Weddings and local notices from Pella area
H Viersen visits Os kaloosa yesterday. Miss Ella Van der Lune and Marenus Kempenaar wed last Thursday at the bride’s parents home with Rev. T Van der Ark officiating. The couple will farm east of Pella and are well known locally. Nellie and Carolyn Van Vliet visit Harvey to see sister Mrs. Van der Kamp. A baby girl born last Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Arle Ver Steeg. Henry Rhynburger, now at Annapolis navy yards, is chief electrician in wireless telegraph and recently returned from the south. Vander Zee may buy land. Stegeman sold 320 acres in South Dakota. The paper urges advertising value of land and goods. The San Francisco earthquake letter from John Keables’ son describes survival and fires. College students and faculty spent Friday cleaning campus, ending with a playful dressing-up event involving Prof. Young. A professional beggar was seen on the streets Friday.
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Ella van der Lune
Marenus Kempenaar
Rhynburger
Henry
Sam
Indiana
South
Annapolis Navy Yards
Wireless Telegraph Department
L. Stegeman
South Dakota
Mr. Stegeman
Prof. Young
Young
John P. Klein
John Bootsma
Oskaloosa
D. de Pringle
E. L. Cook
Leighton
C. L. Clark
W. J. Clark
Neal Ver Steeg
Mt. Pleasant
A. T. Brom
Des Moines
Newton
Barbara de Haan
Pella
District Court
Knoxville
Geo. G. Gaass
Cox
Henry Young
Local notices and social news from Oskaloosa area
The item lists visitors and small events from local residents including John P Klein and John Bootsma visiting Oskaloosa, newborn twins to D De Pringle, and multiple travel and family updates. It notes a Coxs Great Consolidated Band concert with modest attendance, various visits to Des Moines Knoxville and Leighton, and a flour delivery from Blommers City Mills in Pella amid bad roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McMillan
Blommers City
Pella
Remmage Sale Moves After Fire At Local Barbershop
The sale now takes place in the building beside the F P De Reus barber shop due to a fire. Come and see us even if you do not plan to buy, says the committee.
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F. P. de Reus
Eggs Barred Plymouth Eggs for Sale
Barred Plymouth eggs for sale from males scoring 90 to 90 1-2. L M Churchill of Fairmount Iowa offers birds and stock for hatchery use and breeding quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
L. M. Churchill
Fairmount
Pension examiner visits central Iowa towns
Durham Mr. Macey of Des Moines, special pension examiner, spent several days last week reviewing longstanding cases. V. M. Roberts guided him to Pella and Polk township near Rousseau and Knoxville. Mrs. V. M. Roberts attended to her pension claim in Knoxville on Saturday. W. B. Whaley was a Knoxville caller Saturday, Groves of Iowa wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. M. Roberts
Knoxville
Whaley
Groves
I Hin
Cheap 160 Acre Farm Near Town With Good Soil
Gesman Land Co offers 160 acres of black soil land free of rock near a town on a mail route and telephone line. Located five miles from town, it is touted as the cheapest local farm in two years, compares favorably to properties selling for 875 dollars, and should rent at four dollars per acre.
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Rock Island
Rock Island Buggy CO
Ills
F. I. LeCocq
Pella
Iowa
Gesman Land Co
Monroe Happenings and Local News Summary
Hoitor Ballengee of the Pella Chronicle acted as Mirror caller Friday. Pella high school baseball and Monroe played at Hill Park. Pellacans lost 13 to 2. Monte hotel at Colfax burned in roof-origin blaze early Sunday. guests escaped unharmed. Loss estimated at 40,000 with 25,000 insured. Readers learn of Kersbergen Pickens Co. assignment dissolution of Newton firm. Meat 7 branch noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Hoitor Ballengee
The
Pella Chronicle
Pella High School
Hill Park
Pellacans
Monte
Fry
Colfax
Kersbergen, Pickens & Co
Newton
Meat 7
Farmers seek rain as warm spell ends
Last week farmers welcomed warmth but now long for rain. A son was born to Mr and Mrs K van Zee on Monday. Gerrit Meppelink visited Aska loosa on Wednesday. Mrs J Meppelink and son visited Mr and Mrs John Visscher Thursday. H Van der Voort and daughter Mary were at Pella Wednesday. Lautenbach Bros move the barn of H Overbergen this week. Mr and Mrs Meppelink visited Mr and Mrs H Baron. Mr and Mrs Nick Meinders went to Oskaloosa Thursday to see his sister Mrs J Van Maanen who is very ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. van Zee
Gerrit Meppelink
J. Meppelink
John Visscher
H. van der Voort
Mary
Pella Wednesay
Lautenbach Bros
H. Overbergen
Meppelink
H. Baron
Nick Meinders
Oskaloosa
J. van Maanen
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Great Bargain Shoe Sale
Stegeman
Ela Chronicle
H. Viersen
Nellie
Carolyn van Vliet
Harvey
Mrs. van der Kamp
Arle Ver Steeg
van Spanckeren
B. FW. Keables
John
San Francisco
California
Mission
Made In
New York
Fifth Avenue
Alfred Benjamin & Co
Broadway
Moines
Iza Smith
Wapello County
Durham
Brown
Durham Hotel
Missa Iza
Frank Smith
Charley Brown
John Brown
Charley
Wormhoudt’s
Pella, Iowa
Wheeler
J. D. Snyder
R. J. Fleener
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