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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
3
Alderman Van Dusseldorp recovers quickly from appendicitis surgery. Several youths and residents undergo operations with good recoveries. Local events include organ repairs at church, a troop of visitors, and community updates on roads, wells, and local schools.
Local news notes include Mrs Ad Woolard riding east Friday Mayor Gesman visiting Oskaloosa Monday John Vander Wilt and wife visiting Prairie City last Thursday Mrs A BP De Reus visiting relatives in Des Moines and Mrs Steve De Cook and daughter visiting friends in Oskaloosa last week
Ailaments praise Pella's band ahead of their debut concert Saturday evening. Also advertised is the West Bros Big Cowboy Indian and Lady Show for Friday June 9th, a semi military West act described as popular. A girl is sought for laundry work at Pella Steam Laundry and local notes report Tate Ten Hagen at his table.
On Thursday John Hollebrands arranged a $40,600 deal trading A T Van Houweling's grain elevator at Monroe and his half interest in the Prairie City elevator to James Edmands for Edmands 880 acre farm. Edmands gains possession August 1 1941 while the farm possession dates back to March 1 1912.
Miss Laura Kramer recently graduated from Northwestern University Chicago in the Oratorical department and returned home yesterday. She plans a few weeks of visiting family before seeking regular employment.
City notice warns owners of autos and motorcycles to display front and rear lights within an hour after sunset. Future violations will be dealt with as provided by law. N. J. Gesnam, mayor.
Local notes record two births in May 1911, a nine pound boy to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hertzog and a ten pound girl to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd L. Bybee. John Bowen receives a one year prison sentence for involvement in the Everist shooting. he is moved to Ft. Madison by Sheriff Cronkhite. Jasper Nye, county surveyor, attends District Court in Des Moines as a witness in Brause vs Wabash Railroad Co. Don Stoops Jr., age one, ill with pneumonia and spinal meningitis, remains in serious condition. Vandermeulen family from Los Angeles, now farming near Bussey, visited the area with Mrs. Vandermeulen a Way descendant.
John Fisher of the Pleasant Grove Board of Supervisors is seriously ill with Bright's disease. His colleagues Mr. Anderson and Mr. Van Zante visited him Tuesday as court adjourned to reconvene May 31 for a short session with only minor matters on the docket. Other items note Ramsey’s coal field option near Dallas and drill work on surrounding farms, plus a Mayo hospital recovery for Wm. A. Goodnough after abdominal surgery.
The Knoxville Journal notes a patient underwent major abdominal surgery to free the intestines from the stomach and reconfigure the digestive tract. The appendix was removed and many adhesions torn apart. The patient, Mr. Goodnough, believes he can perform light labor in a month.
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