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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1923
Page
4
The legislature opens its session with talks of taxes, securities, and public bonds. It notes a potential female presence in four years, considers repealing tax free securities, and weighs a gasoline tax impacting vehicle owners. Farmers form the core of lawmakers, urging meaningful reform over shifting burdens.
The Scout Chronicle notes paper and box collection by scouts led by Mr Brunia to fund efforts. A summer contest awards a Scout handbook for each scout who passes tests. Meeting minutes include prize details, eligibility of younger entrants, and plans for charity and cane seating at events.
Classifieds list Brindle bulldog, Joc. 46 vs. PL A. Edman arch Ist Modern located on Main Street SE for rent or gale. Call Black 16z. March Ist reference required. Cor Town. Married man sought to part. Cleaning odorless process dyeing suits tail work guaranteed. I C Hak 2,86.
Twenty years ago a westbound passenger train nearly wrecked when a locomotive tire came off the front wheel and struck the cab before bouncing over a wire fence. No injuries, but the train delayed an hour. The board of education may seek 10000 dollars to build a new school as Pella has only one usable building. Reports of an electric railway from Pella to Harvey and Knoxville to Chariton circulate. The editor declines to publish a Salem church charge against saloons, noting legality and public belief. Several weddings may occur among prominent families. A revival at the Baptist church yields many baptisms. Buerkens Mfg Co continues expansion, with more buildings under construction. Will Van Houweling plans new adjustable stovepipe for swearing-prone users. Princess Bonnie musical to be staged by Geo F Sadler and Miss Flint. Ed Cook becomes assistant bookkeeper at Peoples Savings Bank. Room No 4 students surprise teacher Mrs Bessie Brooks. Antonia Van Zee and Gertie Meppelink wed at the bride’s mother’s home east of Pella. Many new houses rise as spring nears. Udell Hendricks gifts wife a fine piano. A fad of women wearing men’s socks prompts talk on dress carrying across muddy streets. Marion County land real estate transfers show values from forty to sixty dollars per acre.
The Cambrea Concert artists delivered a strong program praised for music and thought. Audiences, including students of Certeal and locals in Pulta, lauded the performers, urging greater Y. M. support to sustain future lectures and prices. One more concert remains this season. attendees urged to not miss it.
A fragmented dialogue shows a rich man and a poor man debating parking, with the poor man moaning about not finding seating or space in a vehicle. The odd phrasing suggests garbled OCR from a historic page.
United States Department of Agriculture guidance explains why cultivation matters beyond weed control. Soil needs air, moisture, and breakup of crusts. shallow vs deep tilling affects roots and moisture retention. use hoe steel rake wheel hoes for efficiency. light, frequent surface loosening aids seedling emergence and weed control.
Sir Charles Ross bought the Ngoro Ngoro crater in Tanzania as a refuge for thousands of animals many of which are extinct elsewhere. He and photographer T A Barnes visited in 1921 after an expedition, sparking plans for scientific exploration to reveal prehistoric and living creatures possibly hidden in the crater’s caves. The vast crater, ten miles across, lies 100 miles from a railway, surrounded by a fortresslike forested rim with an estimated 75,000 animals thriving inside.
Soy beans fit perfectly in rotation replacing oats in a four year cycle with soy beans, wheat, clover. They prove more profitable as a cash crop and improve soil mechanical condition and fertility. Land used for well cultured soy crops needs little preparation for wheat after harvest.
Swift Current reports 1000 Mennonites who fled Canada for Mexico last year amid school protest are returning as lawsuits to recover Canadian lands begin. Speculators allegedly enticed migration by offering worthless lands under bogus Mexican government concessions, while claims had pegged 80000 to move, of which only a small portion actually did.
In St. Louis Miss Leone Fralxer aged eighteen married Irving Campbell aged twenty two. Her mother Mrs Cora Campbell became her aunt and her husband was also her cousin. His aunt became his mother in law. The tangled relation: Miss Fralxer's mother married Frank Campbell years ago making Irving Campbell a nephew of Frank Campbell through his wife’s stepfather.
Henry Wagaaner of Peoria Illinois reported a $250 diamond ring missing after feeding his chickens. Police questioned him and learned the ring was missed soon after. he then killed 18 chickens and found the ring in a gizzard. Neighbors reportedly enjoyed chicken dinners the next day.
Washington reports preliminary tests by the United States Bureau of Mines and a major electrical firm show electric waves may travel through rock to link surface rescuers with entombed miners. Signals were heard through fifty feet of coal at Bruceton and tests indicate longer wavelengths may improve range, with wireless systems potentially more reliable than damaged mine phones during disasters.
A shell discovered 100 feet below the surface during work on the Federal Reserve Bank site in Manhattan is reported to be at least 500000 years old. Cornell scientists examined the oval thick shell, initially thought to be from an extinct oyster, and identified it as a prehistoric clam. The shell was given to Benjamin Strong, the Fed governor, as a souvenir.
Geneva reports Hagelin family of Mensingen in Zug canton has welcomed a twenty fourth child. All 24 children are living and none are twins. The eldest, twenty four, will enter the priesthood. The local agricultural syndicate asked to be godfather to the newcomer.
In Maytown near New York the old Manor House owned by the reclusive Mr. Clay yields a mystery. A caravan of townsfolk raided the house at midnight to confront whispers of visiting women. Clay dies at his desk while the light glows, leaving Matty to claim the visitors were his thoughts of beauty.
A brief item in the Loulaville Courier Journal notes a poet scorner attitude toward the poet's corner. The piece emphasizes resistant readers and a sharp stance on literary columns.
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