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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1905
Page
2
A note slipped into the Chronicle box at the post office last week indicates reader involvement or a tip, suggesting community interest in local affairs and prompting further attention to the issue mentioned within.
The secretary of the school board published the annual report and notes on teacher salaries in Pella. Superintendent Farmer will return for the next year, with assistants yet to be finalized. The town emphasizes public education value and plans to publish further details, including a historical sketch of the schools.
Crop Bulletin reports higher mean temperatures in the Mississippi valley and below normal in the Missouri valley with varied rainfall across Iowa. Plowing for corn progresses well, with warm weather likely to bring planters into fields in late May. Northwest and southwest districts note some farmers planting as early as April 27. Oats barley and rye are mentioned as Waals.
The high school classes of 04 and 05 were entertained by Miss Anderson and Miss Culbertson at the Lincoln building last Friday. Plans show ten or twelve top students may stage a benefit play for the piano fund. Botany work continues with herbarium studies and goal of twenty five to thirty specimens. Commencement speaker Edwin A Nye of Des Moines Daily News will address graduates. Rev D C Smith will preach the annual May 28 sermon. School crowding prompts suggested accommodations improvements.
Miss Anderson Culbertson and Renaud were entertained in Lincoln school kindergarten room last Saturday evening. The gathering provided real pleasure and all attendees returned to work Monday with smiles.
A man named Andrew Smith shot Sam Irving during a drunken quarrel in Buxton. Smith fled by wagon with Jackson driving, later detained in Oskaloosa by police after Deputy Sheriff Nick Moore identified him. Jackson remains at large as authorities search Houck’s barn area. Victim Irving died instantly, Smith’s motive tied to a dispute over his wife. Smith to be taken to Albia for trial.
S Ile Mears is the third Knoxville man drawn for federal grand jury duty in Des Moines to begin May 9. One marriage license issued last week to Jess Paul Brees, 31, and Minnie Winnie Rederus, 28. Supervisors report two carloads of iron culvert tubes 20 to 35 feet long for county roads. Veteran Rock Island conductor Warren retires with pension of 50 dollars monthly. John Gibson takes his place as permanent official on May 1.
A three year old child of Daniel Sytsma two miles east of Harvey died Monday from burns after falling into a kettle of boiling paste used in house papering. The child sat back into the hot mixture, suffering burns from thighs to mid back. Despite efforts to ease the suffering, death occurred.
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