The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-06-24
An EyesIass that don't wiggle
after it's on is such a comfort. !,
We Have Them.
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that to make news for the papers
! later on.
| M. S, Hess is improving his place
| by a hog-tight fence. OF course the
| reason given was that the porker got
| out and caused trouble.
Allena Hull has returned to her
home west of Oskaloosa from Drake
university, where she has been attend
| ing school, Miss Hull will teach next
| year.
| A young man who has been in Can
ada says there is plenty OF money In
that country The people are very
free with their cash and attend most
| any kind of amusement that comes
along. Every little town has paid
ball team which is supported by the
townspeople. He says that all prod,
ucts are twice as high as here. A
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The people drive twenty, thirty and
forty miles, and think nothing of it, to
do their trading. Everyone VINO goes
| to Canada should take plenty of mos
| quito covering for the pesky little
blood suckers are almost as big as the
bees are here. 1t is Necessary to have
a small fire to make smoke enough to
keep them away while one sleeps.
| They go in swarns as the Kansas
grasshoppers do, but instead of eating
up the crops they alignt on the human
anatomy and proceed to get heir meal,
| We have such nervy creatures here,
but they are not to be compared with
| those of Canada. .
Why not have Farmers Day in
| Oskaloosa, not just once, but have
them once every two weeks or once
in a month. The purpose, OF such a
day would be to compel every farmer
for miles and miles around Oskaloosa
to come to our city by offering bar
| gains the people could not resist &C
| cepting. The Retail Merchants Asso
citation might get together and boost
| for an enterprise Ike this, and make
! arrangements with every progressive
merchant to have a special sale on
| some article. Have 1t so arranged
| that the people who came to town on
that day could supply their needs by
| the special offers that were being
made. One store could have special
| sale on shoes, one on dress goods,
another on certain pieces of hardware,
another on certain pieces of furni-
| ture, and in this way give all mer-
chants equal opportunities. This
| would not only boost business, but
| would help to advertise Oskaloosa. 3
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| Children's Day was very approprl-
lately remembered by the members OF
| the Hawkeye Sunday school, Sunday
Iafternoon at the Hawkeye school
house. The building was crowded to
overaowing and it is estimated that
one hundred and fifty people came to
witness the program rendered by the
children of the neighborhood. Miss
Elizabeth Earling and Lurana Silcox
were responsible for the most excel
lent exercises OF the afternoon, as
lthey had been training the particlG
pants for some time on their selec-
tions. The Sunday school is now un-
der the supervision of I. n. Edris,
and it enjoys an average attendance
| of fifty students. Preaching is held
every Sunday by IMr. Boghar and Mr..
E. H. Wright, of Oskaloosa, they TAX
ing turns every other week. The
sermon is given at 2:30, after which
the Sunday school is held at $3.50.
The building has just been renovated.
new paper and paint has caused the
inside to look like a new pin.
Lurana Silcox, daughter of Benz.
Silcox, is attending Summer School at
Penn college in Oskaloosa. Miss Sill.
cox taught school at Pekay last year
and will teach again this year.
Mrs. Calvin Montgomery had a lit
tie hard luck Monday morning, and
many of her customers will be wear
ing a sorrowful looking face as re-
suit While churning Monday morn
ing Mrs. Montgomery had just about
finished with the exception of caus-
ling the granulated butter to collect.
She had let out the buttermilk and
placed some cold water in the churn,
and when she commenced to revolve
the churn, to her great surprise and
DISBURSEMENT, the lid had not been
fastened and the butter splashed onto
the ground. The only thing to do was
to feed the butter to the chickens,
while the customers waited for their
'smire." | wonder what Mrs. Calvin
said. Mr.. Montgomery is the owner
of a new colt which made its first APP
pearance Monday morning. 1t is
little black fellow and Mr.. Montgom-
cry says that in the course of time
he will have nice team of blacks.
The other colt is a yearling.
A farmer who has spent some time
| in Missouri at that profession says