Local News Snippets From Oskaloosa Area
Mrs Louid Van Haaften and her baby son returned home from Mercy Hospital with her mother Mrs Maggie Brom aiding at the Pella area home. Ensign Earl Pohlman of Ottumwa Navy Base visited friends after a leave, and Musican 2/e Hospers Kuyper returned to Farragut Idaho to resume duty after two weeks with family. Mrs Evert Blom and her daughter Mrs Minnie Woods visited Mrs Blom’s niece Mrs Jennie Messamaker in OsKaloosa. Gary Voxelaar traveled to Racine Wisconsin for a three day Massey Implement Mix Factory business visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louid van Haaften
Mercy Hospital
Oskaloosa
Maggie Brom
Pella
Ernie Klootwyk
Mony
Sedalia
Missouri
P Kelderman
Earl Pohlman
Ottumwa
Hospers Kuyper
Navy
Farragut
Idaho
Evert Blom
Minnie Woods
Blom
Jennie Messamaker
Gary Voxelaar
Racine
Wisconsin
Massey Implement Mix. Company
Increase Your Profits With In Stock Co op Tires
In stock items include brooders waterers and feeders for poultry and cattle. Electric and oil brooders stock tanks hog waterers and milking machines are offered. Barb wire fencing poultry fencing wire mesh nails and steel products complete the catalog.
Family News and Army Letters From Albert Lea Area
Mrs William Probert and daughters Sue and Sara visit in Albert Lea with Pals grandparents and siblings Fred and Bob Heerema exchange wartime visits in Germany. Local church notes report Reverend Vroon accepting a call, Corporal Booy promoted, Sergeant Nibbelink moved, and furloughs and hospitalizations of Van Vark Ver Ploeg and Van Drimmelin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Probert
Sue
Sara
Albert Lea
Minnesota
H. K. Pals
Fred Lautenbach
Germany
Chr
Leonard Booy
William Nibbelink
O'Reilly Hospital
Springfield
A.S.F
Convalescent Hospital
Camp Carson
Colorado
Nibbelink
A. J. Kleinjan
Durant
Kleinjan
Vogelaur Brothers
Pella
Robert, van Vark
Texas
Clarence W. van Vark
Bob
Des Moines
Ralph Ver Ploeg
Denver
California
Doctor Ver Ploeg
Fitzsimmons General Hospital
W. G. Vor Ploeg
Minnie Rillihan
William Creighton
Paul Thomassen
Washington
Towa
John F. Dykstra
Wilbur Roose
Taintor
Mahaska Hospital
Wayne Pos
Hampton
Iowa
John A. Pas
John W. van der Linden
William Slobe
H. W. Slobe
Lewis van Wyk
University of Iowa’ Hospital
Andrew van Drimmelin
Newton
van Drimmelin
Christian Hospital Plan Promoted by Public Letter
In a late Chronicle issue Tunis Kempkes urges a community funded hospital built and operated by local churches. He argues a well endowed, fireproof hospital with skilled staff better serves needs than a small facility or state institutions and calls for Christian influence in care and mercy beyond municipal control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Chronicle
Pella
Bethesda
Cutlerville
Tunis Kempkes
Hospital Memoral to Sacrificing Men Suggested
Local readers respond to Mr Hasselman’s March 8 Chronicle piece advocating a hospital memorial for fallen servicemen. They question funding as a paying proposition and favor keeping patients closer to home rather than sending them to distant cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hasselman
Chronicle
Masselman
Jap Yamashita Advance Described In Fragmentary Report
A fragment notes Japanese forces under Yamashita retreating north while advancing south from pine areas. The text mentions early drainage work near Pella in 1870 and a ditching machine invented nearby in 1888 by Fisk Brothers of Pella, cited by H Terlouw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
Pella
Fisk Brothers
H. Terlouw
Attendants Sought for Knoxville Veterans Hospital
Opening for hospital attendants male only over 18 at the Knoxville Veterans Administration hospital in Towa. No age limit. physical capability matters. Preference to veterans and experienced applicants. Salary 1620 yearly for 48 hours weekly. Apply via local post offices or U.S. Employment Service offices or the U.S. Civil Service Region St. Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
U. S. Veterans Administration Hospital
Knoxville
Rena B. Smith
U. S. Civil Service District
St. Paul
U. S. Veterans Administration
Coal Fields Survey Reveals 160 Years Supply
A survey of our coal fields shows enough fuel underground to sustain coal strikes for 160 years, according to the Grit.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Co-Op. Oil Association
Goodyear
Schiebout
Popma
Tire and Battery Headquarters
Jap Yamashita
Knoxville Veterans’ Hospital
Centerville
Illinois
Wikia
Otley, Iowa
RINSO
Palmolive
Pri
Our
Holland
Pella, Iowa
Show Business
Cantor
George Murphy
Joan Davis
Nancy Kelly Nee Moore
Beau Hunks
Laurel and Hardy
Bernard Ver Meer
Route 1
Atlantic City
Constance Moore
Bradford Taylor
Jerry Colonna
Alan Marshal
Laraine Day
Marsha Hunt
Allyn Joslyn
Roseu Ae
Beauty
Pat
IRSQN
Sargent Paints
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!