The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-01-21


Ialready located there and his famil.
Twin join him In few weeks.
! Miss Neya Penlck, who recent
resigned her position as clerk wit
the Oskaloosa Dry Goods Co. to az
cept a position travelling for tn
American Featherbone Co, went |,
Washington this morning on her frs
| trip.
Mrs. Ida Workman and sons, Claud,
and Wilbur, were passengers thu
morning for Pierre, So. Dakota, wher'
they viii join Mr.. Workman and maxi
their future home. Roy, who is EN-
ployed as clerk at the Walter Camp
bell Grocery, win remain in 0skaloosa
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Carbon, o
Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Mr.. anS
Mrs. Harry Carbon, Of Des Moines
are guests of the parental George
Carbon home on First avenue East
Charles win remain in the city severa
weeks in the connection with business
affairs.
w. A Cook, of Packwood, corr
Judge at the Mahaska County Farm
ers' Institute this week, was in towr
Saturday en- route from Ames, where
he attended the short course. He
stopped here to look after the pre-
liminary features of his work of ths
week. "
Comrade John f. Brown was ~
years old A family dinner In nonol
of the anniversary was given by his
son Jones Brown on the Beacon road
Mr.. Brown was member of the Grey
Beard regiment and is one of the few
survivors of that famous organization
He is well preserved for man of his
years and enjoyed the spread to-day
/ 0skaloosa was represented in the
terrible wreck on the Denver & Rio
Grand at Dotsero, Colo, Friday night
Misses Bess Crozier and Adela Lakin
were passengers on tn west bound
train but were in one of the sleepers
and escaped serious injury. Miss
Crozier was enroute to California to
spend the winter, and Miss Lakin
was going to Helena, Montana, where
she has secured a fine position. kel:
atives and friends here who knew OF
the girls intentions to leave on the
fatal train were very solicitous OF
their welfare until word came Satur,
day evening that they were safe.
Robert Grail, who has been identi
fed with the H. l.. Spencer branch OF
the Western Grocer Company, departs
this evening for his new position as
manager of an Insurance Agency at
Kansas City. Mr.. Grail did his last
work on the road for the company last
week and the ovation he met every
where along the line was enough to
arouse the envy of president-elect
"Bill' Taft. Mr.. Grail was reted and
Toasted at What Cheer, Nontezuma
and other places, but the climax was
reached Saturday evening in fare
we'll dinner given at Hotel Lacey by
the proprietors. heads of departments
and fellow traverers of the Spencer
Grocery House. Mr.. Grail has reason
to remember the occasion for it ex
pressed sentiments of those with
whom Mr.. Grail has been associated
since coming to Oskaloosa in way
that spoken or written words could
not do. Mr.. Grail will leave his fam
lily in Oskaloosa until the close of the
schools and he has interests here
that will require his presence now and
then.
.r CFrom Tuesdays Daily)
Mr.. and Mrs. Two Thomas and
daughter returned Sunday evening
from a months visit in Pleasanton,
Kansas.
Mrs. Geo. z. Morrow went to OF
tumwa this morning, called there by
the illness of her sister, Mrs. Walter
Dorothy. ,...
= Charles MendenhaIl leaves this
evening for Rochester, Mimi. where
he will submit to another surgical
operation. .f -
Frank Hunt, brakeman on the Rock
Island passengers Nos ATS and 474,
was a visitor at the parental Tom
Hunt home.
Messrs. F. W. Glaze and J. L.
Milligan, went to Des Moines this
morning to attend the Masonic
School of instruction. Il
Mrs. F. M. Woods returned yester.