Four Knoxville Merchants Victim of Check Forgery
Four Knoxville merchants were targeted by forgers posing as Henry L. Lemons Inc pipeline workers. Cash and goods valued at 299 were stolen from Reese and Core, Marienthals, Langebartels Bros, and J C Penney, with two men passing the checks. The forgers used fake Henry Lemons Inc letterhead and a stamped bank name, and the president vowed to pursue the culprits while warning others to verify checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Henry L. Lemons, Inc
Reese and
Core
Marienthals
Langebartels Bros
J. C. Penney
Henry Lemon, Inc
First National Bank
Creston
Iowa
Henry L. Lemons
Lemons
Mr. Lemons
East Tour and College Lectures Add Extra Course
Dr Wesselink returns from the East to headline an extra lecture at Central College with J Stitt Wilson appearing Friday March 13. Admission 35 cents non-ticket holders. Forensics at Iowa Colleges hold dual debates with Penn Friday, then a non decisive debate at University Park. State tournament planned for March 26-28 at Oskaloosa with Central College participation. President Wesselink back after six weeks, ongoing Endowment work by Rev Carnahan. Board of Central College to meet March 18 to select a new vice president. notes on a basketball game vs Luther with tickets selling fast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Stitt Wilson
Dhaapel
Europe
Penn
Oregon
Wesselink
Carnahan
Marble Collegiate
St. Nicholas Collegiate Church
Althugh
Central College
Wadnesday
Mgee Ieir
Parables, visits, and lectures enliven campus week
Rev Mulder spoke on the paralytic at Bethesda and Lent as YWCA events plan spiritual focus. Dr Aschenbrenner talked disease prevention. Students visited home, and rev Shantz from Muscatine spoke on faith at chapel. Van Pernis visited with friends, Lew Sarrett lectured in Oskaloosa, and Pella Cook Books near sellout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mulder
Bethesda
Jesus
Dr. Aschenbrenner
Vernon Shantz
Muscatine
Iowa
The
Baptist Church
van Pernis
First Reformed Church of
Fulton, Ilinois
Lew Sarrett
Oskaloosa
Pietenpol
Stuart
Oe van Emerik
Hackemack
Vander Leest dies at 59 in Prairie City obituary
Jane De Graff Vander Leest, born April 9, 1871 near Pella Iowa, died February 20 1931 at her Prairie City home aged 59 years 10 months and 11 days. She moved to Nebraska at twelve, married Gerrit Van der Leest March 3 1892 and raised eight children. She and her husband joined the Reformed Church at Pella Nebraska in 1893, later moving to Iowa near Prairie City and then to the city. She was active in the Christian Reformed church and Ladies Aid, survived by husband eight children two sisters and nine grandchildren plus many relatives. Her last illness was marked by strong faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie City
Jane de Graff Vander Leest
John
Mary de Graff
Pella
Iowa
Nebraska
G. H. Klein
Gerrit van der Leest
Mary Klein
Adams
Tillie Braashart
Pellatowa
Reformed Church
Christian Reformed Church
Ladies Aid Society
Potatoes and beans price contrast from Idaho to Pella
F G Quire of Buhl Idaho mails a letter to the Pella Chronicle examining price gaps for potatoes and pinto beans. He notes Idaho potatoes near 40 cents per hundredweight and 80 cents for higher grades, beans at 1 80 and 1 26 per hundredweight, freight charges to Mississippi, and large local shipments. He questions producer received prices versus east coast buyers and invites orders to illustrate market realities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. G. Quire
Buhl
Idaho
Pella Chronicle
Mississippi
Pella
Dreamy night echoes and late stays noted
A fragmentary quote describes an unusual calm and someone staying up late. The lines convey a dreamy mood and emphasize the action of remaining awake past usual hours, suggesting a reflective or intimate moment without further context.
Big Chief Returns To Knoxville
Knoxville reports the Big Chief, after a prior jail or short-term stint, is back in town. He faces extended confinement, with mayoral action lengthening sentences and forcing a choice between street labor or a special diet. The week also saw fifteen men jailed for drunkenness as Knoxville earns a reputation for strict discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
C. J. Scott Notis Hizzoner
Local Physician Gives Health Talk In Pella
Dr. Carl Aschenbrenner of Pella spoke on disease prevention and showed how lifestyle, diet, and hygiene affect health. He warned that infection can spread before symptoms appear and stressed simple measures like soap and water while noting dangers of overuse of strong antiseptics. He also joked about a wild woman image and highlighted heredity versus injury as disease causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Aschenbrenner
Pella
Aschenbrenner
Haggard
Rural Library System Trial in Black Hawk County
Des Moines Register reports on a one year trial of Black Hawk county rural library system, with book wagons from central libraries to rural schools and communities. If successful, it may extend statewide as lawmakers may levy up to one mill tax outside towns and cities to fund rural libraries. Iowa’s rural reading gaps and low statewide library service are highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines Register
Black Hawk County
Ilinois
Katherine de Koning
Register
Iowa
Black Hawk
County Board of Superviora
Optimist Pessimist Chestnut Quips Drift From Modern Life
An odd collection of wry lines about optimism and pessimism, implying modern life is full of detours and drifting couples. The speaker jokes that even simple pleasures like barbers asking for bay rum reflect broader social changes and detached modern routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damion Bunyon
Pipe
Paul Revere
White House Conference on Child Health in Des Moines Program
Announcement for the Iowa Public Health Association annual meeting in Des Moines on April 2 and 3 1931. An afternoon session will report White House Conference findings on child health and protection with sections presenting results. The week’s disease reports list totals by county for multiple illnesses including scarlet fever measles and pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Public Health Association
Des Moines
Iowa
White House
Public Health Association
Jasper
Woodbury
Union
Story
Scott
Webster
Wapello
Delaware
Allamakee
Greene
Tariff changes and Franklin library foresight compare
The piece notes the new Tariff Commission may correct inequities in the 1930 act amid tariff shifts that hurt watches, hats, olive oil, shoes, and French goods, with looming export declines. It recalls Benjamin Franklin founding the first circulating library and the growth to 5,000 libraries, ending with Franklin’s aphorism about acorns and great cakes.
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Senate
Tariff Commission
Hoover
Switzerland
United States
Italy
Spain
Canada
Great Britain
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Czechoslovakia
America
Leo. J. Keena
Paris
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Boston
England
Jones's Alley
Philadelphia
Ritchie urges repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in favor of states’ rights
Governor Albert G. Ritchie argues against Prohibition, framing it as a states’ rights issue. He cites mounting enforcement costs, with federal outlays in 1930 and 1931 rising dramatically and threatening a Treasury deficit. He warns that despite such figures, lawmakers may boost enforcement spending again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert G. Ritchie
Maryland
Ritchie
Bureau of Prohibition Enforcement
Office of Education
Public
Children’s Bureau
Bureau of Enforcement
Treasury
Insects Used By Mankind From Bees To Mealy Bugs
A survey notes diverse insect helpers including lac insects for wax, lady bed beetles for pest control, and the Jantunt bug aiding Hawaiian farmers. Entomologists recruit mealy bugs for cactus control in New Zealand, while California departments breed parasites for citrus and walnut pests. Medical uses include blister beetle powder for skin circulation and cochineal fluid once yielding a red dye replaced by analine dyes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal
Department of Agriculture
New Zealand
California
Prince of Wales on journalism quoted by traveler
The Prince of Wales reportedly told William J. Makin that if he were not a prince he would be a journalist. Makin, in his book South of Suez, also records the remark that going out after a story is among the finest jobs in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince of Wales
William J. Makin
South of Suez
Centennials and anniversaries listed for 1931 events
The London Observer catalogs centennials and bi centuries for 1931 including Monroe and Hegel deaths, Victorian Sardou birth, and Frederick III birth with 200th anniversaries like the 100000 killed in Peking earthquake. It notes new word Stalinite from tempering steel and laments stained glass as soul cleansing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Observer
James Monroe
Hegel
Frederick III
Peking
Voltair
Jeannne d'Arc
Alexander VI
Stalin
Doctor Carl Ver Steeg Wins Honors As Author and Fellow
Dr. Karl Ver Steeg head of Wooster College geology dept earns two honors. He publishes a 150 page book Wind Gaps and Water Gaps of the Northern Appalachians and is elected a Fellow of the AAAS for outstanding scientific work. Lecture at University of Cincinnati Feb 21 cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Ver Steeg
Geo. Ver Steeg
Ver Steeg
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Wooster College
Ohio
Northern
Appalachians
Department of Geology
Judd and Detweiler
National Geographic Magazine
New York Academy of Science
Columbia University
Joseph Barrell
Yale
Karl Ver Steeg
University of Cincinnati
Appalachian
Appalachian Mountains
Association
Riders Rate Higher Than Walkers
A study by the Iowa Department of Public Instruction reports rural pupils transported to school show better attendance than walkers. Miss Agnes Samuelson, state superintendent, cites a ten county survey to be featured in the forthcoming National Society for the Study of Education year book, noting less than sixty percent of students within two miles who walk to school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Public Instruction
Agnes Samuelson
Miss Samuelson
Iowa
National Society For the Study of Education
An Earful In A Very Few Words
Joe F. Denburger of Des Moines says January Chronicle advertising will pay for his advertising for the next six months. He adds Nuff sed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe F. Denburger
Des Moines
Chronicle Advertising
Rural school attendance tied to transport and tuition
The passage notes that students transported at their own expense attend school over 150 days a year while 82 percent of similarly distant students with public transport have comparable attendance. Public expense transportation and high school tuition payments by rural districts have materially improved attendance and education opportunities for rural boys and girls.
Washington Banquet Honors Nation's Progress and Values
A Washington banquet hall featured patriotic decor, large silhouettes, and a blue white red motif. Prof. Herman Stuart urged world wide economic solidarity and moral renewal, praising American scientific progress while warning against moral decline. Music by Margorie Baron trio, trombone solo, and a Men’s Glee Club finale closed with nearly ninety attendees applauding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Martha Washington
Pella High
Heaven
Mr. Bakker
Margorie Baron
Lucille Dreckman
Gertrude Lammers
Herman Stuart
America
Stuart
Europe
George Washington
Washington
God
William Schalekamp
Men's Glee Club
Willard Langeral
John A. Wesselik
Edward Vander Ploeg
Paul Blommers
God Advice Errdntifight Off Mirror Tale in Want Ads
In a terse want ad style snippet a girl quotes a wife warning the man to watch himself when he is present. The brief exchange hints at tension and perceived self‑involvement without detailing events or outcomes. The fragment resembles a satirical bargain or personal tension captured in a classified ad tone.
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DR. Wesselink
Luther
Dennis
Jens Wesleyan
Richard Burton
Sioux County
Sinois
Sons and Daughters
Korn & Sybenga
G. Vander Leest
F. C. Quire
Big Chief
Syphus
Washington News
Congress
Ramseyer Hatcheries
West
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