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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
5
Local residents report house stucco work by John Boot and M VerSteeg of Pella. Visits across towns include Ina DeGooyer of Monroe, Nettie, Vander Linden of Pella, and Vander Waal relatives. Navy enlistment and loyalty remarks spark discussion about church sentiment and pro German accusations amid wartime.
In Monroe the Mirror reports Oakley Hagan killed a jack rabbit weighing eight pounds on Tuesday forenoon. Separate item notes a Cincinnati school house fire last Thursday evening, likely spreading for over an hour, with Miss Elizabeth Clifford as teacher. classes may move to homes until a new building is erected. Also, Jasper Jarnagin’s sheep were attacked by a gray timber wolf near his home Monday afternoon, with at least one sheep fatally injured and hunters firing at the animal.
Miss Lyda Hassellman of Pella spent last week with her sister Mrs John Kaldenberk. Mrs Ellen Bucknam rushed to What Cheer to be with daughter Mrs Nellie Harris who had bowel surgery and is in critical condition. Lt Ray B Duboc, former Star editor, visited New Sharon last week before leaving for the war front after commission at Ft Sheridan. Anne DeJong of Peoria, Christian Reformed member, visited last week.
T Den Hartog and son Christian departed for Chicago Monday with two ears of sheep. Mrs Mae Sterrenberg ended a week with her aunt Fannie Cassatt and returned to Pella. W H May of Lyle Minnesota visited son Harry May and Irvin Beaver and old friends. Pearl Whiteman came home from Stuart after her sister A F Odem fell ill. Clarence Pickerell visiting relatives near Holyoke. Lane Den Adel, mining at Evans Brothers, had a bruise accident after a dump car overturn. Mr and Mrs Andrew Molenaar of North Dakota visited west of town then planned more Iowa time in Eddyville. Molenaar, in his twenties, bought a large eight hundred acre Red River Valley farm and has paid it off.
Four outfits of Marion county road workers were stranded by last week’s blizzard living in tents and scrambling to reach town Friday. Ground froze a foot deep by Monday morning. Smallpox scare eased with quarantined families released and children back in school. Four cases included the epidemic and the oldest patient was twelve. only one child needed bed rest. Measles risk warned as worse than smallpox.
In Corning Iowa Ray Williams a boy remains in critical condition with a prolonged typhoid fever attack now lasting over sixteen weeks. Relatives from Knoxville learned of a slim chance of recovery prompting aunts Belle Morse and Ed Hon to travel to Corning. The Williams family includes O W Williams and I N Funk, with Funk a Civil War veteran tied to the county’s English Settlement roots. John Kunkle returns home to Knoxville for winter after a year in Canada, marking his twelfth crop season there.
A farmer notes the fall season in Canada was as fine as Iowa with days spent plowing before Thanksgiving. He mentions the freeze-up arriving two days later on Saturday December 1.
Public sale scheduled for December 22 1917 at 2 PM to the highest bidder. It concerns the U G Deck property at 1409 South 11th street with 10 acres, an 8 room house, basement, furnace heat and electric light, well, barn, chicken house, and fruit trees. Sale to be in the front yard. terms announced sale day. Jerome B Wood and I M Reed acting as auction referee.
When rubbers pinch and shoes pinch use Allen's Foot-Ease to ease tired swollen feet. Sprinkle into shoes or foot-bath for comfort and relief after breaking in new shoes. Sold everywhere for 25 cents.
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