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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1909
Page
4
Land auction listing for Hand County South Dakota details multiple parcels with prices per acre, down payments, and installment terms. Notes 320 and 160 acre tracts with improvements, springs, railroad proximity, and strong yields. All parcels advertised as money makers and must be sold before March 1, 1909.
A letter from North Dakota describes lignite coal along streams, its heating value after drying, and a belief it formed from ancient cedar burials. Dunn County faces a county seat dispute with a ruling favoring the old location, and local prospects hinge on a forthcoming railroad. The writer, H. R. Young, notes growing homesteaders, a mix of Norwegians and Irish, and invites emigration to North Dakota. He offers help locating homesteads and urges readers to write for arrival and price details. Local notices add social updates, arrivals, and business movements from Vander Pols, Miss Jennie De Jong, and others.
B H Van Spanckeren Jr cashier swears the above statement is true to best knowledge for Citizens National Bank Marion county Iowa 1909 with attest signatures of directors G H Wormhoudt A N Kuyper H D Wormhoudt and notary Geo J Thomassen sworn February 1909
Des Moines agent H E Chapin offers a 290 acre farm six miles north of Pella for grain rent. The land is mostly level with fair improvements. Contact 404 Utica Building, Des Moines, Iowa.
The Referee, under a District Court order, will offer the East half of Government Lots 5 and 8 in Section 2, Township 78 North, Range 21 West, at public auction. The sale is on February 27, 1909, at 1:00 p.m. at the front door of the Prairie City Post Office.
M Stafford a Civil War veteran and farmer on the J Kipp farm west of town died early Monday after a period of ill health. He was quiet and retired in nature. Funeral held Wednesday at two o'clock from the Baptist church in town.
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