The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-08-26
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town on business Tuesday. 81
]. l.. Billings spent Wednesday with
his daughter, Mrs. DeRues, in Pella.
Mrs. John Cole from west of town
was a pleasant caller at the R. Will
liams home Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcdowell, of .Oska-
loosa, spent Sunday at the home OF
their son, j. E. Mcdowell. here.
Rev. ]. C. Leonard re-papered the
NJ. P. church the past week, which
gives it very neat appearance.
Jesse Billings returned home Tues
day from Lynnville where he helped
his grandparents with their harvest.
Mrs. Susan Davis returned to her
home in Valley Junction after visit
with her adopted daughter, Mrs. Lee
Nossman.
Mrs. John Dolan Is very feeble this
summer, but is well cared for by her
granddaughter, Alice Wharton, who
is model young woman. .-
The political pot has begun to warm
up as many of the aspirants are be-
ginning to inquire as to how the land
is lying in different localities.
The Coal Co. leased the coal under
the Susan Davis lots last week. This
will make them enough coal to last
for three years right here IN town.
W. H. VanNess, a coal man Of
Lockridge, Davis county, was here
Friday and was well impressed with
the lay out for a coal mine in this To-
cality.
The threshing machine has been
busy in this neighborhood this week,
and we are informed that the small
grain has turned out well. One man
said that he had the best yield for
ten years.
Uncle John Thompson went to the
Oskaloosa Chautauqua Wednesday to
hear Bryan. He has voted the demo-
crat ticket for fifty years and he says
he is more of a democrat now than
he ever was.
We notice with much interest the
we'll written letter from Evans every
| week and we want to congratulate the
| writer. All the corners and goers are
chronicled, as we'll as all the other
news that comes under the eagle eye
of Brownie" e..
John Dolan started to work in the
mine recently and although he i is
nearly II years old he can still do a
good days work. He was foreman
on the section here for thirty years,
but gave it up owing to his age and
having to be exposed in all kinds of
weather.
| We were pleased to meet w. H.
Johnson, of Perry, in town Thursday.
the strike in Angus twenty years ago
or more. We were glad to see our
old friend and to see him looking so
well. Mr.. Johnson is now farming
and doing well.
The writer and wife regret that
| they were unable to attend the Her.
aid picnic Thursday and hope they all
had a royal time while there. 1t would
have been necessary, for us to have
stayed in Oskaloosa over night, as the
trains are not arranged conveniently
for us to go and come in a day.
In a conversation with James How
ell Of LiSconb he said that Hardin
County has one of the best corn crops
in years and that the small grain now
They had good rain last week which
was great benefit to the corn. He
says the tariff discussion warmed pol
itics for while but like The calm at
ter a storm he now heard no more
OF it.
In reading an article on the dis
covery of coal in the Herald recently
Father Hennepin was given the credit
for discovering it in America. In
Andrew Rays works on Mines anC
Mining, Father Hennepin is quoted
in regard - his discovery but he is
not given the credit for being the frs
by any means for black rocks are
mentioned in history before he was
born. We can remember well wher
it was first discovered in Tennessee
in 1859, % miles from the Nashville
& Chattanooga railroad and on top o.
the Cumberland mountain. 1t was
discovered by VIM. Brown, Scotch
man, while hunting. His dog ran q
rabbit under stump and when dig
ging for it found coal and securing q
sample of 1t he took it to Nashville
where he interested the governor, A
s. Colyar. A railroad was built from
Cowan Station to mine that was
opened and that furnished coal to the
southern railroads during the war
| The place was known as Tracy City
and mines are still running there and
Brown was manager OF them up I'd
five years ago.
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