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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1917
Page
5
The Birth of a Nation played at Pella opera house last week drawing good crowds with many locals rewatching it. The piece portrays war horrors and slavery's harms while noting North and South culpability and criticizes celebratory cheering toward whites and the Klan. It urges future films to expose alcohol harms similarly.
From Chicago word arrives that F. H. Clifton head of Central College Commercial Dept passed the Gregg Shorthand Teachers Certificate with honors. The exam now uses a five part, graded, percentage based process, with a 90 percent average marking honors.
Webster school building closed this week after heating plant injury. Water drained from boilers and extensive repairs appear needed. Building will be shut for several days while classes move to other buildings.
The Town Children’s Home society in Pella reports five glass collection cases set up to raise funds for the Des Moines home. January totals include 31 16 at Citizens National Bank 29 96 at Slob Bros. & Co Vander Ploeg Bakery and Plette’s Store plus a restroom box. The local board includes Henry Rhynsburger as president and Mrs. John Braam as treasurer with Mrs. Henry Rhynsburger secretary and S H Viersen and D De Bruin members.
The Iowa legislature launched the second stage of the equal suffrage campaign by introducing a resubmission resolution to strike the word Male from voter qualifications. Senator Addison M. Parker and Representative Roy W. Murray lead the effort, with Anna B. Lawther directing statewide campaign work and Des Moines activities, aided by supportive actions from neighboring states. The plan aims to place the issue before the Thirty-eighth General Assembly in 1919 for a possible special election in 1919 or the 1920 general election.
Premium list for the seventh annual Boys Corn Contest outlines prizes across Classes A to D with 10-ear entries, per age groups 15 to 21 and 10 to 15. Prizes include shingles, farming supplies, and tools from Kuyper Lumber Co., Sully Iowa stock, Am. Fork Hoe Co., Henry Field Seed, and others.
Lake Prairie township trustees advertise for bids and applicants for township road and drag superintendents. Meeting at Veenstra Nieberg Co. on Monday February 5 1917 at 8:00 am to review bids and applications. Residents wishing to contract road dragging for 1917 in districts should attend. Contact trustees Klein Dieleman Hoekstra or clerk Vander Streek for details.
Obituaries report Bernardus Biéstaa at 85 and Mrs. Den Burger, aged 75, with details of funeral services at First Christian Reformed and First Reformed churches. Henry Tolenaar, 64, killed by a train near Washington Iowa. Mrs. C. Muller dies in West Sayville New York at 34 after childbirth. funeral plans set for Porterville cemetery.
F R Gambell has bought the building north of his store on the square, plans an opening in the wall to join both rooms, and will occupy them with his expanding business. The upper part remains part of the Pella Overall Co plant. The community welcomes the expansion and notes the growing enterprise.
The ninth concert by the Pella Male Choral Club was held Tuesday night in the college auditorium. A ladies chorus assisted, with three canatas: The Voyage of Columbus by Buck, The Garden of Flowers by Denza, and Fair Ellen by Bruch. Principal solos featured Eleanor Thompson, Johanna Van Duren, Marie Lautenbach, Carl Byers, Lon Wormhoudt, and Tunis Kempkes, with Byers earning top honors. Chorus director Professor Groet received much praise for seven years of work. The program showcased standard composers and elevated local music standards, drawing a large, enthusiastic audience in Pella.
In Monroe gym last Friday Pella high school defeated Monroe high school 21 to 12 after a tight first half trail. Key players include Rillihan Le Cocq Oldham Lautenbach and Van der Voort with Kaldenberg fouling out. Referee Shaw and umpire Rhynsburger officiated the game.
Mrs. T. J. Reese learned Sunday that her brother, Mr. Jobusch, who works in a mine near Des Moines, was badly injured the day prior. The couple learned of the accident after attending Coal Ridge church where her husband preached, and they left for Des Moines Monday morning.
The final Artists' Course program at Central College auditorium on Tuesday evening February 6 features Mrs. Haskell noted reader. The event, a second season effort by Pella's Women's Federated Club, invites a large audience to hear her acclaimed delineation of character and expects satisfying performance.
The Women’s Federated Club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. J. C. Rhynsburger presiding in the president’s absence and Mrs. P. A. Edmond as secretary. New members Mrs. Franklin Keables and Mrs. Thomas Liggitt joined. Miss Anna Vander Ploeg read a paper on the care and education of defectives, stressing scientific teaching and smaller classes to aid defective children. A second paper by Miss Nelle Waechter urged reform in prisons, favoring parole and questioning solitary confinement. Miss Frances Sheehy entertained with two piano selections.
Grace Visser and John Lanting wed at the First Christian Reformed Church parsonage with Rev C e Leeuw officiating. The couple plans to live on a ranch in Idaho after a two week visit to Monroe Pella Leighton and Sully before settling near Prairie City.
Rev. B. F. Brinkman preaches a farewell sermon as pastor and moves to work at the college. All are welcome to attend. Baptist Church services list Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and morning service at 10:45 a.m. Communion Sunday with sermon on The Meaning of the Lord's Supper. BYP U at 6:30 p.m. Evening service at 7:30 p.m. Sermon: The New Man His Growth, final in the series.
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