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Local News Of The Week July 1909 Pella Iowa
Weather bureau weekly report and a long column of community notes from Pella Iowa. Mentions visitors from Chicago Des Moines and Burlington, Electric Palace events, lawn chairs and furniture sales at Wormhoudt, auto registrations edging twelve thousand, and several local visits and trips. Ends with anecdotes about Lord Macaulay and Sir Christopher Wren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Ver Steeg
Weather Bureau
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Albert van Houweling
Chicago
Simon Vroom
Harvey
Pella
L. Warren
Des Moines
W. Mossman
J. O Peterson
Burlington
Chronicle
A. W. Swalm
Tone van Houweling
Otley
Electric Palace
R. A. Awtry
Capitol City
South Pella
The
Wormhoudt
John H. Chapman
Nettie Peterson
Buerkens
Amy Waechter
Baby
Knoxville
T. W. Mann
Sipes
Harmsen
Wormhoudt’s
Weyers
Kuyper
Martha Brimmer
Marengo
Hawkeye
McDougall
Jota
John Brand, Jr
Falkton
South Dak
J. Brand
Egan
Iowa
Bousquet
Atlantic
C. D. Wood
Pennsylvania
Winterset
Carrie Mulvahill
M. E Butts
Harvey T. Fiske
Gertrude Dykstra
New Sharon
D. B. Fiske
John Sybenga
Sybenga
P. G. Gaass
Patterson
N. J
Verne Rysdam
Edna Ver Ploeg
W. D. Forsythe
Prairie City
Dr. Aschenbrenner
West