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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1947
Page
8
Agnes Dieleran entered a hospital in Rochester Minnesota for an examination. Mrs Dena Pe Jong and daughter Dorothy stopped to talk about people and old times. Am glad to have met the folks. Mrs.
Be Jong visits doctor and dentist in Knoxville due to ill health while Dorothy notes a record of scans with Mrs. Lloyd Shilling. Lavon Pearson reports being home with “Junior” and doing well. Ruth Karr helps in the Pearson home. Phyllis Einor, daughter of Harold and Mrs Einor, is to be married. Nita Johnson Brent hosts a shower for Phyllis. Kenneth Richerd finish home improvements after flood and moved back Sunday. Hugh Templetons and Ossight Harveys have two new Knoxville telephone lines. Floyd Mathes replaced by Leste Bogaards on a pulled combine. Wheat and oats yields noted on multiple fields. Marion Van Haa ten straw baled. Dean Stevenson returned from the west. southern wheat fields worked. Harold Sellers and Buzz Slykhus back to Newton factory work. Jack Nichols now on Wa bash section. Carroll Vander Wilt of Sully becomes new cream hauler, buying routes from Jean Van Genderen, who works in a Co op oil station in Sully. Rawleigh man Mr Blom visits. August starts as salesman. Donna and Evelyn travel to Des Moines. Evelyn completes a year of nurses training. Lloyd and Mrs Shilling visit for business. Lloyd starts new job at Run nells on August 4. Neal Stanton family arrives from Oregon with trailer. Karr family visit Dick Ku per home. Wilma Mullins spends time with Darlene. Bricker family discusses new Nash Lafayette. Albert Waardhui brings peaches from Arkansas. melons noted. Harold Clark family gathering planned for Ray Clark Sr.’s birthday. The writer recalls fishing, family memories, and a Fish tale at Carpenter pond.
Local notices list numerous visitors and social visits across Galesburg and nearby towns. Names include the Casebolt Heemsbergen De Bruyns Earpens, Klings, Carpenter family, and Dearingers as they travel and host gatherings through July.
Tracy News reports the birth of Linda Grace a seven pound girl to Mr and Mrs Wm Wanders on Wednesday July 23 at Mercy hospital She is the third child and second daughter in the Groenendyk household with relatives visiting from Donnelson Also noted are local notices of job start for Marie Beekhuizen and Betty Van Hal birthday celebrations plus several church and family visits across nearby towns.
Prairie City residents share visits to Monroe Pella Leighton and Des Moines areas. Illnesses hospital stays and surgeries are noted, with several local couples visiting family. A birth is reported in Des Moines and residents are seen at Methodist hospital and in homes around Prairie City.
Otley residents share weekend and midweek visits with family and friends across nearby towns. Items note travels from Newton to Des Moines, social calls in Peoria and Washington, and a hospital stay recovery. Activities include dinners, greetings, and a family reunion at Meytag Park with local names: Vander Kolk, Ustermarkt, Ryken, Hor ton, Horman, Witzerburg, Buwalda, Carnahan.
Sunday hospital visits highlight slow improvement for K A Ver Heul in Des Moines Mercy hospital. Local families including Bricker Vitter market Lille and Ryke attend Knoxville Collins hospital. Don Lille in serious condition. Burial list at Price cemetery released with multiple family names. Traveling relatives include Ed Kopecky and Ralph Van Viet to Connecticut.
Summit News reports the engagement of Jean Vriezelaar to John D. Gergen with a July wedding anticipated. A miscellaneous shower honored Mrs. Henry Herwehe’s granddaughter and a group of schoolmates hosted an afternoon gathering with pink and white decor and a fruit luncheon.
Monroe News Mra H W Vriezelaar reports John Poortinga fractured both wrists when a tractor plunged over a ramp last Monday. Friends and neighbors later gathered at the Poortinga home to harvest 16 acres of oats as a good deed. Relatives of C Oldham learned of his death Monday. Oldham had lived in Monroe before World War I and did not return after service.
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