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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1926
Page
4
Hon G W Crozier and family from Knoxville visited Pella friends Friday with Miss Lou M Donnelly in the party. The note suggests ironing on the porch or under a shade tree with a self heating sad iron, promoted by Van Zante Bros for Quality Hardware.
M and S Booster Gun Club hosted a packed first registered shoot with about six and a half thousand targets fired from one trap. Ora M Coleman led with 3 misses in 160, followed by Ben Grimm 155 and J L Gillespie plus Walter Butt tied for third at 154.
Oskaloosa triumphed over the Per team shoot on 50 targets with a lead of 29 thirds. This gives the M and St L Club a 28 point season lead to date. Eight men per side yesterday, total day score 348 to 319. Another trap will be installed before the next registered shoot.
C Ver Ploeg presided at a 6 pm dinner for 30 Mahaska County Bar Association members at the Downing Hotel in Oskaloosa to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of his admission to practice. Judges Dewey and Wagner and Mr Cross and Tim Campbell attended.
Rysdan Spoon Butt Van Zante Roland Ed Van Gorp C Klein J Swisher L Vandert lead at Pella and Oskaloosa shoots with scores 49 and 50 plus team totals Pella 8438x1050 Oskaloosa 871x1050 next match at Oskaloosa June 1
A letter from C M Moore states he is hospitalized in Elma Washington with a health issue. He mentions entering the hospital on the 8th and describes a prior flare up of illness, joking about his appendix and hoping for release in a few days along with flowers from friends.
Albert Van Zante, living on his father Gysbert Van Zante’s farm four miles west of town, reports burglars entered the barn Monday night and stole all harness except one old collar. Three full sets of work harness were taken. Police assume vagrants traveling with horses conducted the theft. A spare tire from an automobile in a nearby lot disappeared a few days earlier after strangers drove in for water.
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