Local Elmhurst Area Notes On Neighborhood Visitors
Mr and Mrs H P Vandermeulen visited at her sister's home in Monroe Sunday. Miss Mary Veen and Mrs Neal Den Hartog attended the funeral of Mrs Alex Visser in Des Moines. Ross Schakel, recently transferred from Gunwald to Chariton, works as telegraph operator on the Q line. Mrs Dave Dykstra returned to Mitchellville after visiting her ill mother Mrs H F Fisk who suffered a stroke. Pearl Whiteman left for Stuart to aid ill family. Albert Sandmier of Otley recovering from influenza after earlier reports of danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. P. Vandermeulen
Monroe
Mary Veen
Neal den Hartog
Des Moines
Alex Visser
Alex
Miss Veen
den Hartog
Ross Schakel
Baby
Chariton
Paardekooper
Pearl Whiteman
Simon Steinman
Otley
Stuart
Iowa
Albert Sandmier
Central College Chapel Week Plans and campus life
Central College notes a chapel event with a piano quartet performing Fantasie from The Freeshooter. The S A T C grows with new members, dormitory work progresses, and student activities include the Owls Nest fumigation and social life. New students Trene Grandin, Jessie Heeren, and Harriet Frush begin work with Prof. Sadler as the dorm renovates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weber
Heeren
Young
T. R
Teddy Roosevelt
Trene Grandin
Jessie Heeren
Harriet Frush
Prof
Sadler
Galli Curci
Pella Soldier Writes From Training Camp Delights and Disses
A Pella soldier writes from Camp Pike humorously detailing civilian past, military life, and pay math. He notes prewar roles like fair president and community figures mean little now, while stressing discipline, algebraic pay, and drills in artillery life. The piece blends local color with army transition tales and quips about camp routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Albert
Pella
Camp Pike
Oskaloosa
Garden City Home Guards
Letter From Eugene Hinton On Board Transport
A wartime letter describes travel east toward France with impressions of American camps, migrating routes through Memphis and Buffalo, and daily life. He notes language mixups with French, memories of Pella, and camp routines from K P duties to barracks, with small entertainments from Y M C A Liberty theatre and Knights of Columbus halls. He contrasts hard conditions in one camp with better bedding in another and reflects on fellow soldiers and regional speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mies Greiner
France
Pella
Ohio River
Memphis
Louisville
Cleveland
Erie
Buffalo
Hudson River
Catskill Mountains
Grape Belt
Camp Pike
South
Arkansas
Little Rock
Y. M. C. A. Liberty Theatre
K. of C Hall
K. P
Kitchen Police
Letter From Private Hinton Signals Army Life
A private writes from a New York convoy homeward, describing life in training and chores such as cooking, washing, sewing, and cleaning. He notes comrades talk of finding a wife and hopes the winter work at college is progressing, signing as Eugene M. Hinton of Company 15, 8th Army Reserve Division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene M. Hinton
A. R. D. Int
New York
the Central Ray
Also Mentioned on This Page
Central College
Mr. Young
Bert Baron
Bart
College Notes
Eugene Hinton
On Board Transport
Wormhoudt & Plette
War Industries Board
Kruyper
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