The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-11-11
THE EDDYVILLE NEWS
Happenings In A Live Town As
Told by John r. Sipes.

Eddyville, Nov. .10.-Wapello Home.
stead No. 33, of the Homesteaders had
an open meeting for the members
Monday night and it was decided to
give an entertainment for the general
public in the near future and to en-
gage the 54th Regimental Band from
Ottumwa to come to Eddyville that
evening and give musical entertain
nent In the opera house. -..
Frank Padgett has sold his eighty
acre farm three miles northwest of
town in West Des Moines township,
to John Van Dyke, of Oskaloosa, who
pays $4,000 for it, or $50 per acre,
The deal was made by Miller & Son.
The Frenchmen class of the high
school organized society Tuesday
with the following officers: President
Miss Eva Miller; vice president, Miss
Pearl Whiteman; secretary, Ellis
Keller. A committee of three was ap-
pointed to look after business affairs.
Miss Estelle Akers, a trained nurse
from Ottumwa, came to Eddyville
Tuesday to take charge of the case Of
Mrs. Jane Gardner, who was taken
quite sick Sunday.
u Justice c. A. Norwood is able to he
out again after few days illness.
j. E. Davis, of Bluff Creek, has gone
to Mexico, Mo-, on a business trip.
Mayor w. l.. Hays is at home from
Haxtum, Colorado, where h was call
q kp n
jury which his son Otto Hays, sus-
tanned while roping cattle.
VIM. Gallagher departed this week
for Minneapolis, Mimi, to spend a few
weeks.
Chas. Cross, of Eldon, has succeeded
Russell Sields as assistant operator
at the Rock Island depot, as Russell
has accepted position at Pella. Rus
sell for some months worked at Of
tumwa before returning to the depot
at Eddyville.
DR.. F. M. McCrea has purchased
one-third of a lot of L. A. Rowe, To-
Gated back of the opera house and ad-
joining the Peter Francis property,
which the doctor recently purchased.
Harve Burlington, east of town, who
has been sick for several days, now
has an attack of typhoid fever.
Miss Emma Anderson returned this
week from a short visit with her aunt
Mrs. C. o. Swanson, in Ottumwa.
Roy Lafferty and family spent Sun
day with Mrs. Lafferty's mother, Mrs.
L. A. Roberts, in Oskaloosa. One OF
the little daughters, Miss Lucy Laffer-
ty. who spent last week with her aunt
Mrs. George Boyd, on a farm near
Grinnell, met them at Oskaloosa and
came home with them.
Silas Matherly is at home from an
over Sunday visit with a brother-1n-
law in Ottumwa.
Miss Esther Stephenson, Of Delta
returned home with her aunt, Mrs. u.
E. Stephenson, and paid a short visit
to Mr.. and Mrs. Stephenson, her I'M
Gle and anut.
G.. d. True, who had been spending
a week with his son, Earl True, in
Ottumwa, came home Monday.
Abe Dye returned to his work In
the mines at Blythe after spending
Sunday at home.
Wesley Ward spent Sunday with
Oskaloosa friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. NcCarty and
daughter, Miss Margaret, have return
ed to their home at Oskaloosa after
a visit with their relatives, the VIM.
Gallagher family.
II. G. True and son, Marion, came
home this week from visit with the
formers daughter, Mrs. Theo. lnskeep
ia Ottunwa. -. ...
Mrs. s. H. Lamis and daughter, MISS
Minnie, spent Tuesday in ottumwa'
Mrs. ]. E. Bland is spending the
week with her daughter, Mrs. Phil
Starkey and her grandson Walter
Coon, in Ottumwa.
Will Hawkins, Harry Sheldon, Gede
Leeling and o. E. Warner departed
Tuesday for Austin, Mimi, on busi-
ness.
Mrs. Chas. Odem and little son are
a, home from a weeks visit with Rev.
w. s. knight and family at valley
junction