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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-28

Fridays Newton News; Miss
Jessie Winslow Thursday afternoon
entertained about thirty ladies at
whist, the company being in honor
Of Mrs. Judge b. w. Preston, OF
Oskaloosa The ladies arrived at
three and remained until after the
delightful refreshments, three
course dinner served at six O'Clock.
Mrs. Jay CLARK Friday afternoon
entertained about forty ladies at a
one O'Clock luncheon, in honor of
Mrs. Mrs. H. M. Vaughan of Anamosa
and Mrs. Preston.
(From Tuesdays Daily.)
Mrs. Nellie Oxander went to Mar
shalltown Monday on business trip.
Mrs. B. F. Remington went to New
Sharon on business trip Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. H. l.. Raines went to Knox
vile yesterday to visit for few DAYS
with relatives.
Mrs. Matthew Hurdle, of Grinnell,
went home Monday afternoon after
a three days visit with Mrs. A. H.
Newton.
Miss Belle Sims, of Bussey, who
has been visiting at John Canty's
for week returned home Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. T. E. Gray, of Grinnen, was
iu the city Monday enroute home
from Ottumwa where she had been
visiting her SOM
Mrs. Myrtle Myers, who has been
the guest of her friend, Mrs. o.
shinofield, since Thursday returned
to her home Monday. ~"
Mrs. Fife McDole, of EddyviIle, |
was in the city yesterday enroute
home from Marshalltown where she
had been visiting friends.
Miss Lizzie Sonnenburg, of White
City, visited her sister, Miss Minnie
Sonnenburg, for few days, return
ing to her home yesterday,
Mrs. L. L. Mcclure, of New Sharon,
was in the city Monday on her way
home from Bussey and Durham where
she had been to visit relatives. II
Mrs. w. A. Crambiit, of s,whoI
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
j. E. Bell, for a couple Of weeks re-
turned home Monday afternoons. /
Mrs. ]. Rodgers and little grand
son, Harry Q. Howar, went to Grin-i
nell Monday for two weeks Yisitl
with her daughter, Mrs. Henryl
Faulkner.
An Evans correspondent, says, Mr..
Gear is somewhat crippled up by an
accident that occurred last Wednes-
lay. He was driving to Oskaln0saI
when his horse became frightened
md ran off throwing him out of the
,uggy which turned over on him,
!. The, following. item from the EddL.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-28
Hub moves Monday
DROWNED IN RIVER.
chiIIicotfe Lad Meets Death in the
zDes Moines.

Ottumwa. Ia, July, 26.--Roy Napier,
aged seven years, tho son of John Ma
pier, Of Chillicothe, was drowned In
the Des Moines river at that place.
The lad was playing with q number OF
other boys in a boat tied to the bank.
when he accidentally tumbled into
the water. He could swim little,
but as the current is very strong
there ne was soon carried down and
before help could arrive was drowned.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-28

IA asEImg,c, -. nth his father,
Mr.. Moses Davis.
Miss Mary Golden went to Taintor
Saturday for visit with her friend,
Mrs. Harry Smith.
N. w. Cadwallader and son, Master
Ray. departed for st. Louis this
morning to attend the fair.
Rev.B. w. Pettitt, of Avery was in
town Saturday enroute to Union
Mills to fill his appointment.
Miss Pawn Moran, of Marshalltown
was in the city this morning enroute
to Ottumwa for visit with friends.
Miss Grace Sumpter, of .Ottumwa,
who has been visiting in the city a
few DAYS returned home this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Holmes, who
have been visiting at the G. A. Riggen
home, returned home this morning.
Miss Jessie Beesack, formerly court
reporter for Judge Clements, is visit
ing friends in the city for few days.
81
NJ. H. Hunter, of Buffalo, N. Y,
passed through the city Saturday on
his way to Rose Hill to visit relatives.
Miss Belle Kepeke, of Grinnel,
who was visiting at the A. e. Stocker
home, returned to her home Satur-
day.
Lynnville Star: Miss Nellie Flem-
ing returned to Oskaloosa Saturday.
she is again afflicted with rheuma-
tism.
Mrs. R. A. Marshall, of Ollie, re-
turned to her home this morning aft
err few days visit at the D. P. Flint
home.
Jerry Jenkins and Arch Williams,
of Scranton, Pa, arrived this morn
ing for visit at the j. w. Jones
home.
Mrs. Jno. Lamond and Mrs. Bertha
Lamond, of Browntown, are visiting
for few days at the Mrs. Sarah Holt
home.
Frank NJ. Eppersoh, of Eddyville
was in the city to-day calling among
friends and looking after business
matters.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. G. Lane, of Min
neapolis, stopped in the city Satur
day on their way to Rose Hill to visit
friends.
Miss Jennie Ellis, of New Sharon
visited with her friend, Miss Belle
Roberts, few days, returning home
Saturday.
Mrs. H. Gordon and daughter
blanche, returned home this morn
ing after few days visit at the J.W
Lewis home.
Miss Minnie Templf ton and Mrs
NV. Seibert went b Beacon thi
:.=e: .::.s, e s;.e.a ~. z. day with Mia
Katie Seibert.
Mrs. W. 4. scOld accompanied
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-28
REAL EsTATs DEALS.
Transfers OF Mahaska County Lets
and Lands Filed for Record.
P G Sexton and wife to Luella

P G Sexton and wife to Luella
Shroyer, 8 q lot Z, Barnes
City. -,.-.,.-- IS. ---,--,.....,..--. 5000 %
Luella Shroyer to P G Sexton,
lot IL, block 2, Taintor 400 es
Charles II Shroyer and
Luella Shroyer to Mary E
Sexton, lots 4, and 8, YGa
block 5, and land on side
block B., Taintor 1 800 90
Marshall Dougherty and wife
to Daniel Clark, land in
25-74-16. ,...ste
Luella v Simmons to Thomas ~
Smith, lot II, Burnside's
add. ~. ...........,@...,,... 100 %
Kari G.. Moffet to Sarah j
!. Moffet, land in 20125-15-.---. S3S %
Elmer E. Ellsworth to John
L. Brown, land in ,7Sr76-14 2,525 90
Daniel Chord and, wife to j.
A. HI. Dryden, land in %
1915. .,.... -. ~. VS. a...... 1000 90
Charles and Maude Askisson
\ to Jonah and Eldora Askis-i
son, land in 24-77-16-.-......-, 211 80
Joanna B and Jesse Thomas
to B. f. Thomas, So 10 and
ne4 lot 10, Kemper's ad 4 200 %
------------------S-s.
Hub moves Monday. M
----s-.-s----..--------.zyo
How handy It wouideiDes us tne car
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-28
List af Letters.

H.. = - ~ AsAsL- @ Letters.
Remaining uncalled Aker-5srh8 post
Office at Oskaloosa, Iowa,l for she
week ending July 90, 1904 ,,qfsH@
Gents List. Il ,sF
Allen, B A Lowell Stock Farm
Allen, James LOTUS, j 49,
Anderson, ] d Mcclure, p 3
Beam, Joseph Patton, Sam
Balinger, @ F REM, Charlie
Ellis, R w Rnsen, L
Gilbert Ed Spears, Andrew
Gilbert, Wesley Spurgeon, Nelson
GIBBS, d H Snyder, FL
Howell, L "A Swanks, w H
LivingstoneS Todd, Milton
Woodland, Mr.
.. Ladies' List.
Allen, Eatha Evans, Will Mrs
Arnold, Lizzie Jones, T S Mrs
Anderson, iona Murray, Lonia
Burgin, Esse Stanley, Velma
Caldwell, Vida Todd, Lizzie
Dowd, Martha Wing, Pearl
White, I Mrs
Parties calling for letters from this
list will please call attention to ad-
vertised list of this date. The above
letters will be held two weeks from
date and then sent to the dead letter
office.
CHAs. V. HOFFMAN,, p. NJ.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-28
PERSONALS.
lAAIAAlAMIAASAAlAAlAAlAAIAlAa
lFrom Mondays Daily.)

Miss Anna Angerson went to Gibson
this morning.
Mrs. Mara Boyd, of New Sharon
spent Saturday in town.
Mrs. Nj punwoodys ofNew Sharon,
= visiting Mrs. Harry Bhdd.
Mr. andiAlrs 7. 3. Clegg, of Mar
rhaIItown spent Saturday in the city.
Miss Edits Hoffman left for Des
Moines this morning on business
trip.
Mrs. W. ,. Brown went to Buxton
and Hamilton this morning on a
business "trip.
Hurry Kelley, OF Burlington, left
for his home Saturday after few
days In the city
w. 3. Davis, of Ottupy-~ --,-S an
...wn,. Cc.SSA-l. - telegram AdlA
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-28

Hub moves to Beecnler room.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-28

Need clotheag Hub. Beechlsr room.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-28
Hub moves Monday.

How How handy It wouidisibes MS ine car
line only ran to the Fair Grounds.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-05-09
THE FINANCES or RUSSIA.
In Recent Years the Supply of Loana-
bic Money Has Become
Scarce and Dear.

Russia's position is like that OF
nobleman who has large but utterly
neglected estate and house that is fall
ing about his ears, who Is deeply in debt,
who pays one lender by borrowing from
another, who sees his debts steadily
mounting up toward the point at which
ruin becomes unavoidable and who des-
perately makes the most fantastic at
tempts at making money, hoping to dis
entangle himself, says o. Eltzbacher, in
the Nineteenth Century. One of Rus
Bia's strange expedients for getting
money was lately revealed. According
to It's extremely well-informed Picking
correspondent, Russia claimed, after
the Boxer rising from China, an in
demnity of a17,9O0,O00. on the ground
that she kept 179,000 soldiers In China
at an expense of e100 each. According
to the Picking correspondent of the
Times she kept in reality only $4,000 in
China.
OF late years the supply of loanable
money has for vArious reasons become
scarce and dear In the various money
Centers of the world, and it would have
been extremely difficult for Russia to
provide for her ordinary peace expendi-
ture. as she would not easily have been
able to obtain these loans without which
she can apparently not make both ends
meet Therefore 1t Is not easy to see
how Russia will be able to raise the
funds necessary for carrying on the Jap
anese war, which will probably prove
exceedingly costly, and how she will
- - -
should abandon her overambitious poll
icy, which is beyond her financial
strength, and disband her army and
navy. However, such an event seems
hardly likely.
Many OF the best observers have for a
long time past been of opinion that Rus
sia is financially unable to conduct a.
great war. However, lack of money has
never prevented nation from going to
war, for 1t may make up for its war ex-
penses by repudiating its public debt.
Whether Russia will meet her obliga-
lions in full remains to be seen If she
should be forced to repudiate, or to COM
pound with her foreign creditors, either
because of the costliness OF the present
war or because the international money
market can no longer supply Russia's
Unsuitable financial requirements. II will
be an evil day for the French nation.
which has lent to Russia more than
s300,000,00o.
Russia's financial collapse would prob
ably mean the breakup Of the dual al
lance, for in the first place the thrifty
Frenchman is exceedingly sensitive
when his pocket is touched and in the
second place Russia would have proved
herself financially unable to be an EN-
cient ally to France in case of war. Am
pie funds are, after all, sinews of war
which are as indispensable as are armies
and fleets.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-05-09

His tall, erect form made good tar
get, and he fell pierced with dozen
balls. The foremost companies were
almost wiped out but the regimental
line remained intact, intrenched and
held It's ground. The proportion OF
killed and wounded in this regiment
proved the danger 1t had faced. Out of
800 shot down 129 were killed outright
and 191 wounded.
The Fifth New Hampshire veteran
volunteers went into the grand charge
at Cold Harbor with lighting reputa-
ton to maintain. After Gettysburg,
where les original leader, Colonel II.
e. Cross, was killed, only ninety-seyen
men remained with the colors. 1t re-
ported back to the army on the field Of
Cold Harbor on June ] with veterans
and fresh recruits to the number OF
CIT and dashed forward in the Second
corps column at daybreak that fatal
morning OF June 8.
At the frst rush the New Hamp-
shire men bounded over the parapet
Of Confederate battery without firing
single shot, but depending upon the
bayonet, and charged for the enemys
second line. Having no supports, the
daring fellows were finally compelled
to fall back to the battery, which they
did, disputing every foot Of the way
in hand to hand struggle The artil-
lerists OF the battery threw themselves
upon the retreating foes, but the gal
liant fellows rallied to one another's
aid and beat off their assailants one by
one
A captain was the last to leave the
battery when the Fifth was finally
overcome and driven out His parting
blow was a sword cut, which split
Confederate from the shoulder down
ward, leaving him dead and nearly de-
capitated by the side Of his gun. Ter
rible work that but the Fifth was used
to It, At the Bloody Lane" Antietam,
Colonel Cross strealSed his face with
blood and powder and sounded the In
dian war whoop in order to inclte his
men to stand their ground.
At Cold Harbor the names of sixty
nine heroes were added to the death
roll Of this elite regiment, and at the
end of the war the Fifth New Hamp-
shire was accredited with 295 killed in
battle, the highest in any northern
Command GEORGE L. KILMER.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-05-09
AS TO NERVOUS COLLAPSE.
Not Enough Good Physical Exertion
on the Part Of Modern Young
Women.

Commenting on the nervous break
downs so common among well-to-do
women. DR.. j. III. Mcbride, in the Alien
ist and Neurologist, points out why they
occur most frequently among the classes
that apparently have the least to worry
about, and increase apparently as we get
away from the plain living of our an
cestors. He says:
"The girls of the present day who are
brought up under more comfortable con-
ditions than their grandmothers, have
gained much, no doubt, in the change of
conditions; but they have lost some
thing, in that in many homes there is
less of healthy exercise, less of that kind
Of work that developed the body and
also developed simple and healthy tastes.
There Is. as result of this, poorer phys
zeal development, less feeling of respon-
sibility in the home on the part of the
young ladies, and not so great sense
of duty When every member of the
family had everyday work, specific du-
ties, work to do that had to be done,
work that exercised the body as we'll as
the moral sense In discharging duty,
such life, dreary and harsh as it some
times was. and often barren of most OF
those things that we regard as common
comforts, had at least the great advan-
tage of providing work that furnished
physical exercise, and that was also
done under the sense of obligation.
There is a moral and physical healthful-
hess In such a, life that goes to the maxi
ing of strong and simple characters
and that puts purity of blood and vigor
OF constitution into descendants. +.
The number of young women who soon
after marriage break down from the
unexpected strain of new duties is very
large. The mother of young woman
| who had become nervous invalid with
/ in two years after marriage said to me
that there was no apparent cause for
her daughters illness, as she had been
shielded from everything from child
hood. -. Why, indeed, should any
anyone be shielded? Was 1t ever the
case anywhere that a person who had
been shielded grew to be forceful char
! acter or proved a success in presence of
the swift and onerous demands of life ?
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-05-09
WHAT SHE WAS THINKING.
And There Was Nothing Of Disap-
pointment in Her Thoughts
for Mr.. Snodgrass.

inlay I cherish hope Ella, dear
that you will become my wife, the
partner of my joys and sorrows, my
constant companion through this vale
Of tears?"
Miss SpudkiRs did not answer, Her
fair head was slightly bent The color
came and went on her dainty cheeks
Her hands were clasped and lay upon
her lap, relates London Tit-Bits.
Mr. Snodgrass seized one Of them
passionately and kissed 1t. Then he
spoke again: This avowal of love can
not come to you as a surprise, Ella.
My devotion to you knows no bounds.
1t has a fathomless depth and an inn
measurable height. Do you not return
1t in some measure?"
Still Miss SpudlSins spoke not. Her
eyes seemed to be studying the pattern
of the carpet.
"Will you not speak the word which
shall betroth our souls for all time and
for all eternity? feel, my precious
one, as though we were predestined
for each other, and that our love will
last while ceaseless ages roll. Tell me
you love me. darling"
She did not tell him, and Mr.. Snod-
grass resumed:
I'VE have know each other since we
were children. ELLA, dear. This is no
sudden fancy Of mine. LOVED you
when you were learning to talk, and
my love deepened and strengthened as
you gradually acquired that accom-
plishment Now my affection is ono
that has gathered strength through
the years until it will not be denied.
It will not take mo- for an answer.
Ella, love- why don't you reply? Speak
the word which will make me the
happiest OF mortals."
Yet there was no answer from the
fair young girl at whose feet was thus
laid the heart of brave young man;
and Mr.. Snodgrass once more adj
dressed her:
81 know that silence gives consent
but I'd rather hear from your lips the
little yes to my plea. Why do you not
answer me?"
81 was thinking. Thomas Ella re-
piled at Last, and there was ineffable
tenderness in her tones; "of course
love you think you were reasonably
sure of that. dear. but / was thinking
into her eyes.
Thinking. of what, dear?"
II was thinking whether should
better have my visiting cards engraved
Mrs. e. Spudkins-Snodgrass or Mrs
Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass Which
IS the more stylish. dear?"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-05-09
INDIANS OF ALL coLoRs.
Negroes Psedominate in Muskogee,
Whites Come Next and Reds
Are Almost Rarities.

The first impression one gets Of
Muskogee, the largest and most impor-
tant town in Indian territory, is that
M southern city with a large negro
population. The negro predominates,
the whites come in next and the red
mSn are often pointed out as excep-
tons, one might almost say rarities
And yet, says the Kansas City Journal.
legally and technically In Muskogee a
large proportion of these negroes and
white men are Indians and are called
such; and this is true throughout the
Creek and Muskogee nation. The
title Indian includes Indians by blood,
Indians by intermarriage and freed
men.
The freedmen are the slaves who
were liberated during the civil war.
or their descendants They were adj
mitted to full citizenship in the Creek
nation and are entitled to share in the
distribution Of the lands and moneys
of the tribe. They can vote for the
tribal officers and are eligible to the
tribal offices. The Creek council, con-
sisting of the house of kings and the
house of warriors, Is in part made up
Of negroes.
Freedmen, however, have not been
admitted to citizenship in the two
southern tribes, the Choctaws and the
Chickasaws, but the United States gov
eminent proposes to give them 40
acres of land apiece. but it must reim-
burse these two nations for the lands
thus presented by generous govern
ment to those who were formerly in
bondage to the governments wards
the Indians.
Intermarriage between the full-blood
Indians and the freedmen has been
frequent and extended among the
Creeks; somewhat less so among the
Seminoles, and practically unknown
among the Choctaws and Chickasaws.
The existence OF these negroes in such
numbers as in the Creek nation and
under the circumstances creates a me-
gro problem of great Importance and
greater difficulty
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-05-09

from that army that have come to light
speak uniformly of assaults repulsed"
from one end Of Lees line of battle to
the other. General Law of kershaw's
division, which held the center Of Lees
line, says that on the morning of
Grants attack his troops were under
arms awaiting the assailants. The
men were lin fine spirits, laughing and
talking as they fired"
Recalling the carnage in the ranks of
the enemy General Law says: Il had
seen the dreadful carnage In front of
Marye's hill at Fredericksburg and on
the old railroad cut which Stonewall
Jackson's men held at the second Ma
nassas Bull Run, 1902, but had seen
nothing to exceed this. 1t was not
war; 1t was murder When the fight
ended more than q thousand men lay
in front of our works (Ixershaw's di-
vision alone). either killed or too badly
wounded to leave the field"
Ordinarily soldiers on the defensive
would not receive an assault so coolly,
but would be expecting a flank attack
or other stealthy maneuver under COW
er of the bold advance. But from their
experiences at the Wilderness and
Spottsylvunia the Confederates could
well believe that their foe would come
blindly on In droves, like sheep, to be
shot down at will. Grants personal
memoirs contain startling confession
with respect to this grand charge at
Cold Harbor. Writing twenty years
after the event the general declared, 81
have always regretted that the last as
sault at Cold Harbor was ever made"
The history of Hancocks Second
corps says that scarcely twenty min
utes from the time the signal was CIV
en- the repulse of the corps was COM
plete. Three thousand men had fallen.
Among the officers the loss had been
portent0us" In Gibbons division of
this corps 65 officers and 1882 men
were killed or wounded.
If personal gallantry on the part OF
the boys in blue could have won the
grand charge at Cold Harbor, there
would be different story to tell. Each
OF the three divisions of the Sixth
corps carried the advanced rifle pits of
Lees line and then assaulted the main
intrenchments. Then it transpired that
the entire line was raked lengthwise
by Lees batteries. One of the Sixth
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-05-09

IVA third time within Il month of
kGTA battles between the Rapidau
and the James ordered an at
tack oil along the lines. The hour set
for the grand charge was A. in the
morning June 3. The assa,.soag col
umn consisted of IIancock's Second
corps, with its three divisions under
the veteran leaders General Frank
Barlow. General d. b. Birney ana
General John Gibbon, the Sixth corps
under General II. g. Wright and the
Eighteenth corps under General w. f..
Smith (Old Bnldy). Smiths three divi-
sions under General Devens. General
Brooks and General Martindale and
Wright's under General Neill, General
Ricketts, and General Getty occupied
the ground they had captured in a bat
tie and intrenched the afternoon Of
June /.
Nearly all OF the Federal troops en-
gagged We're veterans of many battles.
Here and there new regiment had a
place inkthe line. usually at the head
Of column. 1t is not possible to make a
slaughter picturesque by the most elo-
quent description. All that can be said
of the fighting at Cold Harbor on June
is that on the Federal side it was
wild havoc of carnage. Veteran off,
GERS set the example Of gallant expo
sure, as though the hopelessness Of tho
situation could be relieved by glorious
bravery. Ten regimental leaders were
killed outright. ~
The Confedcrates took thq battle very
coolly All the diaries and reports