The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-20
THE COUNTY NEWS
ROSE HILL.


on business.
NJ. F. Van Corp, of New Sharon,
was at Rose Hill recently, the guest
Of c. B. Howell.
Mrs Alderman, of Sigourney, visited
the past week with her sister, Mrs.
Lyde Souter, of Rose Hill.
James Beatty, of Delta, drove over
to Rose Hill the past week and spent
! a. day with his son, Tom Beatty.
H. L. Norman has moved into the
house of Miss Dora Augustine and will
occupy a part of the house with her.
Albert souter, of Minneapolis, spent
a few days at Rose Hill, and returned
home on the early train Monday
morning.
John L. Hollingsworth has returned
from Amaret, Mo-, and is visiting his
son, B. A. Hollingsworth, near Hayes
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James Lester, of Indianapolis. re
turned Monday from Knoxville where
he had been visiting his brother for a
few days.
Frank Nash and little daughter, of
oskaloosa, were at Rose Hill Tuesday,
guests of his brother-in-law DR.. W.
N. Wright.
Erie Hawley arrived at Rose Hill
Tuesday from Chicago. He is in the
employ of the Rock Island railroad as
an engineer.
Gordon Beaman and family, of Del
ia, drove over to Rose Hill Saturday
and visited at the parental c. L.
Wharton home.
Alva Goddard came in from Chicago
Tuesday, where he had been with a
car load of butcher stuff, and reports
the market good.
John F. Gable will move to the
house of Mrs. Furgeson and w. A..
Waddell will move to his own proper.
ty vacated by John F. Gable.
The steam shovel of the c., r. l. &
P. came in to Rose Hill Friday and
went to work in the deep cut west Of
town where they worked once before.
The Rose Hill schools are moving
along nicely with Prof. Alfred Peter
son as principal, Miss Minnie Jones
intermediate ana Miss Wayne Slocum
primary teacher.
Willis Utterback and wife, of Del
ia, stopped at Rose Hill Monday and
drove through to Oskaloosa and re
turned in the evening, making call
on their way home.
Robt. Doak drove down to Hayes
vile Sunday and visited with his
daughter, Mrs. B. A. Hollingsworth,
and family, returning home in the
cool of the evening.
We have been thinking it was about
time for the president of the Herald
Correspondents Association to make
arrangement for the annual picnic.
Let us hear from you.
William Musgrove and wife arrived
at Rose Hill Tuesday from Moran,
Kansas, where they had been visiting
for the past two weeks. Will thinks
Iowa is good enough for him.
c. L. Norman, of Centerville, was
at Rose Hill Saturday looking over his
large farm bought recently of H. W.
Lunt. The farm contains 42S acres
and has large acreage of corn.
Alvin LaRue and wife returned Mon
day from Oskaloosa where they had
been Wis .dg relatives for several
days. His son-in-law, John Scott, met
them at Rose Hill and drove them to
their home near indianapolis.
B. A. Hollingsworth, of Hayesville,
is building house which ne needed
very much. The size is 2sx30, two
stories high, with cellar full size. John
Walden, of Delta, has charge Of the
work, which is now all unaer roof.
There was large crowd out on Sat.
-day evening at nose Hill to the box
supper of the Rose Hill Rebekah lodge
and the boxes were sold by our veter-
an auctioneer, l. NJ. Reed, and sold
high, and the receipts were very graf
flying.
u. D. I1dWh, Tie DuSy uldChSu4lu VI
Rose Hill, visited over Sunday in o.
kaloosa and returned to his work on
Monday morning to find his shop full
of customers and his assistant, Ira
Hollingsworth, was dispatching work
quite rapidly.
Almer James and wife departed on
Tuesday for Springfield, Mo-, to visit
his brother Fred, who is an engineer
on the Frisco road, with headquarters
at Springfield. Almer is R. F. d. car
rier on Route out of Rose Hill and
takes vacation to rest up.
While attending the old settlers
meeting at the Holiness tabernacle in
oskaloosa, Orlando Hutchins furnish
ed me with an item that dates back
to 1854 when he claims the first trust
was formed by prominent democrat
who bought hogs in Mahaska county
and drove them to Davenport and
there ferried them across the Missis-
sippi river and loaded them on cars
in Illinois and shipped them to Chi
cago. Orlando was then living in Chi
aae,o vybo0- fhio Iood IF hooc xuac nm.