Pella area society notes and local visits
Miss Madeline Diekema and Mrs Kuiper toured Missouri for a pleasure trip. Local auto dealers delivered new Chevrolets with models Master and Standard Town Sedans. Residents and visitors from Grinnell Knoxville Des Moines and Peoria dropped by Pella and Otley for visits while church and civic events continued. An eight pound daughter arrived at Mahaska hospital and several residents faced health and home projects as summer activities began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madeline Diekema
John Kuiper
Missouri
White Way Auto Co
Grinnell
G. Zylstra
Billie Zylstra
Pella
Nellie van Rockel
Ye Foto Shop
Ethel Burdick
Hotel Burdick
Oskaloosa
Omaha
Nebr
Kathryn Branshart
N. N Petty
Town Falls
Andy
Henry Steenhoek
Prairie City
John Wittenburg
Albert Rietveld
Patty
Everett Heyveld
Orville Bensink
Marjorie Faye Boot
Des Moines
Reuben Schakel
J. E. Forbes
Gerrit Hoekstra
Knoxville
Pella Co-operative Burial_association
Y. T. van Niewaal
E. V. Goad
County Emergency Relief Committee
Barney van Rockel
West First Street
H. van Dellen
Peoria
Ill
Stuart
Edward
Stuart Goad
Jeanette Vander Werf
Bert Vander Werf
Otley
Mahaska Hospital
J. M. Cook
Gerrit de ‘Bruyn
Woden
Iowa
Bill de Bruyn
Jacob Zwank
Anne den Hartoj
Home For
Peter Zwank
Sandridge
Herman T. Zwank
Monroe
Harold Parker
Hazel
Bethel
Nick Heimstra
Heimstra
Joe Slycord
Pella Area News Highlights Local People and Movements
Local News reports Willard Langerak closing his Newburg school for summer and two students visiting Central College. Several educators, ministers, and residents return home or move roles, including Hattie Gesel taking Prairie City high principalship next September, Rev Nick Roozeboom starting at Otley church, and others visiting Des Moines for a Brethren Bible conference. Numerous hometown familiarities, travel to Rochester for synod sessions, and family movements mark the community's summer pattern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Langerak
Newburg
Central College
Bill Rathke
Ruth Dykstra
Rippey
Hattie Gesel
Teeacher
Rose Hill
A. Haverkamp
Menning
Prina
Rochester
N. Y
General Synod of the Reformed Church
Opal McQuille
Hollandale
Minn
Tone Klein
University Street
Wilbur Johnson
Winterset
Mr. Johnson
Helen Johnson
Omaha
Nebr
Eddyville
A. Johnson
Johnson Home
Teo Linder
Garwin
Falck
Baron
Gerrit Popma
Orange City
J. Popma
Henry Scholten
Kathryn
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Margaretta Slob
Scholten
Slob
Mr. Scholten
Dorothy Clark
Kathryn van Veen
Gertrude Neirmeyer
Oskaloosa
Verne de Bruyn
Kramer
North Main Street
Freda Poelman
Fred Dekker
Methodist Hospital
Des Moines
Walter Vander Hart
John S. Ter Louw
South Holland
Joe Rexwinkel
Alton
Iowa
Harold Warner
Reasner
Walter Visscher
Hedrick
Henry van Houwelinge
Johnny Vander Linden
Oconomowoc
Wis
B. F. Vander Laden
W. D. van Sittert
Ray Scott and Son
Trenton
Rev. R. de Haan
Pella
Cawker City
Kansas
Expert demonstrates Perfect Retention Shields in Oskaloosa
H. L. Hoffmann a former associate of C. F. Redlieb of Minneapolis will demonstrate a rupture treatment free of charge at the Lacey Hotel in Oskaloosa on Tuesday June 20 from 10 AM to 4 PM. Physicians will discuss the serious condition and why protruding ruptures are dangerous. Retention Shields claim to hold ruptures during exercise and work, are waterproof and indestructible, urging against wearing enlarging trusses and advising medical attention for children. Home office listed as 308 Lincoln Building, Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Hoffmann
C. F. Redlieb
Minneapolis
Minn
Oskaloosa
Lacey Hotel
Lincoln Building
Local Sheriff Candidate Sees Likely Democratic Victory
A Marion County sheriff hopeful from two years ago remains politically active and predicts a broad Democratic win this fall. John G. Abbas of the Home For the Aged is visiting Aplington for three months, with the Chronicle sending papers to that address to keep him informed on local news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion County
John G. Abbas
The
Home For the Aged
Aplington
Chronicle
Knoxville man kills ex wife in restaurant shooting
Arthur Sloat, 45, a World War veteran, shot and killed his estranged wife Ruth Sloat, 43, at her Knoxville lunchroom before turning the gun on himself. The motive stated was her refusal to remarry him. The double killing occurred at the oil company station restaurant where Mrs. Sloat had opened the business two months earlier. A son, Billy, age five, survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Sloat
Arthur Sloat
Knoxville
Marion County
Sloat
Charles White
White
Loor
Wif
Billy
William Sloat
John Beadle
Des Moines
Will Beadle
Bristow
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Pella Public Schools
James Lents
Melvin van Veen
John Toom
Wayne Schakel
Helen Dixon
Dorothy June Langerak
Grace Rozenberg
Eloise Cummings
Tunie Goselink
Elizabeth van Ooyen
Henrietta Boyert
Rot Warner
Warren Sclyciner
Carl de Wit
Barbara van Sittert
Webster Building
Freda Rus Linden
Evelyn Palmquist
Florence Robinson
Eileen Sadler
Harriet Sman
Freda Swank
Sarah Rose Vander Linden
Harold Goad
Joe Hoektema
Blair Hartley
Barbara Patrick
Wilma Schakel
Wilma Vander Wilt
Evert Klein
Richard Goad
Edgar van Arkel
David Braashart
Ivan Gezel
Leroy van Arkel
Albert Keuning
Eugene Steint Row
Willard Kaldenburg
Raymond de Wit
Fred Heerem
Towa
Marvin
Morris Ver Meer
Nettie de Gooyer
W. W. Sadler
the Baptist Church
Esther Goodhart
M. A. Ketman
C. L. Gibbs
Ronald
Elva
Mt. Union
Gibbs
H. H. Sadler
Jennie
Hattie Harrson
David Dykstra
Mitchellville
Albert Colyn
Runnells
Colyn
Rdensberbe
Pella High School
Ann Engbers
Margery Wittenberg
Herbert Wormhoudt
Dorothy van Roekel
Bernice de Wit
Elmer van Zee
Helen Vanden Berg
Margaret Vander Linden
Henry van Haaften
Alda Mae van Heukelom
Wilma Vande Gerst
Donald Menning
Lillian Crum
Marie Jansz
Delmer Needham
Geo. Gezel
Vee van Vark
Wilma van Wyngaarden
Lawrence van Nimwegen
Leona Wittenberg
Junior Dykstra
William Vander Beck
Ardith Wilson
Elmer Boat
Jean Cook
Almira Klein
Earnest Schippers
Jeanette van Ommen
Dorothy van Houweling
Herman Hagens
Nellie Barnett
Freda van Zante
Eva Mae de Kock
Franklin Verrips
Bertha Rouwenhorst
Vander Linden
DuPont
Wea Td
Kuyper Lumber Co
Duco
Gezel Car Shop
Gezel
Hazel M. Heiss
Harrington
Sixteenth St. Dess
Leon N. Miller
Pella and
Vicinity
Gerald W. Paardekooper
Manila
TIGER
Coronado Power
Briggs & Stratton
Home Guard
Samble
Pennsylvania
Joe Stientjes
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