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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1909
Page
4
Pella dealers posted today’s cattle and hog prices with notes that prices are subject to change without notice. Cattle steers and hog categories heavy and light are shown, but specific figures are not provided in the readable text.
Local notes from the college and town include visits by H. D. Wuorm and C. C. Triplett, fashion notices, and farm sales. Reports cover Mrs. Jelsma's Otley trip, Vander Pal’s sale, a china shower for Miss Jennie Vroom, and a dangerous health update for Mrs. Van Dusseldorp. A mule sale near Pella drew attention, while J. F. Wilson praises home-loan groups. Public notices advertise civil service exams in Des Moines and a March recital at the Pella Baptist church.
Neal Robus flies to Albia this week. Mr. and Mrs A D Norris visit Capital city. Arthur Weaver and Andrew Crey enlist in the Army. Henry Van Derne and family move near Eddyville. Lena Carpenter and Margery Wynn visit Mrs C Kooyman. the Kooymans visit Winterset. Dick Weyers and Ben Van Zante seen on our streets. Margery Wynn and Olive Breese visit G W Carpenter home. Allen De Heer and family move from La Plata Missouri to the old Fifield home place. A Fifield school entertainment honors Lincoln and Washington. Local remarks urge farmers to read and study business, praising the Register and Farmer of Des Moines as a trusted farm paper.
Peoria resident W. E. Ashton serves on the petit jury this week while Myrtle Dunwoody visits relatives. Govert Vander Hart delivered four loads of hogs to Taintor last Monday. Local chatter notes a strong demand for houses and urges new construction to improve the town.
Led and managed entirely by farmers. We have a grand good offer which includes it and Kimball's Diary Farmer of Waterloo, both one year for only fifty cents more than the price of our paper alone. Come in and subscribe.
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