Iowa Old Press
Alton Democrat, Oct. 20, 1894
ORANGE CITY: John Oggel succeeded last Monday in getting three fine pictures
of the committee who located the Holland settlement here in 1869 and also
the mule team that hauled them here. The pictures will soon be offered for
sale. L. VanOlst proposed that such pictures be taken and assisted in
getting the matters arranged. The members of the committee are Jelle
Pelmulder, H. Muilenburg, S. A. Sipma, and H. J. VanderWaa, all old men now,
and it is certainly surprising that they are still all alive, and more
surprising that the mule team, which must now be over thirty years old, is
still alive. The pictures will doubtlessly become historic.