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Local News of the Week in Pella and Area
Busy notes from Pella Iowa and nearby towns recount social visits to Des Moines and Oskaloosa, berry picking and fishing on the Des Moines river, weekend trips, and home improvements. Mentions of Rev Wilkin, J Todd family, Vander Linden kin, blackberries, wild fish, curb work on Main Street, and a coming picnic. Also reports on crops, travel to Knoxville and Lake Okoboji, and local business updates and advertisements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. E. Wilkin
Des Moines
S. F. Cole
Bess van Gorp
Anna Dodyns
Oskaloosa
Ed. Eagan
Knoxville
Frank Clark
J. Todd
Frank Rederus
Gid Vander Linden
Sully
Olive Bruinekool
Chicago
Peter Bruinekool
Will Schakel
Hattie Eagan
Pella
Wmn
Vander Ploeg
H. D. Wormhoudt
Bussey
Carrie
Ruby Clark
Monroe
M. Mathes
Wyoming
Artie van Essen
Henry van Roekel
Keables
Weber
Geo. Heeren
F. Heeren
Margaret
Cora Thomassen
Walter Sexton
Jake Sterrenburg
Dora Bootsma
Skunk River
P. van Sittert
Leighton Tigers
Pella Independents
H. Vanden Oever
Roswell
New Mexico
A. Rederus
Albion
Main Street
Agnes Bousquet
T. V. Hart
G. Dykstra
A. Vanderzee
Holland
Gertrude Renaud
John van Nieuwenhuyzen
J. C. Gable
Valley Junction
Garret de Geus
Arie Ver Steeg
Jennie
Boyden
G. H. Gosselink
Chancellor
S. P. Shaw
Chester
Lowell
Irene
Creston
Chas
Sipkema
Lynnville
Scarsboro
Newton
Kellogg
L. A. Garrison
Pauline
Ames
King Solomon
Florence and
Louise Reminger
Bloomfield
Geo. A. Monkman
Kate Eysink
John Boyt
Lake Okoboji
Kate
Franklin St
Arie van Houweling
Zoo
J. S. Jelsma
Prairie City
Will Cline
Zelle Shera
Veenschoten
Reuvers
The
Methodist Church
Warren
Ford
Ford Motor Company
Dept H
Detroit
Michigan
Hamilton
Mammoth
Emma
Lizzie
Velma Blank
T. L. Blank
Waterloo Pella & Southwestern R. K
W. D. Blank
Chronicle
William Jennings Bryan
J McCracken
Durham North Carolina
L. Vander Linden
Hartog
Elizabeth Aikins
Winterset
CW. Aikins
Nell Phelps
Bethas
Erastus Blakesley
Brooklyn
Mass
Blakesley