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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1918
Page
2
Local notes highlight Tunis Kempkes leaving for camp, his band directorship and library board role filled by his brother Jay. Des Moines visitors, military exams, camp visits, and family travel fill the week with civic and social motion across Pella and surrounding towns.
List of Marion county men called for military training at Camp Pike Ark. includes numerous residents from Pleasantville Pella Knoxville Lacona Cordova and other towns. Notes Yale professor G F Sadler gas research and several local moves and visits are mentioned alongside enlistments and travel plans.
Mrs. D. C. Matthews of Griswold, Iowa, recalls living in Villisca nineteen years ago with severe eye trouble. She credits Dr. Weber for treating her eyes, enabling embroidery and quilts, and mentions a Villisca physician taking his daughter to Dr. Weber for a serious eye condition. She recently consulted him again for new glasses.
Advertises for a hardware clerk position seeking a man over draft age with some hardware experience. States salary details and requests references. Instructs applicants to address inquiries to Ki core this paper.
Jey Hesselink and family returned Monday from several days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Rooyaart in Omaha. Ruth Bevingtor of Centerville Iowa left for home after a week's visit with Mrs. Fred Lankelma. They were school chums in Humeston years ago. Neighbors of J M Gosselink cut twenty acres of grain for him with four pinders and nine men while Gosselink and his hired man Alonzo Van der Pol were sick with mumps. Dorothy Clark, daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl Clark, has been quite ill but is improving. Wm Livingston of Monroe and Rev F H Webster and family from Central City visited Pella friends Wednesday evening.
An enthusiastic Marion county fair stockholders meeting adopted a plan to divide the county into township districts for selling season tickets. Chairmen named for each township include E. H. Gamble Dallas Seth Way Liberty Peter Manix Northwest Knoxville Carl Sutherland Northeast Knoxville C M Gilson Southeast Knoxville C Griffith A P Bye Southwest Knoxville Charles Griffith A. P. Bye Franklin Lloyd Hudson.
The secretary urges entrants to file livestock department entries no later than August 1 as entries close on that date. Names listed include C C Loynacan, A J Cleveland, Roy Cooley, Hugh Whitlatch, W G Stevenson, Clarence Cove, Homer Clark, Viton Harp, Kool Gamble and others associated with Pleasant Grove, Red Rock, Union, Summit, Lake Prairie and Pella communities.
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