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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1911
Page
7
Local news notes from Pella and nearby towns highlight Vander Pols store promotions with dishes given away and flour sacks offered at savings. Mentions include H D Wormhoudt selling shoes cheap and various visits, callers, and a laundry job ad at Pella Steam Laundry.
G G Thomas seeks cherries for the South Pella merchant while local news covers visitors from Eddyville Des Moines and Oskaloosa, community events, autos, and upcoming church and school activities. Supports include notes on trades, travel, and a cautionary editorial about unruly youths.
A quirky exchange shows Kip ling paid $1 per word for poetry, but a hard headed editor offers $2 for a short poem. The poet returns with a wonder of phrases including John Yearns, Jane Turns, Eyes Meet, Love Sweet, and a cascade of emotional lines. The editor concedes the win in this humorous literary skirmish.
Lou Searles of La Crosse a railway telegraph operator owed his life to his wooden leg. He and four companions capsized on a flatboat in the Black River. While the others reached shore, Searles was missing until a rubber button on his peg leg surfaced midstream and he was recovered near dead.
A letter from Mrs Elmer Lane lauds Dr O A Young for curing years of back and head pains after three days of treatment. The ad notes Young, a chronic disease specialist in Des Moines, offers free examination and advice and declines incurable cases. Also mentions Rev Van der Ploeg resigning as Colfax Baptist pastor to pursue mission work.
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