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Local News Notes From Pella Chronicle Era
S G Wymer returns to Des Moines to join city assessor’s office. School board weighs sites for a new building with several options. decision pending. Numerous local visits and social updates from Oskaloosa to Eddyville. Reflections on the Los Angeles Times Midwinter issue and Panama-Pacific Exposition. Reports of court matters, census work for assessors, and civic notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. G. Wymer
Chronicle
Des Moines
S. H. Viersen, Sr
Oskaloosa
Knoxville
Los Angeles Times
H. ‘VanZante
Eddyville
Pella
TenBroek
Clarence
Vander Mey
VanWert
John Rietvel
Monroe
Mark Shaw
Keokuk County
Grand Jury
Sigourney
Oskaloosa Globe
Municipal Electric
Marion“ Porter
Mitchell‘yille
George Kimmell
Pukwud
Jinnie Camp Fire Girls
John Goemaat
Corgica
South Dakota
Chas
van Doren
Wormhoudt
P. A. Renaud
Irene Frank
Florence Fifield
Woodbine
Alice Perry
Henry van Weelden
Arie Breen
Otley
D. Wormhoudt
Newton
Ruby James
Peoria
Wm. Vanden Berg
Cornelius
C. Wesselink
Mitchellville
Margaret Vander Ploeg
Dan Fisk
New Sharon
H. F. Fisk
C. E. Ruth
Dr. Payne
Leah Ruth Payne
H. C. Payne
Canada
Pleasure Island
Pukwud- Jinnie
Nellie
DeGooyer
Prairie
Pinta
Sadler
Ray Bousquer
Udell Hendricks
Minnie Brown
Abram Bogaards
H. M. Fisk
Colfax
New Baptist
A. C. Kuyper
W. F. Crew
Lucy King
Mercy Hospital
J. G. Vander Zyl
Leighton
Neal Koopman
Valley Junction
Clive
Albert VanderPloeg
August Busch
St. Louis
Busch
Newton News
James Burke
Mary Dudgeon
Jinnie
A. DeBie
Margaret Phillips
W. A. Butts
Ed Thomassen
Rock Island
Second Reformed Church
J. J. Sybenga
la Pella
G. A. Baitsell
Yale University
George
Philadelphia
Billy Sunday
EM Hollebrands
TenBrook
C. Goemaat
Fairmount
A. A. Goe*maat