The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-05-11

Miss Jessie Coleman, teacher in til,
Moulton high school and Miss Hoove
who is principal of the same institu
ton spent Saturday and Sunday will
the formers mother, Mrs. o. D. Cole
man, No. $40 B avenue east.
J. b. Pearson, who has case o
blood poison in his hand, dating from
April 3, caused by the puncture o.
a. tack, while fixing decorations. fol
the Hornets. Nest Brigade, improves
but slowly, being still under the care
of a doctor. ,.,, ..,.,,..
Friends here are in receipt of word
from Mrs. Albert Terrell, a,of Grand
Rapids, that she reached Cherbourg
safely. She was met there by her sis
ter, Mrs. Barnes, who has been abroad
for some time. Mrs. Terrell will
spend the summer in Europe.
Mrs. Julia Justice and son Lincoln,
No. 40S North A street, have returned
from somewhat extended stay at
Rock Island, Ill. ;, where they have been
on account of the illness and death
of Mrs. E. e. WEIGH, mother of Mrs.
Justice, who was in hospital at that
place. r.
Mrs. Lucy Fortune, mother of
Frank Fortune, formerly of Bloom.
field, Iowa, has come to reside with
her son and her granddaughter, Miss
| Nellie. The home for the present
will be at No. 3O3 South B street.
Mrs. Fortune came from a visit in
Oklahoma.
Rev. w. J. Lockhart, who held sue
cessful meetings at the Christian
| church few weeks, passed through
the city this morning enroute from
Ottumwa to Des Moines, where he
will spend the day. Rev. Lockhart is
now conducting meetings at the Chris
tian church in South Ottumwa and is
having great success. He converted
81 the first eight days he was in o.
tumwa, and converted 16 last night.
In a note to the Herald from w. E.
Blakeslee, now located in Dickinson,
North Dakota. he says Phil Herbig is
also located there and that they find
it impossible to get along without the
old home paper. He further men,
tons they are both well satisfied but
will come back on a visit some time.
They want to be remembered to all
old time friends and request that if
anything happens that don't get into
the paper to write them
Marshalltown Times Republican
Frank Armour, of Oskaloosa, spent
Thursday i'm the city, coming to
meet Mrs. Armour, who reached the
city from California, where she has
been visiting relatives for the past
several months. Mr.. Armour spent
several weeks in California during
the winter, but returned home in
February. Mr.. and Mrs. Armour
spent Thursday here at the J. |.
Armour home, and went to Oska-
loosa in the evening.
Earl Bridges has been appointed to
the position of city engineer of Oska-
lOosa, resuming the, duties which he
resigned about one year ago to accept
a position with the Iowa Construction
Company The announcement of his
return will be received with pleasure
by the many friends of the young
man. Mr. and Mrs. Bridges arrived
in the city from Mt, Pleasant Sunday
and they will resume their residence
at No. 610 A avenue east, immediate |
Iy. Mr.. Bridges will take up the work
Of city engineer row,-Tuesday
J, M. Orvis. of Des Moines, was
in Oskaloosa Saturday afternoon, |
coming down to make arrangements |
for the funeral of Mrs. Orvis, who
died Saturday morning. Mr. and
Mrs. Orvis were formerly residents
Of Oskaloosa and were in business
here for a number of years. During
their residence here they were
prominent members of ST. James
and Mr.. Orvis is now Sc
Nor Warden of st. Marks Episco-
pal church in Des Moines. Many
friends here regret to
know of his bereavement.
G. w. France is home from an ex
tended trip into the Southland where |
he has spent ten weeks basking in |
the sunshine of number of states, |
He left Oskaloosa on the 23rd of Feb |
ruary and landed in Florida. The
first thing he did was to purchase a
straw hat in which he has been COM
Portable ever since. He was in Jack
sonville a couple of weeks and at |
Tampa, st. Petersburg, Winterhaven
and st. Augustine. On coming north |
he stopped for season at Atlanta,
Ga, in Chattanooga, Tenn, and en-
route home visited at Mount Erie and |
Fairfield, Illinois.
OF former well known resident of /
the Eddyville Tribune /
says: IL. l.. McCord, our we'll know
business man, who has been resi-
dent of Eddyville since he and Wig H
purchased the Riggs lumber
yard some years ago, has decided to
Use some of his building material in
erecting a home OF his own. His
new home will be located on the site
Of the old Tierney property on North
Fourth street, and the work of tear
ng down the old structure Is now I'M