Local incidents and social notes from Otley to Knoxville
Locals report Alvin Rosebaum injured at Otley coal mine from a blasting accident with slate fragments in hands and face. Dr. Fox treated him. Other updates include Eddie Donai near discharge from Des Moines Veterans facility, Dr. Kramer improving, and numerous visits and travel notes of residents to towns like Indianola Oskaloosa Des Moines Town City Beatrice Ne and Des Moines for games weddings and family events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin Rosebaum
Otley
Dr. Fox
Eddie Donai
Veterans
Des Moines
Des Moines visitors share memories with Central backer
Visiting group from Des Moines including Mr and Mrs John Goodhart spent Friday and Saturday recalling Central School days from the 1890s. J J Ketman, 65, rooted for Central at the Parsons game and looked younger than his years. Arthur Van Haaf and Nunnikhoven families gathered at Haven. Additional Nunnikhoven kin from Knoxville and Vella visited Mr and Mrs Anthony Nunnikhoven and Abe Nunnikhoven families near town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Vander Linden
Albert van Houweling
Des Moines
G. A. Wacehter
John J. Blommers
Minnesota
John Goodhart
J. J. Ketman
Central
Arthur van Haaften
Thurst
C. Nunnikhoven
Havey
A. J. Nunnikhoven Sr
Vella
Anthony Nunnikhoven
Knoxville
Joint Meeting at Co Seat Attended by Legion and Auxiliary
Marion County joint meeting at Knoxville on Nov 9 brought about 100 Legionnaires and Auxiliary members to the Baty Tucker Post Hall. Banquet at 7 pm hosted by Knoxville Auxiliary. program featured Gen. A Mahoney and Wa S Van Hemert discussing Americanism, with reports on memberships and relief cases and a call for December 1939 state funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion County Joint
Legion and Auxiliary
Knoxville
Hall of Baty-Tucker
Auxiliary
Fred W. Martin
Tracy Legion Post
Dora Carson
Anna
Hilda Nesbit
Wm. S. van Hemert
van Niewaal
Wm. C. Palmer
W. ©. Black
Hilda Nes
A. Mahoney
Des Moines
Wa. S. van Hemert
Legion
C. R
Pet) Davis
Bussey Post
Geo. M. Paradise
Palmer
Couley
Floy McClure
Bussey
Department Legion
Sioux City
Relief relief load in county lowers for October
The regular monthly emergency relief meeting of the Social Welfare Officials was held in the Court House on Tuesday November 14. The October caseload report showed a reduction of 84 cases.
Half Million Dollars In AAA Payments In Mahaska Co
Mahaska County expects more AAA payments to arrive next month, joining about $200,000 already received in parity payments. County committee chairman M. H. Harner says the county could see over a half million dollars in 1930s agricultural aid, with $200,000 yet to be paid to farmers as part of general compliance. Some 344 signed-participation applications have been sent to Des Moines for payment computations, and processing delays are expected due to high application volume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahaska County
M. H. Harner
Mahaska
Des Moines
Harner
New Sharon Star
Obituary and social notes from Monroe area
Monroe area social notices and obituaries recount funeral services for Mrs. Gysbert Van Rockel in Pella and various calls and visits across Des Moines Otterbein and nearby towns. Names include Van Rockel Breed Heynen Heyman Vos Batty Rickhaugh Hagen Vander Kieft McKeever Cregor Ammer Daily and others with gatherings at Methodist and local homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry van Rockel
Gysbert van Rockel
Pella
Peter Breed
Heynen
Pearl Heyman
Des Moines
M Heyman
Inwood
John van Roekel
Mesdames
Tony 08
George Batty
Loren Rickhaugh
Ray Hagen
Dick Vander Kieft
Mary Ellen
RV. McKeever
Knoxville
Tony Vos
Laverle
Mary and Martha
Methodist Church
0. M. Wilson
Mesdames W. A. Pye
Mark Shaw
F. Efnor
FE. L. Peterson
S. Ackley
Ray Valentine
J. D. Long
Hattie Zerley
Emma McCauley
Will Dixon
Joe Birkenholtz
Harold North
John Walker
Ada Wright
Pearl Kane
Lilly Birkenholtz
Hattie Root
W. S. Cash
Horace Cash
Jack Andeweg
John Weyers
Wm, Ammer
Community socials and moves noted in local homes
Sunday activities include visits by Curtis Crane and Bernard Zerley, the Van Essen and De Haas families, and Carl Crane with Mary Roger Madeline Vrieze laar and Robert Underwood. A Monroe Sixth grader hosted a class picnic while fifth graders held theirs. Delphian society met with Eleanor Roosevelt as topic. John Breed and Anne Breed dined with Don Vriezelaar. the Breed house relocated to near Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl
Oscar Ammer
Curtis Crane
Bernard Zerley
Martin van Essen
Parental de Haas
Pella
Carl’ Crane
Mary
Roger
Madeline Vriezelaar
Robert Underwood
Grinnell
Les Beyer
Larry
Anna Ladd
Titonka
Iowa
Monroe Ool
Alice Lou Thommason
Betty Lou Thommason
Delphian Society
T. R. Spratt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Marie van Houwelingen
America
W. B. Shaw
C. 0. Ammer
Wm. le: Grande
J. de Long
Howard Roberts
Ralph Gloyd
Peter Breed
John
Anne Breed
Don Vriezelaar
R. Donahue
van Speren
Des Moines visitors join local families after injury
On Saturday the Des Moines visitors included Mr and Mrs and Dwight. They visited in the Tuinstra and John Bruce homes. Mrs Bruce fractured her limb last week in two places and is resting but the break is serious. Margaret Tuinstra accompanied her brother from Des Moines and spent the day at the Jake Tuinstra home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Langerak
Des Moines
Mr Langerak
Sunda
Wichert_and_ Meyer
Beatrice, Neaska
Orville Dykstra
C. F. Dykstra
Louis LeCocq
Jefferson
Towa
Carroll
Jim Monitor
Minneapolis
James Veenman
J. Sedrel
Oskaloosa
Glen van Duyn
Chicago
Knoxville
Mount
Dwight
Tuinstra
John Bruce
Bruce
Margaret Tuinstra
Jake Tuinstra
New WPA Projects Begin in Sioux County
WPA crews have started street graveling at Mauri and laying water mains in Sioux Center as part of new projects in Sioux County. Alton shows progress on sidewalk work while Matlock will build a pump house and lay mains starting November 7. An accident on the Alton sidewalk job left Jake Calsbeek with a head gash from a falling axe, but both men returned home and the incident was not serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux County
Mauri
Sioux Center
Alton
Matlock
WPA
Jake Calsbeek
Case de Lint
Calsheck
de Lint
Baptists Call Christians to Prevent War in Nationwide Convocations
Northern Baptists stage hundreds of convocation meetings nationwide to urge a religion of universal love and nonviolence. They push Baptists to take personal responsibility for reviving vital faith in order to counter materialism and the drift toward brute force.
Convocation Dates Set Across Cities for November
A call to Christians to spread vital religious life within churches and homes accompanies a November Convocation tour. It lists stops in Salt Lake City, Tah, Cheyenne, Denver, Pueblo, Hastings, Omaha, Sioux City, Des Moines, and Davenport with corresponding dates starting November 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Tah
Cheyenne
Wyo
Denver
Colo
Publo
Hastings
Nebr
Omaha
Sioux City
Iowa
Des Moines
Davenport
WPA Project to Upgrade Bussey Sewage System
The WPA approves a Bussey sewage project to install 1060 feet of 8 inch pipe linking to current septic outlets and paving the way for a town wide collection system. Work begins November 22 with 20 WPA laborers, funded mainly by federal dollars totaling up to 3554 dollars, with Bussey pledging at least 1000 dollars for materials and equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bussey
Charles Capper
WPA
Oskaloosa
George J. Keller
Alaska Seaplane Drive Promises 17 Million in 1939
The government plans 17 million dollars in 1939 for army and navy aircraft development in Alaska with much of the funding directed to Fairbanks. A separate line notes a frontier sentiment about Indian land ownership if all sailors and hurricane fears had altered routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Army
Navy
Fairbanks
Also Mentioned on This Page
H. H. Kramer
Mrs. Roy Dodd
Indianola
Mrs. Dodd
J. H. Moyer
Russell Hoogenakker
J. Russell
Dé Moines
John van Vliet
John Elscott
Fred Lautenbach
Herbert Mentink
Town City
William Weyerse
Oxford
Delis van Zee
Marty Boland
Fred Veenstra
Walter Donai
Harold Schut
Marion
New York
Arthur Bennink
Tyre
Willis Vande Kooi
Little Son
Ontario
Schut
Anna Joyce Klein
Dave de Cook
J. B. Vos
Tone
A. T. Ver Meer
G. R. van Heukelem
Nick Tusseling
I. M. A. Ketman
Asan Martin
Renwick
Mrs
I. J. Ket
Abe Nunnikhoven
East of Town
Central Co-Eds
ENS
Weer
S&g
NES Co
Gamble
Gamble’s
Rledt Nai Ong Gamble Stores
Henry G. Klein
Hampshire
Farrow
Cole
John Klein
Worth & van Zante
van Maanen
George Paradise
Marion County
E. C. Jones
W. W. Byrnes
Corn Products Refining Company of
Cedar Rapids
AAA
Mahaska Co
Monroe News
Peter Sommer
Anmers
Jims
Derard Redbi
Keystone — Ives
Stevetson
Tata
Waechter
Santa
North Pole
Penney
W.P.A
Vera Secrel
Parker House
Subenga
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