The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-08
OUR COLORED SOCIETY
ms and, Outs Of the Local Colony
and Its Friends.

announcer uance ABOUT the 10Th.
Tom Nolen, Of Coalfeld, had very
important business in the city Sun
day.
There are rumors of two weddings
to occur during this month Of promi-
nent society people.
Miss Storm Shelley spent Tuesday
in the city en- route from Des Moines
to her home in Muchakinock.
Miss Jennie Hardy is out again af-
ter being confined to the house for
several days on account of sickness.
Will Glump and Grant Buclner took
in the excursion to st. Paul and Min
neapolis last Saturday night and re-
port a very pleasant trip.
Rev. o. a.. johnson, Of Des Moines,
who has been transacting business
and visiting friends in the city this
week, returned home Friday after
noon.
Attorney Woodson was business
visitor to Chicago last week, return
ing in time to be present at the open
ing of the October term Of court on
Wednesday.
Tom Parker is inconsolable. He
can't understand it and swears there
is something wrong with the mails.
It's the females, Tom, that have gone
wrong, and we'll bet three to one on
it, and not the mail at all.
Frank Bush returned home Monday
after several months absence in
Northern Iowa and South Dakota,
where he has been working. He is
looking hale and hearty and says he
never felt better in his life. Outdoor
work seems to agree with him.
Homer Jones is back from Chicago
where he has been making bis home
with his aunt for some time past.
Homer thinks he is quite man now
and talks very big. He is quite an
expert piano player as well, being
able to reproduce from memory al
most any piece he hears, no matter
how difficult it may be.
Miss Georgia Blackburn, who has
been spending her vacation at her
home in this city, LETT Thursday even
ing via the c., B. & O. for st. Louis,
where she will spend few days with
relatives and proceed from there to
Southland, Ark, where she will again
take up her duties for the year as one
of the instructors in the college at
that place.
A young man in this city bet anoth.
err SO to 81 on the location of store
in distant city in which both had
lived at one time. He then spent SO
cents for kilograms in order to decide
it and finally won IA cents. They
both spent days time in argument
and discussion and then went back
to work wiser if not richer for their
investments
Resolved, That the Trustee Board
of the A. M. e. church of Oskaloosa
be authorized and empowered to bor-
I row the sum of 100000 for a period
of three or five years, at z per cent
interest, and to execute mortgage
upon the church property to secure
the same, the said sum to be used for
the purpose of improving the building
used as a parsonage and putting the
same in habitable condition"
Presiding Elder ]. Will Jackson
held quarterly meeting at Wesley
Chapel Sunday and on Tuesday even
ing delivered his lecture on his OBJ
servations in the Southland to a large
and appreciative audience. The ell
der is a pleasing, forceful talker with
fine descriptive faculty which
makes his lecture very interesting
and enjoyable. After the lecture the
ladies of the church served refresh
ments.
The members of the A. M. Echurch
met in a church meeting Monday
evening to discuss ways and means
for improving the parsonage on the
church property at the corner of A
avenue and B street. Rev. Geo. w.
Slater presided and Miss Lizzie Black
DuTn dCI6O dS NIL 1NOd1
Kimbrough, of the trustee board, pre-
scented the matter to the meeting and
stated the views of the board and the
conclusions it had reached in the
matter. He then offered the follow
ing resolution:
Rev. Geo. w. Slater, the newly APP
pointed pastor of the A. M. E. church
in this city, held his first services in
the church Sunday, preaching morn
ing and evening. He IS a clear, forci-
BILE and impressive speaker and made
very favorable impression upon his
hearers and his sermon Sunday even
ing seemed to touch a responsive
chord in the hearts Of all as he ex-
tended in clear and beautiful Ian
guage the theme, God our Father, man
our brother, Christ our Redeemer.
Elder Slater comes to us thoroughly
equipped with Divine grace and schol-
arly learning for the work before him
and we bespeak for him a pleasant