Local News Notes From Pella and Surroundings
A wide array of short notes records visits by Des Moines and area residents to Pella. People include G B Clark, Miss Aroline Lunt, H S Rhynsburger, Mrs J Jelsma, Miss Sylvia Noffsinger, and many others, with travels to Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Van Meter, Lewiston, Utley, and Osceola. Also noted are hospital visits, commencements at Central College, a Denny medical visit, a wolf hunt report, and local sales of eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aroline Lunt
Des Moines
Pella
H. Geelhoed
Lizzie Geelhoed
List of names and entities from local records
A roster of individuals and family firms appears in the old local record listing numerous names, businesses, and family connections. The long list includes DeVries Clark Richardson VanDisseldorp Aalbers Jelsma Hollebrands DeReus Price Bogaard DeJong W F Crew Den Hartog Winn Overberger Doedyne VanderLinden VanderKeift VanZeée Wormhoudt VanderPloeg VanderMeulen F F Carpenter VerPloeg VanderHaar VanGorp VanVeen VanderWall Bros Shilling Vitermarkt Slykoord Veenstra Nieburg Gambell VanWyke DeGeus Hospers VerDught Swank VerSteeg VanHaaften Groeneboom DeReus Keables Brand Rosendal VanGenderen DeCook Brom VanderBeek DeBruyn
Brower to Lead Voice and Violin at Central College
Professor Herman J. Brower of Detroit spent Friday in Pella and will teach voice at Central College next year as well as violin. The Literary Societies hosted a reception after Tuesday’s performance, with speeches and a short program. The Academy presented Charlotte Hussey in Tomorrow, a drama in three acts, with Hazel White on piano. Mr and Mrs Sadler hosted commemorative breakfasts at Sunnyside on Tuesday and Wednesday with guests including Edna Webster Geradine Aschenbrenner and a group of local students and townsfolk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman J. Brower
Detroit Michigan
Pella
Brower
Cond Tral College
The
Academy
Charlotte Hussey
Hazel White
Asa
Miss Hussey
VanWely Verheul wedding joins two local couples
Wedding notices announce the marriages of Wm J VanWely to Jennie Verheul at the M H church parsonage by Rev J A Monkman with best wishes. Later, Mary Vogelaar of Pella wed Anne J Kleinjan of Durant at the bride’s home on 509 Liberty Street with guests. Mrs. R R Sadler and Effie May visited at Otley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VanWely
Verheul
Wm. J. VanWely
Jennie Verheul
M. H. Church
J. A. Monkman
the Chronicle
Kleinjan—Vogelaar
Mary Vogelaar
Pella
Anne J. Kleinjan
Durant
Iowa
Liberty Street
Kleinjan
Chronicle
R. R. Sadler
Effie May
Fred Lankelma
Otley
Compiling Road Data A Plan for Local Highway Economics
The Greater Iowa Association seeks to quantify road project value by local facts. It urges a traffic census and data on road districts crops railways and costs to estimate ten mile hauling costs and annual service. Multiple calculations are needed to judge feasible bond funding for hard surface roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Greater Iowa Association
Iowa Farmer Honor Praised for Essential Role
A historic public remark extols farmers across Iowa as essential, praising their work as the world’s foundation and vital for global progress and nourishment.
Eyes Move Precisely Without Sound, Says Medical Journal
The piece notes that eyes can move noiselessly with great precision to any object in sight. It debunks the idea that eyes snap or make sound when emotions flare and cites the Journal of the American Medical Association as authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Overpledged Bond Offer Sparks Bargain Plot
A brief exchange quoted from the Pittsburgh Press shows a debtor asking for ten dollars with a promise of repayment by the coming Saturday. The lender recalls a previous loan of fifteen dollars secured by a prior pledge and requests more tangible collateral this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh Press
Also Mentioned on This Page
B. P.S
Stubenrauchs Drug
G. B. Clark
Peter Tusseling
A Quickbaum
Alice Thomassen
van Meter
Agnes Mathes
Council Bluffs
H. S. Rhynsburger
Oskaloosa
George Sterrenberg
H. van Ginkel
Utley
Sylvia Noffsinger
Levi Richardson
Newton
Harry DeCook
Creston
Hdna Wagaman
Prairie City
Johny Braashart
H. J. Shutts Ang
Croydon
Central College
A. P. VanHouweling
P. H. VanGorp
Bert VanderLinden
Osceola
Mr. An
Chas. LeCocq
Newton G. Thomas
Chicago
Phil Olivier
Udell Hendricks
Frank DeWit
Mr. DeWit
Sadler
G. VanderGarde
Priestly
Mr. VanderGarde
Leighton
Woman's Missionary Society of the Reformed Church
John Dunn
Central City
J. H. Johnson
W. A. Phillips
Washington
Central College Board of Trustees
John Lankelma
Iowa City
the State University
George
Dental
Harold Thomassen
Lou
Harvey
Bert VanVark
Warner
G. B. Denny
Madison
Ind
A. G. W. Childs
Jesse Curtis
San Bernardino
Cal
John DeCook
Indiana
St. Louis
C. B. Reynolds
H. D. Wormboudt
Beto Coy
J. H. DeVries Clark Richardson
C. VanDisseldorp
M. Aalbers
Jelsma & Hollebrands
M. M. DeReus
A. C. Price
Jake Bogaard
Peter J. DeJong
Dr. W. F. Crew
C. den Hartog Wilson Winn
Henry Overberger W. Doedyne
A. N. VanderLinden
H. VanderKeift
Fred VanZeée
Mrs. H. Wormhoudt
W. H. VanderPloeg
H. P. VanderMeulen
Dr. F. F. Carpenter
A. B. VerPloeg
Arie VanderHaar
John VanVeen
VanderWall Bros. Jl, Shilling Julius Vitermarkt
Joe Slykoord Veenstra & Nieburg
F. R. Gambell
Jacob VanWyke
Wm. DeGeus
J. He Veenstra
D. DePringer
Sam VanHemert
B. DeBruyn
Jake
Fennema
Lake Prairie Creamery Co
Henry VerPteeg
Lester
Harry Schakel
Mrs
Jno. VanVliet
G. H. Wormhoudt & Co
C. DeGeus
Andrew Langerak
John Hospers
C. C. VerDught
Jake Swank
G. B. VerSteeg
M. A. VanHaaften
Jno. A. Groeneboom
A. N. DeReus
H. S. Keables
Wm. Brand
Rev
A. Rosendal
Pete
Puritan Drug CO
Warner Chréren
Paramount
Famous Players
Jesse L. Lasky
Oliver Morosco
Pallas Picture Co’s
Mr. Farmer
Vander Linden
Keables
Highland Lassies’ Orchestra
J. H. Kuyper & Co
Royal
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