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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1975
Page
1
The Lone Tree Reporter editor Ken Nordstrom is lampooned for obsession with status and sensational notices while neglecting proofs. The tale traces lavish living, wedding and obituary notices, and the editor profiting from each story until the final line shows a subscriber backlash and cancellations.
A series of club and civic gatherings are noted in Pella from Oct 8 to Oct 14. The American Institute of Industrial Engineers hosts a dinner and program featuring Ned L. Lockett on October 8, while Welcome Wagon meets October 9 to visit Central College Learning Resource Center. Other items include Fortnightly meetings, transportation consensus, rug braiding classes, Bath Party at Pella Community Hospital Auxiliary, school board session, Lake Prairie Homemakers gathering with a Halloween costume, and a WCTU pot luck supper at Pella Manor with a guest speaker.
A 1909 fourth grade class photo at Webster Building features 34 pupils plus teacher Miss Lynn Platte, with list of identified and unidentified students across five rows. The image, ownership, and research credit go to Harold Thomassen and John Buerkens, with notes on attendance and era customs. Pella High lost to Kellogg on a muddy field via lone drop kick. backfield players cited and gate receipts blamed on low turnout.
Twenty years ago police planned to escort non payers from fields at future games while Rev Anthony Haverkamp retired from the Reformed Church ministry. Ten years ago a truck rammed through a bridge railing near Pella Knoxville road and arson was suspected in a Durham bridge fire.
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