The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-07-13
NOTE FROM THE nULLS
Ksrmef oskaleesa People Interested
IN the Old Town.

ran over the likt ~ EuhHrfibCta 10 ihN
lnlprurban. published IN the last Her.
aid that came TO hhnd yesterday,
Nearly every name on the iiat was
recognized ~ Via as an acquaintance,
AZ Mast, n not q friend or relative. ~
gave us AL much satisfaction 90 know
that such unanlmlty prevails among
the men uf means and standing IN old
Oskaiuusn. lhe comments made by
us over the llst, aud over the names
of few monled men not on the list
inspired me with a desire 60 congrat.
ulate OBkaloosa over prospect OF
an iuterurpan railway that In destined
TO make the city, as son Will ex.
pressed II, "a net work OF trolley car
roads, Every large town or city
must have trolley connection with
other towns of ,ae country, or fall be.
hind In the race for prominence.
Three cheers for Oskaloosa!
About the tenth Of last December
wrote the Herald short lqtter from
Tacoma, Wash, where we had spent
most Of our time since our arrival,
May LIST, making numerous short trips
to the various points OF interest
around, ruget Sound, Hood Canal,
Bemberton, Government Navy Yard,
South Tacoma, Seattle, etc. During
the wedding trip Of Will and wife OF
two months east to visit relatives on
both sides in Kansas, Iowa, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Colorado and California,
wife and visited with our daughter,
Mrs. j. ID. Mcintyre, In Seattle. Then
we spent two months boarding within
few blocks OF Washington university
where we were made most welcome
by the professors and students OF the
institution, having free access TO the
fine, select library OF the school, and
the weekly lectures In the chapel
During the two moathB we spent there
our son and wife rented furnished
rooms TO see now they would like
Portland as home. About the mid.
die of April they bought a beautiful
new home and furnished II most ele.
gantly at cost Of over $4,000. The
day they bought II they sent for US
TO come and make our home with
them as long as we desired. After
spending nearly six weeks very hap
PLY with them, we we're notified by
our tenant that they would vacate our
home In Oskaloosa. | at once offered
the property for sale, II sold before
June LIST, for $3.50 less than I asked
for II before left Oskaloosa; that Is
$2,250. II was not snapped up Az /
thought II would be, 80 I made up my
mind to 90 back and spend the rest
OF my days where had spent about
forty years Of the prime Of my life;
that, too, in spite Of billiards and
tornadoes. For Iowa, after all that
can be said against II, is the best
state in the union. / shall always be
proud that spent nifty years Of my
life in Iowa. But VIII and Kate, as
soon as they found out what we were
planning, were 80 cruel as TO put q
vetoop the whole scheme. They even
offered TO take our home In OBkalooBa
at what we asked for II, build US q
home here, and they said that we
should never want for anything so
long as we lived. But for us TO put
$500 miles between us and them was
too much for them. 1hey could not
even be present at our last sickness
and funeral. Besides, We could count
on living several years longer In this
mild climate and paradise OF flowers.
Our answer, that few years taken
from our earthly life made little diff
ference TO us, brought their answer,
quclk and sharp: 1T does make u
great difference TO US. You are sell
fish" What could We do? God help
ed us in the quandary by sending us
the man we had been looking for ever
since we came to the coast, DR.. Olive,
VINO has large interests in Southwest
Missouri, and whose father and moth
or still live in Indlanola, Iowa. The
DR.. Ia a good man and goes often from
Missouri TO Iowa TO look after his par.
ents. He knows all about Iowa, lived
there thirty years, knows oskaloosa,
and sent his brother from Corning 10
Oskaloosa TO see our home before the
trade. After q -full confirmation OF
what I had said, by his brother, a
| mechanic, we had no trouble In OK
changing deeds. lie put In the house
we now live In at $500, and mine
there at $3.50. He has gone 10 i'm.
prove and ht up the property, and
build another house on the vacant lot.
He has the money 10 do 1t. ! had not.
lie is man I take pleasure in com
mending 10 all who may form his &C.
qualntance, and II no should hereafter
move back TO Oskaloosa, give him the
cordial reception he deserves, an Is
your won't TO worthy men. His
sprlghtly and amiable wife you will
be glad TO know.
The home we got here in the trade
In a story and half high with six
rooms, besides toilet and bath rooms,
and cellar under whole house, beauti.
fully situated with background but
few yards away OF fr and various
shrubbery for which this coast is 80