The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-05-14
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS,
Items OF Interest Gathered By Her.
aid Correspondents.
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Thursday on business.
w. P. Cook. of Atlantic. was in town
Tuesday ON business.
DR.. Cole, of oskaloosa, made pro
fessional call here Thursday.
N. A. Peterson, of Des Moines, was
in town Saturday on business.
Gilbert johnson, one of our most
progressive farmers, unloaded a car
of tile here this week. 81
Miss Mary Roller, our courteous and
efficient school teacher, spent Sunday
in Knoxville with friends.
w. r, Tandy, south of town, shared
the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. John
L. Thompson Sunday at dinner.
w. A. Johnson, of Cricket, was in
town this week attending to his po-
litical fences, He aspires to the of
fee of recorder.
James Norwood, of Leighton, was
a pleasant caller in town Thursday.
Jim is an oldtimer In this neck of the
woods and his friends are always glad
to meet him when he is in Ollyet.
The section boss, John Dolan, has
only two men to work this week, ow-
ing to the reduction of wages. This
man has a wife and five children to
support on this mere pittance OF SIPS
"a day. s.4 = j n
The writer always took pride inithe
iowa hen and now comes Nick Van
derlinden and says they handled TO-
900 dozen of eggs during the month of
April. At no time were. they ever
more than six miles from home.
]. II. Frederickson, of Bolton. Wis
tied in town Thursday at the home OF
his father-in-law, X. Williams. Mr..
Frederickson informs us that the
mines in Bolton are expected to start
Monday, May IL, on half time at
least.
Mrs. John F. Rowse, of Bussey, Wis
tied old time friends in Olivet this
week. She lived here many years
ago, her husband was the resident
uluSleI VI IhS W. T. SnulCh hSic ia
several years. Her many old time
friends were pleased to see her and
talk of the old times gone by. Mir
and Mrs. X. Williams acknowledge a
pleasant call from her, Saturday;
In our talk with the miners as We
meet them we find they are we'll
pleased to have the new agreement
and continue two years in place of
one The writer would second a mo.
ton to make it five. A travelling man
was telling ME the other day that
there is coal piled on the right-of-way
of the Wabash from Des Moines to
st. Louis for ten miles, five feet high.
Denny Robertson, north OF town,
was a pleasant caller Thursday. He
says up to date that he does not think
the frost did much damage tofiFRA
the frost did much damage,-probabl
one-third of the crop is killed. Denny
is Familiarity known as one of the best
farmers and enterprising citizens. He
has raised model family of sons and
daughters. The writer is always
pleased to meet him when he is in
town.
When a man can sell a twenty-five
year old horse, 800 pounds in weight
for seventy-fiye dollars cash, then the
same animal Is re-sold the same day
for $50, he has no kick coming. Our
informant says he and his wife were
boy and girl in Fishville and this was
the first animal they ever knew. They
now have three children, the oldest be-
ing eight years old, SO let the Herald
readers figure out the correct age.
We can't
Politicians are getting a move on
them just now like flies around the
molasses barrel in the summer time.
The writer is no prophet nor the son
OF prophet, but unless he misses his
mark, there will be three surprises for
them on June 2. One is there will
be some nominations they did not
expect to see; some left that they ex-
pected to see nominated, and the
greatest surprise of all will be to
see themselves nominated.
The writer notes with much interest
the local columns jotted up each
weekly of the colored colony OF Os
kaloosa. We admire the spice and
ginger put in the letter. as 1t shows
intelligence and fairness of the writ
err The writer was raised in the
south and his father was slave own.
er, and IL there is a class of people
on earth that has a hard time to edu.
cate themselves up to the standard in
dicated by the writer OF the letter, Il
Is the colored people; and let Il be
him or her. they are entitled to credit
and recognition.
The Herald correspondent felt sad
to read in the Bolton items that II
was becoming necessary for our es-
teemed friend, Walter White, to
have his leg amputated. When he
was small he received an injury that
caused the cord under the knee TO
contract, leaving him a very crooked
leg. He was brought up In the mines
this way from the boy to man, and
as age advanced he became weakened.
After going through life this way for
over thirty years. he decided to have