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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1941
Page
9
Classified rate card notes per word pricing at two tenths of a cent with a minimum 25 cent charge. Additional 25 cents applies for ads ending with ies and referring to the Chronicle.
Wednesday morning quotations from area dealers include cream prices and poultry notes, plus advertisements for used cars and trucks from A. B. Van Houweling Auto Company. Listings feature many prewar models, including 1939 to 1940 Chevrolets, Fords, Plymouths, Dodges, and Pontiacs, with tire sales from Schiebout Body & Tire Co. and prints offered by The Pella Chronicle.
Gerrit A. Beyer offers four gifts to Farrow in March along with alfalfa and clover hay. The sale is located four miles north of Pella.
John Wynberg promotes HOG FEEDERS mineral meat meal offering a mineral and protein balance from one supplement. The announcement invites readers to obtain full information from Wynberg.
A collection of classifieds promotes Wynberg Truck Line storage services heating surveys by Green Colonial Furnace Co. hog feed mineral supplement by Sargent Mineral, and a fluid drive 1941 Dodge introductory sale at Van Houweling Auto Co. Read as a snapshot of mid century urban commerce and consumer options.
Des Moines visitors reviewed road working equipment this week. The board plans to buy a new maintainer for the southwestern Marion County district of Supervisor Archie Vernon. At the courthouse last night, equipment reps screened a motion picture of modern road construction machinery.
Midland red clover, a new variety from three top old strains, will be offered to Iowa farmers in limited spring supplies. Developed through a U S Department of Agriculture and Iowa State College program, it shows winter hardiness and resistance to northern anthracnose. Seed will come through existing channels, with western states supplying foundation stock to improve midwest seed adaptation.
Early bloomers can be planted indoors in February for an earlier garden by indoors-starting Penstemon Salvia Blue Bedder salvia and other annuals. Horticulturist L C Grove of Iowa State College notes starting flats of garden loam peat and sand, transplanting as true leaves appear, then into larger pots as they grow. Moscowmtai flowers also benefit from indoor starts with March sowings of snapdragons petunias and others.
Mrs. De Jong attended the wedding of Ernest Van Heukelom and Evelyn De Jong held at the groom’s parents southwest of Leighton. Families and relatives gathered for gatherings as Joyce Van Rockel, Joan Vande Haar, and Eddyville outings are noted along with a tool shower for Ernest Van Heukelom hosted by Gerrit Van Heukelom.
Cordova residents report a wave of illnesses including rheumatism flu whooping cough and stomach issues. Notables like Sonny Waites Nan Core Marvin Slykhuis Cora Van Wyke Gerrit Waardhuizen Patty Dailey and the Carson household are named along with several minor health concerns and recent local activity such as a hammermill purchase and snow removal crews.
Scarlet fever and infantile paralysis quarantines end Feb 6 at the Oska loosa CCC camp. Hendrika Zegers wed James Van Weelden at the Zegers home amid late minister delay in Cordova. Bridal nerviness noted. Alphretta Vanden Berg stayed with Norma Jean ral. Bertha Veldhuizen sale attended in Hedrick. John Buwalda and Arie assist Bart Klyn house. Flora Bawalda quilting. Bertha Veldhuizen daughters visit with grandmother. John Van Hemert family visiting. Mur Murray builds hog house. Loren Stevenson visits Joe Templeton. Dwight Harvey travels Independence to Medford for three months. Bible class with Ellen Karr. Ola’s birthday noted.
Creditors and interested parties are notified that the Receiver of the Security State Bank of Pella Iowa has filed to join in a sale of undivided one third interest and other portions of described real estate in Marion County Iowa. The gross price is four thousand dollars with net proceeds between two thousand and two thousand one hundred after costs. A hearing is set before the Marion County District Court in Knoxville Iowa at 10:00 a.m. on February 18 1941 to approve the sale or entertain higher offers. D W Bates Receiver.
Notice to heirs and interested parties that E S Cook as Trustee in the Beard estate has filed a final report detailing acts as trustee and seeking court approval. Hearing set at the Marion County District Court on the 11th of IMS at 9:00 a.m. Objections may be filed. absence of appearance may result in grant of the final report.
February Term 1941 district court Marion County Iowa fixed time and place for final hearing on the estate of R R Beard deceased. The report lists the executor Geo G Gauss and numerous claimants and trustees including Kate Frances Beard estate heirs and Moody Bible Institute Chicago Loizeaux.
W C Lanning files a district court petition in Marion County seeking fee simple ownership of the SE quarter of Block 46 in Knoxville and to quiet title against numerous defendants and unknown claimants, with a February 18 1941 deadline for appearance and a warning of default.
H E De Reus attorneys for the plaintiff indicate the judgment and decree are rendered as prayed for in the petition.
The Pella Chronicle lists special rates for multiple magazines and supplements, offering bundled prices such as Woman's Home Companion and American Magazine for 3.60, Colliers for 3.25, and Reader's Digest with an additional gift option. Other titles include Better Homes and Gardens, McCall's, Newsweek, Popular Mechanics, and Atlantic Monthly with varying combined and single prices.
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