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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1931
Page
4
Local brief highlights include visits and returns to Prairie City from residents and relatives in Des Moines Chicago Rochelle Ill Leighton and Iowa City. Several family updates and health news accompany mentions of travel, neighbors and a shipboard fiction readied for a distant audience.
An ad claims Our Magic Out Away removes ants overnight for 2 13 cents at Rexall Drug Stores. It highlights a fast, simple solution and positions Rexall as the retailer for the product.
Local movie lovers are promised another treat next week with Shipmates starring Robert Montgomery in his first stellar role. Cast includes Ernest Torrence Dorothy Jordan Hobart Bosworth and Joan Marsh. Directed by Harry Pollard the naval adventure features Montgomery as a god on an oil barge who goes ashore posing as a South American oil magnate.
Mrs. Ross Schakel is seriously ill with a leg infection. Mrs. Gerrit Van Horsen, resident at the Home for the Aged, broke her hip after a fall. At nearly 94 years old her recovery remains unlikely but she stays cheerful. John De Vries and Mrs. V. Bakker at the Home for the Aged show no improvement. Henry Terpstra severed part of his thumb in a binder accident. Bert Ver Meer lost the index finger of his right hand by a sickle. D. De Haas sustained a severe left hand wound from a saw while pruning trees. John Paltzer broke three shoulder bones when he fell from a hay wagon. John De Ronde remains in Mercy Hospital slowly recovering from a leg fracture. Clara Cyruthia Meyer, 8, underwent a tonsil operation in Des Moines General Hospital. E. M. Cole shows slow improvement.
The twenty millionth Ford, built in New York, tours Iowa this week from Leon to Burlington. It will parade in Oskaloosa on July 17 and has drawn notable inscriptions from state officials, explorers, and civic leaders as it moves toward Dearborn.
Four states Missouri Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota are slated for a planned itinerary. The travel plan emphasizes regional sites and local interests across midwestern destinations.
The Farmers Union asks for money food or clothing donations at their office this week. Goods will be sent to Pershing for miners and their families on Saturday July 18. Chronicle want ads bring results.
Van Den Berg Electric Co publishes Electric Sparks weekly. The column presents light anecdotes about husbands and horses, promotes Westinghouse ranges, Emerson Ocean Breeze fans, and Frigidaire appliances with long warranty claims, plus a joke about a horse held up by pride as a sales pitch.
Mrs. G. Wanders bought a Woodrow washer, Harry Boland bought a Westinghouse range for his sister, and Mrs. Peter Tusseling now owns Gleaming White Porcelain Frigidaire.
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