News of Nearby Towns Highlights Births and Accidents
Henry Rovaart visited the A A Rovaart and John DeGraff homes in Pella. Births reported for March 19 include a boy to Mr and Mrs Schuttinga and a boy to Mr and Mrs Matthew DeWit. Local accidents include a nose injury to John VanderKeift and a leg fracture to Arthur Den Adel after a harrow incident. Power outages encumbered the city while a new brick flue was moved. Will Corneliessen suffers another broken nose in an incident with a chain while driving.
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Henry Rovaart
Pella
A. A. Rovaart
John DeGraff
A. Jabaai
Leonard Jabaai
J. VanBuren
James VanBuren
Arthur
John den Adel
Leighton
Len den Adel
Len
Will Corneliessen
New Sharon visiting families and local league meeting
Wm VanRheenen and daughter Anna visited Pella Monday while Mr and Mrs John Burgegraff and daughter Helen stayed with Albert Burggraff near Union Mills Sunday. A four part nonpartisan league meeting at the opera house discussed aims and methods, with Minnesota and North Dakota cited as examples. Friday a fire at Ollie Ferguson’s smoke house near Newton was quickly fought. a train damaged the hose line, limiting water pressure but the blaze was contained with only smoke house and coal house losses.
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The
Star
Wm. VanRheenen
Anna
Pella
John Burgegraff
Helen
Albert Burggraff
Union Mills
Opera House
Minnesota
Iowa
North Dakota
Ollie Ferguson
Newton
Local notes from Eddyville and nearby towns
Birth announced in Eddyville as Art Vanderpol and his wife of Chillicothe welcomed a son on March 26 1918. Art DeWild visits Davenport while employed. G Verrips moves May 1 to Steinhoff property once lived by the Clarks. Cornelia DenHartog and Will Corneliessen visit in Oskaloosa at Miss DenHartog’s sister Mrs Dieleman. C Van Klootwyk recovering from rheumatism. A marriage license issued in Oskaloosa to James H Comstock and Margaret Visser, likely relatives of Buxton and Jefferson township residents.
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the Tribune
Art Vanderpol
Chillicothe
Art DeWild
Davenport
DeWild
G. Verrips
Cave Mahaffey
Steinhoff
Clarks
Cornelia DenHartog
Will Corneliessen
Oskaloosa
Miss DenHartog
W. R. Dieleman
C. van Klootwyk
South Fifth Street
Fred W. Campbell
James H. Comstock
Margaret Visser
Buxton
Frank Comstock
Jefferson Township
Knoxville News Bits and Local Happenings
Mrs W S Bilby and children from Fairbury Neb visit Knoxville to see her mother Mrs M Wright and relatives. Mrs W J Casey travels to Osceola Ind for aunt Amanda Brady Iskis funeral. A northeast wind damages flue tops and fruit trees. Lt Dr J J Sybenga visits then leaves for Bellyue hospital course in New York. Basil Overton attends McClelland sale in Loudon Ia with high prices. Court house workers cut skirts for Belgian children from scraps. Guilties among scrap-work efforts in crowded room.
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W. S. Bilby
Fairbury
Neb
Mekenia Wright
Bilby
W. J. Casey
Osceola
Amanda Brady Iskis
Marion County
Dallas
Texas
E. W. Davies Place
Free Methodist Church
J. J. Sybenga
Fort Riley
Kansas
Sybenga
Marsh Black
New York City
Bellyue Hospital
Bruce Davenport Crozier
Geo. W. Crozier
Misa Esther Gwin Bartholomew
Fred Bartholomew
Des Moines
Lincoln
Ames
State Penitentiary
Ft. Madison
Knoxville
State Brick and Tile Works
L. H. Bird
Loren Anderson
E. L. Anderson
Don Walter
A. Walter
U. S
George Washington
Atlantic
France
Basil Overton
Loudon
McClelland
Overton
McCreland
Court House
Smallpox scare and old barn fire hit Knoxville area
Allen Anderson suffers a serious smallpox attack at his home near the East ward school, with quarantine in place since last Friday. Several mild city cases prompt talk of yellow cards for suspicious cases. A Knox ville barn fire on the W B Young lots in East Knoxville destroyed the building and hay, oats burned, sparks from a passing train offered as unlikely cause.
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Allen Anderson
East Ward
Anderson
Knoxville
W. B. Young
Lincoln Sixth Wins Tournament
On Monday afternoon the grade boys held a baseball tournament. The Sixth grade tied the Web ster team 13 to 12 after a late surge, then beat the Fifth grade in a final. They raised 2.50 for the Red Cross and won a 1.50 regulation baseball from Van der Linden Bros. Rolland Klein served as water carrier. the team signs off.
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Webster
Red Cross
van der Linden Bros
Rolland Klein
Pella Markets Lists Updated Prices for Stock and Produce
Van der Zyl Bros. and Pella Produce Co. issue corrected quotations for cattle at 6.00 to 11.00 per cwt, hogs 15.00 to 16.50, new corn 1.00 to 1.25, wheat 1.75 to 2.00, oats 80 cents per bushel. Produce items include candled eggs, butter, old hens not bought until May 1, springs 20 cents, old roosters 9 cents, stags 15 cents, and ducks full feathered 13 to 15 cents per unit.
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Vander Zyl Bros
Pella Produce Co
Cost to Crush the Kaiser by Boersianer
The piece argues the U S wealth and debt dynamics from Civil War to World War I urging government bonds as safe. It cites 1865 wealth at about 250 billion dollars, 20 billion current wealth, and public debt of 2.6 billion, comparing postwar repayment and growth with a call to patriotic investment despite wartime costs. It frames America as a leading creditor nation with substantial railways and farms.
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Boersianer
Chicago Examiner
Abraham
Ncoln
Incoln
Globe Tavern
Springfield
United States
America
Ufe
War Weather and Liberty Bonds Come Into View
The piece argues weather hinders farming and military operations in France, noting rain can halt plowing and ruin crops. It warns against withholding funds, urging purchase of Liberty bonds to aid Pershing’s forces this summer.
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War Department
France
Pershing
Germans Buy Bonds The Call To Support Liberty Loans
A patriotic wartime appeal urges Americans to invest in Liberty bonds, explaining Germany’s large loans and urging strong funding to cripple German forces. It emphasizes national debt as a tool of victory and promotes public participation in financing the war effort.
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Prairie City
New Sharon
Eddyville
Scott
Howse
Bloomfield
M.J
the Journal
Lincln
Pella Markets
Liberty Loan
Germany
Chase
Baldauf-Rosenblatt CO
Oskaloosa, Iowa
Aol
Swift & Company
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
U.S. A
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