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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1946
Page
3
A meditation on spring chores and food scarcity urges canning surplus while noting rising costs. W Van Kirk calls for prophets and statesmen to build a warless world, urging restraint amid postwar turmoil. Columns discuss farmers strikes in 1946, store scarcity tactics, and fertilizer use plus legume cover crops to boost soil nitrogen.
A Memphis plan to adopt Enschede Holland aims to rebuild its textile economy after war. Memphis leaders say Enschede, a textile hub with eighty mills, will need cotton and support, strengthening Anglo Dutch ties and promoting peaceful cooperation among American communities.
Editorial notes contrast the Four Freedoms with colonial unrest in the Dutch East Indies and recalls a Morning Sun piece praising sulphur and molasses drinkers for building moral fiber. It reports Toledo Chronicle criticism of the OPA price controls and quotes a retailer group affirming alignment of merchants and customers in price policy.
Ten years ago in April Pella residents reflected on deaths and business changes. Marie Rhynsburger, a 30 year shopkeeper, ran the Needlework Shop in the C Rhynsburger store. Prominent locals and visiting figures from KENT radio promoted IGA products. Families marked long marriages and landmark anniversaries. The Second Annual Tulip Time dates were set for May 12 to 15, with committees busy on festival plans. A new post office design and queen candidates were announced. Local theatre showcased The Country Doctor and a high school play It Looks Like Rain. Pella churches raised funds for relief as Red Cross funds ran low. The operetta Windmills of Holland was planned for Tulip Festival entertainment. County bonds were refinanced at 1% via Halsey-Stuart & Co. Des Moines mourned Mrs. Martha Childress, a pioneer daughter of Walter Vlieg. Road conditions were rough, and the Pella–Oskaloosa road remained impassable for travel.
Twenty years ago on April 8 1926 three Oskaloosa businessmen asked Pella Chamber of Commerce road committee for a hard surfaced link to Oskaloosa. Pella committee chair was H P Van Gorp. Rev George Derbyshire resigned as Pella Baptist pastor to join University Baptist in Des Moines. Dan Dieleman left the city council to farm in Wapello County and Ed Van Zante was named Councilman at Large to serve out his term. A 90th birthday photo of D S Huber by W J Wagner graced the front page after winning a Des Moines Register contest. Mahaska County voters faced April 24 bond votes to pave highways and elevate primary roads, cost about ten cents per acre yearly. The Pella Building Company planned teardown of a cleaning shop and the U Ten Brock home on East Franklin for new business buildings by Chas Lautenbach and Son, while a Knoxville quip noted Pella’s cabbage flower and Bologna bird as local lore.
Thirty years ago on April 1 the city council, in its first meeting after the election, ordered 16 hard maples, ten elms, 14 white pines and 3 Amer camore trees planted in Central Park. An orchestra was organized at Pella High School with Tunis Kempkes directing. Farm boys left school for spring work, hoping to return in autumn as the Moderated Club offered prizes for best school gardens. The Grand Army Post announced Memorial Day speaker Byron C Ward from Des Moines. Professor McIntire of Central supervised a Vietrola concert at Central College chapel.
Professor L Grover of Central will present two men in vocal recitals Beyers and Allen baritone and tenor W N Fowler bought a new Maynes car from the Ever Ready Auto company James Lankelma Fred Johnson and Ed Van Zante bought Buick cars Marion County received slightly more than 10000 as its share of the automobile tax fund distributed semi annually The price of sugar was twelve cents a pound cattle were 650 to 900 per cwt hogs 875 to 900 corn 60 to 60 cents per bushel and oats 36 cents Ray Van Maren had a toe badly crushed at the freight depot when a piece of granite a tombstone fell on it Joe Helt and the Van Gorkom Brothers were in the southwestern part of the State operating ditching machines He Koopman was ditching near Toowa Joe Fans to move to Clinton to begin work in a five and ten cent store Pella will lose a grand booster when Joe Teaves was their history The Vella National Tank reported Carrie Chapman Catt of New York touring the country urging club women to battle for suffrage Overland cars coming off the assembly lines at 1000 per day per ad by Star Auto Co
The piece argues that returning to the soil offers health and joy, and opens a wide vista of usefulness. A farmer living in harmony with divine will can reveal long-hidden truths to city dwellers and serve as a modern missionary through wise, simple farming and community influence.
A dated and garbled note describes a lemon juice recipe claimed to ease rheumatic pain quickly. It mentions a drink mix with watery components, eggs, and various nonsensical phrases, then shifts to a vague instruction about filing by sent deurigae under an awn beety tack wiretee.
The passage urges teaching effective agricultural practices and proper methods to improve yields. It condemns false witness against land and calls for reform through education to cultivate crops and orchards, turning farming into a cooperative effort with higher outcomes. It references Madison College in Tennessee.
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