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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1947
Page
3
A column critiques weather manipulation schemes and grain market speculation, noting rainmaking efforts in Kansas and Oklahoma but questioning public policy. It also comments on fashion trends and skirt lengths, comparing past styles with modern outfits amid material shortages and consumer concerns.
New radioactive isotopes from fission are reported to aid doctors in experiments aimed at healing and cancer treatment. Canadian Red Cross officials cite successful plant studies using radioactive elements to trace nutrient pathways, with University of Saskatchewan scientists leading tests. Further work promises to reveal how fertilizers enter plants and influence growth, hinting at future human body tracing applications.
Reporter Paul Leach recounts a 4000 mile trip through twelve states noting Americans are informed on global affairs yet uneasy about a possible war. He urges leaders to reveal information, arguing transparency will ease phony war chatter and fear, citing Eleanor Roosevelt and UN dialogue as examples.
Editorials from small town papers reflect concerns about college bricklaying pay, fireman safety, fly control costs, and traffic accident rates. Notes from Montezuma Grinnell College pay, Lyon County fire crew patience, Indianola fly campaign, Sigourney traffic losses. Strong questions about public policy and road safety outcomes.
A 1937 report notes Holland tulip bulbs arriving for sale in town. Robbers opened a window at the Co op Elevator but fled before stealing. Local events include a Des Moines merchants meeting program with entertainers, plus a patchwork of civic moves, farm notes, and obituaries.
The Chronicle issued a large sixty page Monthly Opportunity Edition with red pages as it prepared to widen pages from six to seven columns. Front-page promotion featured Fred Van Rheenen’s Bootery and Gradus De Cook’s Self-Service store with merchant photos. A road boosters tour traced highway 63 from Des Moines to Memphis as a surfaced route. Pella High beat Kellogg 32 to 0 in mud and bad weather with only three paying spectators. Gradus De Kock, chamber secretary, called a meeting of the chamber.
A letter from Les Welle in Chicago describes a Liberty Loan rally with William McAdoo and John Philip Sousa. The piece notes a Baptist Church schedule, Charlie Moore's soap-adventure letters, Central College plans a $100000 dormitory and gym, a Bunsey team beat Pella High 25 0, grade school football wins 8 6, and frost damage after a 22 degree temperature.
The October 10 1907 issue notes a large Pella Commercial Association ad urging a Garden Square gathering Saturday to discuss the Pella Waterloo and Southwestern Railroad as a business venture. Stock sale for Waterloo to Chariton line planned. rural school meetings planned to explain the project.
Brown resigns as vice president of the Denver and Rio Grande railway. Andrew nsrers leaves as letter carrier and Mark Rillihan assumes the duties. Joe Vanden Berg and Will Van Hem ert are other city workers. Elizabeth Kaham speaks at College Chapel on hymn origins. Miss Janella Thomassen wins a sewing machine in a Wormhoudt Furniture Co. promotion. Charley Brand quits cigar making after doctors advise outdoor work.
A reader laments the lack of flowery prose in last week’s Porterville country schoolhouse reunion write up yet reflects fondly on the rural school’s history. The piece recalls teachers’ grit and sacrifice, including stories of John and Mary, old windlasses, and the evolution to modern farming tools.
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