The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-12-07

Kemp lee,nfc Menaey nlsht
l,rneat Moote departed MchdAy Tor
Eaft Dodge, ttwa. tD weh fuf zoe
Western uniom Telenreph Co
school optnea No a. nose iilli Mon
day morning after BuinR closed two
weeks on account ~ dirhtherla
Mrs Tim barnes aud Mlas Marea.
ret smith, " Oekal0aaa, visited AZ
Rose nnl recently with Mrs. Jennie
y James,
Charles naae shipped Ga head OF
choice il00pound steers Of hts own
feeding 10 Chicago over the O., r. III
a p. Sunday.
Cole Van Gordon, the veteran -four
man from Emmettsburg, Iowa, spent
Sunday with his fstherin.law, Henry
w. Lunt, near Rose Hill.
DIR. Charles Wright and wife came
IN on the Flyer Monday morning and
are guests OF his brother, Dr. w. NJ.
Wright, and wife for a few days.
Fred G. Adalr and family spent
Thanksgiving ut the homo OF Lew
Colston and helped to eat duck ana
the many other good things prepared
for the occasion.
Miss Nellie Hollingsworth took sup.
per Monday evening with Josephine
Hawkins. While there she informed
mo OF eating turkey On Thanksgiving
with her best fellow.
Tom Beatty was down town Mon
day morning after being quarantined
for about ten days. His little daugh'
ter Mildred had a hard tussle but Is
now in a fair way TO pull through.
Miss Jennie Anderson spent a few
days in Oskaloosa with her brother
John, OF the Hub clthing store. She
returned Monday evening and was a
guest OF her brother Will owe night,
Miss Bertha White, impersonator
and entertainer, will appear in cos
tune recital at the M. b. church In
Rose Hill under the auspices OF the
Martha Society, Dec. ~, 1905, at 3
p, m.
Samuel Mann's dttle boy, Cecil who
died Friday morning, was taken 70
oskaIoosa Monday and from there on
the Iowa Central TO Taintor, thence
by private conveyance TO Peoria,
where he was buried.
Otto Van Meter, OF Iowa City, was
in Rose Hill over night, calling on his
many friends. His father managed
the hotel here, now Hotel Henderson,
In an early day. Otto Is o running
q hotel at Iowa City.
b. A. Holllugsworth and family, OF
Hayesville, attended the Unfair OF Mr..
and Mrs Lacey Moore on Wednesday,
Dec. /, and Saturday nignt were the
guests Of the w. s. Hawkins home,
returning home Sunday afternoon.
Frank r. shaffer on Monday had his
annual offering in his mail box for
the rural carrier, W. s. Hawkins, fill
ing his mail box with the choicest
piece Of steak he could select, with
note attached for carrier. Many thanks
from w. s.. Hawkins.
w. II. PhiDps, Of Hastings, Okla,
who lived for several years near Rose
Aa., writes a letter 10 Elijah Busby,
which was handed me by request OF
hr. Phipps, telling OF his very un'
pleasant experience on NOV. 3d. The
Fufgeson brothers and families had
returned from Iowa where they had
been visiting. Mr.. Phipps met them
ut Hastings and took them 10 his
home. Dinner was prepared and with
their friends they had just sat down.
II was threatening rain, when all oil
a sudden the clouds met a little north
west OF his house and the wind came
In the shape Of a cyclone, accompan'
led with a dcluge Of water, and struck
his house brondside, turning IL com
pletely over and landing It twenty
three steps from the foundation,
There we're fourteen men, women and
y children in the house and none o.
capped without cuts or bruises. 1ne
UDubt Whb ~ bONhi WYNN AAANN
chairs were all tnat remained OF the
furniture but what was DrokenA into
~6rstc1asg klndling WOOD. The names
OF the wounded In iris sad experiences
are as follows: E. -. Furgeson, scald'
Cd on leg; Nettie Furgeson, badly
bruised about head, face and snoul
der, and burned on hip and leg; Cope
Furges0n, bruised on forehead; Mar
tina Furgeson, slight cuts on wrists;
John Furgeson, bruised on back; Fan
ME Furgeson, bruised on face and
head; Eva and Lucy Furgeson, cuts
about head and face; w. n. PhIpps,
cut on face, head and hands; Matte
pnipps and May slightly bruised JOY
Phipps, cut on chin; Opal and Lucy
Phipps, hurt In stomach and Lucy
had a fractured skull. Up 10 Nov. rs,
when this information left Hastings
all were getting along nicely and the
attending physician pronounced them
all out Of danger. We have IN idea
that w. II. don't care TO have a like
experience repeated, oil excitement