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Pella News Roundup Adds Local Family News and Notices
The Pella weekly notes social visits, births, illnesses, and arrivals including Miss Martha Verheul at the Pella Literary Club, a baby girl for Albert Wichart and wife, various relatives visiting from Ottumwa Os kaloosa and Des Moines, and community events. Also listed are business notices, church events, and local farewells with names of residents and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Frederick Welch
C. C. Welch
Albert Wichart
Elmer Harms
Monroe
Eliza Parker
Hattie Lee
New Sharon
Fremont
Thomas Vander Werf
Ottumwa
Vander Werf
Lucy Koopman
Oskaloosa
Pella
Clint McKinney
Newton
Ira den Hartog
John Vos
Prairie City
John Beyers
Methodist Church
Belle Byram
Marie Verhey
East Pella
Teunis Bennink
Gerrit Bennink
James Sheshy
Will Smith
Eldon
Cornelius
Misa
Katherine Smorenburg
Peoples Grocery
Des Moines
Miss Rose
Chas, Bomgarden
Zante Bro’s
Eddyville
Otley
Miss Hollebrand
Sarah Wizenbeek
Johana Kombrander
Wizerbeek
J. H. de Vries
Henry Boland
John Dykstra
J. S
Gerrit Hasselman
Lacey
Esther van Zee
Oska- Joosa
Abbot
M. Thomassen
Miss Hasselman
Harry Jennings
Hoffman
Central
Second Reformed Church
Revies
New Jersey
P. G. Guass
Nies
Guass
Ross McCormic
Ross
Peter Vander Werf
Thomas
W. J. van Bergen
A. N. Kuyper