Laval cream separator for sale in good condition, model S-16, Henry Van Steenwyk contact 61 on 8. Tomatoes offered at 60e per bit with delivery, contact 33. Gold locket near Istian School offered by B Memme jaar. reward from Anna Mae Dykstra, contact 63 on 1 Otley. Honeybees shown to boost Hubam seed yield by 3 bushels per acre and biennial sweet clover by 5 bushels per acre.
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