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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1937
Page
7
The second Capacity Day bargain event in Pella showcases a large range of items at reduced prices. Local merchants co operate to offer groceries dry goods shoes clothing and home goods with gifts for Christmas. The event runs now with future dates Dec 18 and Dec 31 promising further savings for shoppers.
A frame building at Cordova owned by Paul Hart, used as an implement house and later as a garage, was destroyed by fire Sunday between 2 and 3 PM. The origin is unknown. The fire progressed too far to save a buggy owned by rural mail carrier George Dailey.
The list of Pella merchants joining the Capacity Day Trade Extension program invites Christmas shoppers to visit local stores. Readers are urged to ask merchants for details about Capacity Day events and potential rebates or rewards.
Firefighters fought a blaze in the boiler room of the old Feeder Works building used to heat the Pella Overall Co. facility. Officials believe refuse in the furnace room touched off coal and caused the fire. Quick fire department action limited damage to the structure. no stock or equipment of the Overall Co. was inside.
A. B. Van Houweling began in the garage and automobile business in 1916 with Luke Vander Linden at the Ever Ready Garage behind the telephone exchange. He bought out Vander Linden in 1923, sold Dodge and Page cars, took Nash in 1919, moved to a new site in 1925, and opened a branch at Oska-Toosa in 1929 with Martin Naaktgeboren in charge. A Knoxville branch was later established with Reese Wolf. The firm held agencies for horsemanship? and Plymouth for six years, with Frank De Wit, Frank Warner and others as longtime staff.
Pella opens its annual Christmas seal drive with 680 mailed envelopes containing seals an explanatory letter and a return envelope directed to the local seal committee of the Federated Club. Proceeds fund tuberculosis prevention health work in 1938 and support state national associations.
Township meetings elected community committees for the 1938 Agricultural Conservation Association Program. Committees will visit every farm to report soil depleting and conserving goals. A training school will be held soon, with all members expected to devote full time to finish by mid December. County officers for 1938 were elected, and William L. Sheppard named. Continued on Page Eight.
On Sunday November 21 1937 Mrs H Ver Meer mother of W H B H Henry Paul Ver Meer Mrs J G Vanden Bosch and Mrs C W Huyser died. A daughter of a Dutch nun she came to the country in 1871 joining Pai Reformed church. She was known for strong character and upright life leaving a lasting name with her children and others. Mr Ver Meer had died ten years earlier.
Saturday Y T Van Niewaal and E V Goad resigned as members of the Marion County Emergency Relief Committee after three years. Van Niewaal succeeds the late Jacob Plender, while Goad fills the seat left by Dr Carl Aschenbrenner who left to focus on his senatorial duties in Des Moines. Resignations were mailed to Governor Kraschel at the state house. Appointments were made by Governor Clyde Herring.
Two incidents last week disrupted the quiet city with gunfire. A young man was fined over 35 dollars for shooting squirrels and using a firearm in the city, killing a pet squirrel in Central Park. A high school boy fled after a gunshot near the First Reformed church, possibly at a dog, while two youths fired at a sign. Police investigate and remind residents that firearms within city limits violate ordinances.
Graduates of Harvey High School met Friday at M. E. Church in Harvey for an alumni gathering. Attica pastor Rev. S. P. Troutle spoke. Catheryn Laren was elected president and Freda Rouze secretary-treasurer. Next banquet planned for May 1938 with hoped doubled attendance.
In 1910 Dr. F. P. Carpenter recalls the first gasolinedriven car in Pella. The engine sat on a wagon and he rode around the park twice before deeming it impractical. He quotes a rider who sped to ten miles per hour and scared him. Local furniture man R A Auwtry recalls a six mile speed limit and early controversy over cars unable to slow to six or fifteen miles per hour without bucking and backfiring.
Grace Wilson Mildred Wilson and Della Timm all of Oskaloosa were arraigned in Des Moines after federal officers intercepted a car with five gallons of alcohol near Pella. They failed to post bond and a Plymouth card is held. Hearing postponed to tomorrow per U S Marshal George Miller.
The Chronicle lists birthdays and upcoming wedding anniversaries for residents. Names include Oscar Holdsworth Sully Nov 26, Mrs. William Verns Nov 27, Miss June Bos 64 Home for Aged Pella Nov 30, Edward Glen Van Zante 12, and many others with dates ranging from Nov 23 to Dec 9 including residents of Pella Otley New Sharon Cordova and Prairie City. Also noted are anniversaries for Nick Van Gorp Prairie City 28th and Ed Plette Pella 42nd.
Ray A. Cummings of Montezuma, a sophomore in mechanical engineering at Iowa State College, was burned and blinded possibilities after a cleaning solution exploded in the chemistry laboratory. Physicians said a prognosis on sight will take two to three weeks. Cummings was not authorized to mix the solution.
W A Butts, former Marion county supervisor, recalls seven flour mills once operating near his area, noting Blommers Mill as the only surviving one and listing six others including Washington, Tusseling, and Warren mills. He recalls early pioneer life, milling depended on steam power, and long journeys to Fairfield for flour before local mills appeared.
Mrs. Ben Blommers cherishes a Civil War era pocket watch once owned by her father J. S. Elliott. Saved from a Keosauqua Iowa fire caused by a newspaper plant explosion, the 70 year old timepiece still runs when wound and remains a fine, visible heirloom.
Last week many hoped to motor to Des Moines for the WHO hosted Sun set Corners barn dance hour. A storm ruined plans and, despite hopes for a change, the caravan could not go. Officials of WHO postponed the event by phone until another time.
Notice states clerking of public sales is available with prompt service. ED TYSSELING and ELBERT VAN MAANEN invite inquiries about booking sales and advertising, asking readers to contact via provided phone numbers.
Florene Den Adel of Leighton a student at the American Institute of Business in Des Moines has been elected to membership in the International Honor Society for Business Education She has raised her speed over ten points and joined the 80 Word club Miss Den Adel is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J W Den Adel and a Pella high school graduate
Mrs. Frans Van Gorp longtime Pella resident dies at 91 at Ver Heul home after short illness. Born in The Netherlands in 1846, she married Frans Van Gorp in 1875 and had six children, 15 grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren. Funeral held at Ver Heul home and First Reformed Church with Rev. A. Haverkamp. interment Graceland.
N G Vander Linden died at his home in Murray Iowa on Friday November 26 1937 aged 81. Funeral attendees from Pella included Mr and Mrs John Klein Mr and Mrs Arthur Klein Y Neels Bob Klein Mrs John Sterrenberg G L Vander Linden and two daughters and Mrs Ike Roora. He is survived by seven children his wife and a sister of Jacob Sterrenberg of Pella who had died ten years earlier.
The Ross Construction Company completed the connecting link of No 14 and now workers focus on paving the spurs linking No 163. If weather holds for two or three days the project should finish, with remaining laborers from the south returning home soon and local crews to complete the last sections.
Pella chapter reports over 300 raised toward the annual Red Cross drive with subscriptions still due. Federated Club members lead the campaign with broad public support, noting no fixed member quota and emphasizing local and broader relief work through the Red Cross.
Rev. Paul J. Christensen at the Baptist church spoke on being thankful for life’s reverses alongside blessings. He cited Henry Van Dyke’s poem read beforehand and an anthem by the church quartet. He urged thinking of the unemployed, 8,000,000 in need, and praised the U S for political, social and religious liberties not shared by all nations.
Sheriff Paul J. Grundman, serving his third term, was seen on Pella streets last Friday. He underwent a serious operation but is not very strong yet and mainly sits in his Knoxville office directing operations.
A plea appeals to pastors to bring their church bulletins to the Chronicle. The paper notes it already receives one bulletin regularly and two more via laity help. Editors urge all pastors to submit bulletins when sharing church notes to capture items of interest not available elsewhere.
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