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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1936
Page
6
News of Nearby Towns reports a miscellaneous shower for Miss Carrie Groenendyk hosted by relatives on a Wednesday afternoon. Local notes mention illnesses, hospital visits, and family shuffles, with snowbound roads hindering deliveries and daily routines across Otley and OsKaloosa area residents.
Fifield residents host visitors while Otley telephone upgrade helps customers. Local disruptions include sleigh accident, weather and coal shortages, and plow activity on the Wabash railroad aiding some freight. Rural residents make trips to Des Moines, Pella, and Oskaloosa as roads reopen briefly.
Otley residents note Mr. and Mrs. John Breen will host an open house on Saturday from 2 to 5 PM and 7 to 9 PM to mark their 50th anniversary. The item mentions family and local happenings including a new baby, snowbound roads, and school closures due to a coal shortage.
Residents report daily snow and wind blocking roads from Cordova to nearby towns. Farmers and the Summit township plow crews shovel and relay mail routes, with coal trucks supplying neighbors. A child convulsion incident spurred urgent home remedies as authorities prepare for jury duty dates.
Porterville notes Miss Maxine Robertus and Miss Dorothy Goe maat relaxing together Friday. Miss Leona Monster visited Miss Florence Hackett Sunday. Schools in the area closed all last week with no opening date yet set. Roads impassable but bobsleds via fields reach Pel la. Farmers Union hall to host Jimmy Be Careful if cold Saturday.
Miss Antoinette Monster spent Sunday at Miss Ruth Hucker's home. Miss Elsie Van Doene spends this week with Mrs. Abraham De Zwarte and family. Henry Monster visited Marion and Gerald Monster last Sunday. Miss Cornelia Van Doene visited Dorothy Goe maat last Saturday. Tenis Kamerick hauled coal from the Kamerick mine by a boat drawn by two horses Tuesday and Wednesday, a novel idea that seemed to work.
Leighton Rev Ben De Jong of South Dakota and Rev Frank De Jong of Pella visited the Rev J A De Jong home Thursday afternoon. Genella Van Heukelom and Wilbur Engbers were supper guests of Mr and Mrs Henry Sedrel at the Mrs Wm Van Haaften home Sunday. Catherina Korver was a weekend visitor at sister Mrs A W Van Haaften. Mrs Pete De Hamer visited with Mrs C Sedrel Thursday afternoon. Rev and Mrs J A De Jong and Mr and a daughter Esited at the Mrs W A Van Haaften home Tuesday evening. Mr and Mrs Henry Sedrel were supper guests at the Tunis Dykstra home Thursday. Helen Vander Lake Park Iowa is visiting parental H W Vander Linden as school at Lake Park closes due to weather. Mrs W A Van Haaften and Mr and Mrs Henry Sedrel were guests at a waffle supper at Rev J A De Jong home Monday evening. John and Sara Mae Witt visited at the home of Amaryllis De Jong Monday afternoon.
Killduff and nearby areas face blocked gravel roads north of Kilduff due to immense snow drifts. Snow plow operators Harold Lanphier and crew work day and night to reopen routes as coal and mail delivery suffer. No school or Methodist services held. a stray blind collie prompts questions about local kindness. Mr and Mrs Ray Gifford of Newton visited Kilduff relatives.
C. B. Dick is suffering with the mumps. Edward Coggins is confined at home with a very sore heel from a burn. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Compton and Mrs. Myra Compton were Sunday dinner guests in the Tom Swan home. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Parsons took a trip to Newton Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Verners have been visiting in Newton the past week.
Harvey Miss Trix Lashe and Maxine Lashe of Hollywood called on Mr. and Mrs. Geery Thursday evening. Mrs Homer Lancaster visiting from Knoxville over Sunday. Gerald Lash hurt in an automobile accident when his car tipped after snow ridge on Os Kal oo SA. Dr. Ralston en route to Henry Roorda ill with pneumonia. Mrs Ernest Laren ill. Dr Fox called in Harvey. Roe Ridenour of Monroe in town Sunday. Robert and Catharine Laren hosted sixteen friends for a Valentine party Friday. Harvey high school won the basketball game Friday night.
Tracy high school scoreboard shows 29 to 32. Mr and Mrs John De Geest and Miss Josephine Wilson left Sunday for Miller South Dakota after attending Mrs Mary De Geests funeral but were snowbound. Mrs J E McClellan is ill and Don Redding is on the sick list.
Payrolls of the Resettlement Administration in five mid western states run about 300000 dollars monthly across business and rehabilitation programs with only 38000 dollars for regional administrative work. More than 4000 workers in Illinois Missouri Iowa Indiana and Ohio support land use projects while final plans for ten resettlement moves are submitted. They expect peak staffing of about 35000 with 2000 RA employees and 82000 aided farm families receiving financial relief from the rehabilitation division. Repayments on loans already average over 13 percent as the program aims to move families toward self sufficiency.
Leonard Sherwood, a 24 year old Black man, died by his own action at the Keo Sauqua transient camp last Saturday after a confrontation with another man. During the fight Sherwood struck his foe with a gas pipe, rendering him unconscious. believing the other man dead, Sherwood reportedly consumed carbolic acid to end his life.
For his murder the accused, frightened, took acid with fatal results. Sherwood checked in at the camp from Detroit. The body was taken to Barnett funeral home and remained until Tuesday before being sent to the medical college at Iowa City after an unsuccessful search for relatives. An uncle in Missouri was located but did not claim the body.
The nation built twelve thousand miles of roads and rails in the 1935 fiscal year while maintenance work touched nearly 184000 miles of trails and roads. World cotton output in 1935 is estimated at 25600000 bales. John Hopkins professor R W Wood reports a highly sensitive new explosive. Arthur Compton says cosmic rays at least 2000 times stronger than lightning.
A health column urges using a liquid laxative and tapering the dose gradually to restore natural bowel regularity. It promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, noting senna and cascara as natural laxatives and claiming it tastes pleasant and acts well for both adults and children.
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