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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1904
Page
7
A crowded column reports on gifts layoffs and movements in Pella Iowa including marriages illnesses visits travels and social events across families. It mentions WORMHOUDT offerings in cash discounts, Laura Dykstra Otley visits, marriages, funerals and the Ernest Gamble Concert, plus city council actions and local health updates.
Krijn de Bruin died at his home near Galesburg at 6 am last Saturday. He was 65 and survived by a wife and several grown children. The funeral was held Monday at the Christian Reformed Church in Galesburg.
Central College notes a snowy term with twenty five new students, various holidays and protracted meetings in Floris and Blakesburg. J M Barnett serves as janitor, Jess Miller returns, and several Misses and L L Barnett travel. The men’s basketball team plans a Friday game with Ottumwa. A trunk loss and measles absence are noted amid the term social night.
Conflicting railroad news from Marion County notes surveyors passing through Sandyville and Caloma, now in Dallas, aiming to cross the Q at Russell toward Centerville. The standard gauge steam line seeks right of way and a tax bonus, with Allen Henry and Garver Bros. named as supporters and coal land interests lining the route. Dallas appears hopeful for a railroad soon, while other towns along the rugged path await fate.
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