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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1923
Page
6
County farm bureau picnics draw thousands at Sibley and Marshalltown. Iowa records show a $76 420.34 top income tax. Obituaries note Andrew J. Dimond and Cedar Rapids pastor B R Burkhalter among others. Weather, crops, and infrastructure updates across Mills, Story, Jasper, and Van Buren counties accompany notes on schools, rail and electric developments, and industry openings.
Jacob and Gela Sessler spend the summer at Aplington and enjoy a happy time. Nellie Stevens, now Mrs. White, visits from Missouri. A Cornet Solo by Nicholas Gosselink and an Opera-Fantasie with Faust and Carmen delight a large band concert crowd. Bert Van der Ploeg rises at two to view sunrise in Colorado. Frank Brower heads to Michigan for Cadmean Chautauqua work with a sung solo at First Church. Various local notices mention showers, weddings, and Sunday School activities.
The Mulders spent a hot spell in Lake Michigan during a weekend trip to Holland. They visited Sunnyside and expect friends to find them at 80 West 16th St in Holland Michigan. Ivan and Kathleen Sadler received a large candy box from Gerrit Rozeboom of Sioux Center just in time for the Fourth, as planned by their big friend.
Rail schedule notes Eastbound and Westbound passenger numbers 472 474 475 473 along with local freight 882 83. Freight must be at the station by 6:00 p m the previous evening. Locals carry passengers and show times 10 05 am 1 56 am 9 28 pm 30 pm. A Long Island line line about views of sound and sea.
Five of Pella's jolly young people boarded a train for Leighton on Thursday evening but were kept waiting as the regular was two hours late. Geo A Stout attended a Derbyite conference in Des Moines on Friday. Mrs J Paardekooper, aged 83, died at her son-in-law S Onstein's home. Two youths around eighteen or twenty insulted an old gentleman, prompting calls for reform school or penitentiary. W W Cook and Martha Firth will teach at Marion County Normal Institute starting Monday the 18th for two weeks. John Bolhuis and Amelia Van Nimwegen married in Chicago and will live there. Jake De Vries and G A Vander Meulen visited South Dakota for land interests. A three percent tax to fund a new railroad election stirs local interest, with Taxpayer questioning sponsors' intentions. results to be printed next week.
A cheerful, undersized street worker whistles through new snow to clear paths. A stern face offers ten cents, but the boy earns twenty five with a promise to send money home. He buys a coat for his mother and becomes an office boy in a bright uniform, allowed to whistle freely.
A Chicago grade school boy submitted a humorous frog essay in which he lampoons the creature with broken grammar. The teacher sent the piece to the school board, noting its playful misspellings and misused phrases.
Market quotes from Pella Iowa list hogs at 8510 to 6.36 per hundredweight and corn per bushel with prices for eggs and poultry products including light hens heavy hens broilers bucks full feathered cream and other fowl items plus hides and old roosters, reflecting local commerce and commodity values.
An advertisement from Ideal Pharmacy touts Levoptik eye wash blending camphor hydrastis and witch hazel to strengthen weak or strained eyes with rapid action. Free aluminum eye cup offered with purchase.
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