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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1902
Page
2
Sunday visits and sickness fill Pella notes as Nick Kingma and others spend time with loved ones. Local fever cases include the Van Der Pol and Kate Van Der Pol family members. Smallpox reported near Galesburg. Kling family quarantined. Next Sunday January 12, Peter Klooster to wed Gertie Stek.
Sunday supper at Van Zante s. Saturday night contest weak with only Miss Alice Grandin speaking. Neune s party Tuesday fine. a few uninvited ruffians spotted the crowd. Colored barber and wife left town. Huber McAdoo visited Pella. Grand ball at Brown s hall on New Year s. Lillian McAdoo shopping in Des Moines. Letta Harmison visiting home. Ding de Haan visited Runnells. I E Peters returned from Oklahoma. Nellie Murray studying music in Pella. Talor couple spent holidays in Missouri. Twenty carloads lumber ordered for new yard. talk of a lumber yard and bank. Elder Wright holding meetings at Latter Day Saints church. Mrs C W Butkin and baby home from Grand Junction. Marriage license issued to Andy Lurid and Annie Johnson. Maude Park and Tom West attended Della Porter and Arch Tucker wedding near Mitchellville. Prof Bennett resumes school after smallpox closure. Souvenir edition of the Curo toxins received. Stout praised for write up.
City property offered for sale at a reasonable price. Call this office for terms and details.
Newly installed officers of the ALFL A M in this city are M W W A Butts as senior ward master, M Hammell as master of work, Ren Viersen as junior warden, Henry Westerholf as secretary, and Charles Porter as treasurer.
Wouter van der Hart files a petition in the Marion County District Court seeking to quiet and establish title to land in Sec 12 and 1 of township 77 N range 18 W and to cancel mortgages by Conrad Huffman to Thomas A. Chase and by James W. and Angee Tapeluen to Conrad Huffman. If you fail to appear before noon on the February 2 1902 term in Knoxville, default and a judgment as prayed will be entered. Crozier and McCormack, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
A fragmentary timetable lists No 202 Passenger at 8:40 a m by Sigg, No 26q Passenger at 8 40 p m, No 242 Accommodation with unspecified time, No 234 Accommodation at 12 20 p m. It preserves sparse OCR details and timing hints from the era.
City officers including the police chief the city engineer and the city solicitor are listed with multiple surnames and initials. The document names Kayeer Jaasdam John Carson and others such as Price Win Schreiner Peuvers Sluis Johnson Van Zante Van Gorp and DeBooy among attendees.
The document lists officers and board members including H Rietveld as president and W Cook as treasurer. Also named are secretary Vv D Roovaart and board members IL Rietveld J M Cole II J Vanden Berg W M Wruger Abraham VerPloegh.
Mrs Marybird of Harrisburg says her child would have died from croup if not for One Minute Cough Cure. The ad proclaims it as an immediate, safe remedy for cough croup and throat troubles, suitable for the youngest child and liked by children. Cole and Langrack advertise the product as a seasonally needed household cure.
Wanted a dependable man with a family to work by the month and take charge of a 160 acre farm. Must know how to feed cattle. Apply to Jorx G Tito.
R van der Ploeg sues unknown heirs and claimants of Horst Thompson and related parties to quiet title to W1/2 NE1/4 and E NW1/4 Sec 7 Tp77 R18. Petition traces chain from US patent to van der Ploeg and seeks mortgage cancellations and declaratory relief. Defendants warned to appear before February 2 1902 noon at Knoxville Iowa or default and decree will be entered.
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