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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1938
Page
5
Central College faces room shortages as registration days approach on September 12 and 18. Officials urge residents to list spare rooms and confirm rentals to avoid sending seekers to homes. Graham Hall has two rooms left, and football practice signals a promising season for the team and the town of Pella.
Miss Gertrude Hankamp writes from Lynden Washington that Betty Liggett was seen off by family in Seattle before boarding a ship bound for Japan. The letter notes fruit baskets, surprise pictures, and Betty meeting fellow travelers headed to Tokyo via Vancouver.
Charles McDonald of the Michael Leonard corn company announced this week that the plant will soon start to process corn from the area. Former employees are urged to contact the firm at once as storm damage requires more careful selection and processing this year.
At the funeral of Dr Siebe C Nettinga tributes were paid by Dr J Harvey Murphy president of the general synod of the Reformed church and Dr Wynand Wickers president of Hope college. They noted his Hope college and Western Theological seminary roots his leadership of Spring Lake En Glewood and Fifth Reformed churches and his 1918–1926 roles in the seminary and general synod. Nettinga was praised as a prophet defender of faith and a driving force for religious life among students born in the Netherlands and raised in Sioux County Iowa.
Mr and Mrs R H Dodds prepare to open The Fashion Shop on Franklin street in the former J G Sybenga bakery space. The redecorated building displays a fine stock of ladies ready to wear dresses suits hats and accessories and the couple invite the public to inspect next Saturday September 10.
Marion Vanden Oever has leased the former Simcon station in South Pella and unveils the Texaco gasoline and oils through The Chronicle advertising pages. The station on Oskaloosa street invites customers to try Fire Chief gasoline and Texaco Motor Oil.
City council hearings address Jack Van Rees petition to build a gasoline service station west of the Shell on Oskaloosa Street while residents R A Awtry and Leon Hackett cite smoke and soot from Rosscreen rubbish pits damaging property and clothes. The mayor will seek abatement without court action and a highway paving update is approved under state law.
Roy De Wild relocates to the Ramsey building with a remodeled store room and departments. The stock includes shoes, work clothing for men, groceries, and other items. The store opens Saturday for business and friendly calls. an advertisement in this issue describes the merchandise.
Jasper Uitermarkt visits Pella after fifty years away then travels to Boise Idaho where he runs a grocery and meat market with his son. A reunion of 85 was held on West Market and he praised Pella as America’s garden spot while noting differences among locals. Paul Vander Waal leaves for Vinton to resume his final year at the state school for the blind and continue music studies.
The tentative public school calendar lists vacations at Christmas and spring plus a detailed schedule of events. Key items include freshman mixer September 9, football games against Knoxville Sigourney Lincoln Pleasantville Montezuma and others, marching band and lecture courses, district and state contests, Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, basketball trips, and the senior events culminating in graduation and track meets.
One hundred sixty eight persons completed naturalization in Des Moines on September 6 and took the oath of allegiance. Among them twelve received assistance from the Pella naturalization service and names include Koba Huisinga Cornelia Klein Arie Koorevaar Gertie Miedema Abe Nunnikhoven Jacob Van Wyngarden Marion Veenendaal Otto Wynstekers Pete Pol Otley Louis Beugin Margaret Miedema Sarah Miedema. Nationalities represented include Italians Netherlanders British Swedes Jugoslavians Germans Greeks French Syrians Mexicans Russians Lithuanians. A new class will begin in Pella on September 26 at Webster school with Miss Mary Spencer as citizenship teacher.
The Pella Band toured Sully Friday evening, greeted by locals at a well attended concert. Proceeds from a coffee and cake sale funded Sully softball and future Saturday band concerts. Mayor Fultz and Sully officials praised the ties between towns. The estate house at 915 North Main sold for 3550 to Fred Lam.
The annual Ustermarkt reunion gathered Monday at West Market Park in Pella. A noon cafeteria meal preceded an afternoon of visiting and a brief program. Ice cream and cake followed, with numerous Uitermarkt relatives from Idaho to Prairie City listed among attendees. The oldest attendee was Jasper Uitermarkt, 71, of Idaho, and the youngest was Marvin LeRoy, child of Prairie City residents.
The public school office holds football tickets for Town University games for the coming season. Children may obtain tickets signed by the superintendent or principal at no charge for reduced admission. Junior tickets add ten cents at gate. senior high school tickets twenty five cents. Iowa schedule lists games on October 8 22 29 and November 19. Mr and Mrs Peter Lubberden Jr visited Knoxville Sunday with Mr and Mrs Wilbur Feo.
The Pella band announces two final concerts for the season after strong demand for more performances. Under Hugo W Kuyper direction the program includes marches and solos with guests Gerald Vande Berg and Henry E Kuyper, plus pieces by Filmore King Holmes and Foster. A visiting quartet from Denver stops by after attending a Christian Reformed convention in Chicago.
The Pella public schools started smoothly with 285 students in high school and combined grades near 325 for the year. Enrollment by grade shows 140 boys and 145 girls in high school with grade totals 82 in ninth, 63 in tenth, 73 in eleventh, and 67 in twelfth. County meetings outlined Youth Administration aid, a four county demonstration institute, and no school on September 12. The Marion County Superintendents elected Raymond Rogers as president, Wyne Beery as secretary, and the first teachers meeting organized a Pella Teachers Club led by M. M. Dockendorff.
A bond holder sues the City of Polla for 41000 in unpaid assessments. The city has 6000 in the improvement fund and 5000 in the county fund, leaving 30000 to be raised. A city council member says this will not be a special tax but a general obligation added to all property taxes for paved streets.
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