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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1936
Page
8
Hosksema Bros Garage advertises starter gears compatible with all car makes. The notice promotes reliable starting components and service availability at the shop.
A busy period of gatherings surrounds Kilduff with visits from Des Moines Newton and Vandalia residents. A residence on the Edward Killduf farm burned Tuesday afternoon. cause undetermined, water scarcity hindered saving the house. Local softball games featured Pella Shell Oil, Killduff, Riverview, and Beuna teams amid travel to Des Moines for a state tournament.
In Fideld area during Thursday afternoon William Van Waardhuizen threshing for Andrew Bogaards saw a straw stack burn to ashes. Nearby visits included Mrs Bert Vande Kieft and daughter Janet from Pella, with others noted helping thresh and cheese making progress at local farms. Des Moines river fishing described as good with lower water levels, while Gerrit Kulken works for Tone Van Zante at Otley and several families assisted neighbors through the week.
The Most Talked About Picture Of The Year arrives at the Princess on Sunday August 2 for four days. Miriam Hopkins Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea star in These Three, the drama about a spiteful lie that wrecks three innocent lives. Bonita Granville plays Mary Tilford and the film presents a powerful, tragic critique of cruelty and rapid gossip.
Neighbors at the Van Engelhoven home and the John family in Tracy visit Gerrit Vande Kieft, who has not been well for some time. The region enjoyed rain last Monday, but hot weather returns. Verwers brothers bale for C Bricker and Murray Van Hemert with several others, while Arthur Vande Kieft assists.
Knoxvill e Mae Crook helped Mrs Bert Den Burger with housework last week. A Sunday gathering at Herman Sneller included Ben Simons and children Esther and Paul of Newton with Mae Crook Ruth and Tommy Pitt Gladys Allard Hazel Hilda Helen Howard and Kenneth Fitt all of Knoxville. Miss Mine Bush of Florida visits with sisters Anna Mabel Barnes Bush and brother Barnes Bush and with Mrs Laura Collins at Fort Dodge. Mrs Oda Allard called in Des Moines Monday. Mr and Mrs Tunis Hoksberg and children of Tracy visited Knoxville and note the region remains dry with no rainfall for a long period.
John Hootman aged 72 was found dead at his home one and a half miles north of Mt Zion around 2 30 p m Wednesday neighbor Hollis Arnold discovered him lying face down in the yard beside highway No 1 officials say heat prostration likely caused death He had lived alone since his brother Jacob Hootman died two and a half months ago He was never married.
A district softball tourney will be held in Des Moines from August 6 to 10 to choose the eighth district representative for the Iowa Amateur Softball Association State Tournament. Counties include Decatur Wayne Clark Lucas Ion Warren Polk Jasper Dallas and Madison. The state tourney runs September 4 to 6 at an undetermined central site with thirteen district and seven metropolitan winners advancing.
District teams may enter for four dollars per team to cover charter affiliation with the national organization balls and umpires. No class G designation in the tourney. Winners gain the right to state tournament participation with no prize beyond advancement. Write Joe Campbell c/o Des Moines Playground Commission Municipal Building Des Moines to enter.
Thirteen central western states search for a double or near double of the winking girl on a Standard Oil Company of Indiana billboard. Women who resemble the image may submit photographs with name and address by August 3. The best likeness may be bought for 100 dollars for use in advertising. The artist said the figure is a composite, so resemblance may vary in hair and eye coloring.
Des Moines convention names Guy M. Gillette of Cherokee County dairy farmer and congressman as candidate to succeed the late Louis Murphy. If elected he serves until January 1939. Gillette, 67, Spanish American and World War veteran, began politics in 1907 as Cherokee County attorney and later served as town assembly member and congressman, winning the district's largest Democratic majority in 1938.
In Deep River Ta townsfolk rushed from churches Sunday to help stop a barn fire that spread to nearby roofs before firefighters contained it. The blaze began in an old livery barn and spread due to hay spontaneous combustion, with losses estimated around 8000 dollars.
A major fire swept through Deep River damaging multiple structures including the Christian church and a nearby barn, with the south wall of the Communi building badly cracked. Sparks and shifting winds spread flames to nearby properties, but most buildings were saved. Wire crews from nearby towns aided the effort and one worker suffered shoulder burns. Fire losses were reported insured.
In Chariton Iowa a grass fire at a Burlington railroad project caused about $2,000 in damage Saturday. An auto trailer loaded with truck parts and tools owned by Hixon Trucking Co of Knoxville burned after a welding machine sparked the blaze. The fire burned the machine’s rear tires.
The Iowa conservation board reports over a million fish saved from extinction in local lakes and sloughs. W A Burhans said the fish were netted from shallow waters and relocated to the Mississippi on Saturday.
Two weekend fatalities raised Iowa’s auto deaths to 220 year to date. Mrs. Edward Hagedorn, 29, died in a sideswipe crash near New Hampton involving Glen Owen, 40, of Waterloo. Injuries to Fred Owen, 48, Waverly, and Mrs. Clara Bauman, 52, were severe. A separate Des Moines fatality saw Thomas Graham, 36, struck by a fleeing car after heat wave hours, dragged 665 feet. Investigators questioned Matt Campiano, 29, and Jay Bradford, 82, as police linked a broken headlight to Compiano’s car.
A White Rock pullet in Charles Bullock's Bloomfield flock produced an egg at exactly four and one half months. Bullock says several more pullets should start laying within two weeks. Can other area flock owners match this record in Davin county.
Harry G. Taylor, Chairman of the Western Railroads, leads a program to place 6 080 weekly newspapers on Western Railroad advertising lists. The effort aims to boost both passenger and freight business across the western United States. Taylor, a former editor and publisher, draws on decades in Nebraska journalism and state government to champion the weekly press.
The Western Railroads chairman discusses press campaigns since 1925, noting a 1936 shift to include country weeklies alongside daily papers. He reflects on advertising during downturns and the rail executives’ push to boost weekly newspaper budgets along lines and in communities near shipping and passenger routes.
The U S Civil Service Commission lists open competitive examinations including an Extension specialist in parent education at 4600 dollars annually in Agriculture with related home economics options, a Fire prevention officer at 3200 dollars in the Forest Service, and a Legislative reference assistant at 2300 dollars for the Social Security Board. Applicants must meet education and experience in legislative reference work. full details available from the Secretary of the Civil Service Board of Examiners at local post offices or customs houses or from the United States Civil Service Commission in Washington, D C.
The Mahaska county safety board discussed a two day driver clinic to be held in the Oskaloosa high school auditorium likely August 21 and 22. Prof. A. R. Lauer will oversee the event.
The Iowa state college at Amos Iowa announces that further clinic plans will be stated at the next city council meeting on August 17 where the plans will be completed.
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