The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-10-06
OUR COL0RED SOCIETY
In and Outs Of the Local Colony and
Their Friends.

Rev. T. Tyler, for the past two
years pastor of the A. M. e. church in
this city, has been appointed by the
Bishop to the pastorate of the A. NJ
E.Qchurch at Galesburg, ILL.,, for the
coming year. Rev. Tyler returned
from Conference at Minneapolis on
Tuesday evening and closed up his
affairs here and left Friday evening
for his new charge. His family, who
are now visiting at his wife's home
in Michigan, will Join him in Gales
burg in a few days. We are sorry to
| part with so good family, so able
| a preacher and so warm a friend, but
we fullySrealize that the change is a
deserving recognition of Rev Tyler's
ability and worth as a minister and
a Christian man. We had hoped that
he would be returned here for another
year. His splendid manhood, his
earnestness and zeal in his work and
his power and eloquence as a preach
er were qualities that have become
well known in the community and his
influence was fully recognized and
felt and we are sure he could have
accomplished much good by remain
ing here. Then we don't like to
change preachers so often anyway
But then we know Rev. Tyler was too
able a man to remain long in so small
field as this is and we are glad that
Bishop Shaffer has seen the wisdom OF
recognizing ability as well as loving
services, in dealing out some of the
good things at his disposal. The
Galesburg charge is a splendid ad
bit more than he is able to fill or is
entitled to. 1t has a membership OF
about one hundred and property val
Ied at $4,000, with splendid opportu.
mites that a man of Rev. Tyler's high
qualities will not fail to grasp and
make the most of. Personally we
shall miss him very much. He has
very ably assisted us on Saturdays,
and the association thus formed has
been pleasing and gratifying to us
both, while his genial good nature and
courteous manners have gained him
the friendship and respect of our pa.
irons generally; but the higher call.
ing to which he has consecrated his
life demands the change and we wish
him abundant success in his new and
larger field of labor
Miss Nora Motifs and Mrs. Chism, of
Sigourney, were shopping in the city
Monday. They have the distinction
of being the only two colored ladies in
Sigourney. Miss Motifs, whose home
is at Washington, is employed there
as trained nurse, and Mrs. Chism,
whose, home was formerly at .Wyan.
dotte, Kansas, is keeping house for
her uncle, Thos. H. M. Burton.
Miss. Lalla Fields, OF Des Moines,
spent the week here visiting at the
home of her mother.
G. H. Jones was in Des Moines Sun
day and Monday visiting his son and
looking after business matters con
which he is administrator.
The Iowa conference of the A. NJ. E,
church which closed it's annual session
in Minneapolis Monday, chose Des
Moines as the place of meeting next
year, at which time delegates will be
chosen to the general conference,
which meets in Kansas City, Mo. in
August, 1912. Rev. M. G. Newman,
who has been stationed at Council
Bluffs the past year. received the Os-
kaloosa appointment for the coming
year and has notified the church here
that he hopes to be here within a
week or ten days, or just as soon as
he can arrange some personal mat
tiers requiring his attention at the
Bluffs. Rev. Newman comes to us
we'll recommended and We bespeak for
him a pleasant and successful years
work.
Miss Ethel Terrell has returned to
the city to complete her course at the
high school, after spending her vaca-
ton with her parents in Colfax.
Henry Mease, of Buxton, entered
the high school here this week and
expects to complete the course. He
will board at the Kimbrough home on
North Market street.
Mrs. Eliza Ford, wife of Abraham
Ford, AT North Sixth street, has been
in very poor health for the past month
being down with rheumatism and 9th.
er ailments that are slow to yield to
the usual treatment, and her i'm
proyement is slow and very unsatisfac-
tory to her family and friends.
Mrs VIM. Tiffin, who has been quite
sick at her home on North Fourth ST.,
is improving satisfactorily. Her son
Fred, who came to see her, has re.
turned to his home in Rock Island.