The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-06-10
'NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered by Her.
aid Correspondents.
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| Mduu NOSSHldH ohoppSu III oohu
loosa Saturday.
]. S. Oldham was a business caller
in Oskaloosa Thursday.
| j. A. Drinkie. of Pekin. H., was, a
pleasant caller here Saturday.
A. H, Nesbit, of Atlantic, was here
on commercial business FRIDAY.
Mrs. VIM. Druse spent Thursday in
Harvey at the Alfred Thompson home.
j., S. Oldham spent Saturday in
PelIa on business with Herman Reit-
weld. y.s-
| The farmers of this locality sold
hogs to Leighton buyers last Friday
| for z cents. f .
Clyde Robinson, one of our enter
prising young farmers, sold 400 bush
| els of corn to Mr. Yer P'oeg for ~
cents per bushel
j.. E. Mcdonald and Ha' Moore Sc.
| cured work at the Ramsay mine near
Evans last week but their families
| will remain 1ere for some time.
| Mrs. Effie Druse returned to the
home of her parents, MIR. and Mrs. j.
l.. Thompson, on Wednesday after an
extended visit with friends in Des
Moines. ........ i.,. .
We were pleased to met ]. w Nc
| Dowell, OF OSkaloosa,, who is visiting
his son, J. e. Mcdowell, here. He is
a ready conversationahst and man
| one enjoys meeting
VIM. Baxter, vice-president of the
| u. M. w. A., was here on business
Wednesday. He takes much interest
in the members of the union. who are
| idle and assists all he can towards Sc
I curing them work. "'.' ''..
j. S. Oldham. our enterprising mer-
chant, says his trade is growing stead
lily and his cream business is beyond
| his expectations. He ships the cream
| to Cedar Rapids. lie has five hundred
chickens at his place and has dis
carded the old hen for hot air for
| Matching
H. A. Nelson. of Ringgold county,
was here Thursday and was well i'm
pressed with the farming industry in
this vicinity. He thought that for a
town the size of Olivet to maintain
two churches was highly commendable
and predicted a larger population in
the future. moot
The Ladies Aid Society has had the
cemetery cleaned up and iL looks fine.
The writer has observed for the past
half century that when you want work
well done, put the women on the job
and they will get results. If you are
not convinced of the truth of this, try
see If she doesn't come out to tell you
how it ought TO be. done. 90 '.1%r
b. F. Burnetty the candy man from
Oskaloosa, was here Friday and said
he attended the, Junkin trial in Cen
tervilIe last keek. He says the INTEL
igence of Junkin is largely underesti-
mated and that he is up to the aver
age of his race in intelligence. Mr..
Burnett says heIfinds trade fairly good
and his dullest business is in the min
ing camps, where they are running
only half time.
Z. p. Silvers, one of our farmers
said last Saturday that the best crop
of corn he ever raised was planted on
the goth day of May four years ago
and when harvested the fifteen acres
planted on that day averaged II
bushels to the acre. He says If one
third of the apples already started,
stay on the trees, there will be fine
crop, but he has paid no attention to
other kinds of fruit.
The verdict in the Junkin case meets
with the approval Of the people OF
this community. 1t was amusing to
read the arguments of the. county at
tofney and their citing him as. a
child of God Guess the sBord knows
about as much about Junkin as a hog
does about Sunday. General Frank
Sickles told us once that wind was
about the cheapest thing man had
to sell. and we believe 1t.
The writer was criticised recently
for an item in the Herald letter, on
the ground that credit was given
where 1t was not due. Now we wish
to serve notice on critics right here,
that when we cease to say something
good for our home, it's people, enter
prises and business, it will be on some
other hemisphere. Our rule or life
has always been to do all We can for
the advancement of home and we in
tend to follow it to the end.
We are in receipt of the charlotte
Observer, of North Carolina, contain
ing an article that pats Senator Cum
minis on the back for the stand he is
taking on the tariff question. Certain
ly. Why not pat him on the back?
He held, when at nome, an honor no
other man ever dIa, that of being at
the head of the government of the
best state in the union for three
terms. Our friends Oh the Ear Heel
state can well keep their eye on Cum
minis for he will get there with the
goods" every time.
R.W Williams and wife spent Dec
Grafton Day with his daughters, MRS
A. Long and Mrs. j. n. FredericksOn,