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Local news from Pella area notes various visits and events
Clarence Dodson returns to Bakersfield after visiting Elmer Hagens on North Main. Dan Dingeman buys salvage lumber from the city light plant wreck. Several locals report falls, illnesses, and travels including Mrs Gosselink breaking her right arm, De Reus and Hiemstra business calls, and trips to Des Moines and Chicago. A spring-like mood arrives with eggs, a busy Pella candling room, and a popular Legion skating rink run by Hoeksema family. Meteor sighting near Pella described as three balls of fire. an airplane in nearby skies noted but meteor fell away from the city. Donald Lee Muyskens born March 16, 1939 to Rev and Mrs Peter J Muyskens, former Bernice De Reus of Leighton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Dodson
J. C. Hagens
North Main
Bakersfield
Cal
Elmer Hagens
Dan Dingeman
City
Linden
Leighton
Leonard Ver
Martin
Ed Hocksema
Henry Klyn
Arie de Reus
Paul Lautenbach
John Rouwenhorst
W. D. Sittert
Chicago
van Sittert
Paul van Zante
Guelph Aschenbrenner
T. T. Bakker
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
B. H. Langerak
Des Moines
Dudok
Norman
Sophie Ver Steeg
J. W. Huyser
Watson Vander Plog
Detroit
L. F. Bousquet
Knoxville
John Vander Waal
Eva Stubenrauch
Fanny Vander Wilt
Ruth Lautenbach
Indianola
Henry Bosveld
Peoria
Abbott Hospital
Pella
Wes
Roy Shirk
Oskaloosa Herald
Peter J. Muyskens
Zeeland
Michigan
Marc
Donald Lee
Muyskens
Bernice de Reus