The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-03-14
THE COUNTY NEWS.
BOLTON.

Boil ON.
Marion Blair of Oskaloosa spent
Sunday in town.
John P. Jones was business call
er in town Monday.
r. NJ. Grail and wife were pleasant
callers in town Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Long spent Sun
day evening in oskaloosa.
Cnas wnitsell, ST., was business
caller in oskaloosa Saturday.
John Pritchard was business
caller in Oskaloosa Wednesday.
Everett Mays of Chicago was a
business caller in town Monday.
Theodore Wall of Marshalltown
was in town Saturday on business.
W. H. Purcell of Des Moines was
business caller in town Thursday.
Amos Young of Des Moines was
business caller in town Wednesday.
w. H. Henderson of Newton was a
business caller in town Wednesday,.
Richard Haven secured work at the
Black Diamond mines in Evans this
week.
H. Jones, A. Long and ]. H. Fred
rickson spent Wednesday in Oskaloo-
sa on business.
Mrs. Charles Whitsell and daugh-
ter spent Sunday and Monday at
their home in Beacon
Miss Ethel Hummell of Fremont is
visitor at the home of her brother,
John Hummell, this week.
John Evans is confined to his
house this week with a severe case
of rheumatism. DR.. Barnes of Oska-
loosa is in attendance.
The young people enjoyed them
selves with a dance in the town
hall Tuesday night. Music was
furnished by Kissilger and White.
Charles Whitsell, ST., moved his
family back to their home place in
Beacon. Mr.. Whitsell will remain
here and work in the mines for a
time yet, at least until time for gar
dening.
The Herald correspondent was
pleased to meet Lem Da1forth, repre-
senting Sprague, Warner & Co. of
Chicago, in town Saturday. Mr..
Danforth is a very pleasant man and
received a good order for his house
this week.
The writer enjoyed a good warm
Methodist shake from James West
while in town recently. Mr.. West in
forms US that he has ceased to be a
Quaker and is now at the Morrow
barn. Jim will be greatly missed
from his old haunts.
Sam jenkins of Bussey was in
town Friday shaking hands with old
time friends. Mr.. Jenkins was a
boss driver in the mines at Keb tor
a number of years and is well known
by the miners of Iowa, who are al
ways glad to meet him.
John Zarvei, one of our most en-.
terprising miners, purchased forty
acres of land near Carbonate, and
will move on it. This is the second
miner from Bolton to purchase a
farm this year. Their many friends
wish them success in their new &C
cupation.
Ben Hughes, one of the old resi-
dents of Evans, moved his family to
Bolton this week. Mr.. Evans came
TO Evans in 1883, a single man, and
married Miss Catherine Jones during
the year, and has a grown son and
daughter born and raised in Evans.
He owns a good home there but
says a man can't live on a house, as
he must have something better.
Hence mis- move to Bolton. Our PEG
pie welcome them and still nave
room for more families.
w. A. Long of Dawson was in
town a short time Wednesday. n
conversation with the Herald report
err he spoke Of the palmy days oI
mining in Angus, and many of the
old time miners well known to the
writer. He says now mining there
has largely become a thing of the
past and gone into history, and eX.
pressed himself as well pleased to
see Mahaska holding her own in The
mining industry. Mr.. Henderson sis.
tied Buxton and looked at the vari-
GUS machines used there in mining,
and thinks they have become a per
manent fixture in the Iowa coal
mines.
w. w. Braniger left Saturday for
Burlington and will so from there
to Stratford, Texas, where he win
engage in the real estate business
with HIS brother. This firm owns
30 0O0 acres of land in TEXAS known