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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1924
Page
7
Opportunity awaits in the Pella Chronicle classified section. Apply at the Pella Chronicle office in Pella, Towa, for a part time position paying 300 dollars per week. Act quickly to join the campaign race and secure a spot.
Firefighters were called to the home of Anne Intveld at Peace and West Second Streets Saturday afternoon by a stove pipe blaze on a wall. Neighbors and residents had extinguished the fire before the department arrived, leaving only insignificant damage.
Alphabetical candidate list shows the 5,000 entry votes for this issue with a note that next week’s edition will publish the full up-to-date entries and vote figures through 8:00 p.m. Wednesday night September 24. Names include Dorothy Bean Herbert Bosch King Le Cocq Mathes Mensch Pardekooper Rickabaugh Rsherd Roush Tysellin plus Misses and Mrs. in Pella Otley Cordova Percy.
The Chronicle launches a voting based subscription drive offering a 1924 Buick touring car worth 1540 dollars or 300 dollars weekly for five weeks to the top vote getter. Secondary prizes include a California trip, diamond ring, radio, and cash. a 600 dollar gold fund guarantees no losers for active candidates.
A Kemmer Wyo dispatch dated September 16 reports eighty one men entombed in Kemmer Coal Co. No 6 at Sublet after a blast. Eight bodies were recovered that afternoon, all burned beyond recognition. The company fears all are dead. The Sublet mine is a large soft coal producer. 200 workers normally, reduced for repairs. This disaster echoes a 1923 Frontier mine blast that killed seventy eight.
Last Thursday Emmett Hollings head sold sixty head of purebred Hereford cattle at his farm near Knoxville. Forty were registered. Total sale property amounted to 2880 dollars with cows and heifers averaging 78.40 and bulls averaging 77. Top cow fetched 142.60 and top bull 101. Hollingshead praised the sale as prices on par with state sales this year.
Marion County and other Iowa Y M C A groups met at Iowa State College Ames to form districts and nominate nine men for National Council. Delegates from five counties elected district leaders, with plans for a referendum to send representatives. B B Johnson of Chicago spoke at Knoxville High and Hi Y conference. Plans for county outreach and extended Hi Y work were discussed as the week closed.
A Ku Klux Klan speaker, Mr Meyer, addressed a large, orderly crowd Tuesday evening at West Market. The talk outlined Klan aims as upholding Protestant Christianity, white supremacy, and racial boundaries while denying admission to non natives.
Mrs Walter Sexton of Des Moines, formerly from Pella, entertained a luncheon party Friday. Attendees from Pella included Mrs Y T Van Nieuwaal, Mrs P H Stubenrauch, Mrs R A Awtry, Mrs G A Stout, Mrs H H Geelhoed, Mrs George Ramacy, and Mrs H P Vander Meulen. The group traveled by train due to wet roads.
Prof. Van Beek of Central College formerly Greek instructor now at Christian Reformed Academy Hull Iowa was in a serious car crash near Clinton. Mrs Van Beek was badly injured with a severed windpipe and throat wound, later treated in Clinton hospital. She recovered enough to swallow and breathe naturally after a tube was removed. Mr Boertje, her husband, was notified of her progress through the windpipe repair and continued recovery.
Delegates from southeastern Iowa bound for the Iowa Farmers Union state convention in Des Moines stopped their train in Pella Tuesday at about five. About 150 delegates from Ottumwa traveled on a special train led by the Jefferson County Farmers Union Band. The band wore rube style costumes and drew cheers during the hourlong street parade, promising a lively scene at the Des Moines convention.
J. C. Clark, once a Monroe resident now farming near Prairie City, visited Monroe Monday morning to sell a hog lot to R. B. Hendershot. He recalled type setting at the Irver office 35 years ago and said he now works 320 acres and, with Mrs. Clark, produces about 75 pounds of butter weekly.
The council approved a new ordinance allowing the Pella Telephone Company to build and operate a city telephone system and set a special election for a franchise on October 22. A rate resolution charges outside city users 1 cent per kilowatt more than inside city limits with a $1.25 minimum per month. Minor street work and boiler flue removal at the power plant were also noted.
In Pella September 12 marked the first test of the National Defense Act with little ceremony aside from reserve officers. Flags hung, volunteers trained briefly, and debates arose over civilian participation and the act’s reach. Proponents say the test proves the nation should extend mobilization and civilian readiness to ensure defense and prevent repeats of past wartime missteps.
Freemen, janitor at Mahaska county courthouse, boasts a strong potato and cabbage season. He planted two bushels of potatoes and harvested about fifty bushels of fine spuds, with vegetables yielding ten to twelve per hill and an eight hundred plus head crop of cabbage graded A to fancy for market. Local gardeners are invited to beat the record.
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