The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-04
who has been quite sick with tonsili

from Columbus, Kansas, where he had
been building barn on his farm.
/ About thirty young people partici
pated in Halloween party at the
A. L. Carson home Friday night. The
i amusements were games and music
mad also paper which was read by
1 Miss Grace Harding. A two-course
| lunch was served. The dining-room
was suitably decorated. The crowd de
parted about midnight ID
DR.. Jacob Kussart, formerly of Ed
dyville, but now Of Greeley, Colorado
and his brother-in-law ID. p. Eager
strom, of Essex, who had also been al
Greeley, stopped off here Monday and
/ spent the day with relatives and
friend while enroute to New Yorl
City on business.
Mrs. r. j. Oldham and baby are al
home from a few weeks visit with
relatives in Indiana.
Isaac Van Wrinkle, who has spent
1.-The past three years at Los Angeles
Imperial, and Santa Anna, California
| but whoreturned to Iowa last Friday
and had been visiting his father, Thos
Van Wrinkle. in Ottu-nwa. came VI
Monday for a visit with his sister, Mrs
ID. o. McLoney. He has decided tc
return to California. ... .~.as.
DR.. and Mrs. Smith returned to their
home at Waseca, Minnesota, Monday
after an overSunday visit with Mrs
Smiths uncle, w. II. Gray, and her
cousin. Mrs. E. NJ. Knox. -..s..s....s
M. s. Ross, OF Nashville, Tennessee,
was in town Saturday on business.
| Miss Rose O'Connor, who has for
some years been working in Ottumwa
and who this week entered the employ
OF the Courier, at that, place, spent
Sunday at home. - IL. "..
Mrs, J. E. Fleetwood arrived home
from three and one. half weeks visit
with her daughter, Mrs, Ira Balm, at
Minneapolis. Kansas.
Miss Jennie True visited in Ottum
wa over Sunday.
Eddyyllc, Nov. 3.--The NJ. w.
Barnes farm of 203 acres, located
about a mile and half east of town,
and which Mr.. Barnes sold last Janu'
airy to John Edgren, has changed
hands again and was purchased by
De Reuis Brothers OF Leighton, who
paid S117 per acre, or total of $24, 1000
an advance of $4,000 over what it
sold for last winter The new owners
will take possession next March. Mr.,
Edgren has not decided where he will
locate. The deal was made by Beam
er & Bauman.
Tho remains of Miss Gladys NJ,
Griffis, daughter of Meade and Helen
Griffis, we're inferred in Highland GEM
etery here this week. She died at the
| H. Burlington home. on the Gilmore
place, about five miles east OF town, in
Harrison township, on Friday even
/ ing, October %, 1909, Of typhoid fe,
yer. after short illness, aged Is
years, months and days.
! NJ. S. Van Hook has moved his fam
! lily from Des .Moines to the Mrs. NJ.
Fields property, on North Second
street. and has accepted employment
| at the sand plant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Miller, who
were here to the funeral of their
brotherin-law, F. E. Ryan, departed
this week for their home at Kingfis5-
er. Oklahoma. Mrs. Mary E. Myers
and Mrs. Edna Ryan, who have been
living at Encampment. Wyoming, and
who came back with the remains, re-
turned home with Mr. and Mrs. Miller
in order to live in Oklahoma.
A. c. Black, the night, watch, de
parted Monday night for Sta Louis, and
from there he may decide to go to
Illinois. He will be away week or
ten days.
F. VI. EVperson and Allison Dilliner
departed Tuesday for Graham, Texas,
where both own farms. They will
spend a out ten days on business per,
tanning to their farms. ),
Mrs. A. ]. Templeton. formerly OF
Ottumwa and Eddyville, departed
Tuesday for her home at Fort Col
Inns, Colorado, after spending three
weeks visiting her father. A. HiItabi-
del, and attending the Hiltabidel fam
lily reunion. She intended to stop a
few hours in Abba and visit her sis
ter Miss Irene EIiltabidel, who has
been i'll with lumbago. .....,~.. ..
Elmer Beamer who has been spend
ing few days visiting his mother;Mrs
Martha Beamer, and other relatives at
this place, ard with his sister, Mrs.
Henry Schmidt. near Kirkyille, depart.
ed Tuesday for his home at Arapa-
noe. Colo.
Mrs. J. C. Kirfman is at home after
spending a month in the hospital at
Ottumwa where she underwent sur
gical operation. She is getting along
nicely, though still weak
Mrs. Susan Miller, of White City,
formerly OF this vicinity, has been
very low ith paralysis.
Mrs. ALI Timmons. OF Abba, return
ed home Monday after visiting Mrs.
John G. Evans.
John Denning transacted business
in Abba Tuesday,
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