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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1936
Page
6
Community appeals for support to fund tuberculosis relief via Christmas Seals. Message highlights 1907 death rates, ongoing fight, and urging purchases up to 1 dollar or pennies to aid victims. mentions ballot boxes at John.
An anonymous note lists Heeremn a drug store Van Sit tert s dry goods store and the Postoffice as locations with special boxes for dropping envelopes without postage. The system urges convenience for residents to send mail by placing items in these free drop boxes.
Funeral services for John De Vries 70, who died Tuesday at the Oxford hotel Des Moines will be held at 10 30 this morning at Hamilton funeral home Des Moines. The body will be taken to Pella for interment at Graceland cemetery Rev A Hav erkamp pastor First Re formed church will conduct the committal. He was employed at the Rock Island depot in early days and is remembered by older residents. He was a brother of Mrs C Van Stigt.
The discussion over a creamery ice house reveals misidentified owners. Gerrit A. Ver Meer clarifies he is the purchaser, not Henry Ver Meer, and notes the building is newer than claimed. D R Rhynsburger adds there were three ice houses on the site, with the oldest perhaps 50 years old, while the dismantled one seems much younger.
The story recalls W H Verwers of North Broadway who cashed one of the first checks at Pella National Bank. Lacking understanding of paper money due to language, he believed the paper worthless until bank clerk Nollen explained its value of $18. The event dates to 1867 after his arrival and early work with Peter Kuyper and Dominic Scholte.
The girls of the A Capella Choir at Central will present a Christmas Carol concert Sunday afternoon in the college Chapel starting at four o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend.
Public sale notices list John Brummel near Monroe and Monroe, Stoffel Huyser near Sully, and Mrs N A Firth at South Building Garden City Feeder Works with dates in December. The notices indicate the properties and locations involved for upcoming transactions.
Central College hosts Religious Emphasis Week with Rev. Frederick Zimmermann of Metuchen New Jersey delivering sermons at the chapel. Music by a quartet and devotions by local pastors accompany lectures on following Christ and living a virtuous life.
Reverend Zimmermann, who previously served as a delegate at the 1922 Synod in Pella, has been delivering messages at the college. He will conclude his series of Chapel talks tomorrow at 1:20, with students, faculty, and friends impressed by his inspiring messages.
Adrian Vos of the Peoria area brought a Roman Stem apple to the office that looks like a pear. It smells like an apple yet resembles a pear in shape causing colleagues to wonder about its origin.
A group of Central students travel to Topeka Kansas for the annual Kansas student Legislative Assembly. The participants prepare bills and simulate a full assembly guided by Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court. Attendees include Howard McKee Raymond Van Heukelom Lyle Ruding and Ralph Menning with Mr Gould serving as faculty advisor.
Want ads list several notices including a modern house request a girl for housework a bicycle theft notice with reward and multiple sales items such as a used furnace wooden boxes and coal hauling services from local businesses and residents. Names addresses and phone numbers appear for multiple individuals and shops in this historical classified page fragment.
Vander Linden of the Book Shop reported the death of his aunt Mrs. A. J. Betten at Orange City on Wednesday morning. She taught in Pella High School in the Webster building era and later served as an instructor at Northwestern Classical Academy. Funeral and interment set for Saturday in Orange City. age not specified.
Seventy years ago coal loads arrived by ox wagon routes and were unloaded by the next evening, recalls Arie Vriezelaar who has lived here most of his life. He remembers his boyhood in the S. Neuenesch home and a house on Broadway later the site of Attorney Dick Van Zante’s residence.
Mr Vriezelaar recalls four oxen hitched to a wagon pulling fuel to a coal mine for local orders. The trip took all day in freezing weather before railroads, then groceries were carried from Bentonsport in the south. He notes truckers today have it easy compared to 70 years ago.
Snowy Sunday roads limited travel but did not stop five Pella residents from sharing a duck dinner at O. P. Awtry’s home near Eddyville. Hosts Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Awtry and Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Varenkamp with daughter Margaret Ann enjoyed the meal, noting they did not have to bring the ducks.
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