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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1939
Page
7
Local items from Sully and surrounding towns capture community life. News includes a family bereavement, a appendectomy, a marriage and reception, visits, sick lists, church meetings, a prenuptial shower, anniversaries, and trips. Numerous names and places show strong local ties across Iowa communities.
Prairie View Kansas reports a mild season with sun and warm days. It notes the death of Grandma Colsman at 79 buried in Luctor cemetery, with surviving children and relatives listed. The Luetoy Cemetery Association reelects Albert Spijk as president and appoints a committee to refresh graveside access. Community notices include a golden wedding, births, weddings, store changes, and local parish plans for Rev. Oostendorp’s installation.
A Cordova News note covers a trip to Pella on Tuesday with stops at Ms Barthlyn’s home for cross stitch and floral displays, prize winning tulips from Oska loosa fair, and a look at a local Co ops meat locker. It reports egg trading, cattle arrivals from Kansas City, Farm Bureau activities, and a child’s birthday celebration at Fifield school.
Local items record Fifield residents frequent travel for corn and hay, family visits in Knoxville and Des Moines, a farewell to neighbors relocating to near Pella, and a Farm Bureau gathering with a Cameo locket gift. Other notes mention sales trips near Pella, a Hart sale, and a Breda Italy bonbon truck crash with laxative chocolates. A prehistoric animal graveyard is noted near Robert Lee Texas.
Mrs Harry De Bruin visited sister Mrs Herman Vos in Pella Friday while Vos remains under the weather for two weeks. Jeanette Van Ommen spent a weekend with Mr and Mrs Henry Van Roekel on highway 163. G P Vander Beek visited Aunt Mrs P Van Bhoven Thursday morning. Van Engelenhoven is ill but fairly well otherwise. Clayton Uster markt and family visited the Van Ommen home Friday afternoon. Arne Karver and daughter Beulah spent Wednesday at the Elm in home southeast of Pella. Tony De Jong and Rene Van Heukelem visited Tuesday afternoon at the De Bruin south of Pella home. G P Vander Beck and family spent Thursday in Pella visiting relatives. John De Prenger and son Mark Ay visited the Van Rocke home in Pella. Ernest Wilson has been ill since Thursday and a doctor diagnosed flu. he is improving. C Val and family visited Connie De Bruin Saturday evening. Mrs J Barnes of LaPlatte Missouri is visiting at Tom Wilson’s pave tal home. Abel Rempe family visited Sunday afternoon with Gerett Rempe family in Madison neighborhood. Richard Van Roekel east of Oskalosa and Clayton Uster markt family hosted overnight Tuesday. Ronald De Bruin sick in school Friday with a crash.
Mrs. G P Vander Beek visited her uncle Ben Van Engelenhoven from Saturday to Sunday. Van Engelenhoven remains in very poor health and lives with his daughter Mrs. Cot Steenhock in Pella.
Rose Hill News notes Nick Neal Johanna and Jennie De Ronde visiting uncle Case De Ronde near Oskaloosa Tuesday. They also visited grandfather Kinas Mennenga at Mercy hospital in Oskaloosa. Peter J. Ellerbrock returned to Sibley Iowa after New Year’s visit to John Vanden Berg home. Albert Van Zante family attended niece Clara Jelsma’s funeral in Pella.
Kathryn Lewis daughter of CIO chairman John L. Lewis serves on the U S delegation at the Pan American conference in Lima Peru.
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