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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1915
Page
8
A 19th century note warns housekeepers to check baking powder labels for alum or phosphate ingredients. It contrasts alum and phosphate of lime with cream of tartar powder and urges recognition of cheap substitutes. Royal Baking Powder Company of New York is cited as a reference.
The Master Key serial draws packed houses each Saturday at the Electric Palace and will end next week. That evening the Universal mystery thriller Black Box begins its thirty reel run, with two reels shown weekly for fifteen weeks, touted as a surpassing production written by H Phillips Oppenheim. Local notes also report Mrs. F M Frush returning from Alton Illinois to care for her ailing father, Rev F N Byram’s summer colportage wagon trip, Mrs Arie Ver Steeg visiting Newton, and Henry De Wit of New Sharon visiting his father N De Wit after a Prairie City visit.
Rev B F Brinkman and Rev A Te Paske of Bethel church north of town travel to Kalamazoo Michigan for the Particular Synod of Chicago meetings this week. Mrs Te Paske accompanies him to Chicago and will visit friends before returning home. Miss Kate Smorenburg and Miss Carrie Ten Hagen visited Monroe. Ellsworth Richardson was in Des Moines on business Friday. Miss Gladys Nieswanger, Central College student, enjoyed a visit from her Harvey, Nebraska-based parents last week. Mrs H J Ross and children from Tribune Kansas visited Lake Schakel home area. Mrs Wm De Cook and Mrs H Vander Syde visited Des Moines Friday. F R Gambell purchased the Broadway property formerly H J Rhynsburger’s. Van Zante Bros advertise gasoline stoves and Perfection Oil cook stoves with ice cream freezers. Mrs H J Ross and children visit relatives near Pella. Miss Clara Waechter visited Marguerite Yoder in Kalona then Iowa City. Rev T D Franklin of Clearfield Indiana looked at property in Pella with a view to moving if suitable. Rev L Colyn of Hollister Idaho preached at First Reformed on Sunday for his father’s death. Mrs Wm Dingeman and two children went to Oskaloosa to visit niece Minnie Hoss in hospital. James Van Vliet left for Hawarden to join his brother Ben overseeing telephone exchanges. James to be bookkeeper in Hawarden office.
Miss Flynn of Ottumwa visited friends in Pella then Des Moines Thursday. Mrs Lowe, mother of Central College student James Lowe, visited Barnes City Thursday. J Jelsms and Dr Mitten were business and Monroe visitors Thursday. Mrs Van Heukelem of Leighton and her parents visited in Pella. Marie Syntorst visited Leighton to see her sister Mrs Vander Zyl. Vander Ploeg couple returned from California. An auto collision near the Chronicle office caused damage. Pella faces beggar nuisance amid an epidemic of beggars and fund-raising schemes. Knoxville Express notes forthcoming marriage invitations for Miss Aimee Foldell and Harry Aldrich on May 13. S. H. Viersen attended real estate business in Oskaloosa. Mrs Eller of Des Moines visited Mrs Gambell. De Cookes visited Clarion. Mrs Caulkett and Billy left for Dallas, Texas to join Mr Caulkett.
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