The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-10-13
NEIGHBDRHOOD NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered by Her
aid Correspondents.
olivET.

]. j. Top, our section foreman, sold
his residence hast week to j. NJ. Bali,
manager Of the mine.
Mrs. William Druse closed the
lThompson boarding house this week
and viii Join her father and mother in
Tacoma. While gone the property
will be we'll cared Tor by Mr.. and Mrs,
| Charles Logue.
The mine is averaging one hundred
tons of coal a day at this writing.
| J. NJ. Anderson, of Des Moines. was
in town ON business Saturday.
Mrs. r. Morgan, OF Bloomfield, is
Visiting uIis' week with her son, Arch
Morgan. ..
John Dolan was a business caller
in Oskaloosa Thursday.
Miss Alice Wharton, of Wright, re-
turned home Friday.
The latest news from Uncle John
Thompson of Tacoma is that his
daughter Mrs. Minnie Gillispie, who
died, left "a hours old babe. We
have no further particulars. Uncle
John moved to this country from In
diana right after the civil war. He
spent number of years at Rose Hill.
His old time friends and neighbors
viii be panied to read OF his family
trouble in his declining years.
J. NJ. Ball, the general manager of
the mine, was in town on Saturday
and informed us that the Black Dia-
mond Coal Company had made ar
rangements to build twenty four
room houses for the miners. This is
move in the right direction to build
up a town and we hope to see the
company prosper in their undertak-
| ings for when they do well. their en-
ployes will do the same, and we hope
to see them appreciate the effort of
the company in building up the town.
Squire j. B. Lyman, of Tracy, was
in town on Saturday and sold 25 tow a
lots at public auction belonging to
the DeROoi heirs. David Perry, the
blacksmith at the mines, bought II
and A A. Morgan, our merchant
bought seven. The rest went to diff,
ferent parties.
The fact was fully demonstrated
on Saturday that everybody reads the
Herald An item last week on the
school house seems to have touched
a very tender chord, for the question
of taxes was raised. The writer has
Lived both ways, paying taxes and
not paying taxes. He always felt bet
ter when he paid taxes than when he
didn't, for he always had something
to show for it. The writer never
lived on mushrooms, neither does he
build castles in the air, but he lookc
for Olivet to be a town yet and will
put his pest efforts forth to make il
so for this IS our home.
J. A. Johnson OF Perry was in towr
Friday on business.
The miners were made happy Satur
day by getting their pay for the las
half Of September. The result was
that Olivet was we'll represented il
the county capital.
We were pleased to read the very
interesting letter from Bolton in the
Herald last week.
Til Herald correspondent acknOwl
edges an invitation to attend the Her
aid picnic on the 22nd Providence
permitting we hope to be there.
1t is with much pride we note the
Herald list is growing. Why should
IL not grow, when man can gel
the news Of the country, state anC
nation one week for a dime? II he
didn't read the Herald he would be
a bigger fool Than Thompson's colt
who swan a river to drink out OF 6
trough on the other side.
Rev. MI. Martin, the new pastor Of
the NJ. p. church, filed his first ap
pointment here on Sunday, October
2, and will preach again next Sabbath
at IL a. m. We hope TO see a large
audience at church to meet him.
! Oct. II. ia r. w