Gertie notes from Pella area social and visits
Local column records illness and family updates including Mrs. Wm Muilenburg with cancer Mrs A T Van Houwel King and Miss Dickie Van Zante visiting Des Moines new baby girl at Mr and Mrs A G Klein update Franklin county glee club trip home and road issues Godfrey fertilizer ads for gardens and potato ground references to Des Moines and Oskaloosa visitors and Monroe travel notes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodrich
Byers Bat’ry
Wm. Muilenburg
A. T. van Houwel King
Dickie van Zante
Des Moines
A. G. Klein
Helen Dillard
Oskaloosa
Jake Cornelius
B. C. Coffman
Pella
B. H. van Ness
Coffman
Monroe
Fae Porter
Jake Maarschalk
L. J. Rus
Alton
S. D
Holland
Knoxville Man Shoots Self in Rooming House
George Smith aged 53 a member of a once wealthy Knoxville family shot himself in a bathroom at 518 East Walnut Street Friday night and died about three hours later at the city hospital. He had been making his home there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East
Walnut Street
George Smith
Knoxville
City Hospital
Smith
Man Shoots Self in Rooming House Fallout
The incident occurred at 1806 East Walnut Street where the victim, a former resident with his niece Mrs. Carl Jensen, was staying in winter with T. A. Johnson at a rooming house run by B. F. Spicher. Johnson reported the man feared he would act rashly and pleaded for care. Neighbors heard a shot around 6:30 PM, found him unconscious on the bath room floor with a small revolver nearby. He was taken to the hospital but died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Jensen
East Walnut Street
T. A. Johnson
B. F. Spicher
Johnson
Smith
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de Jong
C. L. Finster of
Sully
G. B. Clarke
Otley
A. A
Howard Rietveld
John J. Rietveld
Knoxville Express
John Heerema
Lon Wormhoudt
Tudor Kempkes
Model Clothing Store
Capital City
Harold Sack
Blue
Glee Club
Central College
Ames
W. Rognas
Minneapolis
J. Khan
Valley Junction
F. E. Colville
Federated Club
Thesday
California
Herman
H. P. van Gorp
Virginia
Henry Edmand
John Rillihan
Chicago
John
van Zante Bros
Johnston
Harriet Frush
Jefferson High School
Mabel Morris
Mitchellville
Jake Sterrenberg
Adam van Nimwegen
Michigan
Enos Heeren
Gilbert
Pella Dress Club
van den Berg Electric
Self
Adler Collegian
Junites Spattern
New York
Y. T. van
Letitia Dekker
J.T. van Zante
Red
Crown Service
Middle Western States
Standard Oil
Broadway and
Fraphlip
Guy
Thei
E. Firsts
Franklin Pella Motor Co
Renaud, Main St
Deyifisy, & Coker
Ressner 7G
Roper, Harvey ‘Pekeema Bros
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Pella, Iowa
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