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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
4
Mr J C Lankelma visits Ute Iowa and many residents travel for business and visits in nearby towns including Des Moines Oskaloosa and Otley. The item lists dozens of movements by residents, with injuries and hospital updates, visits to relatives, and local social and church notes amid a flurry of short travel and family items.
Mr and Mrs R Harvey and daughter visited Sunday with the T T McMillan family. John Hammond shipped a car of fat cattle to Chicago Monday evening. C H Durham and W M Roberts drove to the county capitol last Wednesday to pay taxes and sightsee. Henry plans hog shipments next week if cooler weather comes. Heat in recent days kept farmers from shade while storing grain well. Roberts bought ground feed at Blommiers Mill in Pella for pigs. He has a fine lot of spring pigs amid high corn prices. Harvey family returned from two years in Southern California and may consider it their permanent home. Rev M Ossewaarde of Pella led services at Ebe Rev Church last Sunday. Kryne Ver Ploeg, away two months in the west, visited relatives. Gerrit Van Peursem of Maurice arrived for a visit with the Synhorst and Vander Zyl families. Mrs Christine Vander Zyl of Pella visited Jno and Len Vander Zyl and Ver Ploeg. Next Sunday Aug 9 Gerrit Van Peursem, a Princeton theological student, will lead Eben Ref Church services.
Herman Tysseling spent Sunday in Pella. Richard Synhorst visited last Sunday. Miss Marie Synhorst is staying with her aunt Mrs D Weyers in Pella. Miss Anna Grant of Pella is visiting her aunt Mrs Jno Carver. Mrs Jno Vander Zy entertained the Ladies Aid last Thursday afternoon.
Monroe Mirror reports the Old Settlers' Reunion set for August 20 in Monroe. Social notes include visits to Pella by the Misses Fennema and others, a funeral in Pella for W. K. Wagaman, and the Monroe Library committee selecting over sixty new books to be ordered from Chicago. A local accident left Cyrus Nolin with a broken left arm after a haystack fall.
The schedule lists August 11 to 21 1908 Chautauqua events in Oskaloosa. Opening night features President A Rosenberger platform greeting and a grand concert by the De Armonds with moving pictures by Chicago Bilo- Scenograph. August 12 13 15 present morning lectures by Thomas McClarey Ida B Wise Gypsy Smith Champ Clark and others with postludes of moving pictures and Parland Newhall Company performances. Closing events include a Grand Closing Concert by Parland Newhall Co and Mass Meeting with Prof Preston W Search plus a six Governor Richard Yates address on patriotism placeholder notes.
On Tuesday August 18 the Old Soldiers' Day program offers morning lectures by Alexander Corkey and Clyde W. Lamar, afternoon acts by Eva Bartlett Macy Co and Rounds' Ladies Orchestra, and evening entertainments including Ralph Bingham, Booth Lowrey, Pitt Parker, and Geo. R. Wendling. The lineup includes Moving Pictures, magicians, and a grand closing ф.
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