Pella Social Roundup and Local Ills Reflect Town Life
Local notes from Pella Iowa detail Rev Wm Duiker moving from Archer to Pella and relatives visiting from Orange City for a funeral in Keokuk. Town residents suffer infantile paralysis, summer flu, and a broken leg, while others visit Hull Preston and Des Moines. Frequent trips for millsinery buying, ranch work in Fowler, and college business in Des Moines show busy community life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Duiker
Archer
Iowa
Pella
M. Lan‘gerak
West First Street
Peter Pressman
Orange City
Keokuk
Big Barn Burned on Kaldenberg Farm West of Dunreath
A massive 45 by 75 foot barn on George Kaldenberg's Red Rock township farm was destroyed by a lightning strike Friday. The haymow held late crop hay. tools and harnesses were lost but no livestock. Kaldenberg carried $3000 insurance with a company represented by Ashlie Welsher of Knox ville Journal notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Kaldenberg
Dunreath
Red Rock
Kaldenberg
Ashlie Welsher
Knoxville Journal
Mark Twains Hard Luck
A German paper recounts Mark Twain in a small town visit before a dinner shave. The barber asks about tickets and Twain notes he plans to attend only if needed, reflecting lighthearted misadventure around the lecture schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
Jek
Talwayeh
Doctor and Wife Injured in Monroe Auto Crash
Dr. Frank Carpenter of Reasner and his wife suffered multiple injuries when two racing cars collided near a turn four miles north of Monroe Tuesday evening. The doctor received a broken leg several broken ribs and facial cuts while his wife sustained broken ribs and other bruises. The racing cars, likely carrying ballgame visitors from Pella, escaped injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Grant
Carpenter
Frank Carpenter
Reasner
F. F. Carpenter
Pel‘la
Monroe
Joint Reunion for Seventeenth Iowa Infantry Set in Knoxville
The Seventeenth Iowa Infantry reunion association schedules the 1921 gathering in Knoxville for October 12 and 13. Few veterans remain from Marion county’s 1862 unit, and Knoxville aims to provide fitting entertainment. The Marion County Veterans' Association also plans a strong second day on October 13 to boost attendance among survivors of the Civil War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seventeenth Iowa Infantry
Knoxville
Marion County
Marion County Veterans’ Association
Knoxville Journal
Day School of Religion Experiment Plans Growth
Last week a Week Day School of Religion ran Monday through Friday in the 2nd Reformed church Sunday school rooms with the Primary Department. About 36 children attended daily under 4 instructors from 9:30 to 11:30 am. Activities included devotional time memory work stories handwork play music missionary talks and more. Leaders aim to expand to the full children division next year and even a community program possibly becoming a five week Standard Daily Vacation Bible School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
2Nd Reformed Church
Sharpening the Tools of Life by Dr Frank Crane
Dr Crane reviews three books in the Mind Training for Children set published by W E Milley of Alhambra Cal. The works claim practical play based to sharpen senses with over fifty games and exercises to train sight hearing smell and memory, aiding parents and teachers for child development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Crane
W. E. Milley
Alhambra
Cal
Magnussen
Game of Silence and Drop It for Kids
Des Moines Capital praises a collection of children's books full of games to sharpen the senses of touch hearing and taste and memory training. It extols real books for real boys and girls as works of sheer genius.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tey
HaHtig
Des Moines Capital
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Gerrit de Vries
R. D. Douwstra
Boyden
May
Ruth Lowder
Broken Bow
Nebr
H. C. Varenkamp
H. J. Rhynsburger
Luke van Oyen
John Vander Krol
Wm, Bakker
John C. de Bruine
Auto
Hull
B. F. Vander Linden
Vander Linden
Preston
Minn
Philathea
The
Baptist Church
Clark Richards
Henry de Wit
St. Charles
James de Wit
Creston
Dorothy ‘ Wormhoudt
Fannie Gerritsen
Chicago
Letitia Brunia
Fowler, Colo
E. Hollebrands
Colorado Springs
Hollebrands
Federal Life’ Insurance Co
Mr. Hollebrands
Ella Jabaai
Eddyville
A. A. Klein
James
Mildred
Boulder, Colo
H. F. Johnson
L.L. Mahaffey
East Huber ‘Street
Kate Hammel
Des Moines
Bertha Brunia
Cole's Seed Store
Vander Wal & Valkenburg
Sarah
Connie Wormhoudt
M. J. Hoffman
L. Goulooze
Miss Dena Ver Steeg
Paul
Otley
Dirk de Heal
Bertha Smorenberg
Jennie and
Lorena de Haan
Marie
Agnes Vander Hart
Prairie City
L.H. van Houten
Wm. van Houten
Lyman
University of Wyoming
Erie
Erie State Normal School
van Houten
Iowa Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Miles
Nervine
Ciga
Liccerr & Myers Tosacco Co
Lowe Bros
Puritan Drug CO
Heerema Bros
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