The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-03-07
OUR COLORED SOCIETY
Ins and Outs Of the Local Colony
and Their Friends.

Geo. washington is reporter quite
sick at his home ia the west end.
Mack Jeffries, who is working for
Guy Woodin, was business visitor
at Knoxville Thursday, looking after
property interests he has there.
The stewardess Of the A. M. e.
church gave social at the home OF
Mrs. A. Blackburn, 30S B avenue east,
FRIDAY evening. Refreshments were
served and pleasant evening Was
spent by all present.
Mrs. w. p. Jones and sister, Miss
Kittie Jones, who have been in the
city the past week shopping and hay
ling some dental work done, returned
to their homes in Buxton Friday
morning. They were guests of the
Robt. Franklin home during their
stay here.
Mrs. Hattie Nelson Cook, wife OF
Peter Cook of Jefferson township, near
Buxton, was brought here Friday and
Igiven a hearing before the insane
commission and adjudged insane. She
Twas taken to the asylum at Mount
Pleasant by Deputy Sheriff Black Fri
day afternoon. Mrs. Cook was for
merly Hattie Nelson of this city,
where she lived for several years AID
went to school. She created quite a
sensation here a few years ago by
shooting with revolver Rev. o. A.
Johnson, as he stood in the pulpit of
Wesley Chapel, during an evening
entertainment that was being held at
the church. She claimed ne had
wronged her. She was never prose-
cuted, however, and Rev. johnson was
fully exonerated from the charges by
the M. e. Conference, which tried his
case. 1t was thought at that time
that the girls mind was unbalanced
and recent developments have partly
proved the truth of that theory.
Married, at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robt. Franklin, 517 D avenue
east, Oskaloosa, Thursday evening,
Feb. %, 1907, at o'clock, Miss Annie
Smith and Chas. r. Foster, both Of
Buxton, Rev. T. B. StoVall oficiat-
ing. The wedding was quiet affair,
only the family and a few friends, with
two cousins Of the groom, being pres
ent. The bride and groom are botn
well known here, having been raised
at Muchakinock, where they first
came to know each other az children,
through the friendship which had long
existed between their parents. AS
children they mad always shown lik-
ing for each other, and while fate
seemed to lead their lives in different
directions, something always seemed
to happen to bring them together
again, and the friendship Of childhood
gradually ripened into a deep love and
devotion that was mutually rewarded
when the solemn VOWS, "1ill death do
US part" were spoken at the altar.
The bride is the daughter of James
and Dora Smith, botn of whom are
dead, and since then Annie has made
her home with the Foster family,
when not employed. she has, now
ever, spent most of her time for the
past five or six years in the employ
Of the E. H. Gibbs and Guy Woodin
families in this city, and only left that
service in anticipation of her coming
marriage, few months ago. The
groom is the eldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. R. Foster, of Buxton, an 5
employed in the mines at that place
and is well liked for his industry and
many good qualities. Mr.. and Mrs.
Foster left Friday morning for Bux-
ton, where they will reside in the tu-
ture.