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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
2
Gambell ads mark shoe sales as Lon Wormhoudt visits Des Moines. Des Moines relatives visit in Pella while influenza concerns linger. Camp Dodge band returns via Oskaloosa and Knoxville, drawing crowds. Deaths and hospital updates touch Hedrick Westville Okla and Jefferson Barracks. Local travel, school and business notes mix with brief sightings and a flag ceremony in Knoxville.
Mrs K Verrips visited friend Mrs John Meyers at Oskaloosa where she was recently operated on. Indications are for higher prices on underwear later in the season. Complete stock on hand at Van Niewaal's. John De Winter from Camp Dodge ill with influenza but improving. Mrs R N Hicks and baby with Rev and Mrs Carroll. husband to serve as army chaplain. Hicks to live in Pella during absence. Pumpkins wanted for Canning Factory at $5 per ton. Abr Ver Ploegh Mer. Mr and Mrs E Varenkamp visited Newton. daughter ill. J M Cox in Des Moines on business. Peter Beintema ill with pneumonia after Camp Pike. Gambell's leather shoes on sale. Henry Edmand from Camp Dodge visited home. Tubercular patients trip to New Mexico. J M Cox in Des Moines Monday. Richard Scouten of Keokuk left Pella after two weeks visit. Paul Ver Steeg in Navy at Virginia Beach on furlough. Silk and dress goods on sale at Van Niewaal's. C F Dykstra and family at Jamaica IA. Everett Kruseman back from Great Lakes. more imports of silk and wool dress goods as prices rise. N A Sloane returned to Fairfield after visiting sister H Rhynsburger. shoes on sale. W H Vander Ploeg at Camp Pike influenza. improving. N DeWit family from Pella visiting Burlington. carloads of potatoes on the way. Gerrit Schuttinga and Parkers City family visiting Pella. Domestic science short course canceled due to influenza. Mrs A J Betten of Orange City, former Pella principal, visiting relatives. Mrs John Meyers, appendicitis patient, at Oskaloosa, improving.
Mrs William Bell of Logansport Indiana writes expressing gratitude for Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy which relieved a severe diarrhoea attack years ago noting it was the only medicine that helped FD Stubenrauch attached endorsement.
Dated October 1918, notices document Cornelius Groenwoud of Pella age 28 years 7 months died at home and buried at Oakwood. Also Aart Buwalda 23 of Iowa City area died of influenza. funeral at Quakwood. Mabel Dickey Sterzing of Des Moines died September 30 1918 of typhoid fever. married to Chas Sterzing. funeral at Calvary Baptist Des Moines and burial at Coal Ridge Knoxville. Survivors listed include parents siblings and an army brother. multiple churches noted.
The Iowa Children's Home collection totals include amounts from the rest room 1.02 Citizens Nate Bank 1.69 Vander Ploeg Bakery 0.69 Slob Bros store 2.22 A tin fish and 187 pennies were found. The committee suggests exchanging the pennies and fish for 188 dimes to aid the children. Mrs. John Braam, Treasurer. Mrs. Henry Rhynsburger, Secretary.
The Society for the Cultivation of Goats in Belgium has received a new impetus. Propaganda is underway in rural districts to increase goat herds with funds supplied to provincial committees. The program aims to spread from Brussels surroundings to Antwerp and Namur provinces.
Washington conferees report War Industries Board loosens Order No 21 to allow farmers to erect silos corn cribs and other essential farm buildings up to 1000 dollars in cost. Baruch announced after talks with Greater Iowa Association Iowa Council of National Defense officials praising speed of production while noting Iowa needs for crops to feed troops overseas.
In a village square a group of boys drilled under a young veteran officer who ordered them to lift their eyes and ignore their feet. The narrator recalls a rope walker who looked only at the far end and reached safety, urging readers to test the principle in snow by focusing on a fixed object.
A Congregationalist quotation urges placing good men and women before youth as guidance. It asserts that steady gaze toward virtue shapes character, while focusing on wrongdoing draws one toward it, and it encourages daily looking unto Jesus to grow toward him. For sale at all grocers. 39-42.
South Dakota potatoes priced at $1.35 at car and $1.40 delivered. Medium size, good keepers, cook up mealy with fine taste. Orders left at Sybenga Bakery. bring sacks when you pick them up. L Kruldenter.
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