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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1938
Page
8
The piece praises Pella Iowa as a model town known for clean streets and well kept lawns, noting Holland heritage and strong town pride. It urges others to trim trees early, spruce boulevards, and invest in appearance to boost business and attract visitors.
Public schools prepare for Labor Day opening with thorough cleaning and renovations. Webster building janitor P. H. Vander Kolk refinished Junior High Assembly floors and repainted walls while Pete refines desks and floors. Lincoln building ceilings and walls were refreshed. Dick Dickema refinishes floors. High school adds ventilating system to annex rooms.
The Ames school outlines two major changes: improved health and comfort in Study Hall History and Commercial departments, and enlarging the old cooking room to create two unit kitchens. The lower hall area is repurposed for the expansion, with new work tables cupboards and cooking equipment to support a full time Vocational Home Making course under the Smith Hughes Federal Act. Miss Marjorie Lamb will begin duties August 15 and can explain the course after that date.
Carl L. De Vries, vice president of Occidental Life Insurance Co of the West Coast, gains notice in two life insurance magazines for articles on policy conservation and agent servicing. A Drake Law School graduate, he rose from Des Moines banking to Occidental in 1938, becoming VP in 1937 and praised as an example for Pella youth due to his business background and ability.
The Albia Union-Republican reports Cam Templer, an independent farmer, erected two signs on his property declaring relief aid will not define his family. He asserts relief stigma will not be accepted and his voice ridicules the idea of farmers going extinct.
Two signs on unpainted boards warn people to stay off the farm and refuse relief workers. The notices threaten a whipping if the agricultural authority sends a relief reporter to the place. Templer placed the warnings after receiving two identical notices urging him to receive relief workers and show them around.
Nora Scholte received a booklet from C M Moore of Elma Washington listing numerous pictorial views of the Pacific Northwest. It features Mt Ranier National Park Seattle Lake Washington Olympic mountains Pugget Sound Mt Hood Crown Point Multnomah Falls Tacoma evergreen pine Bremer ton navy yard logging camps Cascade mountains Victoria B C Rhododendron Oregon Caves Crater Lake Mt Saint Helene McKenzie River University of Oregon Nye Beach Newport Totempoles Seattle Canal Locks White River Valley Mirror Lake and more.
Miss Elnora Hepfinger of Til den Nebraska will be the new Normal Training teacher when Pella High School opens Sept 5. She is currently at the University of Nebraska preparing for her duties after eight years teaching rural Nebraska schools. She spent the past year in additional training.
Miss Hepfinger assumes control of the Normal Training Department in her hometown of Tilden Nebraska. Her background includes four years of high school at Tilden two degrees from Wayne State Teachers College and summer study at Nebraska University. She hails from a family of educators with siblings in Avoca Blair and Wayne and will supervise a department expected to enroll heavily this year.
The number of pupils coming to Pella High School from outlying districts this fall promises to be larger than usual. Several in-annual plans and arrangements are noted as administrators prepare for the influx.
Inquiries arrive from Leighton Monroe Otley and others about vocational agriculture and the new vocational homemaking department. Many pupils will drive or ride buses from distant areas. Riley Glendening plans to operate a bus route bringing 15 to 20 pupils daily from Leighton. Some out of town girls seek housing and board and room through the school as they assist with housework or child care. Families wanting help may contact the school office.
A reader in Des Moines denounces liquor sales after reports of a new store opening and a photo of a Chinese soldier’s death from gas warfare. The letter compares alcohol to poison and argues it corrupts civilization from distillery to crime, urging readers to view the issue with severity.
A kitchen tip highlights using oatmeal as a meat extender in Quaker Meat Patties to stretch beef, cut costs, and boost nutrition with thiamin, phosphorus, and iron. The recipe serves six and features six slices of bacon with ground beef as the base.
M. Vander Linden advertises a fall tailoring line with a 10 percent reduction on 300 kinds of fine wool fabrics. Suits priced at 19.75 for two pieces and 21.75 for three pieces, reflecting custom tailoring offered to order.
A kitchen recipe outlines bacon lined muffin tins with ground pork egg onion tomatoes milk oats salt and pepper baked at 350 for about an hour. The page notes a political bandwagon shift and a soil service report citing Clarinda yields of 11.65 bushels per acre, while warning life’s hazards and advising steadiness to avoid trouble.
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