The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-07
.NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Items OF Interest Gathered By Her
aid Correspondents.
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this locality this week.
w 4. James, of Boone, was in town
Wednesday on business.
w. H. jenkins, of Perry. was in
town Tuesday with friends.
The coal company started four more
new entries in the No. 2 mine this
week.
w. II. Henderson, of Cedar Rapids,
was in town Monday looking after
business,
Mrs. Miller Beard attended the
show In the opera house in oskaloosa
Thursday night.
Joseph Gracer returned to work this
week in the mines after months lay
OFF with crippled hand.
]. o. Boles, the blacksmith at the
mine. resigned his position this week
Mrs. Gus Donaldson returned to her.
home in ottumwa Friday after al
weeks visit here with her son, J. H.
Fredrickson.
Bence Evans secured work in the
mines this week. Beuce takes life
easy in the summer, but always hunts
the Bolton mine in the winter. He is
an all round good fellow and always
finds hearty welcome on his return.
Question for debate Nov IL is,
From Which Does the Mind Gain the
Most knowledge, Reading or Observa-
ton = Joseph Gracer and Miss Clara
Warden for the affirmative, and Chas.
Kissinger and Mrs. A. Long for the
negative.
In our last letter we mentioned
about the winner of prizes at Chicago.
Now comes George Wilson, our mine
foreman and says he planted onel
acre Of corn on the old Dusenbery
place east of town. and he has fed two
horses and over one hundred chickens
out of it for a month, and has one
hundred bushels left. Who can beat
1t?
Mrs. Warden attended quarterly
meeting in Rose Hill last week. She
reports an interesting meeting and al
good spiritual time while there. Mrs.
Warden informs us she expects min
lister here this week to make arrange
ments TO preach for u.s. We exteno
to him a hearty welcome, as the har-
vest is great and laborers few in Boil
ton
j. w, Newsom, of Union, Hardin
county, was pleasant caller in town
Tuesday. Mr. Newsom informs us
that he has lived in Iowa twelve years
and he finds the best average crop of
corn in his travels he has seen in all
these years. He has so acres of corn
which, he says, will turn out fifty
bushels of corn to the acre or more. |
He says he came to this state from
Missouri, but now it is Iowa first, last
and all the time.
The Herald correspondent is in re-
ceipt Of the speech made before con-
gress a few years ago by Hon. John |
r. Lacey, on mine explosions. 1t is al
masterpiece of oratory. and one would
think by reading it that Mr.. Lacey
was a real miner, for the facts and |
logic used are Just such as comes un-
der miners observation every day
he works ia the mines. We will keep
1t on file for future reference and re-
turn thanks for the same.
The literary meeting night has been
changed from Thursday night to Tues
day night The next meeting night
will be Tuesday, Nov. II. The ladies
win give box supper also on this
date, instead of Nov. Z, as stated in
last weeks Herald. The program
committee wish to state that there
VIII be a special program gotten up
for this OCCASION and wish to see a
good turnout, as the box supper is for
the benefit Of getting more chairs for
the hall.
The writer most heartily endorses
the resolutions of coincidence gotten
up by the u NJ. w. of A. at their last
meeting IN memory of the late Chas.
Morris, of Des Moines, who was well
known TO the writer, who had the
pleasure OF meeting him at his office
in Des Moines, also at his mines, and
always found him courteous and man
~ always looking to the best inter
ests OF those who worked for him, and
we join with his many friends in sor-
row over his untimely loss.
The writer noted with much inter-
est in the dispatches of the Herald
on Monday Of the burning of the mag
nsflcent home of Gen. d. c. Buell. at
Ardrie. Kentucky The dispatch said
he ran large iron furnaces there and
worked conyicts. This is not true.
The writer lived next door to him from
~ to rs. He ran large coal mine
there on the bank of Green River and
we worked for him until the mine was
abandoned. A Mr. Alexander, of Ar
drie, Scotland. built the furnaces re-
ferred TO, and the town was named
after him The writer saw the bay
horse ridden by the general during
the war buried there few years later.
NOV S. r.. w.
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