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Pella area notes and social happenings many visits
A long Pella Chronicle column lists visits and with Des Moines Ottumwa and Oska loosa appearances. It notes Mrs D Vander Pol and others traveling to see relatives, weather impacts on farming, local business and town events, church and school figures, scout movement discussions, and community notices including a public meeting in May 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Vander Pol
Prairie City
P. D. Wagaman
John Donai
Des Moines
Pella
Mias Nelle Johnson
W. P. Koopman
Creston
H. E. de Reus
John Kinsebsch
Barnes City
Bata Allen
C. L. Allen
Julia Post
Frank de Wit
N. de Wit
G. G. Gaass
M. Vander Linden
Oskaloosa
J. H. Soetens
Delta
Ed Porter
Henry Hagen
Eddyville
Joe Bogaard
Morningside College
Sioux City
W. M. van Zee
Prairie 1City
Kate Hammel
Harry Hartgraves
Charley Dietrick
Dorothy
Monroe
Niemeir
Tice
St. Paul
Minnesota
James Hammer
Hammer
Newton
Henry, Roorda
H. Breaklander
Oak Grove Nursery
Don de Moss
Lewis
Otley
Chronicle
Richard Lautenbach
Knoxsville
A. T. van Houweling
Gradys Gosselink
Barney van Roekel
Paul Little
Genevieve
Knoxville
G. L. Rysdam
M. J. Harkness
F. B. Manson
Prairie View
Kansas
Central College
Mr. Mansen
Iowa
Y. M. Cg.a
J. Stewart Brown
Brown
City
Marion County
Agnes Black
Iowa City
Earl
Paul Scholte
Cornelia Rhynsburger
Harriet
J. C. Blunk
T. Ver Beek
Oak Grove
W. H. Vander Ploeg
H. P. van Gorp
Bankers’ Club
L. A. Hendershot
Walt Hazzard
Jim Hertzog
Monroe Mirror
Hattie Hospers
M. L. Vander Linden
Ames
Peter Ten Hagen
Murray
B. Heerema
Yelle
Leighton
Colorado
Chronicle Office
Grace Braafhart
Josie Nieuwenhuisen
George Liter
Ottumwa
J. W. Birkenholz
Gerrit Kersbergen
J. F. Mowe
Milldred
Oskalosa
J. M. Vande Kieft
E. T. Metz
Capital City
Dick van Ryswyk
Kloosterman
Lon Wormhoudt
G. B. Ver Steeg
Alexis de Vries