Nearby Towns and Rural Community News Highlights
Rosa Dailey visited her mother on Thursday. Knoxville's football team played Chariton Tuesday night. The trick or treaters brought yellow apples. Firestone strike in Des Moines affects Clinton Rinehart. Mrs. H. M. Tharp died at 69. funeral in Monroe. Dwight and Sarah Harvey hosted a pre Thanksgiving dinner with family. Local yields: Dick Dee Jong 80 bu per acre. Bill Graham 70 bu plus. Several travel and illness notes including kidney infection and leg fracture. Halloween party in Otley. Monroe junior class play upcoming. admission 50c. Berlin Ballard and others dismantle old Smith farm landmark for new house site.
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Rosa Dailey
Knoxville
Chariton
Jerry Fartina
Oldsters
Clinton Rinehart
Firestone
Des Moines
H. M. Tharp
Monroe
Bill Graham
John Graham
Dorcey Price
Newton
Fell
Charles Hodgson
Moines
Kansas City
Joy Stevenson
Paul Karr
Harold
Anne Ballard
Marine Band
Darlene
Renee Knauth
Renee
Anna May
Viola Karr
Berlin Ballard
Harold Clark
Daylan Cowden
Smith Farm
Morgan’s Valley
Berlin
Anna Ballard
Farm Moves and Local Hapless Happenings in Cordova
Cordova News reports farm relocations involving Harod F Clark Sen Frey Elmer Tukker Marion Aalbers and Marion De Penning with moves toward northwest of Knoxville and Boh farm on Kaldenberg land south of Cordova. It notes Little Joe Templeton's Monday night visit, cattle purchases on Jennings farm, brush burning, rail traffic quirks, and local social visits including birthdays and garden flowers amid a feature on trains and trains’ lengths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harod F Clark
Sen Frey Elmer Tukker
Marion Aalbers
Marion
Knoxville
Marion de Penning
Boh
Kaldenberg
Cordova
Joe Templeton
Hig
Templeton
Harvey
Jennings
Jack Jennings
Jack Frost
Cecil
Harry
Bill Karrs
Rachel Davis
Winona
Des Moines
Harry Cronkhite
Paul
Carrie Patterson
Monroe
Mary Shannon
Uncle Corda
Bessie
Ben
Sarah Schell Parker
Tracy
Minn
Minnesota
Mary French
Verna Moneysmith
Edith Price Slack
Will Weardhuizen
Marion County Historical Bee
May van Hemert
Martin Conrey
Ballard
Darlene
Ricky” Fee
Bill Graham
Merl Price
Hugh Templeton
Lottie Looney
Harlan Street
Robert de Heer
Merle Price
Merle
Rural Community News Highlights From Des Moines To Pella
Social visits fill a busy week as families from Oskaloosa Pella and nearby towns share gatherings. Norman Robus and Gerald Van Dusseldorp finish corn picking with neighbors helping. Des Moines trips and teachers convention notes appear alongside baptisms illnesses and a car accident recovery. Local births church group meetings and condolences mark the period with neighbors visiting relatives and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tunis
Oskaloosa
Pete Bogard
June
Randy
Pella
Norman Robus
John Vanden Berg
Des Moines
Gerald van Dusseldorp
Gerald
Jasper de Raad
Carl Horman
Orval Scharfield
Eddie
Connie
Sharon
Nancy
Orval
Hattie Ver Steegh
Gertrude Aalbers
Bill Koopman
Johanna Bogaard
Henry Naaktgeboren
Doris Lee
Luella Cook
Winthrop
van Vliet
Bertha Brummell
Judith
Ruth Muller
Mart Kool
Gertrude Hoksbergen
Local School Activities and Weather Notes in Marion County
Reports from Whitebreast Liberty and Corena notes cover a wiener roast a ball game a frost and tomato picking. Des Moines visitor Mrs Hoksbergen shared Bible memory planning at area schools. Butternut coffee strips fundraiser ends December 1 with Amvet Auxiliary distributing gifts to orphans.
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Whitebreast
Red Rock
Liberty School
Corena
Zack Slocum
Gertrude Hoksbergen
Des Moines
Marion County
Chris
Oskaloosa News Highlights Local Social Events
A Sunday hymn sing at Good News Chapel opens this roundup. Rev R A Reed and wife attended Baptist Fellowship in Colfax. Fremont Birthday Club co op supper honored Mrs Blanche Rhoads at Mrs Ora Burch home with guests. Several local pairs shared meals and visits in Fremont Leighton Wright and Fre mont area. Farewell supper hosted for Ireland family moving to Fremont. Michael Hasselman visited grandparents before returning to Stronghurst Ill. C and H Boosters 4 H Club held its regular meeting.
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Good News Chapel
R. A. Reed
Colfax
Baptist Fellowship
Birthday Club
Fremont
Ora Burch
Blanche Rhoads
J. C. Olive
Wm. Moffat
Harry Lynch
S. M. Massie
Gladys Beck
Lona Clark
J. L. Akerman
Wm. de Heer
Leighton
J. G. Newenhouse
James van Wyk
Tom Gullick
Wright
Clifford Gruzen
P. Gilst
W. J. Ireland
Michael Hasselman
Stronghurst
Ill
L. W. Hasselman
4-H Club Meeting Held At Joyce Van Maanen Home
October 16 meeting at Joyce Van Maanen home with 14 members two leaders and three visitors. Barbara Houghtaling presided and Sandra Witt led the club pledge. A November 2 party for the 4-H boys was planned with committees named for refreshments and recreation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joyce van Maanen
Barbara Houghtaling
Sandra Witt
Susan Beaver
Janice Lane
Barba Houghtaling
Marcella Else
Marilyn Hoskins
Karen Picken
Gloria Hagen
Sealing openings keeps box elder bugs from entering
Advice urges caulking around basement windows doors and chimneys to prevent box elder bugs from entering the residence.
Two car crash near Pella injures ten people
Ten people were hurt in a two car collision near Pella with no fatalities. The oldest injured was 84 year old Milton Delano, one of the drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Milton Delano
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