Weekly Visit With Chronicle Subscribers LOG CABIN WAS ON SITE OF THE DIAMOND STATION OLD DAYS ARE RECALLED
The Chronicle reports on weekly visits with subscribers focusing on Dutch Metropolis and nearby areas, recalling early life in Pella. It covers the Van Maren family, Bennink family, and Henry Gezel detailing houses, trades, and local industry from the log cabin era to modern times, with notes on aging residents, paths to town, and changes in blacksmith work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandridge
Leighton
van Maren
Ladies Aid Society
The
Second Reformed Church
Henrietta
Mary van Maren
Henry van Maren
Netherlands
St. Louis
Henrietta van Maren
Diamond Oil Station
Mrs van Maren
Oil Station
Newt van Maren
G. Bennink
Broadway
Henry Gezel
Holland
Mr. Gezel
Gezel
Pella
Kuyper
Beurkens
Rock Island
Keokuk
Gerrit
Bill
Grappenings in Southeastern Iowa Towns
Carl Jones aged twenty one from McLeansboro Illinois died Friday night March 4 at the Yocom hospital Chariton after a hemorrhage during a journey toward Colorado seeking relief from tuberculosis. Survived by two brothers and two sisters. Parents died young. Reared in a Baptist orphanage.
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Chariton
Carl Jones
McLeansboro
Iinois
Yocom Hospital
Lealon
Minois
Auto
Colorado
Carl
Baytist
What Cheer Home Destroyed By Fire Early In Morning
A home owned by Glen Dawson in What Cheer burned to the ground early Wednesday morning The fire started in the kitchen near the stove and was discovered by Dawson’s daughter The wind hindered efforts to save the house and furniture Mrs Soken Neleom and Steven Wire Selev offered thanks to those who helped The article lists several neighbors and bystanders who assisted but details remain unclear
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Glen Dawson
Ant
Former Sigourney Resident Dies by Own Action
Albert Utterback aged 6 percent formal Lancaster resident was found dead last Wednesday afternoon in the Ovumwa basement with a .32 caliber pistol. He had worked 23 years as a Milwaukee railroad car inspector and recently was unemployed. Despondency over unemployment and defective hearing cited as reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keokuk County
Albert Utterback
Lancaster
Ovumwa
Utterback
Sigourney
Will
Corbin Utterback
Milwaukee Railroad
Pleasantville Bank Depositors May Get 10 Percent Dividends
Marion County News reports Receiver H. H. Browne said preparations are under way for possible 10 percent dividends to Pleasantville Bank depositors, indicating interim steps in the bank’s receivership and payout plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens Bank
Laure
District Court
Browne
Pleasantville Bank
Marion County News
Ripley
H. H. Browne
Railway Employes Exonerated In Death Verdict
The corner's jury found that George Halliburton and Roscoe Zane were killed when a railroad motor car struck their auto at a crossing. Heedless of fault, no blame attached to the railroad company or its trainmen. The motor car operators testified the whistle and bell were in use as the collision occurred. Both men died at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa Tribune
George Halliburton
Roscoe Zane
Funeral services for George Halliburton held at Wilcox-Garland parlors
The accident left no eye witnesses. George Halliburton, just sixteen, had a bright future. Parents living near Center. Roscoe Zane, once a resident, was well known. Services were at his Bucklin home and burial followed Saturday. Inquest yielded no new facts. The car moved about two hundred yards before stopping after high speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Halliburton
Wilcox- Garland
Near Center
Roscoe Zane
Bucklin
Kans
Gas Fumes From Auto Near Death Escape
Seymour Herald reports John Coombs barely escaped death when a dislodged exhaust pipe filled his car with fumes near Sewal. He lost vision and hearing, escaped after opening a door, and collapsed unconscious in a snow drift. Passersby found him, he recovered at a relative’s home and remained indoors to ward off pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Herald
John Coombs
Sewal
Seymour
Olaf Brettain
Everett Liggett
Lennon Brattain
William Sells
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Chronicle
Mrs. Bennink
Timmen
Tom Sock
Biddine
Bennink
Benning
Vogelaar
Ben
Gary Vogelaar
Tennis
Gerald Gosselink
Gerrit den Hartog
Otl
Henry Bennink
3Cheliville
Mr. Bennink
Akerman
South Woods Dairy
Guernsey
Bayer
Iowa
Illinois
What Cheer
Patriot Chronicle
J. H. Reuvers
East First Street
de Jong
K.W
C.W
Copenhagen
Stone Mountain
Wethersfield
Gerry
T. Watson
Henderson
A. A. Brand
DE Jong Floral & Seed CO
Main Street
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