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Pella Chronicle Highlights Local Doings and Visits
Local notes from Pella Iowa include Charley Van Doren moving into Miss M E Rudds corner home at Independence and First West. Several residents travel between Pella and nearby towns while Prof Ransom Harvey attends a Prohibition meeting in Oskaloosa. The community reports sales, hospital stays, a large hog sale, and a busy social calendar with dinners, visits, and a noted oyster supper by the G A R ladies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley van Doren
M. E. Rudd
Independence
First West Streets
Adam Hasselman
Selz
Ransom Harvey
Central College
Oskaloosa
Harvey
Mr. Corkey
Winterset
Marshalltown
David Dykstra
Mitchellville
Chronicle
Main Street
Pella
Iowa
Jacob Veenstra
Leighton
Veenstra
Will Ver Ploegh
Des Moines
Joy Fletcher
Ottumwa
J. F. Mowe
Washington
College
Wizard
Graham
Tim Dykstra
Eddyville
Mary Dudgeon
Sarah Sorensen
Anne J. Sorensen
Omaha
B. H. Langerak
W. B. LaForce
W. C. Stonaker
the Chronicle
H. Rietveld
Gerri