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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1934
Page
3
A panel discusses rising optimism about national conditions despite hard times, noting improved business and farm prospects. Experts point to a recovery trend and greater consumer spending, while addressing drunken driving and reduced law enforcement as factors in auto accidents. Muscatine reports schools open despite measles.
With the season opener looming coach Winter has his Iowa Success foe from Ottumwa on the practice list. Central's yearlings push the varsity as former monogram stars Van Arkel Dykstra Cummings Rhynsburger vie for spots while Ford Nelson Lang Wilson Nitler lead a fresh squad in a defense heavy, smoother passing attack. The Ottumwa quintet features Jones Wesleyan and Johnson as skilled opponents expected to pose a strong challenge.
North High plays Knoxville Valley Junction Pleasantville Oskaloosa Sigourney Indianola Pleasantville Winterset Sigourney Valley Junction Knoxville North High Winterset Indianola Pleasantville Winterset Sigourney Indianola dates listed with home or away indicators for December through February.
Pella brings back four starters as Tiny Wilkins leads a veteran squad in two season openers against Pleasantville and Oskaloosa. Bevy of players such as Klein Menning Heerema and Wisse projected to start. Liter sidelined with ankle. Oskaloosa counters after losing Floyd De Heer, while Pleasantville seeks win after close defeat to Knoxville.
Coach Winter says his basketball squad should be a better aggregation than last year though exact improvement remains to be seen. The Iowa Success team from Ottumwa, led by Jones, is a high scoring unit. A practice game with Penn is planned, not affecting conference standings, but sure to be an entertaining fray.
William Powell and Myrna Loy star in Evelyn Prentice a Cosmopolitan mystery drama at the Princess starting Sunday December 9 for four days. The film blends courtroom suspense with a domestic crisis as Powell defends a murder defendant while romance and fate collide in a surprise ending. Isabel Jewell and Rosalind Russell add powerful turns.
Central opens Monday evening with a squad led by Sullivan Reimer Hoogheim Nelson and Hoekstra. The team will meet Iowa Success School of Ottumwa in a non conference tune up on December 10. Coach Winter aims to judge new material and may decide on lineup after the game. Nelson’s eligibility is uncertain but he is expected to start. An additional game follows Friday against Penn, marked non conference with conference approval.
The All-State fullback Ray Hostetler donated blood to Magin, a guard from Iowa, after a football game left Magin severely injured requiring a kidney removal. All team volunteers, including Hostetler, facing medical risk, underscored rivalries and transfers linked to St Louis Gunnes and Charlotte, with Hostetler remembered as a hard-hitting Iowa star.
A Deep River man Jessy Goebel was found guilty of larceny by embezzlement for $108 from Charles Ladely. After five and a half hours deliberation, verdict returned Friday evening. Sentence set for Wednesday at 2 pm by Judge D W Hamilton.
The trial began Thursday with jurors hearing the case and retiring at 3 PM Pacific Time, returning at 8 30 PM. Jurors listed include Wm E Tindle Paul Latcham Roscoe Hut ton Emma Elliott Lila Shaw Ed Thompson Andrew Tone Earl Miller Alma Bonham Howard Sears C Y Hummel and Lyle West with Hummel as foreman. Initial ballots showed nine to three for conviction, later eleven to one.
Time table notes show Eastbound No 475 at 4 15 p m and Westbound No 474 at 9 14 a m for Rock Island. Wabash Howell Local lists 6 14 p m and other times, with a Gas will decide future trend mentioned as expert opinion affecting politics.
The Inquiring Reporter column invites five individuals each week to share their opinions on a public interest topic, revealing diverse perspectives and sparking civic discussion.
An old advertisement touts a lemon juice remedy called the REV PRESCRIPTION. Dissolve a packet in a quart of water and add four lemons juice to claim pain relief from rheumatism or neuritis. If not improved in two weeks, money back. Sold and guaranteed by leading druggists.
President John E. Long of the National Safety Council warns that if trends continue, the automobile death rate for 1934 will rise about 20 percent over 1933. He cites widespread accidents,Unsafe aging cars, and even new cars with safety devices facing speeds beyond reasonable limits as key factors.
Muscatine Iowa area Pleasant Prairie school midway between Muscatine and Davenport shut this week due to a measles epidemic. Earl Cacherell the teacher reports all 20 pupils affected. It is the first school in the county to close as cases rise with more than 650 reported across the county today.
A wry reflection notes that by this point in the year the June bride has learned if her husband proves a fur bearing animal or a poor fish. The lines suggest clever social commentary on early married life and expectations.
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