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Local News Highlights From Pella Week
Mrs. Peter Van Ryswyk visits sister in Otley while Tennis Klein and Miss Johanna Van Duren stop in for Prairie City gatherings. Community notes cover visitors, travels to Colorado, a hatchet accident, church society events, garden square upkeep, a fire fine, and local shop updates. Several births, illnesses, and farm-related returns are also recorded alongside small town happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johanna van Duren
Prairie City
L. J. Carpenter
Newton
H. S. Nollen
Des Moines
Pella
John Nossaman
Harvey
Arboles
Colorado
Henry Bootsma
Rochester
N. Y
H. Bootsma
Rody Heeren
Mise Leona Reavers
Oskaloosa
D. O. Thomas
Evans
J. W. Todd
Sybenga
Atly
Donald Mair
Grinnell
Peter van Gorp
Monroe
Mich
Helene Bootsma
H. Bootzma
van Gorp
Rev. C. de Leeuw
Eddyville
Jerry
Pagosa Springs
Eliza Parker
Otley and