The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-01-01
CORRESPONDENCE
LEIeHToN.
Happy New Year to ALI

Happy New Year to ALL
Harry Moody returned on Tuesday
from q weeks visit in and about Cedar
Rapids.
Harry Voyce is here from MARQUIS
vile to visit a few days with parents
and friends.
J.H. Boston and wife, of O~skaloosa,
visited here last Sunday with j. II.
Beagle and family.
John D. Wray wentto Adams county
last Friday to visit a few days with
his mother and brothers.
Dan Wray is spending his vacation
from Pelia college here. He will re.
turn Wednesday afternoon.
The Christmas entertainments Civ
en- at the churches here we're well at
tended and very successful.
Arthur voyce is not gaining health
quite as rapidly as his parents would
like, but they say he is improving.
Weigsrd La~ugaryke, who is with
Berggraaf q DeCook, is spending the
holidays with parents and friends in
Pella.
Barney Singleton, the section fore
man here, and his wife are spending
the holidays at Pennington their for.
mer home.
Henry Verploeg, of Brooklyn, ar
rived here last Monday and will Welt
with parents and friends for two or
three weeks.
The ground Is frozen sufficiently to
bear up a team and wagon. 1t gives
those who are not done husking corn
a chance to finish
Clifford Voorhees,, of Des Moines,
came down Christmas V and visited
with his parents until Christmas af-
ternoon when he returned home.
Fred Denberger has bought the six
vacant lots on the south aide of block
2 OF Leighton, paying 5000. He is
building a machine shed on them.
Mrs. o. T. Clark is spending the
holidays at the parental q. Verploeg
home. Mr.. and Mrs. Verploeg ex
pect to have a family reunion on New
Years day.
Fred Butler has sold his fine home
one mile east of here to William Tys-
selling for 500 an acre. IL consists OF
1870 acres, and possession Is TO be Civ.
en- March l, 1903.
Frank Wray, who is taking acourse
in pharmacy at the Northwestern
uui versity in Chicago, is spending a
two weeks vacation here with his par
ents, j, d. Wray and wife.
MRS Fred Oswandel has been quite
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treated by DR.. Pardun, of OakaloosR.
Her mother, Mrs. Henry Tandy, is
also taking treatment of the same
doctor.
Married, at the parsonage, by Rev
Ell. Tysse, on Christmas day at three
O'Clock, Harry Steinkamp, OF Black
Oak township, and Martha McCombs,
OF Scott township. May their lives
be a continual Christmas.
Frank Price and wife and their five
children, OF Wayland, Mo-, dropped
off here from the 10 o'clock train on
| Christmas night and attacked the pa.
rental w d. Voorhees, home. They
will visit here with relatives until
next Friday.
Seth Miller, wife and children, Edna
and James, of Norwalk, Polk county,
arrived here last Wednesday and Wis
ited with the Millers and Beagles un-
til Monday when he returned home
His wife and children will remain q
week or two longer.
We learn that the moral complexion
OF Oskaloosa has been somewhat i'm
proved by SIR. and Mrs. Samuel Mel
son having taken up their residence
there. Oskaloosa has received sew
eral benefits of this kind from former
citizens of Leighton and vicinity and
more will follow.
Miss Hazel Phillips, who is now a
primary teacher In the LaMars school
but who is spending a two weeks va
cation at Oskaloosa, came here last
Saturday and visited with Mrs, W.D
Voorhees, and called on a few of her
friends, returning to Oskaloosa on
the evening train.
December 81. Nor III. GIEL.