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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
5
In a Tuesday regular session the council reviewed routine matters as usual. The key item was a favorable committee report on a water project urging timely action before material costs rise to protect public health.
Porter, chair of the Democratic committee, calls Bryan supporters to assemble at City Hall next Wednesday evening to organize the Bryan Club.
Central College notes celebrate strong summer sessions with praise from Miss Goldie Bennett and Miss Ella Luckman. Chancellor Shaw drives outreach to recruit students, while George Baitsell prepares for Yale postgraduate work. The renewed Cotton Hall draws many housing inquiries as faculty plan for a new year opening September 8.
The undersigned advertises bargains on wagons sulky plows and all kinds of farming implements and hardware including American clover bunchers. H Van Maren invites farmers to visit. The County Treasurer will attend at the Citizens National Bank on Thursday and Friday September 3 and 4 for tax collection. Miss Helen Rietveld returning from Dakota to Monroe. Vander Linden family notes and a medical update on L K Vander Linden of Prairie City.
Obituaries from Coalport township detail Maude Wells dying at 19 after a weeklong dysentery battle, funeral at Coalport church. infant Sadler aged three days buried at Oak wood cemetery. infant Van Steenwyk five months buried locally. Maurice Reynolds two years died of bowel trouble. Little Hatzel Kitching of Topeka died from lockjaw after being struck by a clod. Loraine Yard-Visser dies at 36 after typhoid and active church life with funeral at the Baptist church. Logan Tade of Bonaparte, 22, found dead in a barn after attending church, no foul play evident.
Telegram reports M N Vander Linden of Alton Iowa dead at about sixty five. He lived in Pella years and drove the huckster wagon for J D Gaass. De Kock Mrs John J De Kock dies of tuberculosis August 27 1908 aged 36 years 1 month and 5 days. G J Gosselink dies September 2 apoplexy aged 79. Burial details given with service at First Christian Reformed church. He leaves wife two sons Gradus and John and three daughters. One brother Gerrit Gosselink Sr and sister Mrs P Vander Wal.
Mr. Van Haitsma and Henrietta Wilfong were married in Pella on August 27 by Rev. M. A. Clark at the officiating clergyman's home.
A lengthy list of domestic news items from Pella Iowa notes visitors from Des Moines and Chicago, students arriving for college, ads and store openings at Vander Pols Langeraks and Van der Linden's Bazaar, and continued community updates on travels, church and school events across Oskaloosa Mitchellville Ottumwa and nearby towns.
Paul DeWit on a return trip from Galesburg with Egg House teams found five eggs after spotting an old hen by the roadside. He tucked them in his coat pocket and later, hung the coat in the shed. The next morning the family heard odd noises and discovered five live chickens in his pocket.
Ottumwa Iowa September 1 1908 Hon F E White speaks candidly about his gubernatorial candidacy resisting early nominations before Cedar Rapids convention. He emphasizes long state ties to farming, public service since 1857, and ownership of a farm since 1865. He argues democracy’s enduring fight against oligarchy and warns of financial power dictating policy, urging voters to defend popular rights and industrial liberty.
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