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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
2
This store prepares for a busy week as buyers anticipate shortages. The display highlights men light weight suits trousers underwear and straw hats and women white wash skirts georgette silk sheer and cotton waists set Athena Union Suits for Women and Klosed Krotch Union Suits for Men.
Prairie City and Monroe visits are noted for Gilbert Runyan Connie Jaarsma and Mrs Nick Van Haaften plus Mrs T F Mackey and Bernard. A nationwide uniform timetable style is approved to cut costs and limit railway artwork. Various visits to Des Moines Oskaloosa and Pella, and civic and church activities are recorded along with food administration urges and local job ads.
Five auto loads of young married people enjoyed a moonlit picnic on the Mathis bluffs beside Skunk river Monday evening. The main event was a game of hookey ball and a paddling machine stunt involving Doc Edmand. Refreshments followed with a moving picture show afterward.
The notice lists Sunday school at 9:30 morning worship at 10:45 and evening services at 7:30 with Junior and Senior Endeavor groups. Midweek prayer meeting is Wednesday at 7:30. Bible school at 9:30, Junior Union at 3:00, Senior B Y P U at 7:00, and Bible study at 8:00. Robert Carroll is the pastor and invites all to attend.
Advertisements rate five cents per line with a ten cent minimum and extra ten cent if reply via Chronicle. Notices include farm lake hunting ban by H F Zigler. Cherries for sale by Arie Bogaard. seven room dwelling for sale at Broadway and University, call A Waechter & Son. Eggs for hatching Barred Rock from select pen at $1 per 15 or $1.75 per 30, call Main St 407 and Blue 128.
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