The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-06-06
WEST DIES MONIES.
We long to be an editor,
And with the editors stand,
With Ounce cap on our heads,


and worse the next. We hope soon to
be able to report all of them on the road
to health
Mrs. Jesse Funk who formerly resid-
ed here, has been quite sick at her home
in Oskaloosa this spring, but was at
last reports somewhat improved. Mr..
Funk has also been quite sick the past
few weeks, but is reported better. May
this estinable old couple yet be spared
many years, is our wish.
Wedding bells have been peeling
forth their joyful sounds all around
West Dies MONIES. Mr.. Willis Noe, of
Sand Ridge, and Miss Madonna Tenn
pleton, of Bridgeport, were married at
7 100 o'clock, Wednesday evening, May
IS, 1901, at the homs of the brides par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Templeton
in Bridgeport; Rev. ]. w. Buck, pastor
of the Eddyville Congregational church,
officiating. The bride is one of Bridge
ports most charming and highly esteem
ed young ladies' Our acquaintance with
the groom is slight, but we know him
to be nice appearing young man. We
join with their numerous friends in
showering best wishes upon them. The
happy couple will probably make their
home in Eddyville. Mr.. Edgar S. Rob
erts, also of Bridgeport, and Miss Helen
Seeley, of Pekay, were united in n1arri-
age in Ottumwa on "Wednesday, May
IS, 1901. The groom has grown to man
hood at Bridgeport, and is an upright
and industrious young man. He has
been employed on a farm on Fudge
Creek, south of Eddyville, for some
time, and it was there that he first met
the wife of his choice The bride is
said to be we'll thought of. They will
reside on the Reuben Beamer farm, on
Fudge Creek. We join in congratula-
tons and best wishes.
Mrs. Charles Nevins, of Eveland, re-
Gently received the sad news that her
brother, Wallie E. Johnson, had passed
away in the Philippine Islands some
time last March. "Wallie," as every
one delighted in calling him, had resid-
ed here and in Eddyville all or nearly
all his life, and being an upright, honest
young man, he enjoyed the we'll mer-
tied esteem of the entire community,
After the death of his mother about IS
years ago, he resided a part of the time
at the home of his uncle, J. Wallace
Johnson, in this neighborhood. While
in Eddyville, he followed the occupation
of butcher. When the war with Spain
took place he was seized with desire
to go to the front, and enlistlng with
the Fiftieth Iowan Volunteer Infantry,
he went with his company to Florida,
and while there he was stricken down
with malarial fever On being mustered
out at the close of the war, he enlisted
in the regular army, and for the past
two years he has been in the Phillip
pines, far from home and friends, and
fighting for his country. To Our knowl-
edge the message has not been verified,
and it is hoped may prove to be false
The message fails to state whether nc
came to his death from disease or while
fighting on the field of battle. He was
about twenty-five or thirty years of age
Railroad Rumblings--An outfit or two
of graders were in the nelghborh9od
some little time ago, cutting bitches and
widening out the cuts. They cut thru
the J. L. Myrick farm, which was wet
and in bad condition during the wet
weather, has been much improved. -.
The passenger train which runs thru
the township each weekday afternoon
usually carrying two, and occasionally
three, bright yellow coaches, has always
presented a very nice appearance to th'
eyes of us "hayseeds," as it glide:
smoothly alog; but recently the beauty
of it was marred by the addition OF ar
unsighly box car which is daily carried
directly behind the tender. We were
puzzled for some time to know what thi:
meant, and inquiry developes the FAC
that it is used as a conveyance tor tho
wet goods which are used at Buxton
mind you, they don't use any OF 1t a
Lakonta-or, in common parliance, it /!
the "beer car" 1t will now be in ordel
for those aboard the train who lov'
their drinks to sing "In The Beer Ca
Ahead" as a substitute for the pathetic
song. "In the Baggage Coach Ahead.
49,. The Northwestern ran a tunera
train from Buxton to Muchakinock anC
back since Our last writing to conve.
the remains of young man from Bux
ton to the burial ground at "Muchy.
The young man was about twenty year
of age.
Mrs. Levi L. Martin and little daught
err, Jettie, of WOODBURY., Clarke county
terminated a visit of weeks duration
with Mrs. Martins mother, Mrs. Jane
L. Sipes, and returned home Ihursda..
of last week.
B. B. Beamer had the misfortune SOM
time ago to lose a nice yearling steer il
a peculiar manner. The animal had ap
parently been rubbing against SINAI
tree which grew on the bank of SINAI
stream, when the bank gave way, pre-
ciptating the hind quarters of the afore
! said animal into the ditch. On his fiigh
downward he naturally made grabs TO
something to stay his progress, and sue
ceeded in catching his horns into tn
forks of the small tree aforementioned
the result being that the poor beas coul
not get loose, and soon came to hi
death by hanging. Ye reporter was call
ed to the scene of the disaster, and, ACT
ing in his official capacity of coronel
stood and gazed at, but did not sit upo
the remains. The facts were found t
be substantially as stated above, so n
jury was empannelled.
We notice a party of people riding b
in a fine new carriage OCCASIONAL.
The gentleman we at first took to b
William Mckinley, but closer observe
ton disclosed him to be Milton Pickrel
We now have a complete list of tn
school ma'ams' who are teaching tn
spring terms of school at the four schot
houses in the township: Miss Roxi
Saunders, of Eddyville. at Bluff Greek
Miss Bridget Simons, also of Eddyvill
at Star; Miss Daisy F. White, of Osk;
loosa, at Pleasant Ridge; and Miss Med
Buher, of Sand Ridge, at Blaine
Mrs. Richard jaeger and daughte
Katie, drove over to Pleasant Corner
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