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The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20
lay Afternoon tiusan8au50mobile.


iday afternoon fu'ar# aulomoble. He
was warned against the mud and the
ibOtOmless roads, but he determined to
make the trip. Time after time he
went into mud that scraped the bot,
tom OF the car. The wheels Slipped
and the car sank but each time he
found some way aout Three times hc
was hopelcssIy std1lcd and the car
! had to be pulled outEof the 'mirc by d
team Of mules. Slight damage was
caused, but the party finally reached
iPclla. They returned by train.
Grimnell Herald; Miss Bernicc Coop
or went to OskaIoo5a Friday morning
for visit with relatives.
Grinnell Herald: Mrs. A. F. Lisor
went to OskaloOsa Wednesday for a
| visit win friends and relatives.
MarsnalltOwn Times Republican :
W. NJ. Collins went to OskalOOsa Fri
day to remain Il couple of days.
.Bussey Press: Mrs. W. "A. Durrec
and Mrs. c. w. Dur[ee, with daughter
IHildegardc went to OskalOOsa Thurs
day for a brief visit.
Abba Union: Miss Emma Phinney,
who has been visiting with Abba
friends the past several MONTHS. has
returned to her home in OskalOOSa.
Cedar Falls Record: Miss EdIh NJ.
Jarnagin left this morning for OSka-
loOsa and will be accompanied home
10y Mrs. d. Akin, mother Of Mrs. Jar
lnagin.
Bussey Press: Miss Elizabeth Nea-
Lyle, of OskalOOsa, returned to her
home Tuesday evening after two
weeks visit in Cricket with her broth
er James.
Bussey Press: Mrs. u. C. Mcclure
returned home Thursday after three
weeks visit in OSkaloosa, Iowa City
and Montczuma with relatives and
friends.
Newton Herald: Miss LeOna Bew.
Yer OF OskalOosa, has come home for
I
an extended visit with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Bewyer. Miss
Bewyer has not been feeling well OF
late and bias come nome for much
needed rest.
Lynnyjllc Star: Rev. Shaw OF Oska.
loosa gave an interesting lecture on
the California earthquake at Friend.s
chUrch Saturday evening. As Bro,
Shaw was an eye Witness TO the aw.
full scenes OF the great disaster, the
lecture was interesting.
Bussey Press: Mr.. and Mrs Robert
Wharton. daughter Mrs w u. Spaur
and her daughter, Miss Edna, came
home from Oskaloosa Thursday morn
inns. If there's amy man living in Ma.
lnaska county who has been longer
there or knows more about affairs,
whether Indian or Irish, or any other
sort than Robert Wharton. we would
like to know him.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20
COMES TO OSKALO0SA
This City Becomes Headquarters of
100000 Coal Company.

Oskaloosa has secured the headquar-
ters Of coal company capitalized at
100000, which has moved it's princi-
pal place of business here from Knox
vile, Marion county, according to an
to the articles OF ucor-
poration of the English Creek Coal Co,
just filed with the county recorder
The capitalization has been increased
from $4,000 to the amount above stat
ed and the principal place of business
moved to Oskaloos9 where the annual
meetings Of the stockholders will be
held on tho third Wednesday of each
May, the first one under the new rules
being held today, The directors of
the corporation are George II. Ramsay,
president; John II. Ramsay, treasurer;
n. w Marley secretary; VIM. C. Ram.
say and r. o. Ewing
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20
host of friends for himself and for the
store during his residence here.

Ihost of friends for himself and for the
store during his residence here.
Miss Grace Lowe, OF AnamOsa, who
accompanied her friend, Miss Wilma
Barr, 10 the city to visit relatives, re-
turned to her home this morning.
Noah S. Kinklcman lel Monday at,
itCrnOon via the Rock Island for Okla
ihoma. City where he will engage in
| the real estate and insurance business.
b. NJ Mathcr and daughter, Mrs.
Fee, who have been visiting at the {.
| W. Mather home, returned to their
homes in Jacksonville, ILL.,, this morn
ing.
Miss Mary Van Corp, of Pella, visit
ed friends in Oskaloosa this morning
enroute to New Sharon to visit her
brothers, Matthew and Walter Van
Corp.
Cecil BOyuls was a passenger via
the Rock Island this morning for Ok
lahoma City, Okla, where he has an
excellent POSITION in an artificial ice
plant.
w. J. Schultz and wife, of La Crosse.
Wis, are visiting at the A. G. Schultz
nome on South b street. From here
they will go to Denver and other
western points.
Don Vernon, OF the Sanitary Meat
Market, who has been confined to his
home for two weeks with rheumatism
which attacked his heart, is gaining
nicely now and will soon be himself
lagain.
Ernest Abrams, of Chicago uniyer-
Isity, spent Sunday with his parents,
Mr.. aud Mrs. c. W. Abrams, in Oska-
loOsa lie was in attendance at the
state high school field meet at Iowa
City Saturday.
MeBdames J. c. Williams. SBaIdauf.
A. T. Spencer, c. Winter, e. w. Pres
ton, Rhea Oppenheimer and A. ROsen-
Iblatt went to Davenport last evening
! TO attend the biennial meeting OF the
State Federation OF WOmen's Clubs
which conyenes in Davenport today.
Dr. J. r. Coyeny has returned tr Os,
lkalOosa after an extended trip in the
interests of his health through the
southern and western states. He has
been to the Gulf states and to the
western coast, ia California, and Gov
Tered a great stretch of territory. He
has been greatly benefited by the trip
and comes home the picture of health.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ramsay and
son Roy, Win Ramsay and daughter,
Miss Lillian, depart this evening for
Birch Island Lake near Spooner. Wis
lconsiD, where they will spend the
summer They are preparing to erect
cottages and have taken car load
OF provisions and material, furniture,
equipment and the necessities OF camp
life. win Ramsay returns within a
short time. after having started the
work. and the other members OF the
party will 90 some time in June
y. l.. Towle went to Pella yester-
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20
u sG.7O and hogs at sac.


J. NJ. FOuts, Battle Creek, had in a
load Of 1050-pound yearling steers
yesterday which sold at $3.50. lie
sold heavy heifers at $40 and light
heifcrs at $6.75. They were his own
feeding. He also marketed hogs.
Grain StatistiCs-Total Clearances
Of wheat and flour were equal to 237,-
600 bu.; primary receipts were l6L-
900 bu.; compared with 436, 5000 bu.
the corresponding day year ago; the
worlds visible supply as shown by
BradStrcct's decreased 1851 600 bu.;
estimated receipts for today, wheat,
none corn LOG cars, oats 100 cars.
Horse values in the country have
horses become luxuries and not every
day necessities for industrial use. In
the breeding districts a choice car
riage horse or a well-matChed pair
of drafters sell for a price that would
have been considered an ample first
payment on quarter section farm q
score of years ago. High prices for
commercial horses in the country dis
trictS have stimulated the breeding in
dustry and more good stations are
being imported for breeding purposes
than in any other year in quarter
of Il century.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20

y Stockers and feeders, S3GD@5G5.
Westerns, $4.7jm go. ~
Texas steers, $4.60M6.25.
Texas cows and heilers, $3.5OMA75
SIIEEP-Reccipts today, 1000.
10 to - lower.
Estimated receipts for tomorrow
5000.
Sheep $3.99Gi6.25.
Lambs, $6.OOm9.OO.
Receipts and Shipments.
Official receipts yesterday: Hogs
l2,97l, CatCle, l,49S. Sheep, 1850.
Official shipments yesterday: Hog;
2,33S. Cattle, 1,I3G. Sheep, 2SS.
Closing Market Prices.
IIOGS-Closing slow and mostly II
lower than yesterdays average. Top
$40.
Mixed and butchers, $6.S5@1 1924.
Good to choice heavy, $710@735.
Rough heavy, $G9OM705.
Light, $G.70m7.2O.
Bulk, $71OmI3O.
Pigs, $5.7Om6.7O.
CATTLE-Bcst steady; others weak
to 10 lower than yesterday.
SIIEEP-Weak.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20


Van Zee, of Pella, were Sunday visitors
with their aunt, Miss Elizabeth IVES
Iterly, at the Central Holiness uniyer.
sity.
y. l.. Towlc is home from an eX'
tended business trip to Chicago and
the east. He will remain in town sew,
eral weeks before taking the road
again.
Ernest Anderson. who was former
iy employed in 0skaloOsa bakeries,
was in the city Sunday visiting friends.
he is now on the road for a bakery
supply house.
Mrs. Ellen German was a passenger
this morning via the Rock Island for
LuyeTnc, Mimi, Sherman and Ward
South Dakota, for an extended visit
with relatives.
Ross w. Brown, accompanied by his
mother arrived home Sunday morn.
ing from PhOeuix, Arizona Mrs.
MrOwn will probably make her homo
mere permanently. 2
Joe Beeson, Of Boston, Mass, is in
town for a few days business visit.
Mrs. Beeson and the children have been
here some time pending their cnaBge
.of residence from Kansas City to HOS-
ton. e.
Oliver Mccoy, of Omaha, Nebr. who
has been visiting his sister, Mrs. +.
w. Newman, went to Knoxville this
morning. lie was accompanied by
his niece, Beatrice Newman, for a
visit with relatives.
Mrs. Claire Cooper daughter of Mrs,
CLARA Barton. is lying in critical con
ditiOn at her home on Second avenue
west, the result OF months OF illness.
She has been sleeping since last Fri.
day and can be aroused only a few
moments at a time.
Fred Matthews. who has 50 Capably
filled the position as day baggageman
at the Iowa Central station for several
months, has resigned his position and
will assist his father, Ed Matthews.
the cement contractor. this summer.
lie will be succeeded by Roy Attig. who
was former night baggageman at
the place.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kalbach, who
nave been absent from the city upon
a three months honeymoon trip 10
+. ~
foreign lands bordering upon tile Med.
iterranean Sea, returned to O.kaiouSl
from the East Sunday evening via the
Iowa Central. They will be at home
In the w. p. Hawkins property, No.
S25 High avenue east. within few
weeks.
Richard y. Anderson. who has been
at the head OF the dress goods depart
ment of the Baldauf-Rosenblatt Dry
Goods House for period OF two years
or more, has resigned the position to
enter business OF his own at Tecum-
sch, Michigan. for which place he viii
depart as soon as he can be relieved.
Mr.. Anderson has been most capa-
bic and efficient department manager
at the Baldauf store and has made a
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20
GIRL BURNS SELF TO DEATH.

Cedar Rapids, Ia, May ia vic
tim of i'll health for many years, Miss
Mary Sadler, near Toledo, chose
sensational method OF suicide. Max
ing an excuse that she was going to
the home Of her brother Miss Sadler
left home and went to small ravine
where she raked together a pile or
leaves, saturated them and herself
with three quarts OF kerosene and alp
piled a match When found the
woman's body was burned to crisp.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20
Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago, May Steady;
creamerics, 2OHm2ic; dairies, 1Sm
2Sc.
Eggs-Steady at mark, cases includ
cd, l9hc; firsts, zoe; prime frsts 2lc
Cheesc-Weak; daisies l3HM13hc;
twins 13m13Hc; young Americas
1874 M1ic; long horns, 1871 DI4c.
enthusiastically choice to fancy
S2mS5C; fair to good, 7SmS2c.
Poultry - Steady; turkeys, 15c;
chickens, l5Rc; springs, 15c.
Veal-Steady; so to 50 ID. WITS. SO
&c; GO to 50 lb. WITS, 7m8hc; S5 to
40 lb. WITS, Sh@9Rc.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20
Cash Quotations.

Cash Quotations. re
red $l.47@1.5O; No. 3 red, $1,iS@1A7;
No. 2 hard, $l3O01.37; No. hard
$l.256Dl.32; No. l northern, $l.3Ok
0I.32; No. 2 northern, $l.2S@l 3l;
No. ) spring, $l.2G@1.30.
Corn-No. 2, 75Rc; No. 2 white
7IH @74hc; No. yellow, 75H D76c;
No. 3 74%c; No. , white, 7Gc; No,
yellow, 75G75hc; No 4, 75@73kc
Oats-No. 2 white, 59c; No. 3 white
5S@59c! No. 4 white, 551s@5Sc; stand
ard, 5SM 059hc.
Flour-Steady.
Rye-No. 2, G3c.
Barley-Feed or mixing, roc; fair to
choice mailing, 62hc.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.
Chicago, May 10.
Opening Prices.

Chicago, May 10.
Opening Prices.
HOGS Receipts today 279OO. &
Slow and lower than yesterdays
average.
Mixed and butchers, $6,90@737h.
Good to choice heavy, S7i5WIfO.
Rough heavy. $6.95@710.
Light, $G.75Wz25.
Bulk, s715M735.
Pigs, $5.75@G.7O.
Clearance yesterday fair
Estimated receipts for tomorrow
10000.
CATTLE-Receipts today $4,000.
Steady to 10 lower,
Estimated receipts for tomorrow,
6 1000.
Beeves. s5.O0M7.25.
Cows and heifers, s2.50Q6.4O.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20

Campers are becoming numerous on
the banks OF skunk and Des Moines,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
BRANDEIS STORES

hood, middle age and old ~fogyhood-it
certainly is,
Made no difference where 1 went, I
couldn't find that breezy westerner. When
/ first started out I figured that l ought
to find him in such a place as Butte, for
example. But the fellows 1 met in Butte
and 1 reckon 1 met them all-had about
as much western breeziness about them
as you might expect to find at the Union
league in Philadelphia.
Don't take me as meaning that they
were SNUG or dummyfied or anything of
that sort. Merely, they weren't west
ernly breezy, as 1 had a perfect right
to expect they'd be in such a place as
Butte. ....
Breezy? Why, confound 'em, those
Butte fellows seemed to me to spend most
of their time conversing in subdued tones
among themselves about motor car tours
of the Riviera that they'd taken or were
contemplating taking, or dahabelah ex-
cursions up the Nile. The Riviera and the
Nile-didn't 1 have a lovely chance to I'M
cover and unmask a breezy westerner in a
gang Of westerners like that?
Same in Denver-where, by the way, l
actually believe there are more fellows who
have their clothes made in London than
there are in New York; same in Cheyenne
where Il seemed to me most Of the purely
imaginary breezy westerners I met own
their private railroad cars. and they think
no more of spinning these private cars to
New York to give their wives and daugh-
tiers a couple of weeks of grand opera than
we think Of dropping over to Boston or
Baltimore.
Same in Seattle. Spokane, Tacoma,
Portland. Tucson, Los Angeles-same
everywhere, for 1 only mention these places
at random. 1 was chasing a will o. the
wisp. and 1 knew it long before I was
through with my western pilgrimage.
often / ventured off the beaten western
track. and still my breezy westerner eluded
me. Even in a mining camp like Goldfield
I failed to spring him.
Men lined up at the Goldfield bars, Of
course, talked in tones of alcoholic buster,
loudly and boastfully sometimes; but men
lined up at bars talk like that everywhere,
in New York and Boston as well as in
! Goldfield and Cripple Creek. The typical,
thorough-golng westerners that 1 came into
contact with at Goldfield, however, weren't
breezy.
Nothing like It. They talked almost
whisperingly about mines and claims and
improvements and stamp mills and labor
troubles and such like; but they never got
within a mile of breeziness.
why, l couldn't even find my breezy
man on ranches far removed from railroads
and I visited about a dozen such ranches.
My ranchmen hosts all turned out TO be
quiet, indeed, rather reserved men Of bust
ness, who rode around on their tours OF
inspection diked out in riding toys Of the
sort you'd expect to see along the eques-
trian path on Riverside Drive-theIr wives
modishly habited, often accompanying
them.
Il was on two ranches, one in North
Dakota and the other in New Mexico,
where the hosts out Of compliment to their
women folk, always wore dinner jackets
at dinner. And one ranchman, on whose
immense place in Texas / spent a week,
carried q limp leather edition OF The
Odes OF Horace with him when he can
tered about IN his inspecting tours, and
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

bulky wallet lying on the chiffonier of a
patron. in which were two cakes OF soap
and a couple of electric light bulbs. Sew
eral days ago l found a grip Of a near de-
parting guest hidden behind a chiffonier
and. noticing its bulky appearance, my at
tention was called to some fluffy stuff
sticking out Of It. In lifting It up the grip
flew open and there l discovered half a
dozen towels and several cakes Of soap Of
the Henshaw brand. l simply laid the
towels and soap on the bed. They were
there when the guest departed. He paid
his bill hurriedIy and with a flushed face.
Nothing was said. 1t was simply a case
Of music without Words"
There must be a wave Of awakening
conscience prevailing Omaha Just now"
said Chief Clerk Billy Anderson of the
Rome hotel Saturday morning. I'VE had
almost an Identical case with the Henshaw.
only the articles returned by mall were
a silver knife, fork, table and tea spoon
and a demi tasse spoon. The note vas
written In a feminine hand"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

what's more, he read from that book at
odd moments.
And so 1 returned from these western
wanderings without having located my
breezy westerner. Instead Of coming upon
any human critter who even remotely re-
sembled that chap, I ran into and was
Overwhelmingly entertained in many far
separated cities, towns, hamlets and camps
and ranches of the west by slews and
slathers of keen witted, self-contained
thoroughly balanced, good natured western
men-men who wasted few words, never
boosted, took a couple of baths a day,
switched into evening toys at the proper
hour; men who, speaking generally has
precisely the same manner and appearance
Of the men of New York and Washington
and Boston and Philadelphia, plus a GER
tain poise, a certain breadth, a certain
bigness of view, which, after all more than
any other quality. differentiate the stand
ard, high grade westerner from the east
erner of the corresponding class?
But they weren't breezy, blame 'em, and
I don't believe 1 can ever forgive 'em for
that"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
THAT BREEZY WESTERN MAN
New Workers. Chase of a Will-0'-the-
Wisp.
HUNT THAT ENDED IN FAILURE
Type that Ma he Found in Novels,
but Not in Mining Camps, on
Ranches or in the Big
cities.

NEW YORK, Aug. H-"Tve just returned
from a protracted hunt for a type of human
being that no longer exists, and I'm from
Missouri as that to part Of II, too" said a
retired business man of New York. II am
referring to the breezy western man. I'd
heard, you see, all of the legends about the
breezy western man and l knew that he
has been embalmed, with all Of his eSplo-
sive breeziness, in the literature of several
generations. 1 wanted to see him.
"In the course OF my extended business
life in New York ia met thousands of
western men, but none of them was what
you could call breezy. This caused me to
feel myself somewhat imposed upon.
1t didn't seem right to me that these
western chaps visiting New York failed to
make good in this matter OF breeGiness;
didn't act up to their parts, to put It that
way. ia always read and heard that the
typical western man was a breezy, blowy,
blustery. gusty, sort of son of Boreas born
in a cyclone cellar. h then did all of
these western fellows mean by zephyring
along to New York and conversing, all of
them In that subdued, ~soft-pedal tone OF
voicef
They don't even look like the breezy
westerners OF my conception. Their faces
weren't prairie or desert or mountain
tanned; they didn't have sweeping, stragsly
spread eagle mustaches; their necks lined
criss-cross wise and red like a turkeys
comb; their eyes weren't hard and steely
their hair wasn't cowlicky; their hands
weren't huge, hairy and calloused, In fact
in New York they looked Just like New
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
K. OF P.'S GO TO CONVENTION
Four or Five COIored Dele
gates VIII Attend Kansas
City Gathering.

Between 400 and 500 Omaha colored peo-
pie left last night at 1870 in a special train
over the Missouri Pacific for Kansas City,
to attend the fifteenth biennial supreme
lodge OF the colored Knights of Pythias
OF the World. They will also attend the
fifth e-ncampment Of the uniformed rank.
Delegates from every country on the face
Of the globe will attend the convention,
and arrangements ave been made for the
entertainment Of over 5000 persons, S2O,O Oo
having been raised in Kansas City for this
purpose. The convention opens August q,
and continues eight days.
There are four colOred Knights of Ply
thias lodges and two colored uniform rank
companies in Omaha. The lodges are the
Western Star No. l, Keystone No. 4 and
Gibralter No. 8. The uniform rank COM
panies are St Morrison No. l and st.
Douglas NO. 2
Among the crowd that goes TO Kansas
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

Workers., and New Workers of the conserva-
tive cut at that.
They didn't wear Immense brimmed
sombreros. They wore hats just like ours,
of the conventional styles. Finally they
didn' wear boots. For me this was the
final straw; the miserable scoundrels posi-
lively declined to clomp around on my rugs
wearing boots.
And in other respects these Westerners
irritated me keenly. Why, would you be-
lieve it, a lot OF them actually insisted
upon putting on evening clothes for the
hotel dinner or when we went to the thea
ter. And they didn't even call their even
Ing clothes full dress suits They called
'em evening clothes, and they looked just
as easy and trig and spick/ and span in
'em as If they'd been wearing evening
clothes all their lives.
And they weren't a little bit humble
under the piercing, whitening gaze Of the
most impressive and oppressive walter.
Not only that but they knew how to order
a far better dinner than l ever could or
der. They had a way of picking out, as
II by instinct, the best show In town, and
some OF them could even hum airs from
the Wagner operas. The society of clever
eastern women didn't discomfort 'em a
particle-and hadn't 1 always heard that
tho breezy western man, were he never
so breezy, was instantly shrivelled into
bashful silence by the mere p~ropinquity
Of women of any sort?
I say, l was positive all the time
that these western fellows visiting New
York we're merely acting, And so when
l retired from business over a year ago
and decided to make a leisurely tour Of
the whole United States, I felt that my
time had arrived to track down the sure
enough, honest Injun, flank branded
breezy westerner.
I'm find him now all right said to
myself, and I'll unmask him, too, He
exists-he's bound TO exist-or there
wouldn't be so much said or written about
him. Watch me get on his trail now and
run him to earth! I'll Just drop in unan-
nOunced on a lot of 'em and catch them
right in the article Of being breezy west
erners, and maybe they won't feel cheap A"
Here the retired New York business man
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
CONTRACTORS ON THREE BIG
BUILDINGS RACE AT WORK
Builders on BrRndeis, City National
Bank and Court House struc-
lures Are Competitors.

Contractors for the three biggest build
ings now going up in Omaha are engaged
in a sort Of race. The companies doing the
work on the Brendei building, the City
National bank and the new court house are
watching each other Just a little to see
that the rate of progress made by the other
two is no better than theirs.
The Brandeis building has had the start
of the others aid has now arrived at the
point OF installing steel. The long steel
beams which will support the proscenium
arch of the theater are being put into
place now. Brick work on the court house
is going ahead at a swift pace and the
work of installing concrete piers to sup
port the steel columns is practically done.
Excavation for the City National bank
building is being done by the general CON
tractors, and being done faster than a
sub-contractor would have done it.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
HOTELS LOSE HEAVILY TO
SOUVENIR SEEKING GUESTS
Joe keenan, of Henshaw TelIs of How
COnsciences often
Perform.


Taken for souvenir. Returned; guilty
conscience"
Thai was all there was to the note, but
accompanying It were two silver spoons
securely wrapped in a piece Of newspaper
and enclosed in a pasteboard box, mailed
to the Henshaw hotel under an Omaha
post mark Saturday morning.
There was no signature to the note The
spoons were engraved with the name
"O'Brien" on the handle.
The spoons we're valued at about S."
said Chief Clerk Keenan,, "and we were
glad to get them back, and only hope that
the conscience wave that seems to afflict
some Of our patrons may be extended.
you would be surprised at the quantity
Of stuff that flexible conscience permits
their owners 10 abstract from the hotel as
souvenirs. Only a day OF two ago l found a