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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1940
Page
4
The column urges self examination amid a tense campaign and warns against political propaganda. It praises a Pella apple drive for Dakota relief and notes coal industry challenges in Marion County. It argues against aiding Communist influence and defends strict tolerance limits. It laments drafty governance and marching orders amid national unrest.
A U.S. Army reform aims to drop class distinctions between officers and men while preserving discipline. Major General Allen Gullion says officers will know their men personally and treat them as colleagues. The change, supported by World War I examples, seeks friendlier ranks and better morale across National Guard units. humorous war dispatches and broadcasts are noted as morale boosters in Britain and America.
Editorial calls for stronger emphasis on high class citizenship in public schools and urges every eligible voter to cast ballots. It warns that abstention risks allowing the inferior element to rule while praising Willkie’s calm response to hostile treatment at a Michigan event and recalling German history to stress democratic vigilance.
Drivers and pedestrians across Iowa must cooperate to reduce highway deaths, safety officials said today as about 90 pedestrians were killed this year. County sheriffs and police were asked to heighten attention, and M C Nelson urged a courtesy campaign to stop the rising toll.
At 30 mph, drivers require 87 feet to stop, while pedestrians can halt and react swiftly. The commission chair urges pedestrians to cross with care, use signals, face traffic in rural areas, wear light clothing, and avoid jaywalking as state groups promote an October pedestrian protection program with sheriffs and local police.
Five decades ago on October 15 1895 a contract was let to the Chas A Moses Co for the new Marion County courthouse with bids near 77000 dollars and total costs rising toward ninety thousand. Local life items mention teachers substitutes Miss Francis De Pree and Miss Nora Cully, community visits, potato harvests near Prairie City, and town developments including J Sybenga enlarging his bakery and post-ring activity around Central Park.
Pella leaves for Minnesota to tend a ill mother and notes heavy heart. Republicans held a speaking event at Brand's Hall last Friday with General Drake, candidate for governor, as speaker. An elocutionist entertained attendees, including Mlle Lucia Griffin of Albia, who acts as a side show for the campaign and drew mixed reviews.
A local round up notes John Bousquet's fall from a barn roof fracture, Highland Park beats Central 16 0 in football, Meyer Lungerak named candidate for Clerk of Court, the R P De Jong family returns from Crookston Minn to live near Ver Ploeg Livery Barn, R J works at Two Vans shoe store, A Ver Ploeg cannery produces 216000 cans tomatoes 80000 pumpkins and 16000 pork and beans, farmers earn up to 100 per acre for tomatoes, canning to continue with pumpkins beans and pork, the Vander Werf child near Otley dies after infantile paralysis, and a tale about Jake Sterenberg hunting without a gun.
A fisherman boasted of catching a piked Nel Diver by striking its neck with a time Wella on his way home at Mill Pond. Neighbors hailed him as the city champion, while medical notes mention appendicitis cases and doctors Brockman Carpenter and HD Wormhoudt overseeing a patient who avoided surgery after a ten day observation during a crisis.
Twenty years ago on October 28 1920 Pella items included a Hallowe en Frolic parade and program sponsored by the Legion Post They urged forming a Historical Society to preserve local artifacts notably a strow box at the Pella National Bank Editor W A Young noted Parsons beat Central 27 to 7 at Fairfield with Neuenesch scoring Central s lone points and Ottopoby adding the extra point Simon Van Halm returned from Holland after eight years away The column mentions various local incidents including car collisions hand injuries ferry hazards and a mussel biology lab proposal for the pearl button industry Other notes describe church plans a theater ad and farm sales.
The Oct 28 1930 issue notes Central's upcoming Homecoming against Dubuque University, with William Baker editing the Campus Sheet The Ray and David Davids plus Herman Kregel leading pep and bonfire. A Ford Model A is on a nonstop 53 000 mile record passing through Pella. Richard Bartholmess stars in The Dawn Patrol at Strand Theatre. Common Clay follows. A 7 year old son of the Vande Baards breaks both arms at an Anderson farm visit. Mrs J M Cox, 82, travels to Portland Oregon to meet Sally De Cook. Pella High to issue a biweekly school paper. Prof. Lewis in charge. Journalism Club to print and distribute with Dr and Mrs F F Carpenter.
Report notes a week long gathering of surgeons from the Rock Island System at Hot Springs Arkansas. The Chronicle's pages are dominated by multi column political candidate ads with Sheriff Vadgar Clark's notice occupying most of one page.
Several Peoria area items appear including a Girls Society shower incident, a Mahaska County corn husking contest won by Albert Rouw of Oskaloosa with Heren Holthoven close behind, and a large turnout. Community meetings, church calls, and student travel are noted along with hospital and visiting updates.
Rose Hill notes record the marriage of Jerry and Minnie May Vanden Berg to Dewey and Jennette Kaldenerg at Perth on Oct 12, with friends and family visiting the Vanden Berg home. Also covered are wedding parties, minor car accident repairs, visits from Des Moines to Monroe and Newton.
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