Otley Social and School Events Chronicle
Otley community notes include church music by the Dorcas and Banner Bearers societies, visits among residents, and a Des Moines field trip by Otley school pupils. The district also held a Bundle Drive, with volunteers delivering 500 pounds of clothing to Knoxville, and visitors from Salinas, California, plus local family happenings and dial telephones installation in Fifield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnie Breen
Des Moines
Carl Fraken
C. E. Society
Otley
Perry
Iowa
Robert
Phoenix
Ariz
Bertha Wittmer
Doris Lee
National Guard
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Capitol Building
Anderson-Erickson Dairy
Coca-Cola
Anderson- Erickson Dairy
Harry Vanden Berg
Oliver Modlin
Lloyd Swank
Charles Johnson
Bill Harvey
Zack Slocum
Otley School
Knoxville
Gerald Angove
Gregory Lee
Salinas
Cal
George Slocum
Connie Jo
Duane van Haaften
Connie Jean
Carl Horman
Gale
Jimmy Vanden Dever
Loren Vanden Deever
Victor
Keith Swensen
Iowa City
Garlon Ruby
Donna
Berniece
Harold van Essen
Near Tracy
Willard Klein
Virgil Klein
John de Ronde
Ann Klein
Wayne
Vis
Gerald Angover
Gerald
Fifield
Local social notes from Monroe area events and visits
Mrs H W Vriezelaar hosts Sunday gathering at Arie Verought home with Mr and Mrs Frank Hiemstra and families. Des Moines visits by several wives. May 1 departure for England planned. Hospital notes include Mrs Willem Den Otter admission in Des Moines and Mrs Belle Mullins with a broken wrist in Newton.Birthday milestone for Mrs Laura Gloyd. several visitors and hospitality events across Newton, Newell, Pella, Washington and Knoxville areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Hiemstra
David
Chord de Jong
Oskaloosa
Arie Verought
James Vriezelaar
Arthur Vriezelaar
Robert Sher ®Wood
Henderson Reese
Arthur Vander Ploeg
Dora Fullerton
Des Moines
Lutheran Hospital
Belle Mullins
Newton
Peter van Ryswyk
Milo Christianson
Newell
Iowa
Laura Gloyd
R. B. Gloyd
W. Blankenship
Tool’s Chapel
Red Cross
Cancer Fund
Tennessee
King’s Daughters Home For
Ft. Madison
Town City
Dale McConoghey
George Brightwell
Kansas City
Kan
Parents P. Cregor
Vera Gass
Neal Heemstra
Gerrit Poortinga
Pella
Sam Dop
Leo Bump
Carlton Bump
Washington
Walter Ratcliff
Agnes Yowell
al Disrud
Johnnie
Mary van Sant
Huron Price
Social hub fills Lynnville with visiting families and weddings
Lynnville hosted a midweek party hosted by Mr and Mrs Carl Savage of Tainter with guests including Mr and Mrs Walter Needham Mr and Mrs Ray Ver Steeg and Mrs Mary Stewart of Lynnville and many others. The Good Will group met with Mrs Case Dunsbergen and her mother.. Various locals attended Rebekah conventions in Monezuma Monroe and a Newton Methodist Church wedding for Robert Ververs and Julie Lester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Savage
Tainter
Walter Needham
Ray Ver Steeg
Mary Stewart
Lynnville
Glen Williams
Claude Hertsma
George Clevenger
Elbert Stout
Lloyd Davis
Lloyd Richards
New Sharon
Case Dunsbergen
Mabel Montgomery
Hudson
Mesdames
Pansy Hudson
Daisy Burnham
Beatrice Meredith
Jennie Dunnick
Elsie Renaud
Oda McCoy
Vira Miller
Alverta Ratlif
Rose Jones
Mary Brown
Ollie Vande Kamp
Voda Fenner
Neil Black
Kansas City
R. C. Cook
Peoria
Ill
Nellie Warbel
Sully
Newton
Fannie Taylor
Rebekah Lodge
Rebekah
Monezuma
Vina Renaud
Mildred Renaud
Ruth Jay
Helen Gause
Monroe
Robert Ververs
Julie Lester
Andrew Ververs
Patricia
Nellie Davis
Bernard Jay
Clair Fenner
Everett Fenner
Roger Sparks
Bruce Meredith
Glen Lewis
Chicago
J. W. Conn
Indianapolis
Ind
Monmouth area dinner guests and local obituaries
Mr and Mrs Abram Kool dined with Mr and Mrs Leslie Summey at Pleasantville Wednesday. Sobn Hiemstra Leland Lust and Martin Winess guests of Monroe Commercial Club Monday. all with Midwestern Manufacturing of Newton inventor John Hiemstra for Skidtrol safety device. Funeral services for Blaine Caulkins 71 held at Monroe Methodist Church. survived by wife five children and many grandchildren. Burial in Monroe cemetery. Charles Romick 70 funeral at Pleasant Hill Church April 11. nine children survive and buried in Griffith Cemetery. Mrs Lloyd Zickel and Shirley visited in Des Moines at Charles Sallade home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abram Kool
Leslie Summey
Pleasantville
Sobn Hiemstra
Pella
Leland Lust
Newton
Martin Winess
Colfax
Monroe Commercial Club
Midwestern Manufacturing Company
John Hiemstra
Blaine Caulkins
Monroe Methodist Church
Fred
Stuart
Vernon
Michigan
Maynard
Kellogg
Ruby Payton
California
Wanda Nearmeyer
Monroe
Monroe Cemetery
Charles Romick
Pleasant Hill Church
Don
New York
Chester
Arthur
J. A. Cole
Oregon
Paul
Des Moines
Lester Elrod
Prairie City
Raymond
Ankeny
Howard de Haas
Tom Knoxville
Griffith Cemetery
Lloyd Zickel
Shirley
Sun
Charles Sallade
Wedding and family notices from What Cheer area
The text records multiple local events: a wedding at What Cheer Church for Joan Wildman and Richard Morse with family attendees. a birth at Mercy Hospital Oskaloosa a daughter Jill for Clyde Lisk and spouse. numerous Sunday visits and dinners among Gifford, Dunsbergen, McCaulley, Van Wyk, Gause, Ashby, and other families in What Cheer, Oskaloosa, Pella, Grinnell, and Knoxville. a high school senior play Don’t Take My Penny drawing large crowds. extended visits and gatherings listed, including Roger Sparks returning on leave from Camp Orfutt near Omaha to family in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gifford
Clair Gifford
Cynthia
Pella
Ward Gifford
Grinnell
Joan Wildman
Richard Morse
Clyde Lisk
Mercy
L. A. Brush
Oskaloosa
Bertha Stanley
Wade Dillavoy
Joyce
Mel Steward
Gary
Jeanie
Des Moines
Walter Needham
Cornie Dunsbergen
Melvin
Marks
Cind
Ray Jay
Cheryl
David Gause
Paul
Iowa City
Queen Esther
Lehrl Fritz
Robert Ashby
Wendel Slewnenhoek
Robin
Earl Byron
Gus Karland
Collette
Lehr Fritz
Dale Ratliff
Bethel
Lawrence Thomas
Near New Sharon
Henry Meredith
Art Dennis
Knoxville
Pearl Shaffer
Harry Meredith
Robert Scull
Dale Barbara
Renee
Scull
Fornia
Ray McMains
Babette
Newton
Dave Conn
Richard
Robert
Connie
Ronnie
Janet
Robert Conn
Colfax
Roger Sparks
Camp Orfutt
Omaha
Mrs
Dwight
Sparks Family Gatherings and Military Move
Sparks and other relatives. He ll be stationed at Washington. Dinner guests in the Sparks home on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burnham, Bruce Steven of Grinnell and A-2a Roger Sparks also Mr. Sparks who has been transfer to Grand Junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparks
Washington
Robert Burnham
Bruce Steven
Grinnell
Roger Sparks
Grand Junction
Community notices in Peoria on births visits and events
Local society items recount visits and calls by Mrs. Stursma and Mrs. Roose, birthday celebrations for Rev Verduin and Ruth Bandstra, a tornado relief collection for Grand Rapids, and 4-H and church group activities. Births, hospital stays, and a home explosion affecting the Stursma family are noted with sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Rapids
Jacob Stursma
Anthony Bokhoven
A. H. Roose
Henry Vander Linden
Shirley Vander Pol
Myrna Wieberdink
Margie Nieuwsma
Gretta Veenstra
Henry Nieuwsma
Kenneth Fynaardt
Larks Club
Andrew Bandstra
Ross van Wyk
Mahaska Hospital
Christine van Roekel
Charles Burton
Leighton
Donald Fopma
Newton
Tom Vander Hart
Highview
Queen Esther Circle” Society
Rev. Verduin
Mrs Van Heukelem and sister visit. obituary note
Mrs Julia Van Heukelem spent Wednesday afternoon with her sister Mrs Rica Sturama. We are sorry to report that the baby daughter born to Mr and Mrs Marion Franje last Saturday is not expected to live. Buy a long handled fleecy duster for cleaning Venetian blinds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia van Heukelem
Rica Sturama
Marion Franje
Baseball Pioneers South for Spring Training
Seventy years ago the Chicago White Stockings became the first baseball team to go south for spring training. The practice was started by Chicago manager Cap Anson of Marshalltown, marking a milestone in pre season preparations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago White Stockings
Chicago
Cap Anson
Marshalltown
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United States
J. C. de Bruin
Howard Glendening
Andrew Steenhoek
H. M. Rempe
T. D. Beintema
Dick van Zee J.D. van Donselaar
John J. Else Directors
Mahaska
G. J. den Adel
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Monroe News
H. W. Vriezelaar
Lynnville News
Lily Schultz
John Hartsock
Clifford Reynold
Wayne Wildman
Dale Wildman
Louis
Greene, In
A. Z. Gifford
Peoria News
John
Westercamp
Verduin
Cabie Fynasrdt
Dirk Vander Wilt
Eddyville
Herman de Jong
John Vos
Brandt
Lincoln Center
Andy Bandstra
Stursma
Ruth Bandstra
John Stursma
Richland Rustlers
Donald Vander Kamp
Wengert
John Westercamp
Will Roose
Roose
Marvin Vander Molen
George Zimmer
Nellie Nibbelink
SAVE
Sanford
RCA
Lanphier
Demoss
Sully, Low
al Coxe
Agency
Pella, Iowa
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