Local Notes From Pella Chronicle Highlights Visits and War News
Des Moines visitors and in town guests figure in this week’s Chronicle notes. Local residents include Mowe, Gezel, McCormack, Vander Linden, Visser, Stubenrauch, DeReus, and Johnson as they travel, visit, or report health. A grandson in the Sixth Field Artillery is promoted to corporal in France, with a snow scene noted in a letter home. Two Main street collisions injure a young woman. many locals travel to Des Moines, Oskaloosa, and Chicago for work, sales, and family events. News on Central College ties, Aschenbrenner siblings taking war council roles, and a children’s diphtheria death adds somber notes. Public sales, real estate listings, and local appointments mingle with community life and Thanksgiving plans.
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Central Bay
Geraldine Aschenbrenner
Central Academy
New York
National War Council
Young Men's Christian Association
Ruth Aschenbrenner
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Aschenbrenner
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