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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
1
Editorial excerpts note 262000 Sunday schools with 26 6 million attendants and say the Polk county commission allows running away from work as not insane. NYC bonds sold for four million dollars earned 126000 by two men with nothing. Harvey News urges testing seed corn from last year’s crop for a good harvest.
Report from Cedar Rapids praises the hardware convention and predicts it will compete with mail order houses. Ohio indicates Bryan will lead the Democratic ticket, seen as the party’s logical choice, while Taft is deemed the GOP’s. Des Moines Salvation Army opens a soup kitchen offering 1 cent meals for the unemployed.
Washington Democrat quotes Major Lacey, chief of Standpatters, saying the Des Moines plan never yields a good man in office. He clarifies his comment was not literal but argues the plan is mainly a bluff and a name amid the political fight.
Over a hundred Republican leaders from across the state convened in Des Moines last Thursday and passed resolutions endorsing Senator Allison for re election and Secretary Taft for president. Consessiman Lacy introduced the union endorsement of Senator Allison and spoke to rally support for her leadership.
John L. Hamilton, former publisher of the Des Moines Daily News, argues the Des Moines river can be made navigable through dredging or canal work. He believes the project will cost time but is coming, enabling cheap transportation for heavy freight and aligning Iowa with other navigable rivers and ocean ports on the Mississippi. He cites national leaders and compares to France and Germany making rivers navigable.
Editor notes a reader’s method to clear dandelions by burning new grass areas after a fall cut. Fire killed many plants but left stubborn spots where grass was too short. The writer admits fault and encourages sharing the remedy with neighbors.
Iowa leads the per capita wealth table among states while echoing praise for its low illiteracy, strong state institutions, and charitable, orderly society. The Burlington Hawkeye cites Iowa as the best state in the Union, stressing community care and education as lasting strengths.
The Bryan volunteers commend a six point platform urging Democrats to guard against party factions, scrutinize candidates, resist corporate influence, root out biased members, empower delegates to obey instructions, and run a truly democratic, platform aligned campaign for victory.
The Congrega tionalist and Christian World weighs President Hall's Atlantic Monthly reflections on the minister of the future. It contrasts the known minister of yesterday with speculative visions of future church leadership and its role.
The piece contrasts Gen William Booth and Theodore Roosevelt as two types of preachers shaping future ministry. It argues ministers must be simple, sincere, and reverent, avoiding pointless controversy and embracing worship and missionary zeal. Dr Trall lists five traits of an ideal minister: simplicity, unselfishness, humanity, hope, reverence.
A Democratic State Convention for Iowa is called to meet in Cedar Rapids on March 26, 1908 at 4 p.m. to select four delegates and four alternates at large, and two delegates and two alternates from each of eleven congressional districts for the Democratic National Convention at Denver on July 7, 1908. Delegates allocated by county totals and vote basis, with detailed district counts listed.
J F McGinty and C W Miller are listed alongside State Y7 ayun with J F McGinty serving in a leading role and C W Miller titled Secretary and Chairman respectively in the formal entry.
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