The Oskaloosa herald., 1906-08-02
THE COUNTY NEWS
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past week.
Miss Kate Beatty Of Delta was CIV
ing music lessons at Rose Hill the
past week.
F. c. Carl and wife departed Friday
for ottumwa to visit their daughter,
Mrs. Burgess.
DR.. Dwight Jarvis has bought the
DR.. H. E. Carver office near the Rose
Hill post Office.
The Methodist camp meeting at
Rose Hill is having dry hot weather
for the meetings.
Sol Morgan and wife were guests
Sunday in Rose Hill with John l..
Brown and wife.
Tom Beatty and Mike Denney were
passengers on the flyer recently for
Keota on business.
Deputy Auditor Roy E. Rowland
came down home Friday and return
ed to Oskaloosa Sunday morning.
George F.. Sterling and vile Of os-
kaloosa, came down Saturday and are
visiting with Mrs. Sterling's son, A.
G. Hawley.
The farmers are having fine wealth
er for putting up their hay crop, but
the general cry now is for rain to help
out the corn.
Henry Sarvis and wife and Mabel
Vallandingham left Rose Hill Monday
evening for Seattle, WASH, to be gone
about four weeks.
Mrs. Charles L. Wharton and daugh-
ter Flossie, and sons Joe and John,
visited over Sunday at Hedrck with
Mrs. Whartons father, Hon. Jack
Morrison.
w. Beans, the president of the
Farmers National Bank at Oskaloosa-
and Charlie Brewer took the train at
Rose Hill Thursday for Oskaloosa on
business.
Tom Beatty shipped a car load OF
good hogs to Ottumwa on Saturday.
twenty-five head he bought of Carson
Mcclure, that were Chester Whites
and hard to beat.
Tim Burke committed suicide at
Rose Hill Friday morning. His moth
er has been located at Westfeld, Mass,
and he. has brother, "a railroad con-
ductor, on the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad
Amos McKanna, of Lyons county,
Kansas, has been visiting his brother,
Robert McKanna, for the past week.
He was soldier in the 57th Ohio
Regiment and has been a railroad en-
gineer for forty-fye years.
Howard Kemp returned home Satur-
day evening on the late train from
Mercy hospital at Davenport, where
an operation had been performed. He
was gone just one week. His many
friends were glad to see him return
home so soon. r...
William Zion left Monday evening
for st. Paul, MINI. to take examina-
ton for a position as agent on the
Great Northern Ry. Zion is one of
the best boys that ever struck Rose
Hill and we would be glad to hear Of
him getting a good position.
The Rose Hill band by invitation
drove up to Wesley Ruby's near Cen
tenary, church, where a social had
been arranged, and the band boys
speak in high terms OF praise of the
treatment of the Wesley Ruby family
and the neighbors in general. They
report good time and large crowd
of people in attendance.
A complete surprise was planned
on Luther Goddard on July 25th, it
being his 54th birthday, by John Shaw
and Mrs. Goddard. The evening was
threatening rain, but by the time
Luther had commenced preparing 70
go to bed, his neighbors had began to
come in on him and the house and
yard was soon lined up with men,
women and children to the number OF
80, all bringing well-flled baskets of
all the delicacies the good women
could think of, which was placed Cd
tables, the contents of which looked
rich enough for a king. After all hao
partaken freely, ice cream and cake
was INDUCED in After the eating
hour Eugene Cheseman in neat lit
tie speech presented Mr.. Goddard
with nice easy rocker that had been
procured by his neighbors, that he
could take his ease in his declining
years. The evening was one full OF
enjoyment for all present and at a
late hour all departed for their homes.
Nasty was not forgotten, for the
good women had MADE selection OF
some of the choicest cake and candies
and sent to him through mis- friend,
Sol Morgan-enough to last him about
three days. The ladies have his thanks
for their generous contribution.
The funeral of Charles Tucker, a
former Mahaska county boy, took
place at Joplin, Mo. Charles Tucker
whose death was due to tetanus, re-
sulting from an injury received at the
M. l. and o. mill on June 9th, was
buried on the 14th in Fairyiew ceme-
try. Services were from the first
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