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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1915
Page
4
Farmers across Jefferson county report a soft corn problem in the 1915 harvest. Interviews with a dozen farmers show only one with tall round hard corn, while ten to twenty percent is soft and likely unmerchantable. The issue varies by locality and field.
The brick laying on the new high school is finished allowing interior work to proceed during colder months. A fire on the Fowler Telephone Co roof was extinguished by workers with tar. no significant damage reported. Local residents and visitors include Mrs A P DeReus, Paul Billings, Pete Heerema, Les Welle, Harry Van Hemert, Ralph VerPloeg, Rube Brand, Miss Hattie Grandin, and the Cook family with Harry and Dave in the shoe business.
Mrs. Jessie Sadler spoke to the girls at their chapel Thursday morning. Miss Graham met her there, a short account noting the engagement in campus activities and the continuation of regular notes for the college column.
Prof L W Glover was called home by a death in the family. Miss Cecile Mincks died at her Seymour Indiana home Friday at midnight. Dr Bailey led the funeral service Sunday at the Seymour Baptist church. Miss Mincks, who studied music at Central, graduated in June 1915. Mrs Mincks, her mother, is at present very low with ill health. Prof McIntire sang at the Ladies Reading Circle Friday at Sunnyside. We have a vacation from Wednesday noon until Tuesday morning.
Typhoid fever affects classes as Miss Gertrude Klein from the Music Department is absent this week. Thanksgiving plans include Miss Hussey in Newton and a big game against Penn with a large turnout hoped for. Distinctive moves include Pastor Roy Hillyer resigning at Oskaloosa, with residents in Lake City, Illinois, and Iowa homes for several others. Bertha Denburger becomes a new piano student with Prof. Sadler.
Murray TenHagen has purchased the Fred Christie store in Prairie City and will soon take charge. He expects to clean up old stock and install a complete new line of merchandise. He has experience in merchandising, having been connected with the VanderPol store in Pellagra City.
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