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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1939
Page
6
The column chronicles visits and gatherings across Bryan Karr and Van Hatten households including Mrs Overton hosts, Des Moines trips by Van den Berg girls, and a baby birth. It notes Hart’s heart attack recovery, farm chatter, church meeting details, garden chores, and local school and civic events with names of residents and showing a tight weave of community life.
Mrs Evert Vander Pol and daughters visited the Rykkhoek home Wednesday while Evert attended Mrs Van Maanen's farm sale. Several gatherings followed with Elscott and Jansen households hosting showers and visits. A jury service notice for John De Jong in Montezuma and hospital trips to St Francis are noted, plus birth of a baby boy to Mr and Mrs Case Harthorn.
Ella Simpson 81 of Reasnor died at her niece’s home. Survived by son and five grandchildren. Funeral at Methodist Episcopal Church Thursday. M. B. Honnold of Wealthwood Minn. died December 81 after illness. Buried Diamond Lake cemetery. Frank M. Roberts 80 died January 4 at her daughter’s home Will Herwehe. Survived by husband three sons and one daughter. Funeral January 6 Pleasant Hill church Rev. Kight.
A string of social notes from Monroe Newton and surrounding towns covers weddings and anniversaries including Lois Warriner and Vern Jarnagin wed in Monroe on Tuesday night January 10 with plans to reside there. Various guests and relatives attend, and multiple residents are mentioned for visits, travels, illnesses, and community church activities across January.
Peoria resident Vander Hart has moved into his near-finished home last week. John W. Stuursma and Wiebe De Vries traveled to Ottumwa Monday to board the Zephyr to Grand Rapids Michigan. De Vries attended a Protestant Reformed church classical meeting while Stuursma plans to stay with his children in Grand Rapids for some time.
Next Sunday our pastor Rev. D J Moitenga has a classical ap pointment at Tracy. Elder G ander Hart will then have charge the church services here. Martha Vos daughter of Mr and Mrs John Vos patient at the Rehoboth hospital at Rehoboth New Mexico is improving nicely and hopes to go back to her mission work within a few weeks. Lee Roose and Arthur Dear left for Michigan last Monday to visit relatives and friends.
The two months old baby boy of Mr and Mrs Wm Schakel returned home Saturday from Mahaska hospital Oskaloosa where he had been a week for pneumonia treatment. He is improving nicely. Mr and Mrs H H Oostrum and family and Billy Oostrum visited Orval Baughman’s home last Monday evening.
The writer visited Mrs. H. Wormhoudt soon after her 100th birthday and found her spry with a clear mind and bright faith. Bible verse Ps 94:14-15 accompanied the tribute. Other locals, including Mrs. Oostrum and Bill Schakel Jr., were later noted as visitors in nearby Oskaloosa.
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