The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-11-19
N NORTH MAHASKA.
Doings Of the Good People Up There
as Told by the Star.

Miss Myrtle Stout is teaching al
Wright and is one of our best girls
Mrs. Francis Hunter, OF ottumwa
is visiting her friend, Mrs. Frank
Ogden.
Born, to Rev. and Mrs. T. j. O'Con.
nor. Sunday evening, November 8,
1908, a twelve-pound boy.
Dogs have killed a lot Of chickens
in the north part of town, and shot.
guns are being loaded.
The GRANDPA Bros. are running a
bus to the depot. That gives us two
bus lines now.
Jasper Vail had severe attack
of appendicitis last week which con-
fined him to his bed
Eva Briggs returned with her
grandma and Miss Elsie Briggs to
their home in Kansas to be gone a
year.
David Stanton and wife have gone
to Sioux City OF spend the winter
with their daughter. Mrs. Schooley.
Capt. A. R. o'Brien began his
meetings at the Presbyterian church
last evening, and IS having great
success.
DR.. and Mrs. Wood and daughter
gave an elegant dinner compliment
airy to Mr.. and Mrs. David Vail
Collier Jordan returned Friday from
Virginia, where he has been spend
ing a month, and he is feeling quite
bit better.
Elmer Masteller and wife came up
from Oskaloosa Saturday and went
over to Montezuma to visit at the R.
Sanders home.
The rural carriers out of New
Sharon carried 10,016 pieces of mail
during October, a gain of some g.
900 pieces for the month.
Corn has been going into the crib
at a rapid rate during the fine
weather that has been our portion,
and it is yielding well, most of it.
Morton Weldy has been chosen
one of six from competitive class
of sixty students at Harvard to take
part in the Harvard-Yale debate.
Prof. J. o. Brown, of oskaIoosa
Christian college, occupied Rev.
O'Connor's place in the pulpit last
forenoon, and preached an.
excellent sermon.
There, is renewed hope for the
erection of hitching racks on the
west side of Main street from the
postofice to Market street, the big
posts having arrived Saturday.
The Mahaska Holiness Association
will hold its quarterly convention at
the M. e. church November Is, Ia
and Is. Mrs. M. j. Tyler, of Sioux
City, will have charge of the meet
ing. q M st,
A dispatch was received here yes
terday conveying the sad intelligence
that Mrs. A. d. Starkey was dead.
She died in a hospital at st. Paul,
following an operation for appendi-
citis.
The new residence of James Nc
Donough in Adams township is two
stories, 36x43, has furnace and 9TH
er mondern improvements, and is
one of the best farm houses in Ma
haska county. ~ Boa e.. u
Tracy Riggs had a hand severely
injured yesterday. He was unload
ing a car on the branch track when
a train ran into it with fearful force,
knocking! him down in manner
which caused painful injury to his
left hand.
The next time a Prairie township
republican undertakes to talk about
Oskaloosa republicans not doing
their duty on election day he should
promptly clap his hand over mis-
mouth and put in all his spare time
kicking himself.
William Lawrence, son of George
and Sarah Miller, was born in Stark
county, Ohio, November 20, 1929,
died at his home near this city No
vember 4, 1908. AZ the age of five
years he went with his parents to
Lyon county, Ohio, and in the fall
of 1856 he moved to Mahaska county,
Iowa, where he remained until his
death.
W. H. Spicer, who for the past
three years has been manager of
the poultry department of the Bata-
via Mercantile Store, received notice
to report for duty at New Sharon.