The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-08-31

lican, got special permit to leave |
town. 1t was quite a concession on |
the part of Mayor Pabst, as Abba |
hates to let any of her citizens outside |
of the corporation, for fear they may
never come back. 1t is practically
impossible to buy ticket to Oska
loosa, but Mr.. Barnes finally succeed
| ed and came over. Here is what he
saw and heard:
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If ever there was a thing a man
wanted to know the way to find out
was to go on asearching expedition.
| That's why the Republican man went
over to Oskaloosa last Monday, and
we want it understood right now that
we did not go over the "Budweiser
Boulevard" either Some way we heard
that name mentioned hundreds of
times and we believe some of the peo-
pie of Oskaloosa really have pride in
| it, With Ottumwa needing irrigation
to even chase up the smell of booze
and with Abba dry for years, it leaves
Oskaloosa over there the only town in
this section of the state where man
can get his whistle wet and make a
blamed hog of himself if he wants.
! The Oskaloosa saloons are doing a
big business right at this time. The
dry weather and the dry men are
working together 1t is a case of corn
crying out for the need of rain and
man crying out for the need of corn
juice. Many a person goes up from
Ottumwa and carried home a pocket
full of booze and they use jugs to
carry home supply of beer in place
of suit cases as they do in this coun-
ty. Mind you Ottumwa is not alone
in furnishing patrons for the Oskaloo-
sa booze vendors. We saw two Abba
men on the streets of Oskaloosa and
they were picked to the eyes. ]
rather expect to read that they are
working on the street gang, or some
other work along that line which u.s.
ually comes to them after they have
paid visit to the mayors office when
they have been out thinking they have
been having a blinker of time. Os-
kaloosa saloons are thriving all right
and they are grabbing in the money
from all the old soaks all over this
section of the state.
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Saw Hoffman, of the Herald, about
a minute. He was on dress parade
with white duck clothes, and gener-
al appearance of the well groomed
man. Hoffman, has been in the news
paper business since Washingtons
birthday, that is since February %,
1877. I'll bet he has had a whole lot
of printers ink on his hands during
that time. Once he was elected treas
urer of Mahaska county and following
that he went into the laundry bust
ness. That did not last long and he
was back where the smell of printers
ink was so sweet to him, and he was
able to sing Home Sweet Home with
all the vim of man who had been
on long journey. Hoffman, also
was postmaster at Oskaloosa. He held
the place "since Heck was pup"
and l understand he made a good p.
m. The insurgents came along and
chopped his head off, and George True
was handed the plum. The Hoffman,
brothers are newspaper men through
and through and there is not bet
ter daily newspaper printed in this
section of the state than the old Her
aid.
H. S. Rosecrans had about as much
time to talk to folks as a flea on a
dog "Rosey" is the chief mogul on
the Times and he is making crack
ing good paper as well as handling a
whole lot of job work and conducting
a bindery. That reminds me, we will
have to have bindery in Abba in a
short time and if Anderson or Gass
do not get busy, is will be up to the
Republican. Rosecrans is a democrat
but that cannot be held against him
very much. He is one of the demo-
Gratis who works like thunder, don't
thing of that kind. In case of an &C
cident and democrats should get a
president he should be given the
postOffice and yet we do not know
that that would suit everybody. There
are always hungry democrats, and
they are just as hungry in this coun-
ty as in Mahaska or maybe a little
more so. Nothing bothers Rosecrans
except keeping up with the work, and
that is a bissful state for a country
newspaper man.
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The Oskaloosa Chautauqua had tai
ent that cose them $500 and they
pay out every year and are always
ready for the coming season. Shock
ley, of the Globe, is president of the
Iowa Lyceum bureau and he will get
together with the rest of the people
down in this section of the state and
an arrangement will be made with
the big bureaus that will give us the
very best of talent and at smaller
price When he calls a meeting the
Abba officers should attend and go
over the matter thoroughly with all
the agents and we should have a big
ger and better Chautauqua next year
than we have ever had.
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