No contest on Fdarisle school board ballot
Voters in Pella community school district face an easy choice as incumbent J B Dahm runs unopposed for a three year term. Des Moines area community college director candidates are Hiram E Miller and Walter A Stover Jr with polling from noon to 9 p m on election day.
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Hiram E. Miller
Walter A. Stover, Jr
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Pella PTO drives school program with open meetings
The Pella community Parent-Teacher Organization in its second year operates locally with no national ties. It hosts public meetings on reading, building plans, open campus programs, and a superintendent discussion, while surveying teachers and community members to expand resources. Future work includes studies on alcohol abuse, athletic programs, college plans, counseling, and transition sessions for grades five to eight. Open houses at Webster Otley Leighton are set for September nine, twenty one, and twenty eight with a high school date pending.
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Orville Dunkin
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Otley
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Chronicle Letters Policy Encourages Signed Community Part
The Chronicle invites readers to submit opinion letters on local issues. Letters must be signed with real names and may be shortened to fit space. The policy underscores editorial discretion and space limitations in publishing reader voices.
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Sandridge One Room School Photo from 1909 1910
An unusual Sandridge rural school photo belonging to Mrs. J.G. Boorda shows 32 pupils and teacher Nella Haun. The 1901 to 190? era one room schoolhouse housed a burro and pony, kerosene lighting, a coal stove, and readers, with Sundays and spelling bees drawing regional attendance.
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J.G. Boorda
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Nella Haun
Roorda
Pella
Harry Awtry
Looking Back At Local Happenings Across Decades
Ten years ago Milo Kruseman won the 15000 pours class at the Lynnville Sull tractor pull while Rita Bensink sold her calf to Central National Bank and Trust Co for 28 dollars per cwt at the state fair baby beef sale. Twenty five years ago public school enrollment stood at 692 with 275 in high school and Minnelius Mick Paltzer opened a jewelry store at 623 Franklin in the former Dieleman Auto Supply building. Fifty years ago the Pella band performed in Leighton with a fixed up bandstand and a Masonic Hall spread after the concert, while an ad for M M Star Bottling Co urged drinkers to help tired nerves. Seventy years ago J G Gaass bought Fall Winter stock in St Louis, and A J McCall of Des Moines bought the Pella electric light plant with a plan to improve service as city officials weighed municipal purchase.
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Mick) Paltzer
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St. Louis
A.J. McCall
Des Moines
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