The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-07-08
.NEICHBORHOOD NEWS
Items of Interest Gathered by Her
aid Correspondents.
OLIVET.

! Miss Maud Nossman spent Friday
In Harvey, shopping. #
! Mrs. j. S. Oldham. spent Wednesday
in Oskaloosa with friends.
James Anderson, of Draper, was
here Thursday on business.
| N. A. Johnson, of Des Moines, was a
business caller here Tuesday.
Ted Coryell, of Oskaloosa, spent
Thursday at the John Dolan home.
| j. w. Fisher spent Friday in town
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Rogers.
| Mr.. and Mrs John Do'an received a
letter from their son James last week,
He is located at Sterling, Colo, and is
doing well.
Frank McCombs was in town Fri
day and said that during his IS years
| residence in Scott township, Friday
was the hottest day he ever saw.
j. s. Oldham, wife and daughter
went to Eddyville in their automo.
bile and spent Sunday with relatives
| and helped celebrate the Fourth in
| the river town. ...e
In a letter from our sister Mrs
| Forrest, of Concord, North Carolina
she says that they have had the wet
est season there for great many
years and that their crops are light.
Horace Barnes says he now owns a
good deal of stock in the Abba Re-
| publican and that he will own more.
| This is no news to his friends, for
he is a born newspaper man and is
| bound to succeed. 49,
w. B. Rodgers Jr and Miss Ethel
! Grimes, of Moberly, Mo-, were over
Sunday visitors at the parental Rog-
| ers home here. Mr. and Mrs. r. Will
liams received a pleasant call from
| Miss Grimes on Sunday.
Art Rogers spent Saturday and
Sunday at the parental w. B. Rodgers
| home. He is working in the tool de-
partment of the machine shops at Mo-
berly but in August expects to begin
work on the Wabash, as fireman.
The writer Is having the best time
OF his life, all he has to do is sleep,
eat and enjoy himself with his good
wife by his side. In all his travels,
Olivet is the only place he ever saw
where he could live on good inten.
tons.
]. E. Mcdowell and Bose Phillips
are engaged in opening new mine
one and a half miles from Leighton.
They have good slope and have
found a four-foot vein of coal and
will soon be open for business. Their
many friends wish them success.
We were pleased to meet N. A. Pet
ersOn, of Dawson, when he was in
town Tuesday. We had not met since
1884 when we were in Des Moines IN
the interests of the E. A. Cossat bill.
Time has dealt kindly with Mr.. Peter
son and he looks as young as ever.
In letter from Mrs. A. Long who
recently moved from Bolton to Ottum
wa she says that the Bear Creek mine
is running full time and that the Boil
ton men who are there are doing
well. They like the new home very
Second street.
The majority of the Olivet people
spent the Fourth at home. Many hav-
ing little family picnics with ice cream
and other good things to eat. Occas-
ionally some of the younger genera
ton let us know 1t was independence
day by firing off few fire crackers,
otherwise it was very quiet day
for all.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Moody were call
ers at the r. Williams home Thursday
after attending the j. B. Moody funer-
al. Uncle John and wife are travelling
the shady path of life now, he being so
years of age while Mrs. Moody is ",
and both are hale and hearty. They
spent the night with their son at Bell
fountaine and returned home next day.
in talking with J. N. Johnson, OF
Kellogg, who travels over twelve coun-
ties of the state he says that the corn
and hay look much better at this time
than 1t did two years ago and that the
potato crop is unusually heavy owing
to the great demand for them and mer-
chants are contracting for them at
so cents per bushel.
j. s. Oldham has replaced the old
wheelbarrow, which has done duty
since the beginning of Olivet, with an
automobile to carry supplies from the
depot to the store and produce from
store to depot. The old barrow was a
familiar sight, the first to be seen in
the morning and the last at night In
all kinds of weather. Civilization de-
mands the best and the old relic has
had to give way to the modern means
o. conveyance.
Edward Bartlama, near here, has IS
acres of corn planted five weeks ago.
that is three feet tall, and he plowed
1t for the last time Saturday. After
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