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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1947
Page
3
The piece cites George Marshall at Moscow on rights and liberty, condemns Georgia’s court case over a usurper governor and white primaries, and notes a Brooklyn library dime novel exhibit. It laments country doctors in Pella Iowa and warns of Soviet rhetoric while proposing a world federation of democracies minus Russia to enforce peace.
Editorials from Northwood Anchor and Wallace's Farmer critique liquor liberalization and bond value shifts. Centerville Sowegian argues newspapers reflect town vitality, urging press support for community progress and prosperity.
Memorial Day was being planned by G A R members with Hon John F Lacey the planned speaker and a Memorial Sunday service set for First Reformed Church. The town reported weather impacts on early crops, a new house replacing a firedestroyed one, a Jefferson banquet in Des Moines, and various local business and civic notes including road work, pond cleanups, and a shift in city leadership.
In April 1917 editor William A. Young rails against delays in U S war service as draft debates flare. A streamer asks if readers will be asked, Were you Daddy, highlighting home front anxieties over saboteurs, German naming jokes, and wartime precautions reflected in local incidents and disapproval of German references. Frances Grundmann returns to nursing courses after vacation, and a Burlingame Hawkeye reprint urges restraint in German-name usage amid rising anti German sentiment.
A report notes calls to strip foreign names from meat cards such as Potatoes au gratin and Cafe au Lait. A Pella horse owner surveyed a horse for purchase while joking about its pants. Transit work begins with a Ford motorbus. Attendees to a Minneapolis Symphony concert were listed, and others traveled to St Louis and Alton to inspect church organs. A Wilson message urges all-out war support, occupying two and a half columns.
Twenty years ago April 14 1927 Easter issue of a fourteen page paper with front page feature. James Schell of Runnells identified a murdered man in a Mason City box car as his brother Phil Schell whose funeral plans were canceled after Phil denied he was dead. Prairie City to graveled streets this summer and Jasper County to be graded. Dean Curtiss Iowa State College urged horses for surplus corn at low prices to eat the grain. Van Hemert won a Gruen watch for writing at least one insurance policy weekly for 109 weeks as Equitable Town agent. Rock Island displayed new gas electric trains soon to serve Keokuk Des Moines. Bus service described as irregular with locals riding trains. Des Moines Rock Island depot master home for days. Work slack with men taking four day weeks. W J Doubbert engaged as coach at Central College to replace Jack Pence who did not return. Page wide of the Penney Comp century since begun in 1402.
Ten year old Tulip Queen contest was in final week with Freda Den Burger leading and Leatanne Vander Pol in second. Other entrants included John Kuper Bette Lankelma Virginia Van Gorp Betty Ries and Martha Intveld. Tulip Time events planned a Ladies Night dinner song writer announcement and entertainment by Miss Mary David's dancers from Oskaloosa.
See me for farm and city property insurance and crop bail. Get automobile coverage, low rates, and solid company names. Start a savings account with life insurance for future income. Call 50 or write P. O. Box 146, Sully Iowa for a visit.
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