The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-07-16
OTTUMWA HERE
IN FORCE TODAY
GRocERS AND BUTCHERS ENJOY
OUTING IN oSKALoOSA.
LOCAL STORES ARE CLOSED.
Our People Take Holiday to Enter
tain Their Guests-Program in
Progress Today at Glen
wood Park.


The Ottumwa grocers and butchers
joined today with the Oskaloosa gro
GERS and market men together with
their families, their employees and
their friends in big picnic at Glen
wood park, southwest of the city. The
entire day has been given over to the
event Oskaloosa groceries and mar
ket houses are closed for the occasion
and many people Of the city are as
sisting the local merchants in the en-
tertainment of the visitors.
The delegates were met at the Rock
Island station at $3.50 and 10:00
o'clock by the Iowa Brigade band.
which afterwards gave morning con-
cert in the park. The entire city was
decked in holiday attire for the occa,
sion, flags and bunting are every
where in evidence and the special
decorations in the city park have been
displayed.
The was all that could nave been
desired had it been made to order. The
hot weather has been dispelled by
degree of temperature that is cool and
comfortable. The weather alone was
enough to make the day enjoyable
from the start.
The crowd from Ottumwa was met
az the Rock Island station by the spe-
cial reception committee of Oskaloosa
business men, headed by the Iowa
Brigade band. The greater number
of the people took advantage of the
special transportation provided at the
station and went Immediately to Glen
wood park, southwest of the city,
where the pi<nic program was to be
carried out
Special Train.
The Rock Island company provided
a special train for the use OF the Ut
tumwa people and the greater portion
of the crowd came by this means at
ten o clock The special also brought
the famous Fifty-Fourth Regiment
band. sThe &l4wd WAC not I; ss1tslg
such a reception at the hands OF the
Oskaloosa end of the picnic and they
were agreeably surprised and pleased,
and thus was the day started in the
right direction.
The guests in the city from Ottum-
wa number fully seven hundred, and,
while this morning they were some
what scattered by the various attrac-
tons in different parts of the city, the
crowd is very large at Glenwood
park this afternoon and a general jolli-
fication is being enjoyed while the
amusement features at the park and
the athletic stunts during the after
noon insure plenty Of fun for all.
While all semblance of form and
order have been dispensed with as
much as possible, brief program was
rendered this morning to signify the
mutual feeling of welcome and APP
probation on the part of the mer-
chants and citizens of the two best
cities in southern Iowa. When the
crowd had assembled at the park they
were entertained oy selections by the
Iowa Brigade. and the FiftyFourth
Regimental bands.
/. w. Cook, president of the Oskaloo-
sa Commercial Club. was chairman of
udgt uC
the speakers of the morning announc-
ing that, in keeping with the custom
OF the grocers and butchers of Oska-
loosa and Ottumwa, they would ex-
pect from the speakers prompt deliv-
cry" Major John h. Lacey extended
warm welcome on behalf OF the Os-
kaloosa Retail Grocers and Butchers,
impressing upon the guests their inn
portance to the community. In the
course of his appropriate remarks he
commended the desire of the retail
merchants to work for the interests
of home institutions and to protect
the right of the middleman's profit.
He condemned the proposed parcels
post as an enemy of the retail mer-
chant. Major Samuel Mahon. of OF
tumwa, responded in happy manner,
acknowledging the cordial welcome
which had been received. He express
ed the kindly feeling existing between
the two cities and, in recommending
Ottumwa was good example in many
ways, he complimented Oskaloosa
upon being 'the cleanest city in Iowa
He also expressed Ottumwas envy of
our interurban achievements and hop
ed that in the near future Oskaloosa
and Ottumwa might be "hitched to-
gether by an interurban so that we
might visit back and forth oftener
than once year.
Ira B. Thomas, of Des Moines. state
president of the Retail Merchants
Association, was present on the plat
form and he responded to ,ne call of
the chairman in a few pleasing re-
marks. He emphasized the statement
made by Major Lacey relative to the
parcels post law. believing that II is
one of the principles of the association
to Live and let live" He extended
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