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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1949
Page
3
A set of brief notes from the Trinity Church Herald and community column laments cautious aging, urges progress over comfort, and muses on civic pride. It recalls a Stuttgart radio license joke and ends with a call to clean up Pella’s backyards to match a cleaner city image.
Five Korean women, principals of girls schools, spent six months in the United States studying American democracy and schooling. They visited Los Angeles Chicago Detroit Washington New York and Boston and return to Korea after another month in New York. Their spokesman Sahng Myung Pai praises Christian love as the core of the American system, noting Korean schools were often run under totalitarian regimes.
A trio of editorial excerpts urges public tribute to the flag, questions the era of diminished patriotism, and backs eliminating the state superintendent post in favor of an appointive board. It cites a youth’s reburial, flag half mast at Memorial hall, and local reactions. It also reports Sheldon Mail and Albian Union-Republican opinions on governance and postal costs tied to congressional franking.
Ottumwa High School basketball defeated Davenport with a story by Brad Wilson in the Des Moines Register. Maasdam and Moon coached the bench as the Wapello County team ignored doubters and won, showing discipline, resilience, and character in a democracy of effort.
MaS against fanatic opposition fought for a place for women in medicine. She promoted progressive ideas to establish good hospital and nursing care for women and children and to advance preventive disease measures. Today 303 medical students are women.
In a May 6 1909 item N Rhyns burger sold white carnations at 50 cents a dozen to aid the Memorial Fund. A humorous note recalls youths riding trains to Li and back to Pella amid egg showers, while Oska loosa’s old bell with two ton weight moves to a new tower. Mayor Gesman enforces curfew and church loitering rules as farm boys swap May I haul you home for May I see you home.
In Des Moines a convention showcased Ed Porter’s new machine for casting gold crowns. Govert Van Arkel returned from Twin Brook South Dakota where he aided his brother with farm work and started with the Pella Stacker Company. Pella men attended a Y M C A religious meeting the prior Sunday afternoon led by Paul Renaud with A Bernstein and B Mentzer bidding on junk especially old rubber.
In Rock Island a 13 year old Evans boy Clarence Bland was chased by Marshal Benitema after fleeing a train with 2.45 dollars. The article notes railway workers housing at Howell station for train riders and frequent Camp Dodge soldiers as passengers, plus local crime recoveries and community notices from 1919.
May 2 1929 issue notes a special edition on cleaning painting and remodeling with a CobbAround the World series. Marion County bonds sought 1.5 million for primary roads chaired by Joel H Johnson with Knoxv ille support. Death of Cornie Clement after a railroad derailment. speed fines by Officer Dennis. concert by Fred Faassen. India life story by John Firth. Sousa NBC band sponsor. GM celebrates half a million sixes. mud on White Way and Kuyper quips. 17 Pella merchants back road bond ads with slogan Out of the Mud.
Marion County Farm Bureau reported paying 4064 dollars last year to defray extension-educational program costs beyond membership and legislative work. President Gerald De Penning said county funds were not used for the extension program and highlighted tax- fund efficiency with 444 411 boys and girls on rolls, 810 farm families reached, and 500 farms adopting new farming practices due to the extension program.
Ten years ago April 27 1939 front page photo shows four high school relay team members John Van Vliet Sam Turner Pete Thomas and Charles De Wild with trophies from field events. They'd won at the Thomas Jefferson relays and planned to run at Drake relays. A Dutch costume delegation invited Governor George Wilson to Pella Tulip Time, with operetta funding urged. Other items include art students at Central College, a serious horse hitching accident, a fifty year married couple Vander Ploeg, a Madrigal Club concert, and Memorial for Mrs George Stout. The Tulip Time Special Edition was upcoming.
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