Iowa
Old Press
Pella Chronicle
Pella, Marion co. Iowa
August 8, 1918
Local News Notes
-G.T.H. Klein sold one of his threshing outfits to Leonard Van
Rees of Sully, the first of this week.
-Carl Ver Steeg, of the army Y.M.C.A. at Camp Dodge, was visiting
his mother in Pella Monday and Tuesday.
-N. Van Maren visited his sons, Ray and Paul, at Des Moines
Tuesday.
-H.M. Tysseling and wife moved this week to Grundy Center, where
Herman has a position.
-Ray Vander Wal, who recently enlisted in the navy, left Tuesday
morning for Des Moines, from which place he went to Great Lakes.
-Rex, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Lenocker, has been shut
up with the smallpox the past week. Just as he was getting better
he was taken with the mumps.
-Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Lankelma have been visiting friends in Chicago
this week, having acompanied their sons, Drs. James and George
Lankelma to the dentists' convention last week.
-Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Fisk went to Mitchellville Monday to visit
their son-in-law, Dave Dykstra, and family and to help them with
the threshing.
-Robt. Lautenbach, W. Halbert and Carl DeVries began work Monday
at a radio school in Des Moines preparatory for government
service. The course will cover about six weeks, after which the
boys can enlist in that branch of the navy and will then receive
further training.
-H. Kuyper celebrated his 85th birthday Monday, and A. Van Stigt
his 86th on Tuesday. Both of these gentlemen are in good health
and quite active for men of their age. Mr. Kuyper was a dealer in
clocks in Pella many years ago.
-F.R. Gambell was called to Hedrick Sunday by the illness of his
father.
-Another detachment of Marion county recruits left last week.
They were Odell Jackson, Wilbur P. Grandia and Timothy
Hoogenakker. The boys were sent to Camp Forrest, Georgia.
-A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Will Dieleman, living northwest
of town, Friday, August 2nd.
-Henry Gezel this week received a bundle of letters and a post
card from his son Ed in France. Ed reports that he is getting
along O.K. and that the weather there is fine.
Mortuary
Cross. Rev. H.A. Cross, a former resident of
Pella, died suddenly at Macksburg, Iowa, Tuesday evening, July
30th. Mr. Cross lived in Pella about twenty-five years ago, being
at that time a student at Central College. He had lived in
Mackburg the past few years, having purchased a home there.
Funeral services and interment were at Macksburg Thursday, the
funeral being conducted by Rev. W.E. Overturf, of Villisca. Mr.
Cross was almost 62 years old at the time of his death, having
been born August 18th, 1856. His early life was spent as a
farmer, he not entering the ministry until he was about
thirty-five years old. He is survived by his wife, one son and
five daughters. There are also four sisters, two of them, Mrs.
J.H. Young, of Knoxville, and Mrs. B.F. Spilman, of Huntville,
Washington, being former residents of Pella.
Koolstra. Kate Koolstra was born April 12, 1873,
and died July 29, 1918. She was married to Frank Elscott May 19,
1898, and settled on the farm near Sully, which is still the
family home. To this union nine children were born, four
daughters and five sons, all of whom are at home and were at her
bedside when the summons came. About eighteen months ago she was
stricken with a disease of the nerves and although many
physicians were consulted and many treatments tried it all proved
of no avail and on Monday evening as the sun was setting, and
surrounded by her loved ones, she passed quietly and peacefully
away to the better home.
Besides the immediate family, there are left to mourn her
departure, her mother, three brothers and one sister. The funeral
was held on Thursday, August 1, after a short service at the
home, conducted by Rev. Noville, of Killduff, at the M.E. church
at Sully, the services by Rev. Heath, of the Methodist church,
and Rev. Renaud, of the Brethren.
Iowa News - Items of Interest Summarized for Busy Readers
John Maxwell, a well known farmer living near Bedford, was
impaled on a pitchfork handle and is in a St. Joseph hospital in
a critical condition. He slid from the haymow through a chute and
alighted on the fork. The handle penetrated his bowels several
inches.
Francis Gates, 10, was drowned in the Iowa River, at Iowa Falls,
and his Sunday school teacher, C.A. Legge, lost his life in
trying to rescue the boy.
A letter has been received by relatives of Norman Hall of Colfax
who is now in a German prison camp hospital. Capt. Hall says that
while he of course is not very happy, still he is being well
treated and gets enough to eat to keep him in good health.
Wilbur Emery Robinson, 82 years old, for sixty-one years a
resident of Dubuque, and prominent in Iowa Masonic circles, died
at his home there after a long illness. Mr. Robinson joined
Dubuque Lodge, No. 3, A.F & A.M. in March 1860. He was acting
grand master of the Iowa order in 1864, served as grand
pursuivant the year before and in 1866 was grand junior warden.
He was well known all over the state, especially in eastern Iowa,
having been engaged in business there for years.
Private Jacob F. Zahn, Company B., Ninth infantry, who was
seriously wounded in action June 24, according to a telegram from
the war department received July 19, is 20 years old and the son
of Jacob Zahn, a McGregor farmer, who for three years before
coming to America was in the King's dragoons in Germany. The son
enlisted in the United States regular army at Davenport two years
ago and was on the Mexican border when war was declared.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2010]