The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-12-10
THE EDDYVILLE NEWS
Daily Happenings In Live Town,
Told by John R Sipes.

! Eddyville, Dec. AT about 1910
O'Clock Saturday afternoon the Henry
BiihIer frame building occupied by IL.
e. Osborne's barber shop and Davy
Mahaffey's shoe repair shop caught
fire and smoke was discovered issu-
ing from the barber shop by passers-
by who gave the alarm and the fire
bell was rung. Mr.. Osborne was at
dinner when the fire started and Davy
Mahaffey and his father, George Ma
haffey, had just returned from dinner
when the fire was discovered. An
entrance was forced TO the barber
shop and the chairs and fixtures of
the two establishments were all re-
moved with the exception OF the mir
rors and cases In the barber shop,
which could not be saved. The fire
department came out and was not
long in subduing the flames. though
considerable of the wood work on the
interior of the barber shop was burn
ed, but was covered by insurance. Mr..
Mahaffey opened up his repair shop
in temporary quarters in the frame
building next door to Schafer &
Hartman's furniture store later in the
day. Mr. Osborne has not fully de-
clded whether or not he will continue
in business. The fire is supposed to
have caught from a coal oil stove left
burning in the barber shop.
Word was received here Saturday
nj hn rfin ~ naiY nf
ITillamook, Oregon, to Miss Lima Pow
Iell, of Yamhill, Oregon, on November
"a, 1908. Mr.. Roberts is the second
son of Mrs. l.. A. Roberts, of this
place, and he passed most of his life
here, but for the past year or two has
been working at mis- trade of black
smith at points in Oregon.
Rev. Chas. Pruett, OF Pella, who has
preached at the Baptist church here
several times lately, has been engaged
as pastor of the Eddyville and Pleas
ant Corners churches, preaching at the
two places alternately. He will
preach here next Sunday morning and
evening and at the Corners the fol-
lowing Sunday. He is studying for
the ministry at the college at Pella.
Mrs. Beeks DeTar has received word
that her brother, ]. II. Sly, of Sturgis,
South Dakota. was stricken with pa
ralysis on the right side last Wednes-
day, Mr.. Sly was a resident OF this
locality years ago, but moved from
here to Dakota. .
A. M. Lafferty and daughter. Mrs
Georgia Boyd, are at home in the prop
erty which Mr.. Lafferty purchased on
North Second street some time ago,
and which he overhauled and repaired
The infant child, of Frank Sovel, OF
Green Ridge, was inferred in the Cath.
Ollie cemetery at this place Thursday
The funeral of Louis Roscoe, the in
FAINT son of Lewis and Minnie Myers,
east of town, was held Monday with
burial at Kirkville. The child died
Sunday, December 6, 1908, aged two
days.
Mrs. Harry Johnson, of Hayden
Chapel, who has been quite sick the
past two weeks, underwent a surgical
operation this week
F. w. Schafer arrived home Tues
day morning from Chicago where ne
had been for a few days transacting
BUSINESS and attending the Internation-
al Live Stock Exposition.
Miss Eppie Wylie departed Monday
might for Beloit, Kansas, to spend about
six weeks with her relatives, Messrs.
and Mesdames A. Manifold and Orville
Bolon.
o. ]. Lind and family returned Mon
day from a short visit at Sand Prairie.