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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1937
Page
8
Experimental ad listing culling services for chickens with worm, delouse and roup treatments priced at r 100. Includes contact Brom Hatch in Pella, plus insurance rates and protein tankage delivery of 100 pounds or more from Pella Rendering.
Dairymen urged to save on milk bottle caps with low prices plus a wide auto parts and used car listing. Hocksema Bros and White Way Auto Co advertise magneto repair tires batteries and service. Multiple model vehicles from 1920s to 1934 listed for sale or trade by van Houweling Auto Co and others.
A readable listing shows a 1936 Lal trunk presentbut needs clarification. Items include a 1929 Ford, 1936 Ford Tudor, Deluxe Fordor Touring, low mile 1930 Chevrolet Tudor, 1929 Plymouth Fordor, 1929 De Soto Tudor, all advertised with likely favorable prices and emphasis on condition and value.
Legislation by Gus Asch proposes a $3 million state fund to aid newlyweds with loans up to $1,500 each. The measure aims to ease startign new households by providing accessible capital from state resources.
The notice reports the sudden death of 64 year old James Van Veen in Denver Colorado with funeral travels by Clara Van Steenwyk and Bastian Van Veen. It notes local bereavement and mentions several local residents and events including hospital care for De Wit and Mrs Breaklander, and a Pleasant Grove school picnic with indoor dinner due to rain.
The Princess theatre in Oskaloosa opens a three day engagement June 6 for Walter Wanger's You Only Live Once starring Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda. The drama promises human conflict, action, and romance as the leads reunite after The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
Mrs. Frances Van Donselaar, the teacher, is praised for guiding students. The community notes her effective work, collaboration with parents, and plans for her return next fall. Light rains and seasonal observations accompany a brief local update.
Local notices list new car licenses for E W Thornburg, J F Clark, Wayne Stierwalt, Ed J Van Gorp, Ernest Long, Anna L Neagle, E Jarrel, H Behrens, Tom Pezzatti, John Paltzer, Collins Motor Co., Loren Stevenson, and others. Real estate transfers show deed records among Dal las, Pleasantville, Knoxville, Swan, Hamilton, Pella, Cordova, and surrounding areas with nominal consideration and val ue gifts.
A sequence of land and property transfers listed from various entities. FH Spolts and others quit claim to Maud Midilecon. multiple warranty deeds to Pella and Knoxville parcels including lots in City of Pella and Melcher. receiver and executor deeds noted. prices range from $1.00 to $3,300 with respect to blocks and lots in Pella, Pleasantville, and Knoxville.
Mise Marjorie Bricker and Parl Van Hemert visited Mr. and Mrs. Howard McDaniels in Knoxville Saturday evening. Clarence Bricker and family were entertained there Sunday. Murray Van Hem of Prairie City visited the Van Hemert home. RM Hert helped build a new barn on the Paul Harp farm west of Union schoolhouse. An old barn was torn down and its material reused. The structure used heavy timbers joined with wooden pins. Mrs. Lyn Perkey was ill last week but farm work continued. Corn planted earlier sprouted. Clyde Core worked nights with his tractor. Donald Ford tended elm worm damage with Forrest Core. Laver Dailey worked at grandmother’s. Mrs. Lizzie Rees hosted a miscellaneous shower for Sarah Jane Templeton Thursday. The Rawleigh man returned to work after heart trouble since January. Bart Klyn’s family were away for Decoration Day.
Porterville residents visited relatives near Pella including Vander Linden and Mon ster families. Multiple calls and visits followed, with picnics held in Pleasant Grove and near Vanden Baard and Kamerick homes. A major operation occurred at the Oskaloosa Hasaska hospital with Mrs. De Zwarte reported progressing well.
Mr and Mrs John Kamerick with daughters Edith and Mary Lou and sons Gilmore Donald Arnold and Murray spent last Sunday with Mr and Mrs Lorensen and family near Lacona. Mr and Mrs Cornice Naaktge boren and daughter Betty Jean and sons Carnie Junior and Robert Eugene of Oskaloosa visited in the parental Jacob Goemaat home last Sunday.
The report describes a recent rain in Peoria area with stronger wind north of town blowing down rafters at Jeff Willemsen’s new barn. It notes Christian school activities in Pelia with parents and teachers present, car trades by L. J. Roose and Chris Vander Hart, a church roof project in Peoria, and a pulpit fill by Cornelius Vander Hart in Otley. Also mentions a wiener roast at the Jacob Stuurma home and John Pethoven digging a basement for a new house near M. Vander Hart’s land, with Mrs Waldeck of Colorado mentioned.
A visitor at the D. W. Van Got home attended church services here last Sunday. Several locals traveled to Pella Sunday night to hear Reverend William Goulooze of Grand Rapids preach at the Third Reformed Church there.
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