This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Local notes from Pella and surrounding towns
A stream of visitors and residents are listed: W H Fowler travels to Des Moines on business, Miss Lillian McAdoo visits from Run nells, Bart Kooleman returns to Pella after Otley visit, Miss Johanna den Adel ill, Fern Young leaves for Bussey, Blanche Van der Linden to Des Moines, P H Van Gorp heads to Missouri for the Pella Stacker Co. business, Tone de Wit and Wigert Langerak move between cities, Rev D Newell en route to Coal Ridge, Baptist Ladies Aid meets at East Franklin, Herman Bowman and family visit from Eddyville, Arlo Van Cleave confined by illness, Parsifal performance in Des Moines attended, D W Langerak to South Dakota, Marie Smorenberg visits Des Moines, P E O society meets, local sports enjoying duck weather, Moonlight Mission Band plans at Johanna den Adel’s, police activity warms up city late Saturday, W G Vanderloeg praises Parsifal, Dan Kruidenier recovering from flu, Frank E B Green visits Greenfield for store matters, Mrs W Ver Dugt ill, Arthur Bousquet earns a railway post between Peoria and Mattoon, Pella Literary Association holds monthly meeting with A N Van der Linden.