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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1907
Page
4
A humorous dialogue sketches a city buying and running streetcars, libraries, Morris chairs, and cafés. The idiot envisions lavish reforms with Carnegie libraries, reading rooms, and chaperoned riders, funded by municipal bonds and city printing offices, while neighbors debate costs and legality.
Des Moines advertisement for Dr. Bair claims hundreds of testimonials curing long deemed incurable diseases such as consumption paralysis cancers and rheumatism. It offers free consultation at his office or by mail and invites afflicted individuals to write detailing their cases.
The piece by Reverend Sipko Francis Rederus extols the Minnehaha name meaning laughing water. It frames nature as divine music that calms and inspires, likening river and surf to voices of God. Nortonville Kansas serves as the noted location for the reflection.
A humorous verses little by little portrays spring on a farm with a drinking farmer and hired man in disarray. Chinchbugs, sow with piglets, a dog stalking a tramp, a gentled bull goring a farmer, and youths at a wood picnic ending badly. A sales position is advertised at Van Spankerens store.
A Kirkwood Missouri dispatch to the Chicago Tribune says the city electric light plant failed. The plant will shut down and electricity will be bought from a private firm at one third the cost. The city plans to charge customers enough to light streets but not burden taxpayers. The piece critiques municipal ownership as inequitable.
A rural spectator at a Nebraska Indians game from Carlisle and Haskell shows ignorance of the sport and players. He and his wife observe one player, mispronouncing and quipping about his size while wondering what they feed him for strength.
Iowa’s fishing season begins May 15, opening a period of new rules as anglers prepare to cast for gamefish. Des Moines and Skunk rivers are reported in good condition, promising plenty of fish stories in the coming ten days while laws for hunting and fishing grow stricter each year.
Proof of will filed in Marion County Iowa. Hearing set for April term at Knoxville District Court on April 30 1907 with interested parties to be heard. Clerk R O Kersbergen notes April 18 1907 filing date.
A local paper reports a farmer punishing his son for a cigar find then an accidental explosion burns his face and barn, a mystery jackass to locate, a double-bodied pig displayed in town, and Vanderpol's promoting twenty percent lace curtain discounts this week.
City officials and ward representatives named include Rhynsburger P A Van der Shuis and Johnaca swenee, with James Jacame and Cole Sha Ki also listed among service leaders. Dusseldorp is noted among the local officers, outlining positions in the ward administration.
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