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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1902
Page
7
The canvass for the college endowment in Pella closed with a generous margin to cover shrinkage. Citizens, business leaders, and visitors praised the college, pledging renewed support and plans to remodel the main building and secure a president's house to honor Mr Beard's telescope gift.
Dec 23 Polk City reports Dot Bryant a 13 year old daughter of Ed Bryant a well to do farmer three miles north of town was assaulted on her way to school yesterday morning. She could not identify her assailants yet after reaching home at 5 pm she told her parents. Huffmier bloodhounds arrived this morning three miles away to pursue leads but details of the chase are unclear. The article then shifts to a civic reflection praising the right kind of citizen and home investment.
Stockholders and directors must meet at the bank office on Monday January 12 at 2 PM for annual business. Treasurer Herman Rierveld issues notice. All accounts with Vandermeulen and Cook should be settled before January 1, 1903 to square the accounts before the new year, G A Vandermeulen.
A humorous tale follows an English traveler who, after kindness in Aberdeen, invites himself to London with his family. The Scot’s grateful hospitality ends with a witty coin toss rather than drinks, a lesson in gracious restraint.
The page catalogs live stock prices for cattle hogs and sheep with bid ranges and special items like calves Tex as steers and western lambs. Also shows wholesale market figures for produce butter eggs potatoes and stock market values with Wednesday updates and cash or store order payments.
An advertisement lists prices for trapped rabbits at sixty cents per dozen and shot rabbits at fifty cents per dozen. It notes an order on any city store includes poultry if desired and signs off with H. Rhynsburger. It invites readers to find something nice for the holidays at Reavers' gallery.
Auction announces public sale of extensive farm belongings including 7 horses 10 cattle and equipment at 10 a m Monday December 29 on the forty acre farm with orchard well and improvements. Terms offer six percent discount for cash and notes with security for sums over five dollars with one year time. Auctioneers E N Jones and Jon Visser.
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