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Local notes from Pella and surrounding towns
A long list of visits and travels by residents including Mrs A Woolard in Oskaloosa and Dave Breen in Des Moines plus numerous calls from Pella. Visitors hail from Otley Newton Prairie City Eddyville Leighton Norwalk Clinton and Ilinois. The piece notes community events, debates, glee clubs and a lemon tree novelty at Mrs Visser and reports on S H Vierson Sr recovering from a fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Breen
Capital City
Gerrit DeVries
Otley
Pella
M. DeVries
Des Moines
Marshalltown
George Thomassen
George VanVark
Tom Bakker
Prairie City
Jim DeWit
Wm. Brand
New Sharon
F. R. Gambell
L. J. Eller
Frank Clark
Hawkeye
Hugo Kuyper
Clinton
J. Beintema
Little Son
Leighton
Kooiman
Fred VanderZyl
Eddyville
John VanderZyl
Keables
Stubenrauch
Matthew DeWit
Harvey Canine
Norwalk
Iowa
Ben Gardner
Grooters
Wisconsin
Reformed Church
G. G. Gaass
Cornelia Wilson
Marie Lafeber
Charlotte Boyd
Hffie Stubenrauch
Julia Post
Agnes Bousquet
Geraldine Aschenbrenner
Reasner