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Newspaper

Pella Chronicle

Location

Pella, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 20, 1913

Page

4

Local Social Notes Highlight Visits and Purchases

Sally Mrs Flo Noah of Lynnville visits with nieces from Saturday to Monday, with Laura Van Gorkum and Mrs Dr Smith and family. Charley Boat sells residence and seven acres on Pleasant Street to Ira Elecott for 4500 with possession Sept 1, 1913. Various neighbors visit, move, and recover from illnesses. hog sale at Taylor barn nets over 900 dollars. In Feb 14, Fred Quires pigs, California winters, and a George Washington program planned at Boat and Varen Kamp hall with Ladies Aid Bazaar March 1.

Flo. Noah Lynnville Laura van Gorkum Dr. Smith John Klyne Oscar Holdsworth Ray Agar Killdiff Mis. Agars Fred Haines Dr. Carpenter Carpenter Fre Howell Charley Boat Pleseant Street Ira Elecott Ed Patterson New Sharon Bertha Aylmore Sabetha Kansas Sully Fred Quires Taylor Barn Hampshires Pierce Varen Kamp George Washington

Had Fun With The Expert At A Barbers' Banquet

Jacob Fischer head of the Barbers International union mocked scientific management at a Indianapolis banquet. He compared efficiency engineers to Corn Husk who fed hens sawdust claiming the feed failed. Husk reported the hens produced wooden legmed chicks and birds, mocking the idea of machinelike labor.

Jacob Fischer Barbers’ International Union Indianapolis Cornelius Husk Husk

Sun Dials Through Time and Style in History

Sun dials vary greatly from horizontal and vertical to polar spherical and portable. An example from the Pyrenean peasantry uses two wooden cylinders with a stylet. The oldest on record is King Hezekiah’s from around 740 B G. A 1586 sun dial sits on a rock chapel on the Gironde river in France. The Sun dial at Juvisy from 1910 adorns the Flammarion observatory front, trapezoidal with a vertical surface and about 18 feet tall.

Hezekiah Girondy France Juvisy Flammarion Observatory Harper’s ‘Weekly

School funds receipts and disbursements report for Pella ISD

Statement of receipts and disbursements of the Independent School District of Pella Marion County Iowa for the year ending February 17 1913.

Independent School District Pella Marion Iowa

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S. H. Viersen Pella Land Sally Will Obrien Newton Delia Sparks Cliff Charley Frank Ethel Brunner Raymond Welle van Zante Welle Monroe Hia Bert Shutts Milton Haines D. F. Haines Grinnell Congregational Church Will Rebbie Castorf Des Loines China Cables of Marshalltown Lewis Shutts Bessie Coleen John Newell California Gya de Jong Gertrude Vander Wal Lagrippe Peter Lubberden College Puritan Drug Co B. F Vander Linden John Heere Farmer Mniiting Pratervengy Ngent Fund Schools of Eeone Estenen Renee Tie Gossei
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