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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1924
Page
3
Supervisors pass a resolution approving a new courthouse project costing 176000 for Allamakee County. The item sits among a batch of local notes including scholarships, contests, and civic initiatives across Iowa with multiple named towns and officials.
In Des Moines at Highland Park, Central battled DMU to an 18 0 defeat. Des Moines featured Knapp Little and Burnett in key plays while Central’s defense held, but a late fourth quarter TD sealed the outcome. Other notes cover a church session venue shift amid Klan suspicions and a tax payment ruling by Iowa officials.
The Sioux county W C T U held a convention at Boyden with a large turnout and out of town workers aiding. Mrs Ida B Wise Smith state chair woman Mrs A Te Paske county chair man and Mrs PT d Stientjes local chair man led efforts with special music and refreshments served at the Reformed church basement. Resolutions were adopted and an outline for the future work was set.
The August monthly police report shows a decrease in drunkenness in Des Moines. Last month sixty four bootleggers were arrested, down from sixty nine in August 1923.
The report notes a drop in liquor seizures and drunkenness arrests with 290 intoxication arrests last month versus 490 a year earlier. The total number of arrests is not fully specified in the provided fragment.
The report shows 1321 cases compared with 1701 in August last year. In August 1928 injuries reached eighty six in auto accidents, while last month total injuries were seventy one. No deaths from auto accidents occurred last month.
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