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Local news items and notices from Pella and vicinity
Local notes cover visits to Eddyville Knoxville and Des Moines, church and school events, teacher institute attendance, and multiple family and neighbor updates. Mentions Misses Nelle and Kate Johnson, Mrs Verhuel, various Vanderpols and Thomassens, and extensive social and business chatter including peaches from G G Thomassen and Exposition Coffee promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Cocq
Mayme Hynes
Valley Junction
Cora Thomassen
Illinois
Capitol Coffee
Prairie City
D. A.C. Finder
Della A. Clark
Dr. Bos Hospital
Capitol
J. S. Gladstone
R. R. Sadler
Alvin Carson
Newton
Carson
Jim Grant
Oskaloosa
America
Texas
G. G. Thomassens
Pella
Cully-Carson
John Carson
Cully
Santa Fee R. R
Wellington
Kansas
Marie Smorenburg
Des Moines
Frank Stubenrauch
Fairfield
Frank
Hall
Henry Ver Ploeg
G. G. Thomassen
Jennie Vanderlinden
P. Shaw
Sioux Falls
South Dak
Rev. Shaw
South Dakota
John Kuyper
Mies
Kate Eysink
Dea Moines
Mis
John Boyd
Flora Dubes
Cherokee