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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1933
Page
4
A suburban highway accident ends with both drivers stepping out unhurt. The lady admits fault while the gentleman deflects blame with polite humor. The column then offers ads for old iron buyers, westinghouse irons, gas ranges, washers, tires, and a Monarch range. A joke about a bigamy suitor and a professor on woman closes.
Peoria News reports Mae Ruth Stursma underwent tonsil surgery in Newton on Wednesday. Local visits include Antone Roose at G Dear home and the Westercamps’ illness. Pella callers, school knee injury, and flu illness noted among area residents.
Porterville area families and friends circulated through numerous homes and gatherings last week. Visitors included Kamerick and Goemaat relatives along with De Zwarte and Van Den Baard households, while W. A. Jansen hosted guests and John Van Scheinkhoven conducted business in Pella.
The Rock Island school district presents Attorney for the Defense at the Rock Island school southeast of Pella on Thursday and Friday evenings March 6 and 7. See Society Page for details.
Otley residents share visits across Iowa towns including Oskaloosa Pella Monroe Prairie City Tracy Fairmount and Knoxville with relatives and friends. Families such as Sandmeier Bloodsworth Verwers Postma De Graaf Vander Kolk and De Raad are among those mentioned as visiting or hosting during the week.
Mrs. W. Blackwood died Wednesday morning at 4 16 o clock at the Miller Home Kansas City Missouri where she had been treated the past three months Her body was brought to her home near Newton and funeral services were held at Mt Zion church where she long been an active member Interment followed in Mt Zion cemetery She is survived by her husband Walter Blackwood and four children William Eldon Freda and Jean and five sisters and three brothers From here attending the funeral were Mrs Marie Veenstra Mrs Jennie Beyer Carl and Edna Beyer Mr and Mrs John Ulrich and children Thelma and Rudolph Mrs Blackwood had been ill long with cancer but her death was very peaceful
The Chronicle clarifies a prior statement about 93 names presented to Pella city council. It explains the list was claimed to represent 95 percent of local business firms by supporters, but the editors believe it includes few actual business operators and does not truly represent the majority.
Excerpts from McKinley remarks share how fairs and expositions act as time keepers of nations recording progress. The speech credits fairs with energizing enterprise intellect and widening daily life through broadening information for students.
The Monroe County Emergency Relief Association led by Dr. J. F. Stafford secured Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds for Lovilia streets. Fifteen men per day will work eight hours, with at least fifty local workers employed this week if weather allows. Ten projects approved by the town council now proceed, wages set at 20 cents an hour paid in local merchant orders.
Additional applications for work will be received Wednesday and Saturday afternoons of this week at the Lovilia Press office by an assistant county welfare worker. Residents of Lovilia Union township except Rex No 6 and Cedar township may make application in Lovilia for work.
Cecil Blumenstein, son in law of North English couple Mr and Mrs William Topham, was killed at Long Beach California last Friday night when an earthquake rocked southern California. The Keokuk County News reports the tragedy as the Tophams receive the tragic news and mourn their loss in the wake of the disaster.
The case concerns a California 20 year old teenager tied to a used car firm in Long Beach. Two men fought. a judge questions attempts at peace while a witness notes there was no third party involved.
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