Local Gossip Roundup From Pella Amuses and Travels
Community notes from Pella area readers include Lloyd Workman improving on the tick list and Harriet Van Zee visiting her sister near Pella this week. Henry Veenstra buys a new Indian motorcycle. Oats cutting nears completion as threshing season returns. Droppers fills pulpit at Oskaloosa church in summer, swapping places with Rev. Rozendal. Hilda Grandia visits sister Mrs James Kempe in their new car. Herman and Rena Meppelink host a social Friday. A Langstraat party ships 178 hogs from Lakonta to Chicago last Saturday. Eva Langstraat, from Peoria, Illinois, visits John Langstraat home, then heads to Pella to relatives. DeWilde son leaves Pella for home and will manage the huckster wagon with his father. Art DeWilde plans to join Pella Stacker Co to install silos. Mrs Feanys Casdatt hosts her niece Madge Vanderzyl from Pella, nursing student in Des Moines, departing for Colorado Springs for vacation.
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Lloyd Workman
Harriet van Zee
Wm. Tysseling
Pella
Droppers
Oskaloosa
A. Rozendal
Hilda Grandia
James Kempe
Lakonta
Chicago
A. Langstraat
Eva
Frigm
Peoria
John Langatraat
Pella Stacker Co
Feanys Casdatt
Madge Vanderzyl
Miss Vanderzyl
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Eddyville Notes and Local Visits Amid Harvest
Eddyville Tribune reports Koster family illness with Koster at home near Pleasant Corners, Pete Koster in Wright County, and Mrs Driedman in Livingstone, Wisconsin at his bedside. Visits include Van Loon family at Dudley and Van Gorkum. Zylstra family travels to Pella for daughter’s surgical operation and returns. Indy’s recovery described as progressing. Local threshing, harvest illness, and farming updates conclude with E Klaaren of West Des Moines township noted as an enterprising farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. Koster
N. Helmhout
Pleasant Corners
Pete Koster
Wright County
Driedman
Livingston
Wisconsin
Gid van Loon
Will van Gorkum
Dudley
William Vos
Beacon
Mike Hennik
Paul Zylstra
Pella
John Gezel
Mra. Zylstra
Indy
Dick van Rees
Lakonta
Martin Zylstra
E. Klaaren
West Des Moines
Prairie City Notes from the News
Oakley Warner visits his sister in Pella and multiple residents from Pella travel to Prairie City for visits. The Prairie City note mentions family and friend gatherings, auto trips from Pella, and a Great White Way picnic advertised for Pella on the 24th. Geo Stout of the Booster dropped by the News office during the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Helen Vander Linden
Pella
D. Kramer's
Prairie City
Geo. Stout
Booster
John Vande Lune
Jelsma & Hollebrands
Prairie City Country
Vande Lune Graduate Preached at Local Church
Vande Lune, a graduate of Calvin Jr College in Grand Rapids Michigan preached at the Christian Reformed church last Sunday morning and afternoon stating his faith and addressing the congregation with a message about community and service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vande Lune
Calvin, Jr., College
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Christian Reformed Church
Weather Crop Bulletin July 20 1913 Des Moines Iowa
Weather report for week ending July 20 1913 in Des Moines Iowa notes extreme heat with daily highs 100 to 104 degrees and minimal rainfall harming late crops. Late oats potatoes garden crops and pastures show damage. corn on light soil curls but strong on good soil. Haying and harvesting progress well with excellent winter wheat rye oats barley in shock and threshing underway. rain needed for crops. GEO M CHAPPEL section director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Geo. M. Chappel
Promotion Backwards Walker Beach Lands In Centerville Team
The Centerville Citizen reports Walker Beach of Oskaloosa has joined the Centerville semi professional baseball team after a path through New Haven Ottumwa Colfax and Galesburg. Beach is a left handed pitcher with experience in the Central Association and previously played for New Haven and Ottumwa. He debuted Saturday in center field at Colfax and is expected to bring strong curve balls that keep opponents guessing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker Beach
Penn College
Central
Benson
New Haven
Ottumwa
Centerville
Oskaloosa
Beach
Colfax
Conn
Galesburg
License Applied For Poetic Parson and Saloon Scene
A verse-like reminiscence describes a daytime walk where a motorcyclist’s rear display shows License Applied For while an auto nearly injures the speaker. The narrator notes a noon stop by a business with a saloon opening and mocks those who evade the law by living falsely, urging the hanging of this new law.
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS PRAISED IN NEWTON IOWA TESTIMONY
A Newton Iowa reader Mrs H Stone reports lumbago back pain and kidney discomfort improved remarkably by Doan's Kidney Pills. She notes headaches and annoyance from kidneys and says she feels much better now. Sold by all dealers 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY the US apile agents. Remember the name Doan's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
Aple
United States
Doan
Land Promises and Prospects In Musselshell Valley
Iowa buyers shown tempting profits from Montana land sales and crop yields. Ads tout 160 acre parcels near Lavinia, flax yields, and land value gains with easy terms. Mention of an Oskaloosa excursion, raw land lots, and two homestead relinquishments. Also a note on Attorney General Cosson’s Webb Kenyon act interpretation regarding liquor shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. VerPloeg
Oskaloosa
Mussellshell
VerPloeg
Iowa
Lavinia
G. A. Gesman
Good Town
Webb-Keny on law enforcement targets liquor cases in Iowa
County attorneys in the state are directed by Attorney General Cosson to vigorously pursue all liquor cases showing violations of the Webb-Keny on law. The instruction signals a statewide crackdown to enforce the new provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
Cosson
end of the year offer for Register and Leader
Des Moines Iowa newspaper promotion offers the daily Register and Leader for $1.50 through January 1 1914. It highlights Dings’s cartoons Mutt and Jeff comic feature two pages of sport news and comprehensive market reports.
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Daily Register and Leader
Register and Leader
Dings
Mutt and
Jeff
Iowa
Des Moines
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Leighton
Henry Veenstra
Herman and
Rena Meppelink Pleasanty
Eddyville
the Tribune
Prairie City Notes
Oakley Warner
Jas, Jelama
Paul DeWit
Angelina
Beulah Roorda
DeCook
A. van Howeling
E Roorda
Wm. Vander Kraan
Iowa State Fair
Old Mexico
City of Mexico
Ogee
Owa State Fair
CE Cameron
Corey
C. M. Moore
Tress
Newton
Montana
Pella, Iowa
Assembly
Webb-Kenyon
Keables
Monroe
Fairmount
Jelsma
Hollebrands
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