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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1945
Page
9
A dense cluster of classified ads offers coal and stoker coal, insulations, poultry supplies, and farm equipment. Multiple names and phones appear including De Nicola Valley Co, Blue 222, Thrift Way, Pella area suppliers, Van Gorp Hatchery, and several rural vendors.
Classified item notes a one room residence with enclosed porch to rent or sale at 1000 Franklin Street Pella. Mentions Mrs Nelson Wes as contact and a small rent estimate.
Help wanted notices list waitresses at Central Park Cafe and kitchen for patient tray service. Also openings for two laundry maids and two floor maids, one night cook with salary and maintenance. Apply to Mrs Blanche Culbertson Supt of Kaxka Hospital Oskaloosa Laws. Additional postings seek a girl for the Home for the Aged and a married farm hand with modern tenant house. Phone RIX Dick Schimmel.
Classified lines seek Harriet Kuyper address and arae of typing and copy work. Multiple entries request horse trading trucking chandlery and household items, plus a church seeks to buy or rent a parsonage. several contact phones and locations listed.
Various listings advertise sale items including a Van Sitterts Store assortment with a 20 bottom tractor, heaters, a cook stove, wood stoves, a Lela food grinder, lard press, feed cream separator, and implements. Also advertised are pumps, hydrants, water equipment, and a Dan Dieter stove. Local notices imply county clerk permits and other small goods for sale.
A jumble of notices and ads includes poultry services offering worming delousing and roup treatment, tractor plows for trade, food manufacturing mentions, monument orders, farm feed services, insurance against theft, milk bottle cap production, and a note on winter pedestrian motor vehicle accidents per the National Safety Council.
The City of Pella Iowa Marion County will hold a public hearing March 20 1945 at 11:00 am in Council Chambers to receive bids for improvements to the Municipal Power Plant boiler and auxiliaries as specified. Bidders may obtain specifications from Brown Engineering Co. Descriptions cover a 24 000 Th per hour boiler and a spreader type stoker with related equipment. Bids must be sealed with a 5 percent bid bond and may be deferred up to 30 days.
SSOR S NOTICE says assessors will be at Marion County State Bank each Saturday from 9 20 am to 2 00 pm to evaluate homestead exemptions Those planning moves are given special notice Marion A Toom Take Prairie Two Assessor
In Marion County district court a receiver Albert Vander Ploos files final report for Pella Team Company receivership. Hearing set March 14 at Knoxville courthouse to approve report and fix creditors’ dividends. Creditors urged to appear and show cause. receiver’s proposed dividend is about 20 percent.
Final election of the Independent School District will be held at the City Office on Monday March 12 from 12:00 to 7:00 PM. Qualified voters will elect members of the Board of Education and fill vacancies, including one starting July 1 1945. A tax levy proposal of up to 2.5 mills on the dollar of property value is submitted to fund schoolhouses construction remodeling and repair in Pelth Marion County Iowa. Proceeds go to the schoolhouse fund for stated purposes. Issued by order of the Board of Directors Samuel Ver Sleeg Secretary.
The Townsend National Recovery Plan holds a convention for the 6th District at the Pella Legion Hall on Monday at 2:00 AM with an ensuing mass meeting in the evening. Everyone invited. National representative John H. Miller will speak.
The City Assessor announces that Homestead tax credits must be claimed at Marion County State Bank basement every Saturday from 1 to 3 PM. Credits must be claimed before April 1 to be valid.
Friday evening dance announced by the American Legion Auxiliary at the Legion Hall on March 2. Also a notice reminding residents to update insurance to new address via Lautenbach Ver Dught.
The notice states that at the next regular city election on March 26, 1946 voters in Pella will decide on erecting and equipping a memorial building. The city would issue bonds totaling 40000 dollars to cover the expense per Chapter 83 of the 1939 Code of Iowa and amendments.
Southern residents seek elm tree protection against canker worms before February. Iowa State College entomologist Harold Gunderson advises banding trunks to trap pests. Method costs about 15 cents per tree and uses cotton banding plus tarred paper wrapped securely around the trunk.
Thank you to friends neighbors and relatives for cards gifts and kind words after our sad loss. We appreciate the support and expressions of sympathy from all who joined in the sorrow and offered comfort and prayers.
Mr and Mrs Ray Vhevelaay thank the eldsh or s who aided during a house fire on Monday. They express appreciation for the Red Cross department and friends, and gratitude from relatives neighbors and hospital helpers for cards letters gifts and visits.
Mr and Mrs Matt Van Gilst and Vrante Tromp express gratitude to relatives neighbors and friends for cards letters flowers and visits during Mrs Van Gilsts hospital stay and recovery at home in Oskaloosa and wish to thank everyone for their kindness and well wishes for a speedy return to work.
Film club event in Donwstin Chap featured Theda Bara in A Fool There Was and a news reel. The program highlighted early cinema, including Griffith and Sennett works, and praised slapstick as high art while noting Dracula era attitudes reflected in American life.
The guide advises spreading a thin layer of adhesive over tarred paper covering about two thirds of the width to avoid applying directly to the trunk. Do not scrape bark or injure trees, as this can disfigure them. After banding, monitor for insects and reapply adhesive as needed to prevent infestations.
Homemade self feeders and waterers for hogs are described as time and labor savers. Plans show 6 12 or 18 foot lengths with gravity or pressure water systems, plus portable tools and building notes. The article mentions the Agricultural Engineering Department and references the Midwest Farm Building Plans catalog for details.
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