Community News Highlights from Nearby Towns
Local residents attend church programs and visits across Oskaloosa Pella Monroe and Grinnell. Choirs entertain Ebenezer and Knoxville churches. Vande Haar Denburger Rempe families host and celebrate birthdays weddings and farm events through the weekend.
Summit family visits Mt Ayr for church event and birthdays
Mr and Mrs Melvin Black ledge and other families joined Rev George Pennington and kin in Mt Ayr for a church building project as a new parsonage is under construction. In Newton, relatives gathered for Mr Herwehe's birthday. others from Monroe and Newton attended. Des Moines visit followed. The Vriezelaar and Guffey families moved residence. Gradus A Vriezelaar attended the Tamworth show in Cedar Rapids buying a boar to head his herd. event featured 59 boars from six states with a banquet at Hotel Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phyllis Vande Haar
Winton
Beth Newendyke
Dale Roorda
Peggy
Gene van Zee
Stevie
Max Kempe
Don de Prenger
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Melvin Brummel
Howard Robbins
Oskaloosa
Joe Brummel
Earl ‘Brummel
Barbara
Mel Brummel
Gene
Durk Beintema
R. S. Duffus
Mahaska County Nurses Association
Henry Sedrel
Frank de Jong
John de Vries
Frances
Delores
Joyce van Roekel
Carl van Dusseldorp
John Slagter
Gary Vande Haar
Harley Engelhoven
Knoxville
Veterans Hospital
Knoxville Reformed Church
Heap of Livin’ Club
Mark de Prenger
Max Rempe
Herman Wyngarden
Jake de Haannd
Ruth Ver Hoef
Pella
Joyce Ver Hoef
Des Moines
Aaron Brummel
Harold de Bruin
Rodney
Bill Widener
Corning
Delores Rem Pe
Elsie Blom
Ruth Pipple
Shirley Rook
Donna Swank
Terry Douglas
Kenny
Linda
Ernest Wilson
Grinnell
Douglas
Tomi Wilson
Herman Hasselman
L. van Rockel
Mar Fe
Marion J. Olsthoorn
Newton
It Rempe
G.roberts
Olsthoorn
Orand
Orville Trenot Tella
John van Rheenen
Ed Knight
West Virginia
Mr. Denman
Miss Pille
Nettie Lust_Lewis
Tool’s Chapel
Lewis
Liberia
Harry Ustermarkt
A. L
L. van Dusseldorp
Francis van Dusseldorp
van Dusseldorp
Ralph Sheeler
Hubert Marshall
Belle, Marshall
Clyde Karr
Belle Marshall
Janie van Doorninck
Monroe High
Kathleen Kane
Wayne Schippers
Douglas Huigen
Coralee Vriezelaar
Monroe High School
Joann Farrer
Donna Ballard
June Wilson
Janie McCauley
Arlyn VanderWerff
John A. van Roekel
Clare McCauley
Janie
Monroe
Dairy Congress
Waterloo
Carolyn McCauley
Mary Vriezelaar
Cedar Falls
Kathryn ‘Vriezelaar
Amvee School of Instruction
Monroe-Melcher
Crusade For Freedom
Melvin Blackledge
Leland Balmer
John Vriezelaar
Susan
Mt. Ayr
George Pennington
Methodist Church
Rev. Pennington
Gradys Vriezelaar
Kathryn
Blaine
Jean Reeves
Deborah Ann
George Herwehe
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Town
D. J, Shelton
Ripley
Okla
Mrs. Vriez= claar
Hotel Roosevelt
Kership
Dwight Harvey
Don King
Cecil Price
Federation Officers
Adventists
Herman Kleist
Cecil
Red Rock Aid
Edith Rookey
Donald Balmer
California
Gab
Dad
Rookey's
Patrick
Edith
Howard Karr
Howard
May van Hemert
Sherry Karr
Monroa
Diana de Moss
Virginia
Raymond de Moss
Diana
Cordova
Nettie Legrand
P.M
Legrand
Washington D.C
Congressional Library
Holland
America
Ernie Reed
Red Rock
New York City
Harry Cronkhite
Bohemian Club
Hotel Savory
Lloyd Bricker and Son
Hagerstown
Maryland
Mabel
Mercerburg
Penn
Leo Allard
Otis Bell
Otley
Clarence Bricker
Marjorie van Hemert
Danville
Fire Prevention Week urges home safety nationwide
Fire Prevention Week runs Oct 7 to 13 with Towa Safety Congress urging observance. The note cites high fire losses, mostly from human carelessness, and outlines tips like inspecting homes, using ash trays, checking wiring, and avoiding overloaded circuits. It mentions community activities, local meetings, and individuals involved in civic groups, churches, and 4-H.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa Safety Congress
Towa
Car wrecks and community notices fill Cordova area
Reports a Monday car wreck on White Breast hill injuring Ed Baumgardner who was taken to Collins Hospital with head face and chest injuries and a partially severed tongue. Other items note Gerald Van Zee eye injury from lye, several illnesses, hospital stays and recoveries, and local events including weddings farm leases and upcoming meetings in Knoxville Red Rock and Marion County with dates in 1951.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Martin Visser
White Breast
Ed Baumgardner
Collins’ Hospital
Gertrude Aalbers
Tony” Graham
Judy Sherwood
Bob
Marjorie Sherwood
Monroe
Bill Ricert
Collin’s Hospital
Ruby Murphy
Arthur Richerd
Belle Plaine
Ruby
James
Joy
Lloyd Shilling
Richerd
Kate
Cora Karr
Jack Jennings
Jennings
Curly McCabe
Nell Ruckman
Harold
Helen Karr
Gerald van Zee
Patricia Longstraat
Lela Belle
Leonard
Knoxville Journal
Coal Creek
Earl Baltimore
Grace Baltimore
Missouri
Earl
Frank Baltimore
Grace
Marion Baltimore
Fragmented local notes and family visits across towns
The passage records multiple short moves and visits, including a family leaving their home for Missouri to visit relatives near Kansas City, brothers moving cattle to Knoxville sale barns ahead of a sale, Cecil Price and Emma Giles visiting a doctor on Tuesdays, and stray lines about fruit gifts and travels to Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Harold and
Lloyd Karr
Core Brothers
Knoxville
Cecil Price
Emma Giles
State of
Pennsylvania
Harry Deitricks
Mrs. Nichols
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Myrna Aalberts
Myrna
Frances de Wolfe
Elizabeth van Wyk
Ralph Kempenaar
H. Kuperus
Paul Vander Kamp
Sully
William van Heukelem
Joyce
Stevie de Cook
M. M. de Reus
J. M. Cook
Frank van Haaften
Henry Veenstra
William Rempe
Mount Pleasant
H. Vander Klay
Bethel Reformed Church
Christian Reformed Church
A. Westra
Nigeria
Araia
Hank Bandstra
Bryce Henry
Mercy Hospital
Willis van Haaften
Julia Baarda
Marie Brand
C. H. Wisgerhof
Beulah Klein
Cleo Johannes
J. A. van Zonk
H. G. Rempe
John den Hartog
Arthur Vriezelaar
Terry
Elizabeth
H. W
Dick Lautenbach
Summit News
H. W. Vriezelaar
Fellows
Vande Geest
Leroy Veenendaal
Deep Rock
South Pella
Bus & Vande Geest
The
Iowa Safety Congress
Roy Carr
Ray
Irma Clark
Freda Clark
Johnny Klein
Darlene Karr
Ronnie
Elaine Clark
Ballard
Bill de Heer
Bill Mikesell
Bob Graham
Delbart Barr
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American Legion Auxiliary
Runnells
Red Rock Ladies Aid
Lewis Stittsworth
Paulina
Marion County
Farm Bureau
Knoxville Memorial Hall
Colfax Sale
Ceseh
Ming ‘Ly
Colfax Sale Company
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Dale A, Noller
Sigourney, Iowa
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