Local news and social notes from Pella area
Local items report births, visitors, and travels among residents including the Commercial cigar popular demand. Many names and brief moves appear such as families in Indianola Des Moines Prairie City Knoxville and Des Moines trips. Sect. notes wedding, illness typhoid fever and Memorial day events reflective of small town life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pete Baer
Walter Doedyns
S.C. Hunt
Indianola
H. Bennink
A. J. Kuyper
Des Moines
Gertrude Renaud
South Dakota
John Dieleman
Bessie
Alex Fisher
Wm. Koopman
D. DeHaan
St. Louis
Boonstra
Carrie van Vliet
Knoxville
Hattie Tysseling
Roy King
Wound care and community flood tales from Pella area
A weathered note recalls a boy’s nail wound treated with smoke and rest, then a Des Moines river flood that covered hundreds of acres and flooded roads near Pel la Knox ville. The item also mentions cattle shipments, a Drake Conservatory student visiting, a local concert season, a young-host party, and a Saturday band concert plus classified ads for cigar lovers and a job opening at C Boat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Skunk
Pella-Knoxville
Pos & Chessem
Sheesley
Dora Hospers
Orange City
Drake Conservatory of Music
Pella
Nelle
Carrie van Vliet
Cornelia Werkhoeven
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Paris Green
Howe i Rennin
F. D. Stubenrauch
HH. van Maren
Pella Public Library
Lyn van Vliet
Ane
H. D. Wormhoudt
Dick den Ade
Prairie City
John Burgraff
Jennie Veen
H. J. Rhynsburger
Mary Klaren
Leighton
H. M. Fisk
Columbus Junction
Marion Myers
S. G. Vander Zyl
John and
E. Hollebrands
H. N. Hamilton
Fremont
Elsie
Mack Fray
Keosaqua
Nina Elliott
J. H. DeVries
J. S. Wilson
Gertrude Kramer
Plette
Henry
Conrad Ver Ploeg
John R. Dieleman
Creston
Mantha Griffieon
Mitchellville
Orissa Veenstra
Edmond Mair
Grinnell
T. J. Edmond
Chronicle
Ira Kempkes
Nevada
A. Kempkes
Thos
Mullinhille
Kansas City
Geo
Martin
Oskaloosa
Ledger Harrison
Kate Neyenesch
Jennie Vander Sluis
Rela
Jns. Roovaart
J. A. Roovaart
Bertha Collins
Marshalltown
Graham
Story
Alvin Brown
Chicago
W. W. Brown
South Pella
Elsie Frazier
Otley
J. B Vriezelaar
C. Warner
Rev
S. P. Shaw
Dan Vander Linden
New Sharon
Win, Vander Linden
Weber
Keables
Amelia
Cornelia Rhynsburger
Red Oak
F. Ee. Ellyson
J. C. Shaw
Baby
H. J. Shutts
C. F. Aschenbrenner
Dr. Aschenbrenner
Frank de Reus
Rev Pictenpol
A. Rederus
Albion
Neb
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
H. Jaarsma
A. M. Rodofsen
M. Thomassen
H. B. Jennings
Thomassen
F. DeReus
Stetson
Wilson Bros
C. Boat
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