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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1932
Page
7
The passage urges using cheapest easy feed with grit in the feeding station for birds. It argues many sportsmen and farmers must view game birds as an auxiliary crop and support winter feeding to prevent starvation, stressing the need to protect birds all year.
The Knoxville chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star held a pot luck supper and special meeting with Mrs. J. M. Davis guest of honor. Pella attendees include Mae Thomassen, Marie Smith, R. M. Smith, Ed Van Gorp, Ross Schakel, Gerald Paardekooper, Wayne Wilson, and others. Thanksgiving guests and local gatherings feature prominent in a broad society column.
Handy tips for home care and cooking from a dated guide. It covers candle coating with water colors or rain shellac, cleaning white furniture with soda, making milk sour with vinegar, buttered scissors for marshmallows, washing greasy dishes with a pre-rinse wipe, toothpicks over broom straws for cake testing, peanut brittle fluff, All Year Relish with peppers and onion, and a Date Sticks recipe with brown sugar butter eggs and nut meats.
A historic cooking hint describes making coffee for 36 by using 2 percent cups of ground coffee with 7 cups of cold water. The grounds are mixed with a crack of egg and crushed egg shell, enclosed in a bag and placed in simmering water, rolled very slowly.
A collection of baking hints for pumpkin pie and ginger cakes, listing ingredients such as canned or fresh pumpkin, brown sugar, spices, eggs, and milk, with steps to mix and bake. Also includes tips for browning pie tops, serving baked squash, and variations with molasses and nut add-ins for muffins.
Mrs Hattie Spaur former Pella resident died at the home of Mrs A J Brobst in Knoxville aged 86 years 11 months 3 days She had been ill about a week and had lived with Mrs Brobst Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o clock from Roberts Evans funeral home conducted by Rev E L Stone Burial will be in Eureka cemetery northeast of Knoxville Spaur formerly lived on University street and kept a dressmaking shop here many years ago Mr Spaur her husband had died years ago
A devotional poem by A E Proctor thanks God for earth’s beauty and joy while noting shadows and pain. It expresses yearning for deeper peace beyond earthly bliss and asserts true rest awaits in leaning on Jesus.
The Inquiring Reporter gathers diverse replies from H W SLOB WILLIAM CG DE WIT T E F KING MRS MARION PORTER MRS C RICHARDSON on what they are thankful for as Thanksgiving approaches Health, cheer, work, and the unseen guiding hand are cited The responses emphasize health improvement, gratitude amid hardship, and appreciation for employment and blessings in life.
Fremont witnesses a lighthearted bet payoff honoring president elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cuz Cosby and Dr Forsythe pulled Jesse Olive in a wheelbarrow from Standard Oil Station to Springer Oil Station and back. Doe pushed, carrying a large Roosevelt photo. The gag ends the wager and the guys may resume visits without politics.
The infant mortality rate in Iowa fell from 87 in 1910 to 66 in 1920 and 64 in 1930. Public health education by schools, clubs, PTA groups, the Tuberculosis Association, nurses, physicians, and health officers contributed to this gradual improvement, with the State Department of Health and its Bureau of Mater- aiding efforts.
Iowa boasts the lowest infant mortality rate at 40 per 1000 live births in 1931, with Oregon next at 44. The report credits pure food laws and infant diet care, along with milk and food safeguards, for improved infant health. State figures for communicable diseases through Nov 17, 1932 show multiple cases of diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, gonorrhea, and syphilis across counties.
Advice on creating winter quail feeding shelters to supplement scarce farm food. Simple, low cost, often grain donations suffice. one bushel can feed a station through winter. Use elevator screenings or waste grain. smaller grains preferred for quail, whole corn for sparrows where abundant.
The District Court of Marion County Iowa appoints Peter Van Sittert as administrator of the estate of Ann De Vries. Creditors are urged to come forward with payment and claimants to present verified claims for allowance as required by law.
Activities of city churches list services across Baptist First Reform Church of the Open Bible and others. Includes worship times 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. with sermons on sanctification, the art of the Lord, and Ruth’s gleaning. Special evangelistic meetings begin Nov 22 at the American Legion Memorial Hall led by Harold E Adams.
Rev John Steenhoven to preach in Sully at Community church in English Tuesday Nov 29 7 30 p m Sandridge school Hollad language Wednesday Nov 30 7 30 p m and Peoria town hall English Thursday Dec 1 7 30 p m A S Reed Cedar Rapids justice of the peace elect injured by dentist drill Saturday needing two stitches
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