Question of Law Clarifies Council Committee Pay Rules
Councilman H Rhynsburger argues that Ordinance 66 and later ordinances awarding committee compensation exceed state law. Attorney General Mullan cites Section 669 and warns such pay exceeds one dollar per meeting, making higher committee stipends void. Rhynsburger offered to return funds, while the majority supports the existing attendance and committee pay framework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Rhynsburger
Rhynsburger
Pitts & van der Meide
Orange City
I. M. Earle
Dowell & Parish
Des Moines
John A. Malcolm
Oskaloosa
J. L. Warren
Geo. G. Thomassen
Pella
Mullan
Twenty-eighth General Assembly
Board of Review
Agar Packing Company Wins State Institutions Contracts
Agar Packing company awarded the state board of control contract to furnish cured meats to all state institutions for three months totaling 15000 dollars. Local Agar victory over rivals Swift Armour Cudahy Swartzchild Sulzberger noted, with no bid on dressed beef.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agar Packing Company
State Board of Control
Swifts
Armours
Cudahy
Swartzchild & Sulzberger
Agars
Pella Gazette and Local Newspapers History in Iowa
The article recounts the early press in Marion County and Pella Iowa from 1855, detailing Edwin Grant and Henry Scholte starting the Pella Gazette, its delays and revivals, and subsequent papers like Pella’s Weekblad Copperhead Blade and Pella Gazette variants, plus transitions of printers and owners through 1870 and beyond. It notes the need for chronicling local press history and offers a one-year Chronicle subscription as a prize for best history since 1872.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey News
Marion County
Donnel
Pella
Edwin
Grant
The
Gazette
S. M. Hammond
Schol
Copperhead
Bennett, McCully and Gamble
Bennett
Chronicle
Peilal
Pri
Dangerous World’s Fair claim sparks women’s virtue plea
A Missouri Women’s Foreign Missionary Society leader condemns alleged plans to hire 50,000 young girls for immoral purposes at the upcoming World’s Fair. The warning urges women and families to guard against deceptive ads offering hotel work, urging caution for any young ladies traveling to St Louis and endorsing Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen A. Cuavin
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Methodist Protestant Church of Missouri
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
Des Moines Concern
Loewenstein
U. S
ISOME
Knoxville Journal
Mar‘jon County
H. Grant
Henry P. Scholte
Iowa
Missouri River
Fort Des
Henry Hospers
Com
Democratic Party
Hospers
H.neyenesch
Mr. C. S. Wilson
Winterset
Madisonian
Type
Democratic Standard
Wilson
Melick
Waterloo
Black Hawk Coun
R. Crosby
Jas. H. Betzer
Betzer Bros
Hollani Puage
Republican Party
G. van Ginkle
Snow & Huber
Tumwa
Wapello County
McCully
Cou
Blade
Ottumwa
the Blade
Democrat and
Voter
Advertiser
Girel
Rampast
Fiat
Louis
Hollister
Allen & Stubenrauch
A. H. Weber
Aurist
Keables Drug Store
Sit
Wormhoudt’s
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