Neighborhood News from Otley full of local visits and updates
Special correspondent reports gatherings and travels by Otley residents and friends. Visitors include Mr and Mrs R V McKeever and Betty celebrating in Monroe, Des Moines trips by James Van Viiet and family, and many others visiting relatives in Oskaloosa Des Moines Knoxville and Prairie City. Community events feature wiener roasts Daisy Grove school activities a Children’s Day program and a May 29 roast for pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. V. McKeever
Betty
W. O. Frazer
Monroe
John Vander Ploeg
James van. Viiet
Des Moines
Frank Portinga
Newton
Mercy Hospital
Oskaloosa
Anna Krause
Marshalltown
C. Huisman
Grandpa
Dekker
Eddyville
Lew Henry
Jack, Slocum
de Vaade
Pella
Albert de Vaade
Rene Lille
Arie Huisman
Gerrit Dykstra
Abram Dykstra
Wilhelmina
Albert Dykstra
Sunshine
Anne Kool
Knoxville
Kool
James van Vliet
Gus van Vliet
Bert van Vliet
B. van Weyman
Beach
Geo. Kene
Abbotts Hospital
Daisy Grove
School House
Rocene Holt
Minnie van Roekel
Sarah van Ree
Gertrude van Roekel
And
Mia
Fred de Jong
Arthur van Roekel
Ray van Rees
Harry van Roekel
Hainson Terpestra
Henry van Wyk
Gerrit Klyn
Harold
Lester
Kate
Ella Elscott
Will Baarda
Will Carrier
Robinson
Kansas City
Fred C. Andrews
C. C. Carpenter
Gladys Howell
Henry Veavers
Fred Andrews
Henry Klyn
Jno
Gerrit Wisgerhof
Karl, Carrol
Earl
Prairie City
First Reformed Church
G. H. Douwstra
Hull
Ervin Miller
Andy Shipman
C. V. Shipman
G. L. Perry
Bruce
Helen Wisgerhof
Palo Alto
Calif
Perry
Wisgerhof
Stanford University
R. G. Conn
Marjorie
G. B. McCoy
Lynnville
Bosch
Henry Verwers
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Pete Welle
Toledo
Henry Welle
Sully Deaths and Local Visits Highlight Community News
Funeral services were held for Anne Kool with Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Conn in attendance in Sully at Knoxville. Clara Tolsma from Linden Wash visits O G Coleman home. Eva Mitchell from Taintor visits Will Van Wyk. L W Moosdam suffers severe cane mill accident. right leg broken above ankle and badly cut, hospitalized in Newton. Ladies Aid of Community church hosts event at Mrs Van Wyk home with program led by Mrs C B Welle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Conn
Anne Kool
Knoxivile
Clara Tolsma
Linden
Wash
0. G. Coleman
Miss Tolsma
Christian School
Sully
Eva Mitchell
Taintor
Will van Wyk
L. W. Moosdam
Skill Hospital
Newton
V. C. Halbloom
C. B. Welle
C. G. Coleman
New Livestock Law Takes Effect July 4 in Iowa
Des Moines Iowa May 12 two new laws on dairy and breeding cattle importation plus amendments to tuberculosis eradication will take effect July 4. Imported cattle must be retested for tuberculosis within 60 to 90 days unless from accredited herds or passing two clean tests. New rule also requires agglutination test for contagious abortion. No statewide policy change. counties not started will be asked to levy funding this fall to begin testing next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Department of Agriculture
New Orpheum Vaudeville Starts Saturday Openings
Beginning Saturday June 15 the Orpheum theatre Des Moines the only vaudeville house changes from Sunday openings to a new show opening on Saturday with the Wednesday show remaining the same. A new show will run Saturday through Tuesday then another new show opens Wednesday continuing through Friday with the same top talking and sound entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orpheum Theatre
Des Moines
Funeral and visits mark week in Amsterdam area
AMSTERDAM H Rietveld and C T Van Lint with Mr and Mrs C F Mathes attended Anne Kools funeral in Knoxville Thursday. Henry Klein and family and others visited patient Martin Klein in Mahaska hospital at Oskaloosa Friday. John Synhorst visited Connie Velthusen home near Harvey Sunday. Dick Schippers and family and Henry Van Lint visited N Van Lint Sunday. W D Rietveld and family spent Sunday at C Van Lints. East Amsterdam school where Miss Fern Rietveld taught closed last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Rietveld
C. T. van Lint
C. F. Mathes
Anne Kool
Knoxville
Henry Klein
Clarence Mathes
Oskaloosa
Martin Klein
Mahaska Hospital
John Synhorst
Connie Velthusen
Harvey
Dick Schippers
Henry van Lint
N. van Lint
W. D. Rietveld
C. van Lint
East Amsterdam
Fern Rietveld
Orpheum Week Features Black Waters Mystery Screenplay
The Radio-Kieth-Orpheum presents two big shows this week starting Wednesday June 12. The screen attraction is Black Waters, an all talking melodrama set on the San Francisco waterfront with a star cast. Anna Shadkova and Billy Wilson headline the vaudeville bill, joined by the eight Tip Top Steppers.
Vaudeville Bill Headlines Dance Excursion and Blackface Acts
Favorites Mary Brian James Kirk wood Lloyd Hamilton Robert Ames lead a large vaudeville bill highlighted by A Dance Excursion starring Anna Shadkova and Billy Wilson. The Two Black Aces John Swor and Jack Goode deliver comedy and songs, with short sound films and His Lucky Day starring Reginald Denny at the Orpheum on its first Saturday opening day June 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Brian
James Kirkwood
Lloyd Hamilton
Robert Ames
Anna Shadkova
Billy Wilson
John Swor
Jack Goode
Reginald Denny
Orpheum
Broadway revue features top acts and a talking screen
The show presents Lawrence Richards and Tay Fay as featured comedians with Harry Max Zoni and Gwendolyn Kean as steppers. Hazel Kruger is an acrobatic dancer and Richard and Bessie Welch are vocalists. Billy Lytell Tom Fant headline comedy song and dance. R K O vaudeville closes the bill with a talking photo feature His Lusky Day about a boy whose day turns bad. Short sound and talking film subjects complete the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Richards
Tay Fay
Harry Maxzoni
Gwndolyn Kean
Hazel Kruger
Richard
Bessie Welch
Billy Lytell
Tom Fant
Condensed Happenings in Southeastern Iowa Towns
Dr Otis Cobb aged 60 dies suddenly at his Lovilla home his body found in the yard by a passing truck driver He had just returned from Chariton where he worked in a hospital Heart trouble is listed as the cause James Hupton 12 of Albia dies after being struck by an auto driven by Dr Ray of Albia The boy riding a bicycle was hit at a street intersection and died almost instantly
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis Cobb
Lovilla
Cobb
Chariton
James Hupton
Albia
Ray
Highway 63 May Be Paved Shortly
After talks among state highway officials and leaders from Monroe Prairie City Colfax and Newton the Jasper County Record expects a special election to pave Highway 63 before the $100000000 bond vote. The paper believes the highway commission will approve the election to finish paving 63 and provide an all weather road to Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Prairie City
Colfax
Newton
Jasper County Record
Highway Commission
Des Moines
Driver Sleeps and Car Ditched Near Monroe
George McCaskey of Mason City fell asleep at the wheel near Monroe, losing control and ditching the car which was towed to Des Moines. He suffered a scalp wound treated at Monroe after saying he had been visiting his brother in Albia and planned to move to Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George McCaskey
Mason City
Monroe
Pella
Des Moines
McCaskey
Albia
Los Angeles
Albia Garage Men Are Fleeced in Two Checks Scam
A man identifying as Warren Marquette claimed a residence near Albia and used a two check scheme to obtain two used cars. He paid $40 for a Ford touring car, received $10 change, then bought a Ford sedan with a $9 change after presenting another bogus check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Marquette
Albia
Piano falls on boy and kills him in home
Verne Robinson eight year old son of Elec tra and Mrs Robinson died after a piano toppled while they were moving it in their Hocking home. The mother was cleaning. the boy helped raise the piano to place a rug when it toppled and struck him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hocking
Verne Robinson
Electra Robinson
Brakeman Dies Under Train Near West Grove
A Burlington railroad brakeman was killed at West Grove when his feet became caught in the rails and he was run over by a locomotive. He died shortly after at a Centerville hospital a short distance from Moulton. both legs were severed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington Railroad
West Grove
Centerville
Moulton
Mrs. R. Collier Dies in OsKaloosa At 80
Mrs. R. Collier, wife of Rev. Collier a retired Methodist minister, died recently at her OsKaloosa home aged about 80. She had been blind for about 20 years yet enjoyed social gatherings. The couple’s home breaks up. Rev. Collier will stay in OsKaloosa awhile and then move to Pasadena to live with a daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Collier
Rev. Collier
Oskaloosa
Pioneer Ontario settler Mrs. Jelliffe dies at 76
Ontario Calif June 8 1929 Mrs Emma Wood Jelliffe one of Ontario Colony's first settlers forty six years ago died at home 221 East F Street June 6 aged 76 after months of illness Born Enoch Wood's daughter a Marion County Iowa pioneer graduate of Penn College Oskaloosa she married E H Jelliffe in 1879 later moved to California forming the Ontario colony with her husband and later lived on a fruit ranch before residing on F Street She helped found the Ontario Welfare League served in church Benevolent Association and remained active in cultural study despite frail health her husband a longtime Marion County lawyer and city attorney of Ontario survives with daughter Mrs Helen Gladys Poore and sister Miss Elizabeth Ann Wood
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Ontario
Calif
Air Mall
Emma. Wood Jelliffe
East F Street
Jelliffe
Enoch Wood
Libry Township
Marion County
Iowa
Penn College
Oskaloosa
E. H. Je
California
Pomona
Elen Gladys Poore
F Street
San Bernardino
Ontario Welfare League
Funeral Services Held For Local Clergy Member
Funeral services were conducted this afternoon by Rev John Barron Toomay Bethel church and Dr Ralph B Larkin former pastor Interment followed at Bellevue cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Barron Toomay
Bethel Church
Ralph B. Larkin
Bellevue Cemetery
Ten Miles From Broadway On Sour Island Settlement
A Christian Science Monitor correspondent notes a primitive New Jersey settlement about ten miles from Broadway. Located on Sour Island in the Hackensack Meadows, it is described as home to families who have long lived without schools and remain largely without modern amenities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Science Monitor
America
Broadway
Sour Island
Hackensack Meadows
New Jersey
Island life near New York teaches a wary path to success
A provincial community, cut off from modern comforts near New York City, finds its routine quiet and isolated. A banker warns that success comes from learning from past experience, though the idea risks creating dizziness rather than progress.
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