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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1923
Page
6
Winneshiek county sold 160 new chickens to eastern buyers while Ames voters face Feb 8 bond issue for a $200000 school. Grinnell Congregationalists push church unity against war as state tax, 10 mills, backed by districts three to five. Tax receipts rose 32 percent in 1920 over 1921, and code revisions seek to prune dead law while state budgets loom.
Eleven nations join the Cosmopolitan club in Iowa City while voters may authorize 850000 dollars in bonds for Sioux City schools and improvements. Duroc sow tops at 187 dollars, and 600000 chicks can be produced from Muscatine hatchery. The fortieth Iowa General Assembly guests dine in Des Moines as rural credit talks proceed. Forage poisoning concerns southwest Iowa cattle, and 3000 acres will get drainage ditch funding north of Mitchellville. A Castalia murder verdict of guilty with life term is reported. Publicity plans promise 25000 dollars in 1923 to promote Iowa in Chicago and New York papers. The senate enacts secrecy for insurance commissioner appointments and tax timing changes to aid farmers. Sick children cost Iowa millions. 141655 last year absent due to preventable illness. Bail forfeiture bill targets bond rings in larger towns, and Kiwanis receive historic wood gavels. Code revision ends in a compromise rule balancing future bills.
International Sunday School Lesson by J A Lapham urges thoughtfulness and thankfulness as core grace. It argues thoughtfulness fuels right thinking and action, praises helpers in church and schools, and stresses expressing thanks as essential to fostering gratitude and service.
Dr. Jowett emphasizes that thankfulness remains essential to all virtues as maturity grows. He argues that gratitude nourishes every virtue and that prayers beginning with praise invite blessings, urging believers never to ignore divine bounty.
In Paris a group of midinettes form a marriage club amid surplus women and postwar strain. Members wear green ribbons to signal serious intent, with rules on meeting, approval, and a possible medical check. First gathering near city hall Bastille area.
A proposal suggests founding an Oxford college for adults parallel to Ruskin College. The aim is to provide a refuge for extra-mural university work and complete extension course studies, enabling older learners to continue education alongside younger entrants on campus.
Pirates boarded the schooner Barkia near the lower Elbe using pistols to seize the ship. Only the captain and a few crew remained aboard as the pirates headed for the sea. The captain escaped, the vessel ran aground due to pirate inexperience, and the pirates were arrested.
Edward Clodd discovers he has been living unseen after death, wandering his home and workspace while his family and staff reveal their resentment. A turn of revelation comes when Joan, his daughter, speaks of loving him, prompting Clodd to realize the truth and reclaim life with her embrace.
The remark notes that beauty is inherent for some and self-applied for others, as quoted in Loulaville Answers. It juxtaposes born prettiness with achieved prettiness, reflecting on notions of appearance in a casual publication.
Agricultural engineer W G Kaiser outlines ratproof building methods to starve rats and prevent infestations. He cites the US Department of Agriculture on crop and property losses and describes foundations, floors, elevated lumber piles, and concrete containers. He details concrete mixes for foundations and floors and urges a coordinated campaign to kill rats, including methods to expose and suffocate them.
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