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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1940
Page
7
The reporter details patrolmen guiding motorists and aiding a car in trouble near Mitchellville and Pella while praising Tennant for courteous enforcement. The account emphasizes cooperative driving and keeping Iowa highways safe through patrolmen’s patrols and warnings.
Students celebrate a cosmopolitan Valentine event in the new chapel. The Red Heart gym hosted tumblers and gymnasts, Heart Throb theatre presented Little Black Sambo, Love's Dream cinema showed films, and a Bingo room plus an art gallery offered additional amusements.
Madame La Mour's fortune telling booth drew a crowd as groups toured a fun house of skill based rooms. After visiting all rooms, attendees paired up for refreshments under red lights with music, celebrating a cooperative Valentine event. The Social Wife committee earned praise for organizing a time consuming campus activity.
Lt O C Wey showed two sound reels on the United States Coast Guard at Central Bay. He traced the service from its 1790 founding by Alexander Hamilton to its later status as the National Coast Guard. The films depicted life saving, law and order duties, and training highlights at the Coast Guard Academy in New London.
A notice invites young men ages 17 to 22 meeting mental and physical qualifications to seek appointments with the United States Coast Guard, presenting service as a chance to serve country and humanity.
Central college hosts St Ambrose Saturday night as the Flying Dutchmen seek to repeat a 41 to 31 win in a season where they have gone 2 and 2 since that matchup. Key players Voskuil Loupee Menting and Bonwell pace a lineup likely unchanged for the home clash.
Auxiliary members will meet on the same dates. There was discussion about dances and their type and character, and the Post members voted to sponsor no more dances at this time. Hotchili was served after the meeting by Rean Meulpolder in the dining hall.
The county recorder reports business nearly doubled with 6 170 instruments recorded in January 1937. Miss Wilkes, in charge, began duties in January and records show 693 real estate documents, 271 chattel mortgages on corn notes, 82 miscellaneous items, and 125 releases. A separate item notes a sheep attack on George Webb of Riceville, injuring his hip.
P R Burns of Hartley bounced to a hard fall from a windmill last week. He landed on frozen ground some 18 or 20 feet down, sustained no broken bones, and was up and about in a day or two.
Multiple book notices profile works by Emi lie Loring Elizabeth Corbett avley Joseph C and Preston Lincoln Vic tor Heiser M D William Lyon and others. Summaries describe plots of mystery thrillers and social comedies, praise the authors, and note autobiographical content and literary portraits.
Nearly a quarter of Iowa farms now have electricity, signaling early progress in rural electrification. The figure reflects expanding utility service as the nationwide initiative progresses, targeting broader rural coverage in coming years.
H C Collier head of the REA utilization division told about 167,000 Iowa farms lacking electric service at the Rural Electrification Conference in Ames. He urged ways to bring power to farms, noting benefits such as lighting hen houses to boost egg production and keeping water free of ice for poultry and stock. He cited homemade brooders using bulbs to reduce losses from chilling.
For sale used car radios Ford Deluxe Chev. Mst. Town Sedan 36 Ford Standard Tudor 34 Model A Ford good. Sonny's Car Sales offers several vehicles. Also for sale a good milk cow just fresh and a work horse. L D Vander Linden, 1 mile northwest Pella. Wanted boy to work 21 years ago 18 to Farmers Union.
Classified items include rentals and sales: a five room house for rent by Reuben Schakel. Victor phonograph with 25 records and other furnishings for sale. clover seed and power washer. live stock coal and grain hauling service. a general housework position. a white enamel stove for sale. and a public sale of the Hill eke Verploeg estate at the Pella Historical Building on Friday Feb 23, 1940 at 1 30 p.m.
Stander II spent twelve hours guiding a jury to a verdict for John Ebsen who won $375 against Fred LaMaak. In Detroit opening rounds of the Olympic archery league, Ernest Root of Le Mars posted a score of 00 as he faced top bow and arrow competitors.
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