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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1930
Page
6
An early 20th century meditation on crime origins and prevention. It argues crime stems from individual conscience and selfishness, questions the efficacy of laws versus enforcement, and urges moral education and religious guidance to curb wrongdoing. It emphasizes personal responsibility and societal regeneration over mere legal reform.
The piece notes that despite hard times the public continues spending, aided by employment and income. A local radio dealer reports record sales while unemployment persists in broader areas. It urges conservative buying to aid the unemployed via Community Welfare League funds and church involvement.
The speaker urges personal effort to aid those in need. If people open their hearts and act as friends to others, many could avoid starvation and see comfort, mirroring a life by the road helping neighbors.
A merchant suggests meeting competition with courteous service and quality goods at fair prices to keep buying in local stores. The Chronicle argues that organized business, mass buying, and market changes shape the future, potentially fewer but larger stores as the machine age shifts labor and commerce.
A public figure argues for prosperity over low mood, urging daily ballots for the people and asserting the nation's workers, skilled labor, and resources will drive jobs and economic activity, supporting farmers and overall business while contrasting with global conditions.
The piece argues prosperity comes from the people acting in concert rather than government or bankers alone. It urges practical ballots like providing work, spending wisely, rejecting false rumors, fair pricing, helping others, discouraging calamity talk, keeping business moving, reassuring workers, and investing for sound profits beyond financial hysteria.
A Northwood Anchor excerpt argues that teaching is demanding and not about constant praise. It notes parents blame teachers for poor marks while ignoring pupil differences and the limits of instruction. The piece lampoons evaluative myths with satirical questions from an eastern school.
A collage of editorials notes Washington county supervisors ban financial aid to car owners and force able-bodied men to work while threatening starvation. Other pieces discuss Iowa state police prospects, road financing costs, and Lindbergh as a future president with aviation in view.
Jasper County report notes Jacob Van Der Zee of Iowa City on the Iowa League of Municipalities legislative committee says the League will ask the legislature to raise the gas tax to four cents with the extra cent earmarked for cities and towns for street maintenance. He urges delaying any change until after the current road program finishes and a substantial road bond payment is made.
Alabama political figure Tom Heflin’s son Young Tom Heflin faced a drunkenness charge in Atlanta last week, paying $10 and costs. The report notes ongoing family disagreement over prohibition and mocks their reputations.
President Hoover faced a hostile Cleveland crowd pleading for work, with party papers labeling the demonstrators as communists. The scene recalls Coxey's Army or a bread line under other circumstances.
In Montana Senator Walsh a dry Catholic seeks renomination on the Democratic ticket while Albert J. Galen a wet Catholic and state supreme court judge opposes him on the Republican ticket. Ku Klux Klan figure Hiram W. Evans campaigns for wet Catholics while Walsh gains endorsements from the WCTU Methodist church and United Brethren. Montana votes 52 percent to repeal local prohibition enforcement and declare the state wet.
A compact column reprints odds and ends from The Pathfinder and other sources. Small items cover tricks of the trade with a dodgy horse sale, notes on cats, a London will probate tale, reunions and marriages, couplets of jokes, and light insights from Grandma Wayback.
A string of humorous exchanges about American eaters and surplus vegetables. An English visitor asks how Americans handle excess produce, and the reply notes they "eat all they can" and "what they can't they could." The kettle and bluff line add rustic whimsy to the dialogue.
A brief note traces a recurring Flight O Tyme chronicle from the Chronicle, highlighting two related dates in 1910 and 1920. The item notes the continuity of the periodical feature and its thematic focus across those years.
Damage about 500 dollars to Mrs Kennedy home in South Pella from a fire started in a clothes basket on the second floor. Mrs A N Kuyper broke her arm on cellar steps. Paralysis affects local poultry flocks with heavy losses including Dick Ver Dught Simon De Haan Carson Bobzin and Miss Marie Smorenberg. Marie Smorenberg wed C Smorenberg at Adel Iowa. First Reformed church members surprised Rev Vanden Berg on his forty second birthday. Harve Rhynsberger and Sam moved to Askaloosa to work in the production business. New water mains from Howell pumping station to city, with 1000 to 1500 feet laid daily.
Obituary notes show Rev R R Beard longtime Pella resident dies at Mercy hospital Des Moines. The Marion county M C A scholarship fund aided ex service men. De Jong Floral Seed Co to open new greenhouse. Van Veen Van Hemert Post plans Armistice Day events. Evangelist Rev Henry James Larson to conduct meetings at Second Reformed Church. Baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Don Wallace New Sharon. Deaths: Mrs William Van Gorp 71 and George W Kimmell 72.
The 1929 Chronicle reports progress on the city sewer project under Jack Boyne Construction Co. A pedestrian opening is planned for the Pella-Knoxville bridge. A photo captures an accident at Liberty and East First. Knoxville hosts meetings on White Breast creek straightening. Prof Fogdall, ex Des Moines Univ, injured in a bus crash near Oskaloosa. Halloween party draws large turnout downtown.
Farmers are advised to delay parsnip harvest until cold weather for better flavor and store in soil or cellar. Crop rotation and clean plowing help control barley scab. disposing of badly scabbed barley by feeding to cattle or sheep is preferred to hog feed. No scab resistant barley varieties exist yet.
The article compiles agricultural guidance from the U S Department of Agriculture. It covers hay production in large stacks with sleds and derricks, labeling field corn as field corn, hog tattooing for traceability, celery seed production with soil on roots, and winterizing houses with warmth safety and efficiency.
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