The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-01-14
our COLORED SOCIETY
Ins and Outs Of the Local Colony
and Their Friends.

Jas Crump returned to his duties
at the State university Monday after
spending his holiday vacation here
with his brother.
H. r. Wright, negro lawyer, of
Des Moines, has been designated CON
Isul at Porto cabello, Venezuela He
has been in the consular service in
Honduras.
| Miss Georgia Blackburn returned to
Buxton Sunday morning to resume her
duties as, teacher in the schools at
that place after spending her vacation
with her mother.
| The Jeffries Brothers. who recently
sold their farm south OF town, have
rented the Hannah Nelson place east
of town and moved their household eff
fleets thereto where they will make
their home for a year.
DR.. H. A. Higgs, presiding elder,was
here over Sunday and held the quar-
Iterly meeting at Wesley Chapel. All
the services were we'll attended dur
| ing the day and DR.. Higgs found the
charge in a very satisfactory condi.
ltion He went from here to his home
| in Marshall, Mo-, for q few days visit
with his family.
Simpson Mitchell is still confined to
the house with spinal trouble. He is
able to sit up some and Is improving
slowly, but it will probably be some
time before he is able to resume his
work, Wm.Burgess, of Evans, is look
ing after his work at the H, L. Spen-
Ger home in the meantime and win
remain until he is able to be on duty
again. .... e.rt
The revival services in progress at
| the A. M. e. church have continued
this week with interest increasing
each evening". The cold weather some
what interfered with the attendance,
tendance and the good work went right
along. The afternoon prayer meetings
held at the homes of members were
also well attended and have proven
an interesting and beneficial part of
the services. The meetings will con-
tinue next week along the same lines,
and the work viii be pushed with re-
lnewed vigor. The public is cordially
Invited to attend any or all of the SER
vices. ID.
Harry Kimbrough has sent to his
mother in this city tho following
clipping from Minneapolis paper,
giving an account of the sudden death
in that city of Scott NJ. Cratic. Mr..
Cratic will be we'll remembered here
by our readers, having resided here
with his family for severai years
during which time he conducted
barber shop under the drug store at
the southeast corner of the square.
There is no date to the clipping, but
his death occurred the first of last
week. OF former well known resi-
dent here a dispatch from Mime
apolis says: Heartbroken over the
death of his wife, which occurred
three weeks ago, Scott NJ. Cratic, 69S
Twenty-second street east, aged 81
years. colored, dropped dead of heart
failure, while waiting for car yester-
day afternoon at Minnehaha avenue
and Fortieth street. just as he had left
a corner store. Cratic was on his
way down town after visiting his son,
at 4011 Forty-frst avenue. He had
stopped in the store to warm himself.
and fell dead shortly after going out
side to board car. Mrs. Cratic had
been an invalid for some time. Her
death proved sad shock to her hus.
band, who had been failing rapidly
since. that time. He is survived by
two sons, William and Earl.