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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1931
Page
8
Local society notes report the Busy Bee club's Christmas party held December 21 at Mrs Burden's home with 23 attendees. New officers were elected for the coming year and plans for the party were finalized. Parallel items note visits, school holiday schedules, and community events across Peoria and nearby towns.
Community Christmas programs and gatherings fill the week. Dee and Richland Grange members held a Friday event with readings by children, a Christmas tableau, and musical performances by Thelma Braley and others. Numerous church programs, card parties, and Sunday School recitals followed, featuring many local residents and families.
Neal Muilenberg remains seriously ill after an appendicitis operation at a Des Moines hospital. Mr and Mrs Grover Williams and family moved into their new home on Tuesday. Foxes caught by Harry De Heer and Dave Baum Gardner bring the week total to three. Roy Karr Billy and Clyde Karr visit Monroe after Mrs R M Hart and daughters Ruth and Madge along with Leo Taylor attend a Knoxville high school glee clubs concert at the Methodist church Sunday. Farm Union Fifield district postpones meeting to Tuesday evening Dec 22. Clarence Keister visits Cordova friends Saturday. Blanche Kerr returns from Cedar Falls Friday for a two week vacation. Neal Muilenberg an uncle of Henry Muilenberg is very ill after surgery in Des Moines. Frank Cradle and Riley Young moved two loads of machinery to
Harvey Iowa December 21 The Harvey correspondent of the Pella Chronicle sends a Christmas greeting to readers with a poem about helping hands and holiday spirit. The Harvey public schools under Professor A J Postle are thriving with students producing essays and a play titled Sound Your Horn the junior class presented at the gym on Saturday the 19th. Balmy weather marks the region with little frost and melting snow as warmth returns.
Local notices recount visits by neighbors and relatives to Mrs. Witbaard after her operation last Monday. Several families from near Oskaloosa Pella Tracy and Reusner traveled to see her and reports say she is doing fine.
The Men’s Brotherhood class of Ebenezer Reformed church held a social gathering with wives in Leighton Iowa. Names linked to the event include Ernest De Cook C Sedrel and the Van Maarten and De Reus families. Other notes mention visits to Pella Ottumwa and Florida and a birth to Frank Las sure a daughter.
Bus schedule effective Sept 27 1931 shows routes from Des Moines to Ottumwa and from Pella to Des Moines Oskaloosa and Ottumwa with departure times at 9 31 am 2 81 pm 7 46 pm and 9 34 am 3 34 pm 7 49 pm all buses depart Hotel Pella.
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