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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1936
Page
7
Bas ed shavings and sawdust sold at 4.00 per ton for barn, hog pen, and chicken house bedding. Marketed as cheaper and more absorbent than straw. Also available as kindling at 1.00 per load from RolScreen Company in Ella, Iowa.
The page features B J Brom Hatchery offering a worm expeller and O K Welding Shop advertising welding services. It also promotes planting evergreens at Oak Grove Nursery and Neal Schuring Produce Co and includes an extensive Purina feeding figures section showing profit calculations from feeding regimes.
Robt Montgomery and Madge Evans appear at the Princess theatre Oskaloosa Sunday October 4 for a three day run of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy Piccadilly Jim. The film stars the romantic team Montgomery and Evans in their first collaboration in three years with director Robert Z Leonard. Supporting cast includes Frank Morgan Billie Burke Eric Blore Robert Benchley Ralph Forbes and others.
Hoeksema Bros Garage advertises complete stock of Trico windshield wiper parts and repair services. Local motorists can find replacement blades and related components at the shop.
Headaches caused by constipation disappear after one Adlerika dose which cleans poisons from the upper and lower bowel. Sleep improves and nerves settle. Vai de Linden's Drug Store.
Ellen and Delight Karr called on Mrs Roy Karr Saturday afternoon. They were joined by Martha Kate and Miss Beverly. Betty Ford was taken to Knoxville Monday for treatment and is absent from school this week. Vernon Rickabaugh spent the weekend at the Roy Karr home. The extra section gang at Cordova has been laid off. Blanche Templeton and daughter visited the Karr home Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Henry Marinus of Prairie City called at the Bartus Klyn home Wednesday afternoon. Guy Nollen of Monroe opened a coal mine on the Joe Van Den Berg farm. Mr and Mrs Bartus Klyn went to Oskaloosa Wednesday. Monday morning Campbell's bridge gang went to Tracy to work on coal shores, then to Hamilton to work on coal docks. The first bridge.
North of Cordova is completed and crews will move to the north of the location next week. Several Newton visitors were noted, including Mr and Mrs Pete Van Ghent with Mrs Van Ghent receiving new glasses. Gerrit De Jong will accompany the Bandstra family and others to Hanford California, planning a Monday departure and visits with Mrs Luke Van Herwijnen.
Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy star in To Marry With Love at the Rivola Oskaloosa, opening Saturday October 3 for a three day run. The article traces Loy’s rise from obscurity to stardom and notes her continued ambition to stay active in film after success.
A list of community events and visits including funeral pall bearers Purl and Jim Van Hemert, Mrs. Dewey Ford attending from here, visits by Otto Wynsteker and William Veerman and his mother to Oskaloosa for a Herman Morrison sale, a physician removing Billy Cortonsils, Rev Ernest E Early becoming Red Rock church minister, Marvin Van Den Berg starting at White Breast school, gatherings at Roy Karr's home, Parl Van Hemert and Marjorie Bricker visiting Murray Van Hemert's home, Aid meeting hosted by Hattie Johnson, quilt blocks and fabric sewing, teachers reception at Knoxville with eight covered dishes, Lena Van Gorp visiting G L Elyn, and visits by John Van Tiemert, Anna Slykhuis, Searsboro aunt of Murray Van Hemert.
Sunday through Tuesday, residents including Maxine Robertus, Edith Van Oene, Murray Sytsma, Edith Vander Junelia, Henry Van Dene, and others spent days visiting relatives and friends in Porterville, Pella, Monroe, Des Moines, and Knoxville. Shoppers traveled to Des Moines and Knoxville, with several dinners and afternoon calls noted among numerous families.
Lynnville residents visit relatives in Guide Rock and Goodland while Des Moines and Newton travelers share greetings. Clifford Lee, son of Mr and Mrs John Lee, injured when a horse stumbled. hospitalized in Grinnell for six weeks. Promotion Day observed at Sunday school with Kilduff male quartet. Families from Burnham, Gauge, Swank, Flenner, Edel and Suania noted across Newton Grinnell and Oslengoss communities.
Arie Van Weelden and Willis Huyser returned from Hollandale with potatoes, cabbages, onions, and carrots. Several locals, including Mrs. Daisy Wilson of Canada, visit kin. the Meredith, Renaud, and Rolls families plan a Minnesota camping and fishing trip. Market hogs and cattle prices listed. A plum tree at FC Hulka’s Farnhamville home blooms, bore fruit, endured drought, and shed leaves.
Fifield area residents visited relatives in Pella Otley and Colfax Friday through Wednesday. A baby girl arrived at the Roozeboom home in Otley with Mrs Boozeboom hospitalized in Oskaloosa. Henry Van Dusseldorp, son of Jacob Van Dusseldorp, died Sunday after years of blindness. He leaves parents, sister Anna Nunnikhoven, and brothers Bert and Marion. Funeral held Tuesday at the Van Dusseldorp home and Second Christian Reformed church in Pella.
Colfax Sales Company reports a mixed tun with many calves and semi fat cattle and hogs. Feed pigs sold freely with little resistance. Feeder pigs and small cattle find outlets despite high corn prices. Excellent pastures spur light livestock movement amid large hay crops, signaling cheaper carryovers than prior years. Big interests favor light feeders for yards.
Film actress Maxine Jennings and animated cartoon producer Rudolph Ising were married on Saturday on the courthouse steps in Las Vegas Nevada.
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