Nearby Town News Highlights Social and Family Events
Rainy weather aids late potatoes and delays threshing at John Moody’s farm. Visits extend across Oskaloosa Monticello and McGregor as families gather at Moody and Binns homes. Community notes include birthdays, a young rider’s arm injury, a Poland China exhibition, parsonage life, and a charity supper for Charley Vallicut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Moody
Kryne Vos
Dirk van Gorp
Pella
Oskaloosa
Mary de Hoover
Monticello
Minn
Dave Moody
McGregor
Iowa
John B. Moody
Frank Oswandal
Tom Johnson
Binns
Town Notes and School Additions in New Sharon
NEW SHARON residents share visits and departures with Aledo Til and Cedar Falls. Miss Mamie Essex returned home after seven weeks away, Rev E J Starr and family visited J D Starr near Taintor, and Miss Nona Williams headed to Springville for the coming year. The school board voted to hire an additional fifth grade teacher to ease congestion, with a new flag gifted to the town by C P Roe. Lee Dalton suffers a severe foot injury at a windmill when a gear caught his shoe. no bones broken but lacerations and torn shoe top.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamie Essex
Aledo
Til
E. J. Starr
Plymouth
Iowa
J. D. Starr
Taintor
Nona Williams
Springville
Cedar Falls
S. B. Knudson
Daniel Rodgers
Waterloo
California
City of
New Sharon
C. P. Roe
Prairie City Social Visits Across Several Towns
Prairie City notes list Mrs P Van Peursem and daughter Elizabeth visiting in Pella over the weekend. Several Pella residents including Mrs A W Den Adel and Mr J Colyn and son Lawrence are mentioned visiting others in Prairie City. Other visits involve John Liter of New England Granite Works in Pella, and families from Red Lake Falls and Des Moines. The fragment ends with mixed names and references to a funeral and travel, including Panama Nebraska and Ft Douglass Utah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Liter
New England Granite Works
Pella
Prairie City
Henry DeLeeuw
Gerrit and
Matthew
Monroe
J. D. DeHoet
P. B. Gaassa
Red Lake Falls
Ed Gaass
Matthew de Wit
Dorothy
Marjorie
A. van Duren
C Kleinendorat, Jr
Gusta Vander Beek
Panama
Nebr
Miss Vander Beek
Wm. Vanden
Berg
Jessie
Margaret
Dickie
Korat Jona
Liprriaics Fentico
Ft. Douglass
Utah
Aodomrpey
Des Moines
Ory
Eddyville social notes and local travel updates
Eddyville residents and visitors share recent movements with trips to Otley Pella and Prairie City. J Maasdam from Oakland joined Peter Verwers for a New York trip and stayed with Pete. Mrs D E Moss left Miller Nebraska after three weeks with Eddyville kin. Dick Hugen and guests plus Skinkel family visited T Den Hartog home. Delegates to regional church conferences are named for Washington Iowa. A road accident near Jefferson township injured a passenger. a Workmen crew found ancient timber near O S Smith’s place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wynberg
Otley
Pella
Prairie City
J. Maasdam
Oakland
Cal
Peter Verwers
New York City
Pete
D. E. Moss
J. M. Blake
Eddyville
Miller
Nebraska
Dick Hugen
Henry Hugen
Wm. Skinkel and
Familly
Pleasant Township
T. den Hartog
Ottumwa Road
C. H. Stuber
H.l Smith
J. W. Hobson
Hayden Chapel
M. B
Washington Iowa
Jefferson Township
John Eveland
Miss Robinson
Mahaike
Smith
Mr. Smith
Sraber
Knoxville Notebook says town and nearby visits
Mrs. William Dickey and daughter Anna head to Des Moines where Anna starts ninth year as a city schools teacher. Grace Rhynsburger of OsKaloosa exhibits hand painted china at the fair. Ellen Jolliffe, the blind boy, returns to the State College for the Blind in Vinton after vacation with his parents. Lulu Stuff returns from a Denver Omaha trip via Ft. Logan training camp and Omaha aviation grounds. Mrs. Harmon Wheeler of Pella visits the J Bayless and Mayer families. her brother Wm. Bayless of Tuluca, Ill., is also visiting. J. B. Smith of Crab Orchard Neb. visits his 98-year-old father G. B. Smith, oldest in the area. Mrs. C. W. Croft visits Bussey and Liberty townships. sister-in-law Mrs. John De Young moves from Bussey to Pella. Polson meat chunks found in Flagler and Anderson neighborhoods indicate dog killings but not a German plot. Herman A. Tucker narrowly escapes a serious accident when a shirt sleeve hooks a planer. forearm bruised. Harold Dawson of Annapolis Naval Academy visits Knoxville relatives after a year of emer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Rhynsburger
Oskaloosa
J. W. Wolf
Ellen Jolliffe
M. Jolliffe
State College For the Blind
Vinton
Lulu Stuff
Denver
Omaha
Ft. Logan
Colo
Harmon Wheeler
Pella
J. Bayless
Enoch Mayer
Wheeler
Bayless
Wm. Bayless
Tuluca
Ill
J. B. Smith
Crab Orchard
Nebr
G. B. Smith
W. S. Smith
B. Smith
C. W. Croft
Bussey
Inlaw
Etta Godfrey
Liberty Township
John de Young
Polson
Flagler
Anderson
Will Welch
Herman A. Tucker
Harold Dawson
Annapolis, Md. Naval Academy
Knoxville
Harold
Emer
Diphtheria Death and Local Accidents Roil Des Moines Area
A Des Moines girl aged nine, Geraldine Welch, died of diphtheria after visiting here, with burial planned in Des Moines. A resident, Mrs Arminta Pope, was badly injured in an auto accident near East Main and Columbus, suffering leg and head injuries. Mrs Garry Christ recovered well after Mayo hospital surgery. Kenneth Vanderwilt sustained a severe eye injury from a thrown stick but was referred to an eye specialist in Des Moines for urgent treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ney
Columbia
Falcon ‘Wednéadsy
Mise Marcella
Elipais
Geraldine Welch
EB. B. Welch
Des Moines
H. W. Darrah
Q Depot
Arminta Pope
East Sixth
Seventh Streets
Harold Cox
Lawrence Goff Corner
East Main
Garry Christ
Mayo's Hospital
Kenneth
Tone Vanderwilt
C. M. Harrington
Foot-Ease Comforts Men Drilling for National Preparedness
An Army draft-era product advertisement touts Alien’s Foot-Ease as frictionless in shoes, refreshing tired feet and easing blisters and callouses. It claims instant relief for swollen and tender feet and suggests foot-baths. notes British and French troops use it.
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Greely
John Sellers
Mark I. Shaw
Springfield
Methodist Parsonage
Slothower
Nies
Bund Son
Lavely
Thomas Gidley
Malvern
Sam Nearmyer
Sam
Baptist Sunday School
Mason Ogg
Fairmount
Charley Vallicut
Charley
Clarence
George Sheeler
C. C. Neff
Earny Poisterest
Billen Sackett
Mike Merron
Edgar Roberts
Frank Breele
West
Frannie
Wyo
Cowley
Casper
Edgar
Lee Roberts
Bovina
Lee
Grace Rowe
West Des Moines
Irene Wilson
Grace
the Tribune
The
Journal
William Dickey
Anna
Miss Anna
At. Weber
American House
R Cos
Sebeal
Sue Gera Gompane
New York
Castoria
G. W. Whitehill
Square
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