Pella relatives and local visits fill Thanksgiving week
Local notes list Mrs Sherman Hedrick and a Knoxv ille visitor, Des Moines trips for Margaret De Reus and Mrs Ver Steg, plus many Pella residents hosting relatives. Several friends and former Central College students, including Ella Phelps, are mentioned with Thanksgiving movements to Keota Perry and Des Moines. A varied string of travels, births, and hospital news traces through Pella society life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret de Reus
Des
Moines
M. G. Whittington
Hedrick
Tim Dyketta
Whittington
Central College
Ella Phelps
Pella
Perry
Hawthorne
Central
Missionary Family Parts Ways With India Journey
A Miss Martha Firth Eck and her father the Rev i left Pella in October to serve as missionaries in Assam. They sailed October 21 from New York to Bombay, with a letter posted at Port hey. The party died miles from their station, requiring a long trek up the Indian peninsula toward the Himalaya foothills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha’ Firth’ Eck
Rev. i
Pella
Assam
New York
Bombay
India
Port
Hey
Indian Peninsula
Himalaya Mountains
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Sherman’ Hedrick and Little Pon
Knoxville
Katherine de’ Koning
Newton
F. N. Byram
F.h.forby
A. H. Scott
Keats
Keota
R.R. Beard
H.F. Keables
Arthur Kaldenberg
Oskaloosa
Alexis ‘DeVries
G. B. Ver Steg
Jim de ‘Wit
Des Moines
Guy. Miller
George Ramsey
Hal Cowles
Indian Service
Government Hospital
Bayard
N. Mexico
Monroe Mirror
Herman”Crum
Monroe
Danny. Mc
Iowa
Vander Zyl Bros
Doedyns
J. C. Rhynsburger
Paul
Siet
T. Gitz
Julig“Post
C. W. McQuaid, Sr
C. W
Ed Buerkens
Fairfield
J. D. Gaass
Lee Clark
Chillicothe
Joe “Mutlenburg
Herman ‘ Ital
Florence
Jessie van Zee
Bob
Frank Warner
Prairie City
Margaret ‘le Coca
Sara Gosselink
Fremont, Nebr
D.g.'gosselink
Robert Lautenbach
Ames
Charley Dillon
George ‘McGinn of
Garden’ Cafe
J. W.reed
Burlington
George, Sterrenberg
Indianola
J. de Haan
Grand Rapids, Mich
A. van Houten
H. F. Fisk
New Sharon
Dan Fisk
Wm. van Gorp Sr
Miss. Hattie
Henry Noord
John ‘Liter
Little ‘Son
Himer Jwere
Wm. Rozenburg
Carrie Meindere
Mrs
Carl Byers
Montevideo
Minn
James
Orange City
Anne. Beintema
Christina Brom
A. Ver Ploegh
State Horticultural Society
Julius
Caesar
Iter
Energy Fuel Company
James Verhey
Hugo W. Kuyper
Y. T. van Niewaal
Pella, Iowa
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