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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1933
Page
8
Local notes list visits, family gatherings, and social events in Pella Sully and nearby towns. People mentioned include Verners, Ver Steeg, Koistra, Geurtsma, Vis, De Bruin, Ver Ploeg, Overbergen, Klaaren, Van Heukelem, De Jong, and many neighbors. A Chicago crime case of Mary Petghak is noted as found dead.
Galesburg residents Jennie and Wilma Schippers with Veda and Donald Meyer joined the state fair last Friday. Freeman Hendricks and his wife and son visited near Monroe Thursday evening. Jaylene Van Rheenen visited Pella this week. Henry Neilson and family left Saturday for Kansas to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Naldo Steenhoek and family were at Clarence Boat's Thursday evening. Mrs Boat drove to Newton on Wednesday. Andrew De Penning and family attended the First Reformed Sunday School picnic on Thursday. Anne Oltshoern and Sully’s family visited the John Oltshoern home on Monday. The Dunnick reunion drew a large crowd at Galesburg park on Tuesday. Henry Van Rheenen and family attended the Mathes reunion on Thursday. Betty Lou Ver Steeg spent Wednesday afternoon with Alma De Penning. Mrs John Oltshoern stayed with her daughter, Mrs Tunis Hartgers of Sully, the past week. Hartgers welcomed a baby boy born Thursday, Aug 24. Charlie Sipkema of Pella visited relatives near Galesburg Sunday.
Leighton residents and relatives frequent visits across nearby towns. Oskaloosa guest Laura Faye Van Engelhoven stayed with Mary Lois Van Zouk while Mrs J A De Jong and Mrs H W Vander Linden visited L Ver Ploeg. Families Gerrit Hasselman and Cornie Vroom hosted engagements near Galesburg and Rose Hill.
A Iowa health bulletin urges parents to vaccinate children before school entry to curb diphtheria and smallpox. It notes indoor crowding in cool weather raises contagion risk and highlights prior preschool health screenings, vision and hearing checks, and the legal stakes of compulsory vaccination in Maryland.
Reynolds resigns from the Marion county board of supervisors amid ouster charges to be heard August 21 in district court. Temporary replacement W. J. Wilson likely to be made permanent. Reynolds had pleaded guilty to intoxication with a $10 fine and faced further charges. 29,577 miles of state highways were surfaced in 1932.
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