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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1929
Page
12
Community members are asked to consider reasons for backing Central College’s present endowment effort. The weekly inquiry seeks insights into benefits to students, campus projects, and local impact, inviting residents to reflect on long term stability and educational contributions.
A collection of local figures from Pelia and surrounding areas express strong support for Central College. Bert Baron R. A. Awtry John Van Rheenen A B Van Houweling and A C Kuyper emphasize community impact, moral aims, student retention, and long term viability as the endowment drive proceeds.
From the Central Ray report the college stage offered Old Lady 1, a compact playabout Abe and Angie Rose facing retirement with a tiny house sale proceeds. Charles Unger portrayed the feeble Abe while Doxie Putnam played Angie, who clung to care for her husband as they face separation and poverty.
Abe rises from feverish distraction to a Runaway plot twist and Boston profit, weaving with Newgard and Findlhay in a lively stage variation. Sarah Jane Asche delivers lines that spark laughter while Bud De Jong embodies Mike the janitor, adding bachelorish spirit to the comedy.
Northern readers are urged not to store the electric fan for winter. It has many winter uses including drying wet shoes and stockings, cooling cakes and pies, dehydrating produce, removing dampness from clothes, ventilating rooms, drying films, and hastening paint drying on furniture and wallpaper.
Des Moines Nov 20 The U S Department of Agriculture announces new rules allowing cattle owners to appeal tuberculin test results. A three veterinarian board, with one chosen by the owner, one by the state, and one jointly, will examine reactors within 24 hours after reading or 96 hours after injection. If the board confirms a reactor the owner pays. if the appeal is upheld the state pays.
Effective December 1 1929 the Des Moines to Ottumwa service via Prairie City Monroe Pella Oskaloosa offers four daily round trips with three connecting at Monroe for Knoxville. Special round trip rates apply between all stations. Timings include Des Moines to Pella departures at 8 00 am 12 40 pm 5 10 pm and from Pella to Des Moines at 8 40 am 12 40 pm 5 10 pm. Oskaloosa connections, and through service via Monroe to Knoxville, are noted with specific departure times and travel times between Pella and Des Moines and between Pella and Oskaloosa. All buses run through Oskaloosa to Ottumwa. late evening buses may not connect at Monroe.
The article notes a Monday evening banquet for endowment campaign participants held at the Central College dormitory with speeches by W Brown and Carnahan. It describes student and faculty involvement, upcoming games against Luther College, and reports on the all college play, Y M C A and Y W C A activities, and weekly speakers. The piece also mentions Armistice Day actions and ongoing devotions with music enhancing services.
Fragmentary poem stub reflecting wartime era tones with references to Armistice Day and cultural figures, mentioning Pella streets and film access. The text is garbled with OCR-like errors but presents a lyric voice invoking memory and noise of modern media amid commemoration.
Fragmented OCR style bits describe a hero of the Grid and poetic musings on victory. Central’s heart drums with serenest tread as echoes declare Penn’s win, with a dreamy, literary flavor and dramatic interjections.
A satirical vignette describes a Pella editor amid wealth and social spectacle. The piece parades editors with luxury spouses, grand houses, and pages filled with notices, weddings, farewells, and gossip, celebrating and critiquing local society through playful, lyrical narration.
A chaotic scene unfolds as a wedding bid, editorials, and obituaries collide in a single issue. The editor prints a two column obituary while readers cancel subscriptions and mourn aloud. Meanwhile statistics from John Fletcher College reveal church membership at 4 percent, Methodist majority, representation from 20 states plus DC, with students aged 16 to 43 and 45 percent being farmers’ children.
A will referenced in local probate documents leaves a relatively small portion to Bhett’s wife, with the remainder distributed among other beneficiaries and trusts. Officials noted the document’s brief wording and limited asset scope as key factors in the distribution.
A boy named Robert Jarvis, aged ar old, drove his father's automobile about 60 miles from London before a police officer apprehended him. The incident highlights juvenile risk and law enforcement response in the area.
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