The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-13
our COLORED SOCIETY.
Ins and Outs Of the Local Colony
and Their Friends.

Rem Smith celebrated Labor Day in
Abba. q
Rev. A. T. Clark left for Conference
Wednesday morning.
Nelson Walker, the constable at
Buxton. was in the city on business
Tuesday.
Mrs. Lizzie Green was here from
Des Moines this week looking after
her property interests on East Sixth
avenue.
The indications are that between
twenty and thirty of our church peo-
pie will visit the conference at Buxton
Sunday
Tom Fox, of Montezuma, is assist
A. G. Clark in the barber shop while
| the latter is nursing an attack OF
rheumatism.
Mrs.Leslie Williams, of Des Moines,
| is visiting for few days at the home
OF her sister-in-law, Mrs. H. H. Jones,
on North A street.
Miss Naomi Kimbrough and Miss
Ethel Buckner, who have been visit
| ing with friends in Buxton, returned
to their homes Tuesday.
Mrs. Robt. Franklin and her two
daughters, Luella and Jessie, return
ed home Sunday morning after two
weeks pleasant visit with relatives
and friends in Bonneville, Mo.
Miss Bertha Strauther and her sis
ter, and Hester Carter and Lucinda
EBlakey returned to town from their
homes in Buxton Tuesday for the pur-
pose of attending school here this
year.
| Miss Stella Warden, who has been
| in the employ of the A. P. Spencer
home during the summer, leaves to-
| day for ColfaX, where she has accept
| ed employment at the sanitorium Tor
the fall and winter.
| S. NJ Cratic, formerly Of this city,
but now living in Minneapolis, spent
a few hours here with friends last
i Wednesday He was en- route to Bux-
ton to visit the conference. He re-
| turned home Friday.
Miles Prime has our thanks for a
great big sweet and mighty fine canta-
loupe of his own raising. Miles is
specialist in everything he does, and
the products of his farm are always.
among the best in the county.
Miss Anna Banks, who has been
here as nurse girl for the w. c. Shep-
/ pard Jr., children during the summer
Lvacation, returned to her home in Col
lfax Sunday morning for the purpose
of resuming her school work with the
| beginning of the term.
| After an almost continuous service
of more than twenty-five years with
the E. H. Gibbs family, @. G. Lee,
whom everybody knows as Commo-
dore, will no longer be seen in the IA
miliar livery of that family which mas
been one of the attractive features on
our streets for so many years. Find
ing his health to be falling him and
knowing that the cares and RESPONSE
bilities of his work we're such that he
could not continue them, and at the
same time follow the course prescrib-
ed for him by his physician, he was
forced, very reluctantly, to tender his
resignation, which has been accepted
by the family only after 1t was plain
to all that there was no other course
to pursue. 1t is but simple justice 70
say that the severing of this relation
ship that has existed for SO many
. years and has been so mutually en-
joyed and beneficial was not without
!, a touch of genuine sorrow and regret
by all parties concerned. 1t is not
often that one in Commodore's posi-
ton in life has been so thoroughly re-
spected and trusted by employer, ana
at the same time no one has ever
proved himself more worthy OF that
respect and trust. 1t has been one or
those cases that are very rare in the
present day state of affairs, where
there was absolute fidelity, trust anu
mutual interest between an employer
! rich, independent, masterful, and an
employe who had nothing but the
teaching of a Christian mother, an
honest heart and a noble purpose to
do the best he could. That such a
relationship should be success is
not surprise. 1t tells the whole
story of C. G. Lees service Of twenty
FIVE years in the E. H. Gibbs family,
and any attempt of ours to review it
further would be fruitless. Mr.. Lee
has not as yet decided just what he
will do, but expects to remain with
! his family in the city during the IA.
! and winter, but is shaping his affairs
t with the ultimate purpose of remov-
ing from the city permanently.
. The w. r. C.