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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
9
Local notices extend birthday greetings to Mr Kuyper and recount recent travel of Jack Bootsma through multiple states. Des Moines area staff are noted for audits, visits, and office parties, with numerous Venetian blind orders from hospitals, schools, and corporations across the Midwest and beyond.
Social notes list visits and outings at the Home for the Aged with mentions of Mr and Mrs T Ver Meer and four children from Sioux Center visiting their grandmother. Several residents and friends from Peoria Sully Oskaloosa Des Moines Leighton Knoxville and Minnesote are recorded stopping by or staying with residents, reflecting a busy social week.
Community notes recount visits by Mrs Low and others to M Elmer Vogelaar and families, church meetings at Monroe and Knoxville, and various social visits in Otley Pella and Tracy. Local 4 H and livestock club activities, 4 H county meeting at Knox ville with Ella Loughran, and newly elected Methodist Women’s Society officers at Tool’s Chapel are listed along with farm and animal show entries and farm work updates.
Musings from a small town column cover Leo Vriezelaar placing a new clock in his store window and plans to enter jewelry wholesale. The piece also notes fall Indies hats and a windward feather, local gossip on weddings and grandchildren, a Civil War anecdote, sunken garden visits, Homecoming on October 1, and a long quiz answer list of local names.
University of Iowa coach Dr. Eddie Anderson says the team is stronger after two weeks of drill with experienced veterans at most positions and fast developing backups. The No. 1 lineup includes Pettit and Maher at ends, Enich and Walker at tackles, Tollefson and Snider at guards, Couppee at center, Couppes at quarterback, Stauss at left half, Gallagher at right half, and Rey at fullback, with six players earning “Iron Men” status from prior seasons.
In the past month the district court clerk notes many birth certificate requests. Old records are incomplete as births were kept by township clerks or at the state bureau in Des Moines. Even family Bibles rarely suffice without corroborating witnesses. School buses carry more riders daily than New York City subways.
Marion County Agent William Blackman outlines spray and roost painting methods using Black Leaf 40 and Black Leaf 10 to kill mites in poultry houses, plus marketing tips from September. He warns on disposing of sick birds by burning and on humane killing to prevent disease spread. A USDA release highlights Union County Kentucky moving to purebred bulls, part of the Better Sires Better Stock campaign, with support from University of Kentucky and federal programs.
D A Bathrick, VP and general sales manager of Pontiac Motor Division, reports a six months’ head start in defense work on the West Coast with large payrolls and ambitious plans. He cites Oregon, Washington, and California as key sites where shipyards and factories operate around the clock, signaling a shift to a thriving postwar era despite occasional bottlenecks.
An old method uses saltpeter to burn out dry stumps. Drill or heat a two inch hole, drop two ounces of saltpeter, fill with water, seal, and let the liquid soak in. Then cover with paraffin or fuel oil and ignite. If enough chemical is used, the stump burns away.
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