Pella Board of Health Adopts Garbage Box Rule 1918
The Pella Iowa Board of Health approves Rule No. 49 requiring all property owners and local businesses to provide a galvanized garbage box or can with a close fitting cover kept closed. Cans to be placed at alley line and hauled to the dump. Violations deemed nuisances with penalties under state statute and city ordinance. Adopted May 7 1918 by Mayor H J Vanden Berg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Iowa
Board of Health
State of
H. J. Vanden Berg
Pella Markets Reported Prices From Local Traders
Pella Markets lists corrected figures by Van der Zyl Bros. Cattle with cattle at 6.00 to 11.00 per hundredweight hogs 15.00 to 16.25 per cwt new corn 1.00 to 1.25 per bushel wheat 1.75 to 2.00 per bushel calcous ste 0.65 per bushel.
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Vander Zyl Bros
Calcus Ous Ste
Mortuary notes and obituaries from Pella area May 1918
A baby’s brief life is noted with burial the same day. Obituaries recount Abraham Synhorst dying at 66 with operation, Henry Doeden at 74 in the Home for the Aged, and Downing of Altamont Kans formerly of Pella. Funeral details, residences, and survivors are listed along with a veterans' poem for Mustered Out.
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Synhorst
Abraham Synhorst
Pella
First Reformed Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Doeden
Henry Doeden
George
Iowa
Local notes from Pella and Des Moines visits
Mrs. C. H. Randall and Mrs. S. H. Vander Zyl spent Wednesday at Des Moines. Mrs. T. J. Reese of Hedrick visits Pella this week while her husband Rev. T. J. Reese attends the Northern Baptist Convention in Atlantic City. J. O. Watson of Indianola and W. D. Milligan of Guthrie Center, both Fifth district judge hopefuls, visited Pella and called at the Chronicle office. Carl VerSteeg, formerly teaching at Neenah, Wis., visits his mother in Pella before leaving for Ft. Riley to enter medical officers training. A Kansas City Star clipping notes Lt. Morgan of the medical corps, a Clay Center native and son of Dr. B. F. Morgan, is commended for frontline first aid in France and later removing his gas mask to speed aid. he had moved to Clay Center earlier.
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T. J. Reese
Hedrick
Pella
Rev
Atlantic City
N. J
Northern Baptist Convention
J. O. Watson
Indianola
W. D. Milligan
Guthrie Center
Fifth Judicial District
Chronicle
Carl VerSteeg
Neenah, Wis
Ft. Riley
Medical Officers
Kansas City Star
Morgan
France
E. C. Morgan
26Th Infantry
B. F. Morgan
Taft
Clay Center
Hand injury at Buerkens shop ends in severe loss
Buerkens Manufacturing Co. owner Buerkens, age over 75, had his hand mangled when a saw at the machine shop caught on Wednesday morning. Three fingers were removed and a fourth may also be lost. The accident occurred while he explained saw use to a worker. He is reported to be in great pain but stable and improving with prompt treatment.
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B. Buerkens
Buerkens Manufacturing Co
Bueskens
Oskaloosa YMCA Team Falls to Pella 12–4
A late Friday game saw Oskaloosa high school members from the YMCA team lose to Pella 12 to 4. Schreiner pitched well with solid defense behind him as the visitors finally broke through in the fifth inning. The match ended after six innings with Pella in command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa High School
Pella Boys
Schreiner
Knitting Cloaked Quip Spurs Curious Banter
A playful exchange features a matronly speaker asking what the maid is knitting and the maid coyly replies she does not know whether the item will be a sock or a sweater. The flirtatious tone hints at light social humor amid domestic chatter.
Red Cross Canteens: A Glowing Modern War Room
An American Red Cross worker writes from France praising a canteen unit for soldiers. The spare rough space is becoming a bright recreation room with blue accents, red white and blue stencils, and paintings by Miss Kirkpatrick and Miss Beckett. It will expand into a large kitchen and seating for over a thousand, with careful food prep and cleanliness. The dormitories, fumigation, incinerator, and fresh footwear reflect pride in the evolving, well organized aid facility.
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Red Cross
Miss Kirkpatrick
Miss Beckett
Beaux Art
Misa Beckett
France
Pella Grabs Win Over Monroe in Lopsided Game
Pella lifted to a 19 to 7 victory over Monroe in an eighth grade boys contest. The Monroe visitors could not field their regular pitcher, contributing to the home team's heavy offense. A return game is desired by Pella.
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Monroe
Pella
Notice of seized horse under marshal’s order
A dark dun gelding about eleven hundred pounds, ring bone in the right front leg, age about fifteen, is subject to lawful handling if not claimed within one week. Addressed by L. A. Bickford, Marshal.
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L. A. Bickford
Marshal
Too Young to Keep Gas Masks On
The piece argues that American Red Cross actions, such as sending an automobile and supplies to French hospitals near Toul, brighten children’s lives and aid war zones. It contends these charitable acts are integral to U.S. military policy in France and Italy as if mandated by war.
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Red Cross
American Red Cross
Toul
Nancy
Key Cross
France
Germany
Evian
Italy
Services and events at Baptist and Epworth Leagu e
Church notices detail morning and evening services at 10 45 a m and 8 pm with union services at First Reformed church. Bible topics include Is the Soul Conscious After Death, The Broken Blade, and The Home Guards and the Red Cross. Bible School Junior and Senior union meetings, prayer meeting, and Wednesday Bible study are listed plus invitations to all. Will notice records a 1918 probate hearing for Dries Gortel in Marion County Iowa with Clerk Harold Clements announcing May 27 1918 as hearing day.
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First Reformed Church
Home Guards
Red Cross
Robert Carroll
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hoffman
Epworth League
W. HH. Dillion
District Court of
Towa
Marion County
Dries Gortel
Knoxville
Iowa
Harold Clements
RIDDLES OFF THE GRIDDLE And other curious wordplay items
Riddles offer playful puzzles about returning without borrowing and simple letter tricks. The piece presents quick Q A style stanzas about stars, absence, pulse and social rank with terse, punny answers.
Riddles and coastal queries in a playful piece
A brief puzzle styled passage asks how sailors know Long Island by the Sound and which two Massachusetts cities yachtmen should visit Fall River and Salem. It then poses three wordplay questions involving vowels and a riddle about yesterday, prompting attention to language and memory.
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N.C
Long Island
Massachusetts
Fall River
Salem
Help Wanted Classifieds Across Iowa and Illinois
A collage of classified notices seeking help and services. Jobs include a 15 year old in-store work, a 16 year old girl for private family care, an experienced grocery clerk who speaks Holland, and district managers and agents for a new income policy. Also listings for housewares for exchange, hens for hatching, and an insurance sales opportunity. Locations include Pella Iowa Rock Valley Illinois Chicago and surrounding areas. Contact details provided: phone numbers and addresses.
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Pella
Iowa
Gundert & Gundert
Rock Valley
Strong Stock Company
Insurance Exch, Bldg
Chicago
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Puritan Drug CO
Heerema Bros
RULES
Board of Health of
City of
Pella Markets
Pella Produce Co
Mickie
Mebure
John Nieburg
B. Fay Mills
Quincy
Ill
Isabelle Mason
Tipton
J. 2. Downing
Washington, D. C
I. H. Downing
Downing Electrical Co
Des Moines
Kansas
H. W
Todd
Oakwood
C. H. Randall
S. H. Vander Zyl
Kaiser
Oskaloosa
Model of
Citizens National Bank
U. S
Liberty
Federal Reserve Bank
County of
Marion
J. C. Rhynsburger
J.C. Raynsburger
W. HW. Vander Ploing
G. Goldhart
G. H. Wormhoudt
EE. 1
Roorda
M. T
B.C
Chronicle Office
Ask Chronicle Office
T. H. Liggett
Central College
Main St
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