The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-07-01

Mrs. Ada Reed, who lives with her
mother and two sons on a farm near
Rose Hill, can De round most any day
out In the field attending to the out
door duties. She has just had cleared
three acres of timber land and fixed
up the fence about the place. She
| sold seven shoats to John stringfellow
| OF Rose Hin Wednesday.
Just one mile west from the pres
ent Rose Hill, ten miles east of Oska-
loosa, is where the original Rose Hill
stood. The town at that time consist
| ed of one store, which was operated
/ by Reuben Boals, and few houses.
i In 1875 when branch of the q. X. 1.
| & p. went through that part of the
4 country they located station, just
one mile east of old Rose Hill, which
was known as Ornbaun, named after
the owner of the land on which 1T
stood. The railroad stopping place
i of course changed the location of
Rose Hill, as Baily & Stubs opened
| q
which is now operated as restaurant.
During the first two years the town
fourished and in 1877, June 4, the
town was incorporated. Since that
time the place has not grown much,
but it now has population of about
1876. The village has a municipal gov
eminent, three churches, two-story
| frame school house, three general
| stores, hardware and furniture, a bank
capitalized at s25,00U, hotel two
blacksmith shops elevator, implement
house, two livery barns, harness shop,
post office, barber shop and drug
store. The present officers of the town
and the councilman are: ii. w. Bur
| CESS, mayor; Ira Fry, clerk; Ira Holl.
ellsworth, treasurer; +. c. Karl. town
| marshal and street commissioner
The mayor and city dads have just
had a little trouble concerning the
management of affairs. Mayor Bur
| CESS, having authority to elect new
officers, when ne accepted the office
| gave the old men their walking pa
| pers.." He could not find any one
| else at once to accept the Office made
vacant, so the council got uneasy and
proceeded to take things into their
own hands and re-elect the former
| holder of the office. TIE mayor said
| that he would refuse to recognize the
| chosen one" and the matter is yet
to be settled. The business houses or
1
| from the surrounding country. The
| farmers drive miles to do their shop
| ping there. The business houses are.
| General merchandise, J. r. Busby and
| Anderson, Harley Currier and E. H.
| Vallandingham Il Co.; hardware and
furniture, Brown Bros; harness, C.,
B. Rowland & Son; Drugs, Rose Hill
Drug Co., C. L. Wyman, manager;
blacksmith shops, Dave CASTOR &,
Sons, and Ira Hollingsworth; elevator
Tom Beatty; lumber yard, w. w. Hor.
ras; bank, Rose Hill Savings, w. H,
Brown Pres, and John Busby, cash.
Ter, with Frank Suffer, assistant;
implement, G.. l.. Goddard; barber
| shop, Mace Patton; restaurant, Alice
| Dickson; butcher, Glenn watershed.
| The livery barns are operated by T..
| l.. Wharton & Son and E. r. CASTOR.
| Mrs. Eva Henderson is the landlady
of the hotel and supplies the innerman
while DR.. Dwight jarvis and ID. N.
Wright keep tie people in the best
of health, so that they can enjoy life.
The postmaster Is Ed Jones, and his
deputy, H. w. Burgess. Three rural
| routes leave the city, the first one
being started six years ago. The car
riers are, Sherman Hawkins, Archie
Wymore and Elmer James. Three re-
/ ligious organizations have churches
in the town, Free Methodist, Method
list and Christian. Preaching is held
in the Free Methodist by F. M: Rob-
erts; Methodist by Rev. Lloyd Ten
nant. and at present the Christian
church has no services. The children
\ from two districts attend school at
Rose Hill school, those from the
Rose Hill Independent and from East
Rose Hill. The students from East
Rose Hill are hauled to school in
/ HdChS. ne LedCueIS are, D. W.
Thorpe, principal; Jayne Slocum
and Carrie Jones. The school has
never, graduated anyone, but mum,
Der of the old students are in the
teaching profession. Two improve
ments of particular mention are
being made this year. One is the re-
modelling of the hotel building into a
modern hostelry. The small cottage
| just across the road east of the hotel
is being moved and a new brick bank
| building is to take its place. This
Is the first brick building to go up in
the town. The officers of the bank
have not thoroughly decided how big
the bank will be. There is some talk
of building it TWO stories and wide
enough for a store in one side. The
upper floor would be rented to some
lodge. The social organizations OF
the town are, Odd Fellows, Rebekah,
Masons, Eastern Stars, Knights OF
/ Pythias, Pythian Sisters and Redmen.
They enjoy good memberships and
1 hold their regular meetings. The
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