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Local notes on visits and jobs around Pella area
Local social notes list visits by Mrs Ed Reeser of Oskaloosa and others from Cedar Falls Des Moines Evans Prairie City and Wright. Mentions mail carrier Joe Vanden Berg moving to Washington civil service. Fords coming to town with sales pitches. Letters from servicemen in France described as thrilling. A long court petition notice follows about a 1917 real estate case in Marion County Iowa with many defendants and properties described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Reeser
Oskaloosa
Pella
May Cole
Cedar Falls
Anns van Roekel
Wright
Lizzie Maasdam
Des Moines
Josephine Thoms
Evans
J. W. Todd
D. Vander Pol’s
John Vande Kieft
Platte
Lizzie Vander Waal
Prairie City
Joe Vanden Berg
Civil Services
Adjutant General's Department
Washington, D. C
Star Auto Co
Les Welle
France
U. S. Naval Band
Chicago
Bis
Les
Great Lakes
W. J. Visser
John Lanting
Rogerson
Idaho
Visser
A. N. Vander Linden
Camp Dodge
Din Pella
Milas Grace Vick
Vern
Rose Hill
Benjamin H. Buckingham
Stewart Atchison
Henry Atchison
John C. Summerlett
Eli Vanderford
Samuel R. Curtis
Jay Gould
Wabash Railway Company
District Court
Marion County
Iowa
Knoxville
Hart & Hart