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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1936
Page
11
The Fort Madison band led by Carl Nelson will perform in Fort Madison with a ventriloquist act. The youths, about six years on tour, wear new uniforms and avoid tobacco. If weather permits, the concert is in Central Park. otherwise in the Legion Hall.
Instructions outline absentee voting rules in Nashua Iowa with county auditor deadlines and ballot return. Election board composition guidance urges matching last election party majorities. Change of party affiliation and ballot requests explained. Petition drive seeks highway commission takeover of a trunk road past the Little Brown Church.
This evening at 7 45 o'clock the annual graduating exercises of the Pella Christian school fall in the First Christian Reformed Church auditorium. Friday is School Day at West Market park with games at 10 00 am and an afternoon bilingual program. Speakers Rev J Vander Meer and Rev J Weidenaar will attend and refreshments will be served.
Pred Robin son of Lovilia reported a car wreck near Lovilia on Friday when his vehicle was struck by a train after failing to stop on the tracks. Burlin Robinson and another passenger escaped injury as the car was dragged over 100 yards by the collision and stalled on the embankment. The driver cited a high embankment blocking his view of the approaching train.
A compiled roll of buried veterans spreads across Oakwood Graceland Catholic Porters Grove Black Oak Center Sand Ridge and isolated graves. Names from Civil War Spanish and World War units appear with cemeteries and burial spots. The list preserves memory of soldiers such as Edward Beintema Rube Brand Jacob De Bruyn and many others across multiple cemeteries.
A brief note clarifies that the group described as the class of people brought by them was not motivated by money. It emphasizes integrity and purpose over financial gain.
Thieves broke into four stores in Melcher and two in Pleasantville between midnight and 1 am, taking goods valued around $200 from Melcher shops and pennies totaling $6 from Tom Greer's beer hall in Pleasantville. A Des Moines trio was later arrested, confessing to the burglaries. Separately, Marion County Agricultural Conservation Association concludes tabulations for soil depleting bases. final payments will be mailed soon with average Marion County Chas F payments near $13,000 per acre and Class 2 payments per acre for soil conserving crops.
During Tulip Time Festival in Pella Iowa three purse recoveries showed honesty. Mrs Ethel De Bruyn found and returned a $400+ purse to Mrs R T Meredith of Ames, earning a $2 reward. Mayor T G Fultz received and returned a $28 purse. Mrs John De Wit lost $90 with a letter. Charles E Walker of Bloomfield found and returned it.
The Ladies Auxiliary of Van Veen-Van Nemert Post received praise at the district conference for a panel discussion by Mrs Will Baer and Mrs Murray Nesbit. The feature will appear on the county convention program in Pleasantville and the state convention in Davenport, with a copy sent to the National News. The organization is congratulated for the accomplished work.
Miss Alida Stureman of Chicago daughter of local residents visited Pella over the weekend. Thousands attended the Tulip Time program where she sang as the famed "sweet singer of Israel" and received loud applause. She also performed at Second Reformed church and spoke on KRNT radio after winning a Chicago radio contest with a 13 week contract.
Knoxville businessman Glen Beebout is a candidate for Marion County treasurer. Born in Washington township he has lived in Marion County all his life, worked on a farm, and now runs a service station in his hometown. He is a Knox Ville High School graduate and son of farmer John T. Beechout. He is a lifelong Democrat.
The Sec ond Reformed church overflowed as Rev. Jacob Urine preached from his text for the Wiel school graduation. Rev Prins urged faith as essential to daily life and success, defining faith as knowledge belief and trust and warning that without faith nothing constructive can endure.
Fred Rhynsburger of Chicago said that with over 200 people in the city of Pella birth there is agitation to organize a Pella society soon. An effort to gather all former Pelmnites for the tulip celebration this year failed.
Harold Klein writes from Matz Iowa praising Tulip Time events in Pella and noting plans aired on the National Farm and Home Hour in Philadelphia. He mentions the Tulip Time Queen and expresses a desire to attend, asking for Dutch spelling checks and sending greetings to friends back home.
A 1935 report by the State Examiners reviews Marion County records for 1934. It comments on the office’s businesslike methods and the completeness and accuracy of detailed financial and administrative records.
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