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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1936
Page
6
Community notes from Red Rock Monroe and surrounding towns recount visits, local trips, and family events. Residents like Murray Van Hemert Otto Wynsteker and Elmer Cooper appear among gatherings, weddings, school posters, and church socials as locals comment on open roads and daily life.
Porterville residents and relatives from Pella Oskaloosa and Richland visited family homes and celebrated a 20th wedding anniversary with an oyster supper. Attendees included the Monster and Van Dene families along with Goemaat and Mackert kin, plus various calls and weekend visits by Cornelia Van Oene and others.
Otley residents Mrs Henry Kaldenberg and her mother Mrs J B Vriezelaar visited Friday with families from Monro and Prairie City. Ed Gaass and family and Arie Ver Heul families visited fiancés afternoon at a home of Mr and Mrs De Leeuw. Gerrit De Vries and Mrs Bill Harvendson moved into the new building Friday. Tan Van Dyke and family from Pella have moved in.
Psalm 42 Koraal at Hattie visited last Friday at Jacob Aalbers home. Numerous family happenings include births moves and visitors around Pella Otley Des Moines and Reasnor. A wedding occurred February 27 at Otlig with Van Essen and Vander Heuvel families attending. Continuous social updates include anniversaries at Breen home near Otley and church-related greetings.
With snow melting and mild days, Pella eyes spring and Tulip Time. The committee selects Psalm 42:1-2 as the theme, urging clubs churches and schools to learn and sing it in Dutch at gatherings and daily devotions for the festival.
Readable fragments describe road work from Fifield to the pavement last week and social moves in Pella including Anna Mae as a home name. Families listed include W Meindersma renting Van Essen's place and Union Kooyman living with Mrs Leonard Heimstra. Knoxville callers Wednesday feature Mr and Mrs Zegers. Four physicians tried to save Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz Reventlow, Woolworth heiress and one of the world's richest women.
Fifield Mr and Mrs Leonard Heimstra hosted neighbors Friday night with baskets of food and social games. Many attendees plan to move to a Monroe area farm while others visited and shared memories as the community mourned Mrs P A Dunnink last week.
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