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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1924
Page
5
The Chamber of Commerce staged a four day festival with band music, performances by a slack rope walker, dogs and a pony, games, a novelty egg race, and a balloon ascent. Fire trucks demonstrated hose work, prizes drew crowds, and vendors reported strong balloon and booth sales as residents and farmers attended.
A concert program lists selections including Selected Overture North Pole Hayes Garden Dance Vargas Waltz Bridal Ro Bernard Selection Tannhauser Wagner Vocal Solo I Love You Morning Noon and Night in Vienna Suppe and a March. Followed by a visit note: Mr and Mrs Jake Sterrenberg visited George Sterrenberg’s family near Indianola and traveled to Des Moines on the Rock Island excursion.
Paul Grundman is the new representative of the Manhattan Oil Company at their Main Street service station in Manhattan. He replaces Louis Van Roekel who served about eight months and returns to the Pella Supply Company with his father. Paul is described as a hustling young man and is expected to gain a proper share of the city’s gas business for his company.
Ray Hoksburgen, 22 or 23, son of Albert Hoksburgen and nephew of Y. T. Van Niewaal, was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon near Tracy when a team he drove to a binder ran away. He was thrown in front of the machine, the shoe on the sickle bar struck his back, piercing his lung and liver.
As a noon passenger train neared, Ed Failer tried to cross University street at the Central College athletic field entrance. He stalled his car on the track, fled, and the locomotive struck the Ford, breaking its lamp and bending the fender while the engine’s side step was torn off.
The Rock Island round trip from Pella to Des Moines attracted fifty eight locals and a large east line crowd. Fare was 95 cents, about a cent a mile, with thirteen coaches filled and total tickets 863. Potential Des Moines Keokuk trip rumor could bring similar crowds next. pass through Pella around 7 AM en route to Keokuk.
Helene M. Visscher, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Peter Grooters of Grand Rapids Michigan, married Dr. Harold R. Peasley son of O H Peasley of Indianola. Ceremony at Grooters home with family present. After a brief wedding trip they will reside at the Franklyn apartment, August 15.
Rev John Firth, long serving missionary in Assam with roots in Pella, Iowa, will receive a Ford touring car funded by readers of the Baptist Record. The car will aid his mission work across Assam, cutting travel time and conserving his strength for continued outreach amid transport and cost hurdles.
John Sneller living at a house owned by Wm Kelderman on Union Street saw the fire department respond twice Wednesday before nine. A defective flue started the first blaze, and then a second fire broke out with roof flames. Firemen extinguished both blazes, but the property suffered heavy damage and much of the upper story likely must be renewed. no insurance confirmation.
Mrs. Frieda Vander Schaaf files for divorce from Louis Vander Schaaf in Sioux Center accusing cruelty and failure to provide. She seeks custody of their two children aged two and nine months and other relief. The couple married in March 1921 and claims a heavy strike in front of a town photo session plus ongoing misery.
John Vander Linden sold his 130 acre farm three and a half miles northwest of Bussey at public auction Tuesday afternoon. Jesse Ellis was the high bidder with a bid that bought the farm. Vander Linden was satisfied with the price as he could not look after the property.
The Farmers' Cooperative Exchange and Farm Bureau of Lake Prairie Township schedule an annual picnic for Friday August 15. No definite location or full program yet, but organizers promise an event of interest continuing the summer tradition. Further notices will follow.
The ice cream and sandwich sale at the Scholte lawn, planned for Saturday as a Des Moines Iowa Children’s Home benefit, was postponed due to threatening weather. Organizers will hold the event next Saturday at the same place and hope for clear skies to aid the fundraiser and festivities.
Mrs Kate Beard of Pella Iowa organized a clothing box for Piney Woods Country Life School Braxton Mississippi from the Cotton Blossom Singers visit. Mrs Jones thanks the donors noting quilts from scraps, boys wear, dormitory roof work, and cannery efforts boosting winter prep.
The school board debated electing a secretary, a post vacated since D. G. Gosselink’s health failed. Peter Van Sittert, already handling duties, ran against Dell De Haan. after a deadlock, Van Sittert won with support from all four colleagues. The board also seeks a new director to replace Van Sittert, noting expense cuts and the need for members with school-age children.
L W Hartley and family drove to Ottumwa to visit relatives and joined Mr and Mrs C F Carpen and their daughter from Cedar Rapids for a Pella family reunion. The three carloads traveled to Lancaster Missouri to see the old Hartley home and met Bill Hall known for circus animal menageries.
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