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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1925
Page
1
The district court upholds the county board of supervisors in denying a petition for a county tuberculin test for dairy cattle. The case emphasizes community health value and urges public enlightenment on the issue.
The postmaster general seeks doubled postage to cover deficits in the postal department. Since Burleson, the last Democratic postmaster general, left office the department has not paid expenses. Critics suggest committees should scrutinize the post office as other departments faced reform.
The Iowa legislature is preparing to resume under a constitution that it follows only when convenient. Marion County has chosen a capable, honest representative, raising cautious hope for less delay and a sturdier session ahead.
All mid western states except three have women in their legislatures. Iowa is among the three that deny women this right, the fault laid at the Republican legislature for refusing to heed the people’s mandate to call a constitutional convention. Women in Iowa vote largely for Republican officials who ignore their political equality demands.
A Pella buyer reports paying 75 to 85 dollars per head for horses, noting four to ten year olds weighing 1250 to 1800 pounds and described as strong, saleable, well broke, fat, with no serious blemishes. The observer suggests this is about the lowest prices farmers have had to take in twelve years as fuel costs press budgets.
Iowa City dispatch reports the State University plans a May 30 dual track meet with Notre Dame, Memorial Day observance questioned. The piece urges faculty action to ensure proper tribute and asks for cancellation or rescheduling of the track event to honor the day.
Rev. G W Madelein, a Chicago Catholic cardinal, recalled a report from seven years prior noting 70 delinquent Catholic boys out of the total. He indicated progress since then, though details are incomplete in the excerpt.
A columnist questions Cardinal Mundelein's call for church schools to reduce delinquency among Catholic youth. The piece notes Catholics previously ran parochial schools, questions the 70 to 35 percent share of delinquent boys, and suggests integration with American educational methods could lower rates. It argues that continued separation may sustain higher delinquency and urges adopting local methods.
The article urges Pella residents to elect officials who prioritize the city's welfare, upgrade the electric plant with a larger engine, and install an independent auxiliary water pumping system. It warns that without these improvements the town risks water shortages, disease, and financial loss, stressing fiscal prudence and forward planning.
Editorial clipping notes 1924 local road spending across Minnesota surpassing 21 million dollars with county township and city taxes over 17 million and state aid of 2 million. It mirrors debates on Coolidge freight rates and wages, cites editorials from Mt. Vernon Record and Northwood Anchor on economic policy and civic waste.
The Post Office Department may run a deficit near forty million dollars yearly, with about seventy million more needed. A rate hike, largely borne by newspapers, is likely. In contrast, 1918 under Burleson showed a profit, highlighting current inefficiency.
The Chronicle laments patience worn with readers who ignore early shopping and mailing advice, hints it may charge for guidance, thanks Christmas card senders and noting good deeds by children. It cites jokes from Cross-Word puzzles and a news item about a six foot hog sold to Barnum & Bailey.
Three copies of the Chicago Tribune are taken at the Chronicle office but only about one per week around Christmas. One day two copies returned stamped Monroe post office. Such an error cannot be charged to the Christmas rush and must have been made at the mailing office. We considered complaining to the post office department but decided the enforcing officers are the ones to blame.
A reader laments pre 1800 hours long workdays and an Iowa hired man who seeks breakfast before work. The letter argues eight hour days could boost corn prices and suggests farmers unite, with a note to Iowa hog breeders to imitate New England stock or tariff measures to improve fattening efficiency amid rising pork costs.
Quotations from the Farmers Cooperative Exchange in Pella Iowa show hogs at nine to nine dollars ten to eighty cents per cwt cream and pale oats and wheat prices alongside general feed grain values. The text notes oat and wheat figures though reads incomplete, indicating a historical market column with fluctuating commodity prices.
Twenty years ago Pella faced a heavy blizzard that halted trains and kept many merchants from opening after supper. The American House hosted a Christmas party while a public school term began with kindergarten work delayed by the Lincoln building. Local business changes included R Van der Ploeg opening Farmers & Merchants Bank and Ten Hag en Son’s hardware store declaring bankruptcy. Pneumonia claimed Joseph Van Rees’s infant son, and John Hollebrands bought half of Baker barber shop as a locomotive with a snow plow battled drifts nearby.
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