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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
2
A brief stock note reports all departments fully stocked while prices run below expected levels. No specific stores or figures are provided, but the item signals a general pricing lull across categories. The record emphasizes breadth of stock and reduced prices without detailing brands or locations.
Local notes report Miss Catheryn O Donell visiting Miss Zelma Rysdam then returning to Minneapolis. Des Moines trips, hospital visits, college news, and family travels fill the week as residents visit relatives, attend events, and share wartime support.
The Red Cross opens enrollment to graduate nurses not yet state board registered to hasten army and navy nursing needs. Miss Jane Delano stresses urgency as chapters nationwide accelerate enrollment, with Mason County Ludington Mich and Detroit reporting rapid gains and Waterloo Ind enrolling eleven in the first two days.
Miss Gertrude Renaud aged 29 died at her Pella home June 19 1918 from tuberculosis. Funeral at 2 30 p m Friday at home, interment North cemetery. Nossaman Mrs John Nossaman near Olivet died June 14 1918 age 49 from Brights disease with dropsy. Funeral at 1 30 p m Sunday, interment Porter Grove cemetery.
Market quotes list corrected figures for cattle hogs and grains. Cattle range six to eleven dollars per hundredweight, hogs from fifteen to fifteen and three quarter dollars, corn one to one and a quarter dollars per bushel, wheat one seventy five to two dollars, oats six to seven cents, candled eggs twenty seven cents, butter twenty eight cents, hens twenty cents, spring chickens twenty cents, old roosters twelve cents, ducks thirteen to fifteen cents.
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