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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1934
Page
2
William Humphrey and family from Bison and Mrs. M. A. Clark visited en route to Selma. The Chronicle reports illness including LeRoy Kimmel with intestinal flu and Ed Van Zante, typhoid cases in Pella, and various local visits. Names include Vander Meulen, Graham, Van Zante, Sels, De Haas, Rietveld, Payne, Van Oostrum, and Rosenbander among others with multiple hospital and travel notes.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Van Rheenen and Robert Lee of Indianapolis and Mrs Howard Russel and Phyllis Irene of Anderson Indiana visit area friends. Rev William Goulooze of Grand Rapids asks Chronicle be sent to McKee Kentucky for an evangelistic meeting. Rev De Jong spoke at the mission fest last summer. Mrs De Jong is a former Central college student. Goulooze praises the Chronicle and does not want to miss an issue. Mrs J Vander Syde has recovered enough to share meals. Sybenga and families enjoyed a Weiner roast by Grundman’s quarry. Mrs Kate Van Vliet Mrs J Eenman and daughter Jean and Betty Carter spent Wednesday in Des Moines. Samuel Cole bought a new Plymouth and plans a California trip. Mr and Mrs W A Roorda and others took Miss Neeltje Borgman to Newton to ride train to Lancaster New York. Mrs E R Borgman and son Worp E Borgman visit sister and aunt, Miss Borgman has spent summer in Pella. Mr and Mrs H K Pals of Meservey Iowa visited with Fred Lautenbach and family and met their new grandson. Lane Meulpolder plans a Netherlands visit, likely through Christmas. A yawning chasm opened Saturday between Gov Pinchot seen as Roosevelt Republican and Postmaster General Farley amid political strain.
Three masked men stole payroll estimated between $2,000 and $8,000 from Pershing Coal Company in a mine office raid. Ruth Cruise the bookkeeper was confronted as envelo pes were gathered. Miner Clyde Wright, abducted during the escape, was later found not harmed as authorities, including two state investigators, pursued a trail that went cold. The trio, ages 19 to about 30 and described as well dressed, fled in a Buick sedan.
In the office a heavyset man identified as No. 3-Masked and about 30 years old led the bandits who detained several workers including Agnes Erickson a cashier and mine foreman Tom Rowland along with Albert Marshall John White George Brown and Roy Ellis. Wright Freed Wright was taken as far as highway No 2 before being released. He said the bandits headed east after the incident and a Buick sedan was seen speeding past an oil station near Tracy earlier today.
Blurb lists bus departures from Pella to Des Moines at 9:30 a m 3:30 p m and 7:46 p m and to Oskaloosa at 3:26 p m and 7:30 p m. Buses depart Central Park Cafe.
Irvin Buddy Johnson, age 12, fractured his left arm for the second time in five months. He injured it Friday when he fell while climbing a shed. The earlier fracture occurred five months earlier during a calf riding attempt.
Mrs Paul Boertie departed for a several days visit with relatives at Hudsonville Michigan.
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