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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
West Center.
Ground is too dry for fall plov

Ground is too dry for fall blowing
Mr.. Chord is having a new chicken
house built. Mr.. Brantner is doing
the work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Chord, of New
Sharon, attended the Fair and put up
with their brother, @. Chord.
Mrs. Coleman is very sick. She
lives near Lacey, but is here with he1
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Osborn.
Cornelius Phillips and wife, of Elm
Grove, came down on Sunday week
ago to visit Mr.. Mattox and wife.
Mr.. Mattox and wife, of Leighton,
have moved down here into their
new house. They are very feeble.
r. Russell and wife, of near Lacey,
buried their little son on Sunday. He
died of tonsilitis, being sick four days.
Frank Chord and family and Mrs.
Clemens, of New Sharon, attended
the funeral of the Russell child Sun,
day and then came on to the C.Chord
home and stayed until evening.
Mr.. Brantner and wife were called
to the bedside of her uncle, Mr.. Hanna,
of Adams township, Sunday. He died
the same evening, after long siege
with the dropsy. Mrs. Brantner drove
to Sigourney Monday to take the
news to his relatives.
October 8. CENTER.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
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Spring Creek.

Frank Anderson is the happiest mar
In Spring Creek township.
Mrs. Cinda Morrow visited at thu
parental Towns home last week.
& night hawk visited Mrs. San
Smiths hen roost one night last week
John Nicholson's children are en-
pertaining the whooping cough again
Nathan Gray and Mr.. and Mrs A. j
jewell are visiting relatives in Ohio
Quite a number from this vicinity
attended the What Cheer Fair anc
pronounced it good.
Mrs. Frank Norris and daughter
Hazel spent last week at the parental
Thompson home near Fremont.
Ed Hoover has gone to BattleCreek
Mich, to take treatment. His many
friends hope for his speedy recovery
Mrs. Nellie McIntire and daughters
Lucille and Edith, after spending sew
eral weeks at the parental CrozieI
home, departed for their home last
Friday.
Harry Crozier is attending school
at Sheldon; Carrie Cox, Earl and
Lenna Hoover and Herbert Watson
are attending Penn college, and Hat,
tie Barber goes to Oskaloosa High
school.
The members of Bloomfield church
met last Friday to clean the church
yard and cemetery and to make ar
rangements for the new preacher
They have engaged Rev. Pliny Fry to
preach during the coming year.
October 2. GALA LILY.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
Mauch Chunk.

Fred Reed and wife spent Sunday
at Dan Zumwalt's.
Miss Clara Witt is at Oskaloosa at
tending Penn college.
Rhoda Summers entertained Jennie
Reed last Sunday at her home.
Ike Summers and family were Sun
day guests at Frank Quarton's.
Miss Gertie Kemp is at Oskaloosa
learning the dressmaking trade.
Postmaster Ellsworth was bust
ness caller in Oskaloosa Monday.
Earl Eisiminger spent Wednesday
evening at the Harrington home in
Oskaloosa.
Mrs. G.. A. Allgood and children
visited recently with relatives in
White Oak.
Vel Ellsworth, who has been sick
with stomach trouble for some time,
is no better.
r. Okey and wife, of In dianapolis
called at the parental Ellsworth home
last Sunday.
Fred Allgood, wife and baby of near
Rose Hill, spent Sunday 6 Ut the James
Denney home.
Herman Altman ard fitmily spent
last Thursday at the Prof. Stevens
home in Oskaloosa..
Mrs. Geo. Bunting and son,of Union
were welcome guests at the Robert
Reed home Sunday.
DR.. L. F. Ellsworth attended the
funeral of his grandchild in Garfield
township last Thursday.
Mr.. Lockard and wife, of Rose Hill
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
by sacrificing his property and liberty
for them has a right to be heard and
the people will listen to him
WHITES COMPLIMENTS

Fred White, candidate en- the dem
cratic ticket for governor of Iowa.
thus pays his compliments to the
boys of the gallant 51st Iowa, who
are now enroute home from their
brilliant campaign in the Philippines:
sin the long list of bloody deeds
that disgrace humankind, none, it
seems to me, is so entirely black and
dastardly as the awful drama that we
are now enacting the carrying on
of war by fire and sword into the de-
voted homes of an innocent people,
who never did us the slightest wrong
and who battled for their freedom
centuries before the American col
onies raised the banner of revolt
against George III. To heed not the
holy aspirations of a people who are
striving to secure only their God
given heritage of freedom is worthy
of the barbarian. To slaughter such
people and apply the torch to their
homes are acts that define the ty-
rant.
If we mistake not this this will be
a very red flag in the faces of that
patriotic organization.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05

Mrs. A. P. Spencer and daughters,
Mrs. Will Sheppard and Miss Eva
Spencer, departed yesterday after
noon via the Narrow Gauge for Chi
cago where they will spend number
of days. Mrs. Spencer will he in at
tendance at the national meeting of
the P. E. o. Sisterhood.
Jacob L. Mason, who has been in
the city for the past two weeks visit
ing with his daughter, Mrs. William
Gilmore, departed This morning for
his home in Walkerton, Indiana. Mr..
Mason was city marshal of Oskaloosa
several years ago and will be remem-
| bered as one of the best officers that
the city ever had.
Al Watts went to Chicago yester-
day afternoon, going into the markets
for the purchase of more goods. He
states that business has been of such
a nature with him that he has been
sold almost out within the thirty days
since his opening and he finds it
necessary to go east for more goods
and additional stock.
Mrs. Edith Terrell and baby, who
have been in the city during the sum-
mer visiting at the parental FL. S.Sal-
isbury home on College avenue, de-
i, parted last evening for their home in
st. Louis. They were accompanied
by Mrs. Salisbury who will visit at
the Terrell home and with another
daughter, Mrs. Barnes.
The initial dance of the K. of P.
lodges was given last evening in Cas-
tie Hall and was attended by quite a
large company of guests. This was
the first of series of parties to be
given by this organization prior to
the holidays. Schmitt's orchestra
was 10 attendance and made the best
of music during the evening.
II. II. Sheriff received letter from
Mike Carney this morning. 1t will
be remembered that Mr.. Carney was
recently the victim of a powder ex-
plosion near Colorado Springs. He
says he is physically as well as ever
and hopes to be able to see little.
He is still in the hospital. His many
friends here sympathize with him and
hope for the best.
Times-Republican: Mrs. JIM Speer
arrived Saturday from Oskaloosa and
will make her future home in this
city, which was her home for many
years prior to few years ago, when
she removed to Oskaloosa. The Misses
Speer arrived from Oskaloosa this
morning. The family's home will be
in the Hambel property on South First
avenue -. Mrs. F. M. Henness, of
Oskaloosa, arrived in the city Satur-
day evening to remain for time at
the r. j. Pemberton home with her
daughter, Mrs. Robert Pemberton,
whose husband is very low with con-
sumption.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
A POEM OF THE PRAIRIE,

A potato went out on a mash,
And sought an onion bed,
CHATS pie for me-" observed the
squash,
And all the beets turned red;
$50 away, 1.-THE onion weeping cried,
"Your love [ cannot be;
The pumpkin be your lawful bride,
You canteloupe with mel"
But onward still the tuber came,
And lay down at her feet;
"You caulifiower by any name
And il will smell as wheat;
And |, too, am an early rose,
And you I've come to see;
So don't turn no your lovely nose,
But spinachat with mel"
81 10 not carrot all TO wed,
So go, >ir, if you plea~e!"
The modest onion meekly said,
And lettuce, pray. have peas!
Go, think that y'u have never seen
Myself, or Smelled nv sigh;
Too long a maiden | have been
For favors in your rye!"
"Ah spl-e a c1Ss!"the tnber pray d,
My cherrvshPd bride YOU II be;
You are the only weeping mid
That's currant now for mel
And as the wily tuber spoke
He caught her by surprise,
And. giving her an artichoke,
Devoured her with his eyes.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
PUBLIC SALES.
JESSE MORRIS


will offer at public sale at his farm,
mile northeast of Givin, on Mon
day, October 9,at O'Clock, 200 bush
els oats, 20 tons baled timothy hay, .
tons baled straw, milk COWS, one
with calf by her side, 1 dry COW, 3
good calves, % hogs, 400 bushels of
corn in field. Easy terms. CoLJ.H.
Willis, auctioneer.
L. M. RICE,
desiring to move to Missouri soon,
will offer at public sale at his farm
one-fourth mile north of Wright, on
Thursday, Oct. II, 1919, at one O'Clock
sharp, one brood mare, gelding,
sucking colt, two span mules; FIVE
milk cows, 1 heifer, steer, and A
spring calves; one Shrop buck, 80
ewes and eve lambs; 6 spring shoats;
l wagon, 1 cultivator, 2 harrows, 1
stalk rake, hay rack, set harness,
corn planter, and other articles too
numerous to mention.
Col, j. H. Willis, Auctioneer.
Leighton.
Rev. Tysse returned from Illinois
last Saturday afternoon.
s. Nelson and wife have concluded
not to go on their Pennsylvania visit
this fall.
On Tuesday morning came the first
frost that amounted to anything. Con-
siderable ice was formed.
We had nice rains Saturday and
Sunday, but not enough to put the
ground in condition to pillow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Smith, of Madi-
son county, are visiting here among
the Flecks and other friends.
Charley Frey has returned here. He
has been In Arkansas for a few years
working in the mines, but work was
slack there and hence his return.
Mr.. Gilmore, of Fishville, died sud-
denly Tuesday night of asthma. Rev.
Baumgartel conducted the funeral
services on Thursday. Interment in
Butler cemetery. He lived with Mr..
and Mrs. Jinks Davis. They fixed
him in bed in the evening by prop
ping him up with pillows, and when
they went to him in the morning he
was dead and in the same position in
which they left him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Sinehorst are
mourning the death of their twin baby
girl II months old. She died of bowel
trouble on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1899.
The funeral services took place on
Thursday at Union church conducted
by Rev. II. Bode in the Holland Ian
guage and Rev. Baumgartel in Eng
lish. Interment was made in the
Dunsmore cemetery. The services
were attended by large number of
sympathizing friends. The twin boy
was also very sick but is now out of
danger.
September 26. NOT II. GIEL.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05

Mr.. and Mrs. JEFF Harold enter
tanned number of friends Monday
evening in an informal reception ten
dered in honor of James Coakley and
Wallace Minnick, who have recently
returned from Manila. The gentle
men had lot of curios and relics
from the Philippines and the coun-
tries touched in their travels, and the
evening was made very interesting by
the stories and the talk of the gentle
men. Mr.. Coakley has presented Mr..
Harold with cane that was made
from piece of the wood work of the
sunken Spanish ship, Reina Christina.
Mr.. Harold prizes the cane very
highly.
Ottdmwa Press: Julius Swenson,
for number of years registered phar-
macist with Arthur Gephart, has re-
signed his position and will leave the
latter part of the week for Oskaloosa
where he has been rendered posi-
ton with the firm of Green & Bentley,
one of the largest drug and sundry
firms in the state. Mr.. Swenson has
proved to be thoroughly competent
compounder of medicines and he is
capable of holding any position in the
establishment of a manufacturing
chemist. He will go to good firm
and they will find in him clever re-
liable and honest gentleman, one who
will add lustre to the great name of
Green & Bentley. Ottumwa friends
will be glad to learn of Mr.. Swenson's
handsome promotion, but will regret
to have him leave the city.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF,

One of the best bits of literature
which the republicans can find for
campaign purposes is the democratic
platform. 1t tells its own story and
is plain enough to drive any sensible
man out of the White-Bryan camps.
Read and reflect:
We, the Democrats of Iowa, in con-
ventlon assembled. unqualifedy and I'M
reServedly endorse the Chicago platform
OF 1896, in whole and in detail, which
ON THE MONEY QUESTION SAYS:
Recognizing that the money question
IS paramount to all others at this time.
we invite attention to the fact that the
Federal Constitution names silver and
gold together as the money metals of the
United States, and that the first Coinage
law passed by Congress under the Con-
stitutlon made the silver dollar the none
tary unit and admitted gold to free coin
age at ratio based upon the silver dol
lar unit.
We declare that the act of 1874 de-
monetlzlng silver without the knowledge
or approval OF the American people. has
resulted in the appreciation of gold and
corresponding fall IN the prices of com
modltieSproduced by the people; a heavv
increase in the burden of taxation and of
all debts, public and private: the enrich
ment of the money-lending class at home
and abroad, the prostration of industry
and the impoverishment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to mono
metalism, which has locked fast the pros
nerity OF an industrial people in the par
ABYSS OF hard times Gold monometal-
sm : British policy, and its adoption
has br right other nations into financial
serytrde TO London. It is not only I'm
American, bit anti-American. and i can
be fastened on the United States only
by the sitting of that spirit and love Of
liberty which proclaimed our political in
dependence in 1916, and won If in the
war of the revolution.
FREE SILVER.
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of both silver and gold at the
present legal ratio of 10 to I. without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation. We demand that the stand
ard silver dollar shall be full legal ten
der. equally with gold, for all debts. pub
nc and private. and We favor such legis-
lation as will prevent for the future the
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05

Gov. SHAW, In MS excellent
speech at Davenport Monday night
gave the following good reason by
every individual taxpayer in Iowa
should vote the republican ticket
this tall. tie said:
During the two y ars last past,
the executive council has annually
increased the aggregate asses ment
of railway, telegraph ana telephone
companies The aggregate increase
in the assessment of this class of
property, made by the executive
council in the last two years, is over
S40O, 900. During the same period
the assessment of al other property
has been decreased s29, 900, 100 In
that time the state has also paid of
a debt of S410, 900, and now has sur
plus of $40, 900 in the treasury"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
Ills MOTHER,S PLCTHRE

The country is just now flooded
with Dewey stories, many of them
no doubt creatures of imagination.
The following, however, is typical of
the man and is vouched for by the
Independents:
when the order to clear for ac-
ton was given in Dewey's fleet on
that memorable May morning in
Manila bay, one of the powder boys
hastily took off his coat, which slip
ped from his hand into the water. In
the inside pocket was a photograph
of his mother. The boy had Just
been looking at it, had kissed it and
restored it to what seemed to be a
safe place. He asked permission to
jump overheard and recover the coat
and when he was forbidden to do
this he went around to the other side
of the ship, leaped into the water,
swan to the coat and saved it. For
disobedience he was put in irons and
held for further punishment. Com
modore Dewey wondered why he
had risked his life and disobeyed Or
ders for the sake of a coat, for the
boy had said nothing about the pilot
ograph. In answer to the commo-
dore's kind questions he disclosed
his motives. The commodore's eyes
filled with tears, and he clasped the
boy in his arms. Orders were given
that the little fellow should be re-
leased. "a boy who loves his mother
enough to risk his life for her pic
ture," said Dewey, "cannot be kept
in irons on this fleet"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
Leighton.

Our school is progressing nicely.
They have got the new shaft at No.
down nearly so feet.
There is not much sickness here
now. j. d. Fleck is greatly improv-
ed.
Rev. Cory of Oskaloosa preached
here IN the Deciple church last Sun
day afternoon.
Word was received here last week
that Mrs. Lille (Aikm) Bradley of
Montezuma had badly girl. Mrs. B
was raised in our town.
Mrs. Payne and Mrs. Baumgartel
went to Keokuk last Saturday to
spend three weeks visiting with the
relatives and friends of Mrs. Payne.
John Bode has quit clerking for A.
L. Barnes, and after three weeks rest
will go to Des Moines and enter
Highland Park College for a course
of study.
Rev. Tysse viii preach here every
Sunday hereafter at $50 and l: 80 and
In the evening. The morning and
AFTERNOON services will be in the
Holland language and English in the
evening.
There was quite a moving time
here last Saturday. Jacob Mattox
moved on his farm near the Center
school horse north of Oskaloosa, and
Tunls Krandenburge moved in the
Mattox property, and the Deleo fam
lily moved where Tunis lived.
Mrs. Jersy Riggs and son Ray left
| Wednesday for Green Co, Penn, to
visit for month. Mr.. and Mrs. s.
| Nelson also intended to have gone
with her but have indefinitely post
| poned it on account of his business
requiring his personal attention this
| fall.
Mrs. @. Vanhoweling departed this
| life on last Thursday at 1 o'clock of
stomach trouble. She had been i'll
for over year but was not confined
to her bed until three weeks ago.
The funeral services were conducted
at the house on Saturday at 10 O'Clock
by the Revs. Tysse and Veldman. In
terment at the Porter cemetary. Her
husband died about two and half
years ago. They have left nine child
rem to mourn their departure.
Marion Woods, now of Lincoln,
Nebr., bit for the previous II years
resident of Redwillow Co., Nebr.,
and previous to that for 80 or more
years resident of this township, at
tended the reunion of his regiment,
the 33rd, at Pella and called on some
of his many friends about here before
he returned home. He, like all well
balanced minded men, brought his
wife with him. Also John Stately of
near Nobleton, in Polk county, call
ed on some of his friends about here.
He attended the same reunion but
volunteered in the 18th Iowa from
this township and served in it dur
ing the rebellion.
The new church here was dedicat-
| ed last Thursday afternoon and there
was large attendance at the ser
vices. Rev. Tysse was assisted by
the Revs. Klooster of Galesburgh,
Veldman of the 1st reformed church
of Pella and Donwster of the Third
church of Pella. Rev. Veldman
preached the sermon. The exercises
were in the Holland language. In the
evening the exercises were in the
English language, and were conduct
ed by the Revs. Poot of the Fourth
church of Pella and Dykstra of the
Third church of Pella, Baumgartel
of Leighton, and Veldman of Pella.
Rev. Dykstra preached the sermon.
They have a very nice church and
nicely furnished, seated with opera
chairs placed in a circle form, all at
cost of little over S1700, s1400 of
it is already paid.
Oct 8 NOT II GIEL
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
Fire Mt Dcx MOineS.

Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 4.-Fire Tues
day destroyed the fiye-story depart
ment store of the Harris Emery com
pany and communicated to the Masonic
temple, Murphy house, Hegele cigar
store and Hill shoe store, the total loss
amounting to 100000. The loss to
the Harris Emery company alone is
estimated at $35O,oOO. All the buildings
were insured. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05

The editor of the Brighton En-
terprise, @. c. Heacock, is out OF isil
and he is glad of it. But he is as
clipper as ever and referring to the
matter he says:
''Our enemies supposed after six
months burial in prison with pen and
voice suppressed we would emerge
disgraced, deserted and forgotten by
the world. But the time is done and
we have all our old friends and
thousands of new ones all over Iowa
and the United States. Our field of
operation, hitherto limited to Brighton
and Washington county, has been
extended until it now covers the
whole county and we can get hear
ing anywhere. ANY man who has
proved the sincerity of his opinions
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05

are spending few days with their
son William and family.
Robert Reed has sold his farm of
100 acres to James Denney and left
for Oklahoma on Tuesday.
Mrs. John Shaw and daughter Elsie
and Mrs. Clint Shaw called recently
at the A. r. Thomas home.
A. R. Thomas and sons sold and de-
livered forty head of hogs to Wymore,
of Barnes City, last Friday.
Walter Rockwell, of near New Shar-
on, has bought the James Denney
farm of so acres northwest of here.
M. S, Hadley and wife, who have
been visiting relatives and friends in
Nebraska for some time, returned
home last week.
D. M. Perdue, the oldest and well
known correspondent for the HERALD
was a guest at the James Eisiminger
home Saturday night.
Mills Irving and wife have returned
to their home at Roseville, Ill after
an extended visit at the James and
| Carson Mcclure homes.
October 4. GUESS.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05

Manager Fritz offers the opera
house free for a reception to Co. F,
the Iowa Brigade Band tender their
services for the day, the Tribe of Ben
Hur give an entertainment for the
benefit of the boys, and Strasburger
& Pfeifer will present them with a
silk flag That is the same old spirit
that pu' down the Rebellion and put
King Georges redcnatS t. flight.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05

The Algona Upper Des Moines
says: Fired White wants this coun-
try to turn the Philippines over to
Germany. Sam Clark suggests that
he 60 back to Germany. Americans
are not just now in the business Of
building up European empires at the
expense of their own flag"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05

The Davenport Republican seems
to be trying to dispose of some of the
surplus the banks of that city hold.
Wrappers around their papers are
fully a ward long.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
EINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE.
IL In matters of the estate of
Shadrink r WiIle daoaaaad

Shadrlck Il. Vile, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that there
is now on file in the office of the clerk
of the district court of Mahaska coun-
ty, Iowa, the final settlement and petit
ton for discharge of E. III. Mccain,
executor of the estate of said
Shadrick B. Willie, deceased, and
the same is set for hearing on October
80, 1899. at 80 O'Clock p. M, in the
district court of said county now in
session, at which time objections can
be made to the approving of said set
Element and granting the prayer of
said petitioner. This notice is to the
heirs and creditors and all persons
interested.
Dated this 4th day of October, 1899.
b. w. PRESTON,
10w2 Attorney for Administrator.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05
Poland China Sale.

Don't forget the great auction sale
of Poland China hogs at Sigourney,
Tuesday, October 10. Sale will be
under cover at Barlow's livery stable,
and will commence precisely at one
o'clock p. M, regardless of weather.
Such lot of hogs have never before
been put up at auction in Iowa. Terms,
twelve months without interest. II
you want further particulars send for
a catalogue to j. H. Sanders, Sigour-
ney, Iowa. 10w1-pd
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-05

The trust problem, said Gen.
Roosevelt in a speech in Ohio, will
be solved by republicans and not by
democrats Political history teaches
that this is the natural course of all
such problems in this country.