The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-04-11
OUR COLORED SOCIETY
Ins and Outs Of the Local Colony
and Their Friends.

line Blaney spent Easter Sunday with
friends in Buxton.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Bradley have
adopted bright 5-year-old boy from
the finding association of Des Moines.
This is real home mission work.
Mrs. Adah Smith has completely re,
lowered from the diphtheria, and the
quarantine was raised from the Peter
Williams home on A avenue east,
Thursday.
Walter Smith came out from Chi
cago Wednesday morning for weeks
visit with his mother, Mrs. John Will
lliams. He is still with the Pullman
Company, running from Chicago to
Oakland, Cal, over the Northwestern
road.
Commodore Lee, who has been in
Denver the past several months, en-
gagged in the big Danfield & Fisher
store, has returned to this city to
take up his work at the Mrs Gibbs
and Woodin homes north of the city.
Commodore states that he likes Den
yer but he likes Oskaloosa better.
The man Wooden that was cut in
pieces at Evans this week is not a
I"reverend" and never was a preach
er. he has probably exhorted lit
tie around mining camps at some
time and got for himself the name of
preacher He Is not reco. pized any
where as a preacher and n>y has
been.
Regarding the Easter program, of
which mention was made in Mon
days paper, some of the numbers
that added beauty to the services
were not mentioned, by oversight.
Solo by Mrs. Peer Barquett; solo by
Miss Bfrchie Buckner, accompa1ist
Miss Nettie Davis, violin, and Miss
Ethel Buckner, organ. The Easter
play by six boys and four girls was
quito entertaining.
The play written by Miss Gertrude
e. burden of this city was given at
the opera house Monday evening be-
fore fair sized audience, many OF
whom were colored. She was assist
ed by members of the burden family,
J. Phil, j. E., Cicero and Gus, bro
theirs, and Roxana, a sisterThe other
members of the cast were: Misses
Luella and Jessie Franklin, Mrs.
White and daughter, Miss Maud, Mrs.
Thomas, Ed Easter and N. b. Lands,
all of whom live in the city, 1t was
the first experience in dramatic work,
for most of them, and considering the
amount of noise and disturbance in
tine gallery and the poor stage man.
lagement, most of them presented
their parts with credit. The play it.
self is story of love and intrigue,
well combined, and put together in
good style, and shows the writer to
have literary ability of high order.
B. w. letters of Knoxville, together
with his brother, M. d. Jeffers, who
has been working for Guy Woodin
the past winter, have recently pur.
chased the 15-acre orchard and fruit
farm of e. E. Webb, situated mile
and a quarter southwest of the city,
paying therefor the sum OF $500, or
nearly $400 per acre. They have
been engaged this week in moving
their household goods from Knoxville
and setting UP housekeeping in the
new home A sister from Knoxville
will keep house for them and B. w.
will look after the place while Mack
continues in his present position.
The place contains a fine orchard OF
ten acres and is well improved with
a modern house and first class out
buildings and is one of the best small
farms in this locality and the LETTERS
are to be congratulated upon securing
such a splendid home. They are first
class people in every respect and
know every detail of the work neces-
sary to make such a place a paying
Investment, and we heartily welcome
them to the community. They al
ready have many friends and &C
Iquaintaaces.
Miss May F. Davis, young colored
lady of Abba, represented the A. M.
E. church at the regular quarterly
Injecting of the missionary societies
of the different churches of that city
held Thursday afternoon. March 81.
Miss Davis read a paper on the
growth and development of her race
in church matters since the war,
which the Abba Union prints in full
and calls special attention to, and
says: THAT for language, smooth
Ipenmanship, and clean manuscript
she is the equal of any graduate from
the Abba high school, irrespective of
color, that we have any knowledge
of. While Miss Davis is domestic
in an Abba home, she is fitted for
school teaching or any position the
white students are capable of filling
and is a fair example of what the
negro can do with education" Some
of the facts presented by Miss Davis