The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-03-23
) PERSONALS :
fErom Saturdays pailyl

(trOm SATURDAY DaiyS
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Naylor, of Wash
jngton, are guests of Oskaioosa
friends for a few days. Mrs. Naylor
IS here for a surgical operation of
minor character.
Mrs. James Peacock departed this
morning for an extended stay in the
Southland. She will go direct to
New Orleans for visit with her
aunt, and afterwards to Jennings
Louisiana, where she will be the guess
of Mrs. George Caffel, former resi-
dent OF Oskaloosa.
Recognition by Everybody's Maya
zinc has been won by Harold Finley
former Oskaloosa boy, and son OF
!. S. FINLEY, formerly superintendent
OF the Oskaloosa schools. Harold
has a profusely illustrated story en-
titled THE Peace Dove of the Tres
Santos" in the current number.
Fairfield Ledger: Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Gibson have removed TO Oska'
loosa and expect to remain there per-
manently. They were given fare
well dinner Thursday evening at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Gibson.
About twenty guests were present
and ii proved very pleasant affair
Rev. Carl Petri was in Leighton
one day this week, just in time TO
catch a glimpse of an airship which
Bart Groenendyke found in his field
directly north of Leighton. 1t be-
longed TO the U. S. Weather Bureau
and had been sent up from Omaha.
Following Instructions Mr.. Groenen-
dyke packed il up and sent it to the
Observatory at Bluemont, Va. This
is the second balloon of like nature
found in this territory, the other one
having been picked up by Ernest
Harvey, near the town of Harvey.
(From Mondays DahyJ
Rev. R. B. A. Mcbride, former pas
tor of the United Presbyterian church,
is in the city today. called by the
funeral Of the late William Burnside.
Mr.. and Mrs. John P. Hiatt an
nounce The engagement of their
daughter, Anna w. to Herbert o.
GIasure, of Oskaloosa. The marriage
will be celebrated early in June.
John d. Byers came down from
Marshalltown Saturday and spent
Sunday at home here. John has been
engaged in church building in Mar
shalltown for a couple of years past.
Ralph Allgood, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. n. Allgood, was operated upon
Sunday morning for appendicitis.
The operation was entirely success
full and the young man is doing
nicely today.
Rev. A. Cato Kaye, of Mason City,
who came TO hold services at st.
James Episcopal church Friday even
ing, will remain in Oskaloosa for
week or ten days to take treatment
for liver trouble and 10 have hospital
care.
What Cheer Chronicle: Miss Laura
Mcfarland, of OskalOosa. came last
Wednesday and has been the guest
of her many friends and relatives.
Laura is now one of the hello" girls
in the Oskaloosa telephone Office and
likes the work fine.
Z. X. Taylor is able to be about
again after weeks confinement with
a crushed foot and ankle. Mr.. Tay-
Tor had the misfortune to have the
member horribly crushed about a
wee kago while hauling hay. His
foot was caught beneath the wagon
and one OF the horses fell on the
wagon.
When Percy and Warren Pugh
were all ready 10 go to North Dakota
they ran up against a circumstance
They were taking about eight head
OF stock and under the new laws il
was necessary TO have them inspect
ed before Transporting from one state
TO another The boys expect to gel
away next week.
Delta Press: Mr.. and Mrs. ALI Tay
lor, of Tioga, are having their share
of sickness in their family. Theii
little four-year-old girl Lucille, il
critically i'll at their home with
pneumonia, while the little six-year
old boy is very sick with pneumonia
at the hospital in Oskaloosa. Mrs
Taylor Is there helping care for him
The w. II. Hcwar and Swain
Hopes families, Chas. e. Howar ant
his mother are home from San An
tonic, where they spent the winte
most pleasantly. They rented a larg'
furnished home and kept house, thu
adding to the pleasure OF the SO
journ. They say the climate canno
be beat, but for other things Texa
Is not In the same class with Iowa.
Earl Cooper. OF Grinnell, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. Cooper, No. 2l4 Colleg'
avenue, has leased the country hom'
belonging TO Josephine Wilson OF
South Market street extension. Mr.
Cooper and family will move to thu
new place In about three weeks AM
Nj. Cooper will enter business in thi
city. improvements Including cleo
trio lights and furnace win be made
at the home.