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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1948
Page
4
A garbled assortment of sale notices lists items like gas stoves, lawn equipment, washing machines, oil drums, electric fans, furnaces, and fertilizer. Several properties and farms are advertised for sale or inquiry, with many phone references and farm equipment mentions. The fragmentary text notes multiple sellers including Vande Voort and others, plus regional locations and contact details.
An omnibus 1940s style classified block lists suppliers and services including lime and crushed gravel by Concrete, Materials & Construction Co, water and dike work, sand and gravel hauling, truck mounted dirt moving, and Electrolux demonstrations. It features names and places such as Marion County, 507 Washington Street, Bud Haan, Wm Aalbers, and Vera’s Beauty Shoppe, plus farm and building services, weapons as well as pawnshop style wants like room requests, wanted ads for grain handling, and used cotton bags, all in a dense local classifieds tone.
An article by IRA MILLER from the Farm Electrification Bureau describes farm households gaining modern electric appliances and the shift from rural drudgery to convenience. It notes how family members and even animals perform tasks, the spread of electricity, and how appliances like irons, roasters, toasters, and washing machines transform farm life, with examples of usage and monthly costs for running equipment.
Notice announces that Warner Wallis and other local figures will run in the Democratic primary for County Sheriff. It requests Democratic voters’ approval at the June primary and notes related candidacies for Township committees in Lake Brainerie. The message urges support at the primary election in June.
The Clerk of the District Court of Marion County Iowa certifies a purported last will and testament of A J Rovaart deceased. A hearing to prove validity is set for 10:00 AM on the 28th day of June in Knoxville Iowa before the Court or Clerk. Objections must be filed by that hour with Deputy Clerk T W Morris.
Ad notes report a birth on May 2 at the hospital with a 7 pound plus infant, Mr Collins and Mrs Kaus parents. Harold Rieka hais says he is in the army in Tesn after California time. Warren son works as a commercial sprayer in Ave ranisus. Marion County Truck Walton Lease met on Thursday May 27. Drainage ditch work to resume on the Van Hemert farm Monday.
The report covers weed damage and replanting impacts on corn fields, planter mistakes, and harvest concerns around Menteni and Cordova. Community members help with repairs, travel detours and a new road value discussed. local farms and families from Torrington to Centerville share updates, gatherings, and hospital and factory incidents.
Library Notes highlights Joe Brown’s Stars In My Crown and Bartley Crum’s Behind the Silken Curtain, praising their portraits of courage and liberal critique. Crum’s memoirs reveal his Anglo American Committee work on Palestine, anti semitism, and diplomatic tensions. The piece also mentions a surge toward 10 000 freezer locker plants serving individual renters in the United States.
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