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Local Notes Highlight Visits and Family News
Local residents from Huron to Monroe and Colfax are listed visiting relatives, attending illnesses, and noting births and discharges. Numerous trips to Des Moines, Oskaloosa, and Knoxville are recorded, with weddings and memorials spanning Pella, Leighton, Otley, and Prairie City communities.
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John Wissee
Rupyan
Colfax
Gertrude Klein
Des Moines
Ralph Grundman
Wm. Ver Ploeg
Ames
Pella
O. E. Addington
Paul Zylstra
Y. Neels
Art Klein
Oskaloosa
Bertha
Christine Jansen
Leighton
Mary
Nancy Pippe
Dewey Koopman
G. T. van Zante
Monroe
Anne Vander Haar
Gertrude
Lorena Gosselink
W. W. den Adel
Peter Pipple
Camp Dodge
Harriet
Minnie Veenstra
Wm. Klein
Otley
A. Vander Lunen
Prairie City
A. Corner
Malvern
John Roorda
Margaret DeReus
Martin Vander Heiden
Will Robertus
Dea Moines
H. Robertus
John Kempe
Dick Weyers
Pearl Calhoun
Hazel
Cedar
Arie Vriezelaar
Klein
W. Vande Kamp
H. Vander Linden
T. G. Gilson
Knoxville
Knoxville Journal
J. Wesselink
Erygipelas
G. W. Ryke
D. W. Gaass
H. Meppelink
Janet
Alexis de Vries
G. B. Ver Steeg
Gilbert Runyan
Charles Klein
John Sybenga
Dora Sybenga
Ellen M. Towne
Lincoln
Neb
G. B
M. A. Clarke
Harold Veenstra
Blakesburg
Jerry Mikesel
Peter A. Kelderman
G. J. Klein
C. Crum
J. H. Young
Jennie Christ
Garberson