The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-05-19
At UNIVERSITY PARK
CEMENT SIDEWALK ORDERED.
INTERSTATE oRAToRlcAL - g.
FOOT TELESCOPE ORDERED.
CHANGE IN FACULTY.

FOOT TELESCOPE ORDERED.
CHANGE IN FACULTY.
One quarter of a mile of new ce.
ment walks has been ordered by the
| city council The walk will extend
along the South side of Ninth avenue
from the corporation line on the west
and east to the Carts property. This
win make big Improvement. The
new walk will be five feet in width.
The following have completed new
cement walks: On the west side of
Ninth avenue, G. ]. Gillett, C. w. Rid
die, Mrs. Terrell and Mrs. WATSON.
Considerable grading was made neces.
sary.
Another new house has been started
and others contemplating building
are hesitating on account of lack of
material. d. N. Shelters is erecting
seven room home at the corner OF
PENAL and Seventh streets. The
house is twenty-eight feet square and
will be one story and basement. The
cost is about 100000.
The new house being erected by
Mrs. Rosenberger ON Ninth avenue
on the east corporation line of Oska.
loosa, is now enclosed and the car.
penters are making rapid progress.
An addition is being made to the
sewer to the main university building.
Six, inch piping is connecting the
short sewer with the septic tank or
gravel bed about twenty-five rods be.
low the heating plant.
Work is progressing on the removal
lof the old heating plant building. The
brick walls have been torn down,
This makes a decided Improvement in
this locality.
The tabernacle is being painted
iFhe interior is also being arranged
for the interstate oratorical contest.
over $4,000 has been raised by the
intercollegiate Prohibition Associa.
ton for the support and expansion OF
college prohibition work during the
next five years. The work of Sc.
curing the fund was started little
over year since by Vergil C. Hin.
shaw, president of the association.
The goal set =, was $4,000, but the
friends Of this move were so generous
and so many that S50,716.75 had been
pledged by May l, 1910. There were
ll3l friends Of the organization who
responded to the call; among them
were lie students, who are attending
school,, made $500 pledges. Central
Holiness University is we'll represent,
ed among the "givers," about forty
students appearing on the roll of
honor" The Prohibition League of
g. Fl. U. made pledge Of $4,000 TO
be made in five yearly payments. The
large sum raised will afford finance
for the progress of the work among
students of the religious colleges.
A Joint meeting of the three liter.
airy societies of the school will be
held on the evening of May 80. The
societies represented will be, L'Aca.
demic, Alpha Zeta, Eloisian. The
meeting will be open to the public
and promises TO be most interesting
and entertaining.
A new tennis court has been pro.
vided for the students. This makes
two courts.
The base ball diamond will be
skinned" in the near future. The
boys interested in this sport say that
they will have an excellent field af.
ter weeds and grass have been cut off.
A new eight-foot telescope has been
added to the laboratory equipment at
the college. 1t is a first class instru.
ment and has a six.inch optic tense.
1t is not possible that the instrument
will be placed this year. There is
some talk of placing the telescope in
the Victory Castle" Prof. Leedy,
who has charge of astronomy, prom.
ises to make this subject more inter.
esting after the new addition to
equipment has been placed.
Elmer HORT and VIM. Zabilka, stu.
dents in biology, have completed a
nice piece Of work in this department.
A dog has been secured and bisected
and the skeleton been placed togeth-
er again. @'
A number of changes will be made
in the faculty for next year. The cat
alogue for this year is not out yet,
but announcement has been made
concerning number of elections. A
number of new professors will come
to c. H. U. next year.
Prof j. B. Mack, dean OF Taylor
IIniyareifv Indiana opd ubo a. n
graduate of Syracuse University, has
been elected professor of higher
mathematics and physics.
Miss Jennie Cusick, of Greenville,
Illinois, and a graduate of Green.
vile College, has been elected TO the
position in charge OF the education
and economics department.
Miss Laura e. Wallace, graduate
OF the University OF Nebraska, has