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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
10
Local notes detail Sunday weather low Sunday school turnout and numerous community appearances. Activities include church services at Red Rock, Bible study plans, visits to Des Moines and Perry, home improvements, a model T Ford pickup purchase, a Christmas play cast for Christmas Eve, and a car sale well attended.
Leighton Miss Erma Van Rockel travels to Denver with relatives after months at the Van Rockel home. Community groups report turnout at the Men’s Brotherhood dinner, Priscilla Sisters program, and 4 H Club meeting. Neighborly visits include Des Moines trips, family news, and wood-hauling for barn construction slated for spring.
Prairie City notes a Sunday school workers conference at the Reformed church on Tuesday from 1 30 to 4 80 with a noon pot luck. Walter Hutton was the main speaker. Rev Huibregtse and family moved here five years ago today. Boy scouts meet under Rev McDonald of the Christian Church. David Boot at Town City recovering from spine operation. parents stay with him. Ladies Aid met with 23 present. program included devotionals a talk field news by Mrs Huibregtse a piano duet Dorothy Dikkenberg and Ellen Huibregtse a Christmas reading by Mrs Van Engelenberg roll call with Christmas text hostesses Mrs Steenhock and Vander Wal.
Amsterdam Roy Fountain of Taintor culled 240 chickens across four places last Thursday. Neal Schuring of Pella gathered 23 coop loads of culls and, with a larger truck, hired John Toom to haul them to Knoxville. Local shoppers from Oskaloosa added trips, while a flag pole sitters' request surfaced after a school flag incident. J W Van Hemert and Harry Ver Steegh attended the Knoxville sale Friday afternoon.
Margerite Van Rheenen comes home from Mahaska hospital in Oskaloosa and is improving. Various local residents including Jessie Carpenter, James Steenhock, Gerrit Poortinga, Jake Klein, Agnes Van Rheenen, Chalmer Van Rheenen, Marie Wittenberg, Liza Peery, Mary Schnug, Florence Oswald, Dunne and Stanley Schnug, Naldo Steenbock, Curtis Dearinger, Henry Van Rheenen, G S Poortinga, Jake Krumm, Agnes Mathes, and John Vink visit households in the area on recent evenings and Sundays.
State Conservation Commission reports 133 people arrested in November for fish and game infractions. Convictions reached 125 with 3 not guilty and 5 not prosecuted. fines totaled 4615 dollars, 684 jail days with 223 suspended. Courts confiscated 19 guns, 125 animal traps, 4 muskrat spears and seized 107 furs among other wildlife.
Instructions for a local Country School Contest sponsored by Pella merchants. The piece lists ways to earn votes: registration entitles 2000 votes. each $1 spent with sponsor stores yields 1 vote per cent, 100 votes per dollar. 25 votes per newspaper advertisement with merchant name. 10 votes per misspelled word found in ads. 200 votes per dollar if buying advertised Chronicle articles. 300 votes per dollar paid on old accounts. 200 votes per dollar when bringing a merchant ad signed by the store. All votes go through the country school teacher.
Santa Claus freely enjoys the season as he shops, a chance to give that captures the spirit. The article offers several shopping notes for Santa to remember in the coming days.
The guide emphasizes choosing toys by age to support growth. For babies, bright colors, rattles, balls help exploration. As children grow, toys should promote activity and manipulation. Preschoolers enjoy boxes and durable yard toys. playground gear and vehicles suit active play stages.
The shopping list highlights items to develop fine motor control with beads, peg boards, puzzles and beads, plus materials for constructive activity like clay, paints, scissors, and fabric. Classic toys such as dolls, trains, and action sets appear alongside family games. The piece urges guided shopping to balance education and fun without rigid rules.
A Will Durant quotation notes that mental energy in humans derives from the energy contained in the organic substances used as food.
Central college sent delegates McKee Van Heukelom Menning and Rachuy with Professor Gould to Topeka for the Students' Legislative Assembly. McKee was elected Chairman of the Democratic party while Central stood out among about thirty colleges. Ray Van Heukelom delivered the effective nominating speech.
Menning and Rachuy aligned with the Independent party to back McKee for a key student assembly post. A bill by Heukelem introduced by McKee on minimum wages and maximum hours passed without amendment. McKee and Van Heukelem spoke on a Columbia network broadcast after a reception in Topeka. A Chinese faction pushing for immediate war with Japan held virtual control of the government.
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