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Local News Notes From Pella Area Report Week's Visits
Numerous residents and visitors are listed with brief notes on movements and meetings. Dick Doedyns and sister Jeannette visited Oskaloosa. Nick Boland and Wm. Robertus attended to business in the capital. Van Zante Bros opened a new gazette at Main and Oska. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Ervin of Newton and Sterling Bresch of St. Louis. A child’s bracelet was lost in the park. Hayden Phillips returned from Des Moines. Miss Jeannette Greenwood resumed work in Ottumwa after vacation. Rev. P. Brank and wife spent a month in Chicago and Michigan. Many other local residents were noted in visits, travel, births, and daily life items across Pella, Ottumwa, Des Moines, Muscatine, Leighton, Monroe, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Doedyns
Miss Jeannette
Oskaloosa
Nick Boland
Wm. Robertus
van ‘Zante
Bros.h
Main
Osksa' Atre
J. P. Ervin
Newton
F. M. Phillips
Sterling Bresch
St.Louis
Vinton
Doris
Otley
A. H. Clark
Cassie
C. W. Sipe
Dep. Moines
Pella
Cynthia Goodall
C. L. Allen
Des Moines
Harriet Howe
Iowa City
H. J. Rhynsburger
Jeannette Greenwood
Ottumwa
John Braashart
Baby
P. D. Wagaman
Prairie City
Rev. P. Brank
Chicago
Michigan
N. Boland
Waterloo
Harry van Hemert
Simon Vander Zyl
de Reus Millinery
L. J. Eller
Ira Steele
Sioux City
F. R. Gambell
Eller
Gambell
Bert Eaton Sind Mitte Soi
Robert
Sioux
City
A. W. Vander Linden
A. Kuyper
Denay
Cecila Kuyper
Leighton
P. H. Spoelstra
Jessie Pearson
Harry
W. W. Talbot
Ft. Madison
Ed Porter
Pekin
J. H. Soetens
Chronicle Office
D. 8Jaardema
Sully
Carrie Halbert
Rochester
Minn
Illinois
J. R. Dieleman
W. O. Veldhuizen
Monroe
Len Kaldenberg
Dag Co
Ver Steeg
Iowa
Neenah
Wis
Coles
Adv
A. B. van Zante
Tacoma
Wash
Ant. van Zante
van Zante
Westminister Presbyterian Church
Jake Brom
T. J. Thomassen
T. H. Kaldenberg
Ed Koranegoor
Moberly
C. de Haas