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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1948
Page
3
A columnist notes gloom in the press and radio coverage of sudden deaths and scandals. The piece contrasts sensational headlines with calls for better news and cites a South political debate on race and civil rights. It argues that true statesmanship requires courage and fairness toward the President.
An Iowa audience praised leadership and sportsmanship after an appeal before the Iowa Northwestern game. Fifteen thousand spectators remained courteous, and a lone punch reportedly halted heckling, prompting discussion on spectator conduct and school leadership.
A collection of editorial remarks urges lifelong learning, cites Sioux Center movie bans, notes rising but uneven sales, and jokes about fashion and petticoats while urging restraint in reporting depravity. Readers are advised to avoid sensational detail and protect public sensibilities.
A clipped Alton Democrat item reports a young man avoiding the draft with shotguns at night. Pella National Bank deposits reach 1 219 759 66 the first over a million. H P Van Rees sells barber shop gear and closes. Marion Boat says he enlisted in the U S Army Ordnance Department in Washington D C. Willis Vogelant returns home from Montrose after a visit. A big patriotic meeting at the high school auditorium with James B Weaver as speaker aims to boost war support. Kuyper's Music House hosts Gulbransen piano performances. Lester and Henry Verce left Great Lakes Naval Training Station and now play on a cruiser. Ver Ploegh visits from Tingley, Iowa, while family toured Mississippi. Mrs HP Scholte, Mrs C F Aschenbrenner, and Mrs 4 M Cox travel to Camp Dodge to see Robert Scholte. Jelle Heerema gets a Camp Dodge pass and visits his mother.
Forty years past in Pella reports the death of Richard Brunin at 82 after wandering from his son Frank’s home toward Oskaloosa road. Laura Kramer wins Drake University declamation prize. Second Reformed Church prepares to replace its old building first occupied 1865. Mrs. Bruinekool dies of consumption after moving to Logan Kansas in 1907. Commercial Association debates cash economy and a new water system near Des Moines River with electric pumping. President L. A. Garrison sails to England for health. Iowa picnic tale from Southern California reprinted. School board elects CG. N. Cole treasurer. directors E. M. Cole and Herman Rietvold. High school beats all-stars 21 to 1 with Van Spanckeren and others. Music head Henry Cox visits Des Moines church, praised regionally. Teen Dirk Hessing injures hip at school. Drain tile work underway for Fisks. eighty men. Fisks winter eighty horses. Seifert ships Van Spanckeren store goods to Eddyville. Ten Hagen and Brom head to Wall South Dakota. Local egged churches and Old People’s Home maligned. wild ducks plentiful. Jake Wichart returns from Des Moines. Olof Truman of Coalport hawks 250 bushels Early Ohio potatoes. Dragging roads praised for drying conditions.
30 Years Ago report notes Pella Tigers beat Eddyville Bear cats 85 to 20, shut out 21 to 0 in first half, Brand nets ten field goals. Final sees Pella defeat Newton 34 to 27 with Brand six baskets Ver Steeg five Rilli han two Den Adel two Mills scoreless. Also city water work praised. Orange City scene reports yellow paint daubing of homes belonging to suspected slackers.
Gearts Feed Mill in Garden City advertises a range of farm feeds including Mash Pellets priced from 4.75 to 6.50 and Complete Hog Feed at 5.40. Also offered are Calf Meal at 2.00 per 25 lbs and 32 percent Concentrate at 6.50 with pellet option at 1.60 extra per ton. It promotes hog and poultry feeds plus feeders waterers and tank heaters.
George Gaass was reelected to the school board with no opposition. The gun club named Earl Black president and Gerald Rysdam secretary. Camps for Civilian Military Training were planned for summer, nearest at Ft. Des Moines. A Negro spirituals program at Pella Baptist Church drew a full house. Wild flowers bloomed on March 11 at the Jacob Vander Syde house. J Wesselink authored a front page piece on Central College’s value to Pella. J C Penney leased the Y T Van Niewaal building for fall opening. Mild weather since March 1 with recent rains aided farming. flu and chickenpox closed schools for two weeks. Marion Frush to play flute on Radio WHO. A local man promoted town cinema, Lankelma ill with pneumonia. Bananas 4 lbs 25c, soap 10 bars 36c at Thomassen Grocery, slogan Service Cheerfully Given. Swift & Co poultry plant in Knoxville destroyed for a $20,000 loss. Chrysler 52 priced at $670 f o b by Jake Cornelius dealer.
Ten years ago March 17 1938 the spring issue featured 16 pages and a special cover focused on fashion for men and women. Jon Hall and Dorothy Lamour starred in Hurricane. a photo shows Joan Ruth Geurts with baby chicks signaling spring. Paul De Wit planned two new houses near the college to ease housing shortages. A tulip festival was planned for May 9 to May 11. First Reformed Church notes its 82nd anniversary since founding May 3, 1856.
A newspaper page shows Goedhart and Steenhoek in a Main Street barber shop with De Wild and In t Weld. Merchants funded 86 percent of Tulip Festival costs. N L Vander Linden celebrate 60th anniversary at Third Reformed Church supper. Elders and families pictured. Boys scrub paint from the high school stone as prank restitution. Central College students and staff appear, with a touring musical group led by Herbert Wormhoudt and William Wing. Ministerial Association opposed Tulip Time activities on Sunday.
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