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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1938
Page
2
Read by the public schools lower grades, letters to Santa reveal children request various gifts from erector sets to dolls and trains while stressing good behavior and care for family. A final note reports Mrs. A. A. Buwalda improving at home after illness.
Adla Tablets offered for indigestion heartburn and acid stomach caused by smoking and drinking. Sold with money back guarantee at Van der Linden's Drug Store.
A dense chronicle of visits showers and gatherings across Tunis Blum and surrounding towns. Notable events include a Friday visit by Mr and Mrs Stoffel Huyser, a miscellaneous shower for Mrs Floyd Miller, multiple family visits in Pella and Galesburg, a 78th birthday potluck for Mrs Jonas Versteegh, new baby announcements, naturalization papers in Des Moines, and a League mass meeting in Pella with local clergy and families attending.
The Amsterdam and Pleasant Grove schools schedule Christmas programs for Friday evening December 16 at 7 30 led by Miss Margaret Keuning and Miss Mae Van Heukelem. Public refreshments follow and road conditions are mildly disrupted by frost while several local families attend a funeral in Eddyville for Mrs Kitty May.
Mrs J Bloem dies at home in Pella at nearly eighty eight. Huyser family attends funeral. Local residents and families including Van Heukelom Van Roekel Van Ommen De Jong Uster markt Van Zante and Vander Beck visit and gather for various Sunday events and dinners across Pella Otley Oskaloosa and surrounding areas.
All services at the First Christian Reformed church last Sunday were conducted by the Rev D Flietstra of Leighton. The visit highlighted the church’s weekend program and guest preacher from Leighton.
Miss Lottie Braafhart of Ot tumwa visited her mother Mrs. C Braafhart at her home Sunday.
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