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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1902
Page
7
Community briefs cover hardware ads and sales in Iowa towns including Albia and Prairie City. Mentions of Gerrit Thomas planning Chicago move, H F Johnson hardware plans, subscriptions, and local church incidents. Reports on local legal matters, exams, and transportation talks.
Jessie Cottrell performed to a small audience last Wednesday evening, praised as one of the best entertainers Pella has seen. The R of P lodge installed officers except for W H Bootsman due to a recent accident. Mrs Kaldenberg welcomed a baby girl, extending the clan to 46 children and grandchildren after 46 years of marriage. The sewer committee weighs the cost of a new system, urging prompt action before heavy rains. The paper invites public input on the measure, especially from local physicists.
An 11 year old child of Wim Brassfield died after gasoline gas from a stove ignited clothing. Funeral services are set for tomorrow as grieving parents cope with the loss. A London Speaker article discusses Boer costs to England. Community notes mention M W A Camp installation, Modern Woodmen growth in Pella, and a farm-hand opening.
Maple City Washing Soap offers the best results and is sold at all goal grocers.
Mr F Joty, long known in Perla area, launches own tinware line at Mrs Franklin street shop. The new venture promises shelf parawore rope and wire goods, tinware, and repair work. Neighbors urged to visit first door location and judge for themselves.
The New Depot will be brick built and finished this spring if the city council approves, bringing the passenger depot seven blocks nearer the business district. The freight depot will be large enough for substantial freight and built to handle heavy loads, improving the town and making residents proud.
A vintage advertisement touts De Witts Witch Hazel Salve as a sure cure for cuts burns and eczema noting it draws out fire and stops pain. It warns against counterfeits and cites a customer claim that the product cured a baby’s eczema after two doctors gave up.
Des Moines Iowa readers are advised of a new Sunday edition addition to the six weekday revniewfibes and a subscription rate change effective January 31. The yearly rate for 365 issues increases to $1.50 while shorter terms are listed. the paper reserves the right to withdraw the offer if circulation grows too large for its press facilities.
Dr Galusha Anderson of the University of Chicago will preach Thursday morning January 23 at 10 30 AM. It is the day of prayer for Colleges and alumni ex-students and friends are invited. In Chicago he is known as the prince of preachers and listeners may be repaid a hundredfold.
Patrons of the Baltimore and Ohio Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and Nickel Plate railways will use Grand Central station in Chicago. The Chicago Great Western Railway advises avoiding transfers for eastbound travel via these roads.
The wedding of Leo Garlick and Nella Poquet was solemnized at the home of the bride’s parents, 1193 Seventh Street, as the clocks struck midnight marking the old year’s end and new year’s start, per Staite Register.
A Cascade Iowa druggist Mr J H Weber touts Chamberlain stomach and liver tablets as a near universal seller to former users. He claims quick relief for dullness after meals bad taste biliousness appetite issues and constipation with strong demand when customers seek the remedy. Allen and Stubenrauch sell the tablets.
Dispatch from Johannesburg dated January 13 reports Gen Botha narrowly escaped capture as Bruce Hamilton chased a fleeing Boer force. Botha led in a cape cart. Hamilton pursued seven miles, capturing thirty-two Boers with stocks and ammunition afterward. Lord Kitchener omits mention of De Wet, signaling optimism on surrounding him, while De Wet’s force is chased with armored trains limiting crossings. Since January 6 twenty-three Boers were killed, nine wounded and twenty-three captured, with ninety-two surrendering. Tickets for United States travel offered by Chicago Great Western Railway during January and February at a reduced fare plus $2 round trip, valid 21 days.
Mrs. Mary Bird of Har Risburg Virginia credits One Minute Cough Cure with saving her child from croup and calls the remedy a sure cure for coughs throat and lung troubles. The ad touts immediate action and safety for the youngest children and urges every family to keep a bottle on hand this season. Cole & Lange
The undersigned will sell at public auction one and a half miles northeast of Leighton on Thursday January 30 1903 at 11 o clock. Described property includes five head of horses and ten head of cattle plus farming implements and about 22 bushels New York potatoes. Auctioneers Makion Porte Porter Clerk ARIE Root.
Real estate wanted for city property with improvements under a stated price. Register at the Caroside office. no state agents allowed. A separate anecdote notes success with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for a child with chest pains and severe cold, claiming it warded off pneumonia.
City announces sale of a block of municipal property offered under terms set at the office. Details include location and price may be discussed with city officials and real estate staff. Interested parties should inquire at the city office for terms and conditions.
The notice invites all producers to visit the office for a Calender with a map of Iowa and bilingual hints on Butter Eggs and Poultry in Dutch and English. It lists assorted product notes including candied eyes and butter and provides prices for spring chickens old hens old roosters ducks young gobblers hen turkeys and geese. An order on any city store is available for poultry.
The fragment lists prices for wheat corn hay and livestock alongside a Chicago market table. It mentions butter eggs and potatoes with scattered figures, then shows a partial Chicago Wheat Open High Low Close for January May July and other months, but the data is garbled and incomplete.
Report lists livestock quotes with ranges for cows, calves, bulls, steers, stockers, hogs, and sheep. Includes poor to medium cattle, stockers and feeders, canners, heifers, mixed hogs, heavy and light hogs, and various regional sheep prices with per head or per hundredweight figures.
City officers roster notes term start dates with fall Winter and spring terms listed. Wed Sept 18 and Thurs Jan mark commencement windows alongside April openings. Officials oversee session transitions and administrative timelines for the term cycle.
The record lists H Rietveld along with J V D Kuyper and W W Cook as officers including secretary treasurer and superintendent on the board. Also named are E M Cole HL J Vanden Berg W M Kruger and Abraham VerPlough in the lineup.
Passenger and accommodation services listed for westbound trains No. 262 No. 264 No. 242 No. 234 with arrival times including 158 p m 3 10 p m and 11 59 p m agent J M Cos details show multiple westbound services and accommodations in this timetable fragment.
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