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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1933
Page
8
Community notes from Oskaloosa and surrounding areas recount visits, visits to relatives, and social calls. Local farmers husk corn as harvest winds down. numerous residents host or visit kin in Pella, Eddyville, Peoria, New Sharon, and Michigan with various social events and house visits.
Regular Scott township Farm Bureau meeting held at M R Hess home Friday evening Oct 20. President opened session with minutes approved. Officers elected. Mrs C Van Zante led program of community singing readings and music. play Getting Rid of Father staged by local participants. Social time and refreshments followed. Willing Workers Reformed Church monthly meeting held Saturday afternoon with 26 members present hosted by Catherina and Beulah Korver.
Tainter family members and friends visited relatives around Monroe and Eddyville on Sunday. Iva and Doyle Vander Krol stay with Neal Vander Wilt while their mother recovers in hospital. Mrs. Vander Krol and baby at Mahaska hospital improving. Paul Ludwick of Minnesota visited relatives, while Clarence Monsma returns home from Newton hospital. Miss Marjory Ludwick comes back from Marshalltown work. Mrs. Hulda Ryan hosts L G T ladies for a social with Halloween activities and a pie lunch. Church group held a reception for Rev Frances Potter and family, with music and games. Evelyn Longaker dined with Max Miller and family. Matt Hull and son Claire visited Eddyville. Cecil Cranston of What Cheer spent weekend with the Cranstons. Erlyne Northcutt visited John De Jong home.
The Solitaire Man opens at the Princess Theatre in Oskaloosa for three days starting Sunday, October 29. Lionel Atwill discusses how suggestion and inner fear create drama, noting how a deceptive appearance can unsettle audiences more than grotesque makeup.
Miss Evelyn Longaker assisted Mrs. Lulu Wherle with cleaning for a week. Lengille Cranston returned from Humansville to visit his ill grandmother Mrs. Perfect. Belle Garver visited Wisconsin relatives. they then attended a Nebraska wedding anniversary. Everett Rouw husked corn near Cordova for Gerrit De Jong. Cedar Rapids visitors Willard Longaker and family joined Earl Longaker’s household. Ben and Jim Vriezelaar and families visited Altoona friends. A B Rouw hosted T Goemaat Kuyper Vos and families. Connie and Gerrit Bothof of Hollandale visited Otley area friends. Herman Vander Pol family visited Mrs. A Rouw.
The Ladies of the Reformed church cleaned the Otley church last Tuesday. Twenty seven attended and brought dinners served at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Douwstra. Mr. and Mrs. Seth Niemantsverdnet and family moved to Knoxville on Tuesday. Mrs. John Van Vliet and Rus sell Van Vliet of Omaha visited Otley and Pella over the weekend. Harold Postma, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Postma, injured his hand in a washing machine wringer but is recovering.
Sully Oliver Wisgerhof cannot attend to duties at Dennison Partridge Lumber due to neuritis. Mr. Hickman of Newton takes his place and Glenn Wisgerhof drives the truck. Verwers to Abbott hospital after birthday card shower. A pre nuptial shower honors Miss Alida Ver Steeg ahead of her marriage to Maas Rozenboom. Dixie Oil station break in, 30 gallons of gas stolen for second time in a week. Iowa Homecoming attendees from Sully include Dr and Mrs C B Welle and several Wisgerhof relatives. Joyce Van Genderen visiting grandmother Mrs C Brand. Pete Rozendaal ill.
This week reports an influenza outbreak and notes Mrs Arie Boat has been ill for a long time and is failing rapidly, with fears voiced that the end may be near.
Galesburg Mrs John Oltshoern and daughter Anna visited Sully's Mrs Tunis Hartgers on Thursday. Newton callers included Mr and Mrs Wm Hendricks and son Royce and Miss Margaret Hendricks. Crums visited Cleora Carpenter and Henry Neilson's family visited sister Mrs Knot in Prairie City. Naldo Steenhoek shopped in Newton. Joe Kaldenberg visited Otley. Henry Crum family visited relatives in Prairie City. Jessie Carpenter conducted Newton business. Hendricks spent time with brother Raymond Martin. Betty Van Rheenen visited Anna Bell Van Heukelem. Ray Van Gorp traveled to Hollandale Minnesota to buy potatoes. Freeman Hendricks and family visited Mrs Hendrick's mother Mrs Berkum Vos in Monroe. Alma De Penning called at Pella.
Chronicle Weekly Health Message notes a schoolgirl contracts scarlet fever with fever headache vomiting sore throat and a faint rash then develops Bright's disease. The article cites 42 cases in July to 47 in August and 125 in September across counties, signaling ongoing prevalence of scarlet fever in the state.
Doctors have long valued measured liquid laxatives for controllable action. The public is returning to liquid laxatives as a safe option that yields a good movement without discomfort. Properly pared formulas regulate effect, form no habit, and avoid kidney irritation unlike wrong cathartics that worsen constipation.
Last week in September 2 364 Scarlet fever cases were reported from 47 states to the United States Public Health Service. The report notes ongoing prevalence, fewer deaths than past decades, and possible kidney or heart complications. It cites prevention via home care, school quarantine, Dick test, and immunity treatments, with local health groups aiding disease control. Also lists weekly communicable disease cases by county and notes Pentecostal revival attendance in New Sharon.
After a long illness the 80 year old Mrs. John Vander Linden died Oct 18 at the Home For the Aged. Funeral services were held at the Home For the Aged and Liberty church with ministers R J Danhof and Meyer officiating. Burial was in Liberty cemetery near Bussey Iowa. Born Henrietta Van Arkel in The Netherlands on Oct 1 1853 she came to America at 17. She married J A Vander Linden Oct 13 1887. he died nine years ago. Six children were born to the couple with Gertie Tollinaar dead at 28. surviving are Mary Parker Julia Cade Ira John and Dora Vander Linden.
Three brothers and one sister survive: Nick Van Arkel of Oskaloosa, Henry Van Arkel of R F D Pella, Marion Van Arkel of Pella, and Mrs John De Bruyn of Prairie City. Also surviving are several grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Chronicle Want Ads bring results.
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