The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-02-15
PERSONAL NOTES.
What Your Friends and Your
Eeighbors are Doing.
Saturday

Chas. Chick arrived home from
Omaha yesterday, callod by the very
serious Illness of his wife.
Robert Meredith went to Leighton
this morning to take part in the edu-
cational meeting held there to-day.
Miss Arie O'Conner went to Rose
Hill last evening and will visit with
relatives and friends for a few days.
Miss Hannah Strasburger went to
Des Moines yesterday afternoon and
will be guest of the Goodman home
for few days visit.
Miss Daisy Sheppard was passen-
ger for Evanston, Ill. yesterday after
noon to be the guestof college friends
for few weeks visit.
Mrs. Mary Dodson departed yester-
day afternoon for Chicago where she
will look after the interests of the
Baldauf millinery department in the
spring markets.
Miss Eva Roberts, of the Strasbur-
ger & Pfeifer store, and her sister,
Mrs. Chas. Mckinley, were called to
Rose Hill last evening by the death
of their grandfather, John Laughrey.
The whist club was entertained in a
very pleasant manner last evening at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Coke. Refreshments were served and
all present passed a very pleasant
evening.
Monroe Mirror: David Tice, near
Monroe, celebrated his S0th birthday
anniversary Friday. A great dinner
was given in his honor, at which all
the relatives here were present, also
Hardin Tice, from Oskaloosa.
Will BIakesIee has resigned his po-
sition with the Blakeslee & Heinzman
drug company to complete his phar-
maceutical studies. He went to Des
Moines yesterday to visit with rela-
tives before entering upon his work.
Rev. r. B A.McBride went to Oma-
ha Saturday and preached in that
city Sunday, occupying the pulpit of
the U. P. church. Rev. j. F. jamie
son, of the Ninth Avenue UP church
of Monmouth, occupied the local
pulpit in the absence of the gentleman.
Newton Record: Geo. Ritter has a
good job in Oskaloosa, as telegrapher
in the Office of the board of trade.
Four hours of work each day at sal
airy of sixty dollars per month. We
hope George will hold down the job
until he gets something better at
least.
John Moriarty, who was announced
in these columns to have been taken
from his position in the shops of the
Iowa Central at Monmouth, H., and
placed in the Marshalltown shops as
assistant to the foreman there, has
been called higher and will hereafter
be known as foreman of the shops.
Abba Republican: Fremont Jack
SON came in from Oskaloosa Tuesday.
He had been there for two weeks
since his accident, in which he lost
the thumb off his left hand. He also
had the two front fingers badly in
jured, one of them being in such
serious condition that it may have to
be amputated.
Frank Simmons, who has been at
Galena and vicinity for the past sew
eral months engaged in the mining
business, and who was very severely
hurt in an accident in the mines not
long ago, is here recuperating from
the injuries received. He will be Q.
guest of the A. @. Simmons home
while in the city.
w. T. Ramsay and family, who have
recently removed to this city from
What Cheer, are at home in the @. M.
Downs cottage on South Second
street, first house south of the B. &
w. crossing. The cottage was COM
pleted and finished for the family by
Mr.. Downs, and makes one of the
incest properties on the street.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Gum received
q telegram this morning announcing
the arrival of bright girl baby at
the home of their daughter, Mrs G L.
Hull, in Taintor, February 8, 1900.
Grandpa H. A. Gum is accordingly.
happy, but it is uncertain just what
Grandpa A. G. Hull may do about it,
as he is in Chicago attending an anti
trust meeting.
Monday.