Local Events of the Week in Pella Iowa
The week brings weather notes and community updates. Rev Neumeyer will preach in Galesburg next Sunday. Numerous locals visit Des Moines and Otley. A baby dies in Otley, and public notices urge school board bond votes. The community discusses a new band, a forthcoming operetta Prince Bonnie, and local business moves including lumberyard and butcher shop purchases.
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Washington
Neumeyer
Galesburg
P. H. van Gorp
Keables
Des Moines
Jake,Van Nimwegen
R. Lau Yenbauch
Chicago
Dena Vanderpol
St. Louis
Nellie Aylsward
Alden
H. A. Pauls
Pella
Lulu Johnson
Maggie DeReus
Prairie City
Wm. Butts
Oskaloosa
Masonic School of Instruction
F. D. Stubenrauch
Frank Kester
Bonnie
Opera House
Wm. van Steenbergen
George
Iowa
Pella School District Readers Face Bond Vote Outcome
Voters in the Pella City School District are informed of a $5,000 bond question to be decided at the March school election 1903. The February 9 school board minutes show unanimous adoption of a preamble and resolution to publish the action and notify electors. The notice recalls a 1902 election authorizing $15,000 in bonds for a new building and site purchase, noting subsequent circumstances prompting the new issue.
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Pella City
Marion
Iowa
H. Kuyter
Kruger
Park Your Property In Pella This Spring
Editorial urges property owners to curb and park in front of residences to beautify the city and raise property values. Cites Dr Will L Allen's curb and park as a $45 cost adding at least $200 in value. Encourages block petitions to compel curb and park and start in spring.
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Will, L. Allen
Pella
Miner Hurt by 2600 Pound Coal Fall Near Deileman Mine
Harry Norris, a miner at the Deileman mine west of town, narrowly escaped death Tuesday after a 2600 pound coal lump fell during a blast. He was in his room when struck on the hip and leg, knocked down but saved by landing aside from the mass. He is hurt but not seriously.
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Teamst
Phillips
Harry Norris
Deileman
Cortelyou Nominated for Secretary of Commerce and Labor
President Roosevelt sent to the senate the nomination of George B. Cortelyou for secretary of the new Department of Commerce and Labor. The move had circulated for weeks and reportedly has broad support among public figures, aligning with McKinley’s wishes.
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Cortelyou
Washington D. C
Roosevelt
Senate
George B. Cortelyou
Department of Commerce and Labor
Congress
McKinley
Senate Moves to Conference on DC Appropriation and Statehood Bill
Washington February 16 After the senate met the District of Columbia appropriation bill was sent to a conference. Quay proposed a resolution urging a final vote date before March 2 on the statehood bill and requesting information on the Isle of Pines governance. Lodge presented the Philippine currency bill, its conference amendment was agreed, Dubois offered and was rejected, and the Indian appropriation bill resumed.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
District of Columbia
Quay
Isle of Pines
Lodge
Dubois
Widen the School Idea and the Juvenile Court
Amplio!-wider calls for widening the school concept to prevent delinquency before court. He argues homes and schools must align, schools should be bright and inviting with gyms and bathrooms, and that money spent on schools yields richer communal life than juvenile courts and truant officers. The future citizen is shaped by impressions, so schools become centers of culture and humanity.
Weather Tiny Temp Supports School Need in Pella
A three day park thermometer reading shows not above 34 degrees above zero, underscoring the call for a proper new school building in Pella. Teachers moved scholars to counter cold, highlighting hardship under current conditions.
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Pella
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Agnes
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Otley
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Dora'Van de. Flikker
the Chronicle
Pauls
Wormbhoudt
Daniel Tice
Perry
Dan
Pauls Lumber Co
Joan DE Cook
Chamberlain
Allen & Stubenrauch
Kramer
Harry van der Meulen
West
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Renaud Bros
City
Valley Junction
Tennis Smorenburg
Wawrep
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Arne van der Meiden
Orange City
Herman Bogaards
Teunis van de Goor
John Hoogenakker
Franklin Street
Gaass
Peoria
Leighton
Coalport
Chronicle
Neimeyer
A. J. Nossaman
S. F. Cole
Henry Sytsma
C. Rhynsburger
Y. S. van Niewool
Kurtz
Listrict
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N. Brandt
T. J. Edmond
R. A. Schultz
la Porte
Schultz
Pauls Umber Co
Calonial Coy
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Sation
Heine
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Richard le Gallienne
H. Kuyper
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