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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1937
Page
5
Capacity Day drew hundreds to Pella stores despite ice covered roads on a cold raw Saturday. Buying in all lines was brisk with extra help needed at some shops. The event featured bargains and quality merchandise, especially winter clothing, shoes, and groceries. Next Capacity Day set for December 4 with more bargains expected.
The First Reformed Church congregation approves hiring a church secretary and to act by its own wisdom and discretion. The heavy duties resting upon the pastor make this decision necessary.
Notice states clerking services for public sales are available with satisfactory handling. Offers to assist in booking and advertising sales. Contact ED Tysseling at 61 on 34 or Elbert Van Maanen at 20 for details.
Hilarity and fellowship marked the annual football banquet at the Legion hall for Central College and Pella High School teams. Bruce Gardner won the Heerema blanket as best all round player. he departs Central this year. Speakers urged team spirit and lauded the players’ fine work amid a gala evening for 130 attendees.
Miss Sarah Gosselink of the Second Reform Church writes a new serialized tale for the Intelligencer Leader. The story begins in the current issue and will continue across several installments.
The Heerema Drug Co owner John Heerema celebrates decades in business selling drugs wallpaper paints and toilet articles with the 25th anniversary noted. Longtime staffer Glenn Johnston now heads the prescription department bringing decades of pharmacy experience from Askalosa Newton and Grinnell to the Pella store.
The First Reformed church hosts a Thursday recital by local flutist Miss Leona Wittenberg with Herbert Wormhoudt and accompanist Miss Mary Phillips Street. The program features varied, engaging numbers and highlights Wittenberg’s past studies under Miss Dorothy Jane Hickok of Des Moines, drawing local interest.
Lawrence Klein is described as very happy after becoming a father to a baby girl last week. The article notes his initial hesitation in handling the newborn and his gradual adaptation to fatherhood in this lighthearted town feature.
The following Pella merchants join the Capacity Days Trade Extension program urging Christmas shoppers to visit. Participants include Wormhoudt & Kempkes, J. C. Penney Co., Vander Linden Drug Store, Jaarsma’s Bakery, Pella Theatre, Vander Voort’s Cash Grocery, Kuypers Lumber, Van Den Berg Electric Co, Slob Bros. Grocery, Farmers Co-op Exchange, and many more. Shoppers may be repaid through the event.
Ma rinus Meulpolder, owner of Central Park cafe, returns from a five day trip to The Netherlands aboard the Queen Mary. He notes Zuider Zee is dry land, discusses higher prices for butter eggs beef and gasoline, and observes shifts in Dutch life and language. He brings back curios and discusses English lessons via radio for locals.
The Pella Christian alumni met at the school Monday with about sixty attendees. The class of 1935 sent fourteen members, all present. They plan a January banquet to celebrate the school’s 25th anniversary. A son weighing eight pounds was born to Mr and Mrs Jim Van den Baard on November 12.
Poemized line about gratitude for life daily service and giving thanks to God for protection and perfect love.
The first meeting of the Farmers Night School will be held next Monday evening November 29 at 7 30 p m in the Agriculture room at the high school. Fred Schreiber of Portland Cement Co will present reels on farm concrete use including prop mixing reinforcement water content ratios and other essential topics. A discussion will follow the movies with questions from farmers. A simple sand test will be demonstrated. The meetings are free and all interested farmers or townspeople are invited. Coffee time will follow.
Mrs. Nora Scholte, while in Miami with her brother Charles Keubles and his wife, received a Seminole Indian doll from Florida. She notes she does not return to childhood, but cherishes the fully costumed ornament with a hat and a cocoanut bark stand.
A clerk advertises thorough listing of every sale transaction and reports to clients that his charges are reasonable. He invites inquiries from 25 clients to verify his work, providing phone contact Blue 336.
A thief entered the Wormhoudt and Son furniture store Saturday afternoon while staff were busy elsewhere and took the best electric iron. The store warns customers that Capacity Day bargains are not meant to invite theft and urges the guilty party to return the property.
The Pi Reformed church elected officers at a Wednesday evening meeting last week. Elders re-elected for two years include Jacob De Haan Sr G G Klyn William Vander Lugt and E R Roorda. C B Van Hemert and Adrian De Young elected for two years. Deacons re-elected for two years are William Vande Voort and William G De Wit. Herman A Tysseling and A B Wormhoudt were elected for a two year term.
The region received its first snowfall of the season starting Wednesday night and continuing through Thursday with intervals on Friday. Official weatherman John A. Pos reported two and a half inches of snow and an eighth inch moisture content, followed by a hard freeze that made streets and highways very slippery Saturday morning.
The Pella Baptist Church will hold its annual Thanksgiving service on Wednesday night at 30. The minister will speak on A Christian Thanksgiving. A fellowship gathering with light refreshments follows downstairs after the service.
Miss Leona Vander Linden, a Pella girl in China, writes of Japanese shelling Amoy Fort and Quemoy Island, fear in the harbor, and refugees flooding churches. She describes daily reports from Shanghai and Canton, and that Amoy remains fragile with women and children killed and looting. The letter praises Chinese courage, notes Allied sympathy, and recalls a brave Girl Scout and a stationing of missionaries aiding the displaced.
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