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Early Christmas ads and local notices in Pella Chronicle
Merchants promote Christmas offerings with new ads as shoppers plan. A girl lost her pet rat into a stove causing hair loss but no pain. Ed Wormhoudt of Kahoka Mo visited relatives in town. Bazaar at Mission Band on December 8 and 9. For sale one hundred Rhode Island Red cockerels at one dollar each from M A Leydens Otley Iowa. Dan Dieleman renovating a lot bought from Don Hartog to build a new house in spring. Franklin Keables returns from Minnesota hunting grounds. Muscatine faces a bitter button workers strike risking factory losses and hardship. John Verdugt and wife visit Prairie City for Thanksgiving. Mrs J S Houck comes from Kansas City for a visit. Ed Wormhoudt and Kahoka residents visit Pella. Peter Kuyper of Lynnville in town trading and greeting friends. I always eat at Dolls in Oskaloosa.