Local residents update and small town notices
Mrs J C Mitten of Pella returns home after visit to Dr Hemminger. Miss Anna Visser leaves Dr Stehouwer’s house for Pella. Miss Nettie DeGooyer ends Sanburn vacation and resumes duties at State Bank. Two men from Des Moines and Indiana plead to forged checks, receive 15 year sentences. VanHorsens visit then depart for Colorado after cataract removal. sell farm and Minnesota property. Shreve Drug Co ball team pays $14.25 after rent dispute. Dutch Reformed church picnic nets about 220 with attendees from Otley Pella Prairie City New Sharon Oskaloosa Albia Ottumwa Blakesburg. Eddyville faces heavy costs doubling original bond plan for electric light plant, risking completion delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Mitten
Pella
Hemminger
Anna Visser
Stehouwer
Nettie DeGooyer
DeGooyer
Sanburn
State Bank
H. N. Cruikshank
Des Moines
Frank Holdefer
Indiana
Prairie City
Wagner
Newton
P. VanHorsen
Wilmont
Minn
Colorado
Shreve Drug Co
Dutch Reformed Church
Otley
New Sharon
Oskaloosa
Albia
Ottumwa
Blakesburg
The
Reformed Church
Eddyville
Community Notes From Eddyville and Surrounds
Eddyville news reports a newborn boy for Mr. and Mrs. Minor Muilenberg on August 23 1919. Local visits include families at the Wm Brunia home and relatives from Pella Otley New Sharon and Lakonta. Geo W Akerman bought 24 acres from Mrs M J Brown near the schoolhouse at 625 per acre and may plat into town lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minor Muilenberg
Chris Johnson
Vogler
Ed Maloy
Wm. Brunia
I. A. Wormhoudt
Sam Verrips
Elizabeth Verrips
Pella
G. W. Verrips
M. Aalbers
Jake
Otley
VanGenderen
New Sharon
Antony Klein
Tunis Klein
Henry VanOene
John Schipper
Lakonta
Geo. W. Akerman
M. J. Brown
Mr. Ackerman
Beauty secrets reveal health as key to charm
The piece touts health as the source of beauty, not cosmetics, praising Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a longtime temperance tonic for women. It notes obtaining the remedy from drug stores or Buffalo's Invalids' Hotel and mentions cleansing the intestinal tract with castor oil or Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets made from May-apple, aloe, jalap root.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Knoxville notes travel kinship and local health news
Knoxville Iowa items report visits to Pella Des Moines and other towns by Mrs. N VanVeen Mrs Garner and family. Mentions trips by Joe Johnson and T G Gilson auto outings to Buffalo Minneapolis and St Paul. Also covers medical visits for rheumatism influenza and erysipelas plus a wartime veteran reunion set for September 17 18 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Iowa Cavalry
Court House
Knoxville
3Rd
Marion County
Martin Cherrie
Miranda Mikesell
Red Rock
Gosport
Oskaloosa
Mercy Hospital
Alva Breckenridge
Winifred
Williamstown
Mr. Bonnett
Bussey
Billy Stevenson
Des Moines
Pearl Stevenson
Pearl
Billy
Leighton Residents Share News And Newborns
Leighton reports social visits among Pella and Lynnville residents. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. A Hoover and another to Mr. and Mrs. Jack. A city homecoming for soldiers is planned in Leighton on Friday afternoon September 5, with all welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Wilson
Cornelia
Marie Lefeber
Pella
Overbergen
A. Hoover
Pearl Tysseling
Marie Vander Haar
Jeanette
Nellie Meppelink
Marsh Grant
Dorothy
R. Vroom
B. VanMaanen
Backache Signals Kidney Trouble Prompts Debut of Dean's Pills
Mrs. G. D. Croll reports kidney trouble with backache and dizziness relieved by Dean's Kidney Pills after trying other remedies. She bought them at Stubenrauch's drug store, paid 60 cents, and claims three or four boxes cured her symptoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
G. D. Croll
Independence St
Stubenrauch
Kidney remedy advertised by Mrs. Croll’s favor
An advertisement asks readers to try Dean's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo New York claiming it helped Mrs. Croll and urging purchase for kidney relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Market prices and Red Cross relief effort announced
Pella markets list stock and grain rates for beef hogs corn wheat oats and produce with local sellers and phone numbers. The American Red Cross says it will spend 1 800 000 on relief work in Siberia in the last half of the year and will wage a strong typhus campaign amid a threatened recurrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vander Zyl Bros
Sapasstenaca
Pella Produce Co
The
American Red Cross
Siberia
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Tribune
Beauty
the Journal
Neil VanHemert
N. VanVeen
Joe H. Johnson
Harold
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Upper Lake
T. G. Gilson
Gail
Mildred
Minneapolis
St. Paul
H. D. McCoy
Homer Garner
Jacksonville
Fla
John A. McCoy
Zion
Excelsior Springs
Coolley
John Allen Welch
Minnie
Huntington
Kansas
Welch
J. K. Cathcart
Montgomery Street
W. C. Cathcart
Lving
Rolla H. Randol
Healey
Rosa
8. C. Johnston
Dwight Boydston
Lake Worth
Florida
Geo. L. Boydston
Dwight
Leighton
Pella Markets
van der Lindens Drug Store
UC Ec A
D. G. Gosselink
Iowa
Oppenheimer
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