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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1939
Page
10
Salesman sought to handle old and new customers in the community. Employer notes 11 others in adjoining territories, full-time factory to farmer setup, seeks someone with farm livestock experience, age over 28, responsible to ensure earnings. Respond by post card for interview. George Norman, Washington Iowa.
Mobil oil in proper grade advertised as dependable. Drive in today. Wall paper offered at lower guaranteed washable and sunfast. Hard to miss sign near Hoeksema Garage.
Jersey hogs offered for sale from a farm near Oskaloosa. Described as thick deep and smooth feeding type males. Modestly priced. Located three miles northwest of Oskaloosa and 13 miles north of Prine Hill, West Motfes.
Clayton Baughman sixteen year old son of Mr and Mrs Flavis Baughman narrowly escaped serious injury when he fell from a tractor into a combines while harvesting soy beans on the Merle Clark farm highway 181 south of Pleasantville A strong wind likely caused the fall clothes were torn and he sustained a head cut and leg abrasions He was treated at Mothers hospital and released home the next day
At the Mahaska theatre a Wallace Beery naval war saga Thunder Afloat screens with Chester and Virginia Grey. Beery plays a tugboat captain who joins the navy after a U-boat sinks his vessel in action packed scenes of raiding, sinking, torpedo attacks, and a final crippling encounter filmed off the Atlantic coast and Coronado Islands with the Sturcon pieal stoi.
Loretta Young and David Niven star in Eternally Yours at the Rivola theater, with Niven performing multiple tricks after instruction from Paul de Paul. The romantic comedy features hypnotic feats, a 16,000 foot parachute jump, and even hypnotizing a pet rabbit.
Woodrow Dietrick claimed first in the Jasper County Corn Husking contest with 2416 pounds net on the John Van Pilsum farm near Prairie City. Runner up was Leland Clement of Newton, former county champion, with Dietrick previously runner up for three years. The item also notes a Hallowe'en program at Bellevue schoolhouse and various local social mentions from Monroe and nearby towns.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs John Meppelink at Mercy hospital in Oskaloosa on October 18. Jeanette Van Wyk of Kellogg visited at her parents home over the weekend. Mrs H Buitenwerf returned to the Home for the Aged at Pella. Dick Bruxvoort celebrated his 65th birthday with family and friends on October 18. Ronald Van Kooten, six weeks old, is very ill at Newton hospital. The mass meeting of men’s societies of the Christian Reformed churches met in Leighton on October 12 with Rev N Weltman as speaker. Louis Rolffs funeral was held at First Reformed church, with interment at Sully cemetery. Mrs Max Wisgerhof of Louisville and her mother Mrs H F Armstrong of Victoria Ill spent time in the Ger Wisgerhof home. Mr and Mrs Weyerse of Pella and Rey and Mrs Ed Thompson were entertained in the C C Holdsworth home in Sully Sunday evening for Mrs Thompson’s birthday. Mr and Mrs Everett V Ss and son Gary were dinner guests in the G C Varbel home in Newton. Mr and Mrs K B Versteegh and son Byron were Sunday dinner guests in Des Moines. Mr and Mrs Abe Roorda were dinner guests Wednesday in the Kc on it.
Local residents and families attend funerals birthdays and visits in Rose Hill Pella and nearby areas. Highlights include Mr and Mrs Bert Shutts and John Grundman funeral in Pella Mrs Rich Vander Leest hosting in honor of Mrs Dunnink Kathryn Wertl and Lacreasa Vos visiting Pella and Vark households weekly farm and conservation event attendance noted with mixed social gatherings and a fuse blowing remark ending the fragment.
A brief note suggests an electrical short or overload may occur when too many appliances share a single circuit. The text warns that excessive load can trigger tripping or fire risk, urging redistribution of devices across multiple circuits for safety.
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