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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1922
Page
2
VANDEKE promotes a shop window featuring everything for school. From typewriters to penny pads and full leather Laone Leat notebooks, the ad promises to supply items not yet in stock and to procure them if missing.
A damaged local feature profiles Pella's oldest living settler, detailing her early life, ties to the Hollanders, and long association with the community. The piece recalls the interwoven histories of settlers, churches, and local families, highlighting her role and era.
A Catlettsburg correspondent visits a Kentucky mountain moonshiner's cabin. The scene shows a rough home with mountain dew, firearms, and religious items. Hospitality is mixed with caution toward outsiders as typical rural life and isolation emerge amid moonshine lore.
In the fall months a coal range heated the home while an oil burner turned on and cooked. A yoke of timber was pulled along to move logs. The article explains how a man obtained large logs from the GLerree mountain read to build his house with help from L& Menber, enabling the sizable timber to be used in its construction.
In Tokyo debates about western dancing as immoral run through Japanese newspapers. Western dancing has grown popular in recent years among Japanese women especially those who have lived abroad. It is not yet general, with older, less modernized Japanese frowning on the practice as they observe grace in native dress.
A misadventure in Missouri ends with a goat sneaking into a Cape Girardeau bound freight car. The animal remained sealed inside for eight days until Doniphan revealed the car and the thirsty billy goat, unharmed, was given Mountain Dew from a spring.
New York thousands of dollars' worth of gold and silver currently lost to smoke from the United States assay office in Wall Street will be recovered by the government. The installation of the Cottrell electrical precipitation equipment has begun to reclaim suspended precious metals from gases of smelting and refining. Superintendent Iaine H. Smith reports tests show a net yearly saving of $8,000 to $9,000.
First Christian Reformed Church hosts a 9:00 p m sermon based on John 17 3. To Know God proceeds at 1:30 p m with Lord's Day 41. Unchaste lyness schedule notes Pa 147:41 and discusses In Whom the act Takes Pleasure in Holland.
Odd wedding notice from Pelle reports Bert Van wedding partner Doneelkar ami Sise Secte Pint. The ceremony occurred at Pelle with local attendees and a reception to follow.
Representatives from state organizations attended a meeting on illiteracy at the Iowa State Fair. The Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs and the 73 National Commission on Literacy backed the campaign with support from chair Corawisson Stewart and Mrs. W H Snider who led local efforts to arouse public concern for literacy.
Hancock County Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution urging the Legislature to raise normal training for teachers from twelve to thirty six weeks. County superintendents statewide favor higher qualifications, with forty nine replies showing thirty nine backing more weeks, eighteen seeking high school graduation as minimum, and others proposing one year post graduate work. Overall dissatisfaction with the current low legal standard.
Mrs. Vander Linden offers fine wooden suits made to order at twenty five dollars and twenty cents and splice suits priced at twenty nine fifty, emphasizing uniform pricing and custom construction.
A Spevetafore inquiry notes NMAHASKA SCHOOL BOOKS are stocked to aid Mahaska rural schools. It mentions a day of school needs and readiness for classroom supplies.
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