The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-07-08
ALONG RURAL ROUTES
Herald Representative Tells of What
He Sees and Hears.

report their thermometer registering
112 in the sun and SO in the shade. A
person didn't need to look at anything
to see whether it was warm, but ev-
erybody was looking for a shady
place. Better watch your horses in
the field when you are blowing. A
number OF Mahaska horses have died
from suffocation Keep the perspira-
ton flowing freely and there will not
be much danger.
Many farmers were in Oskaloosa
Saturday doing their trading. 1t is
not long until harvest so you better
stock UP in supplies for the hungry
crowd of men that will assist in stack
ing the crop.
A. d. Miller, one and half miles
north of Indianapolis, has built new
summer kitchen. Such a. building
apart from the house helps to keep the
home cool during the hot summer
months.
w. u. " llSOH bdlu Ihdt thC AhS'
beat any two papers he had ever TAX
enS and D. A. Baker says: THE Her.
aldsis a good paper alright. 1t gives
the news and that is why i take It,"
Chas. Feaster, who operates a coal
mine four miles northeast of Rose
Hill, has just put lin a new gasoline
engine to pump the water out. the
mine has only been working about two
days week, but it will begin to work
fall time as they have a number OF
orders to fill Mr.. Feaster has just
closed a contract with the Delta
school for 1900 bushels. He has about
fifteen acres OF coal here and it aver
ages about five feet and ten inches
thick. Scott Mason, Joe Gilman and
Chas. Martin are working at the mine.
The strawberry season is about over
for this year and the farmers wife Is
now putting up cherries. They seem
to think nothing OF canning two or
three hundred quarts, all for their own
use No wonder that the farmer is
generally fat and healthy. The plen'
teous diet keeps him tieshy and the
fresh air of the country keeps him
well. ...-, r
The recent rainy season has allowed
many weeds to grow in the roads and
along the fences. Cut them before
they go to seed, or they will increase
in numbers next year. -.
F. NJ, Jones, living north of Rose
Hill, has gone into the dog business
He. has ten pretty Scotch Collie pups
He thinks as much of them. as some
farmers do of cattle. They are about
as valuable, as they sell from ten dol
larseto twenty-five dollars each.
b., ,Parr has improved his farm by
22u rods of new fencing, new pump
and a water tank,
lG., r. Rutherford is renting the
Reed Brown place this year The
farm has, been improved by 22O rods
OF woven wire fence. IT, .G5,.
Gus Rutherford is building a new
house to replace the old one. The
house will have five rooms, pantry
and closets.
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Mrs. S. P. Mcclure, OF Oskaloosa,i is
visiting at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. w. l.. Wymore, near Rose Hill
A hive OF bees is now infesting a cor
ner of the porch of the Wymore home
DR.. l.. +. Ellsworth is now living
with his son, T. f, Ellsworth. north
west of Rose Hill. He has given up
his practice. He says he came to Os
kaloosa forty years ago and purchased
acre. 1t had a crop on it which he
THE farm they now live on for $15 an
sold in the fall for $50 an acre in the
field, At that time stock men from
the East had cattle on the prairies
and instead of taking them back East
and fattening them, they fed them out
here, and for that reason he got such
a good price for his grain. Mr.. ELS
worth said that if he was a young fel
low he, would rather be a dog and
bark at the sun all the rest of his life
than follow the doctors profession.
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Carson Mcclure who lives on a
farm northeast OF Oskaloosa, will moi
farm next year, but will move to Os
kaloosa He may farm a little, but
he and his family will make Oskaloosa
their home. f.. r.
L., l.. Gable has done some tiline
and pnt up woven wire fence on his
place He says tile will pay for it.
self this year. ,E$ tf..F
plain View" is the name Louis
Stuart has given his place. and II any.
one had happened along the corn field
Thursday morning at 4 o'clock they
would have had a view OF Mr.. Stuart
blowing his field. He was out early In
order to get his work done before the
sun came, up. ....
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