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

blubbering children, poverty written
over the whole outfit and sorrow
ing wife, leading and begging booze
fighting husband to leave and come
home was an Oskaloosa spectacle
during the Monday Chautauqua. Not
so many noticed it but those who did
oh, well, you know what they
thought. Proud Mahaska with her
glorious college, the very home of the
Holiness and Friends people, where
Penn college, and all the good it
stands for, and where so much has
been done, needs still further things.
Man sets the example in his drinking
and the child follows in his wake.
Proud Mahaska should drop her head
for minute and reflect.
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All you people will remember how
the hitchracks around the public
square disappeared in one night. They
have not been found yet, and the
square looks hundred per cent bet
ter. Where horses used to litter up
the streets they now have places
where a fellow can easily walk and
hit the opposite sidewalk with clean
shoes. There was the duce to pay
when the hitchracks were taken down
that night and farmers for miles
around threatened to boycott the
town. They changed their minds and
are now use to the conditions and find
them much better. 1t makes me
think what il the hitch racks around
the Abba public square were to dis
appear some dark and dreadful night
but the thought is enough to stagger
me, and am not going to say anything
about it.
The Chautauqua in Oskaloosa is do
ing what all Chautauquas are doing.
1t is elevating a whole lot of the PEG.
pie. There are heap of good people
in Oskaloosa, and they have dandy
Chautauqua each year. This. year the
talent cost $4,000 and they are going
to pay out on the season. The Chau-
| tauqua is held in the big tabernacle
| which belongs to the Holiness people
and where they hold national conven-
tons. John Mitchell was one of the
speakers. Let this soak into the
minds of the Monroe county labor
people. Oskaloosa charged fifty cents
for all who entered to hear Mitchell.
Some years ago it was proposed to
| charge fifty cents in Abba and never
did such howl go up from the labor
ing people that they were being rob-
bed. Mitchell charges 5000 for a lee
ture, and it is almost compulsory to
charge more than twenty-five cents
for a Chautauqua association to get
their money back. The Oskaloosa
people took the bull further by the
horns by charging ten cents for re-
served seats for the evening, when
they had been charging five cents at
all other sessions. If We would do
such thing in Abba there would be
a mighty fuss on hands and then just
about as many would attend as would
or rather did when in Abba. Dozens
of miners sat about the park in Oska'
loosa and damned and cussed con,
ditions, but they did not go out to
hear what the leader in the labor
world had to say.
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The newspapers of Oskaloosa are
loyal to the Chautauqua. They boost
for the affair. G. W. Shockiey, OF the
Globe, is one of the mainstays in the
movement His brother, Tom, looks
after the business during the week
while Will hustles and mingleS and
sees that things go along smoothly
Mr.. ShOckley told me that man
came into his office and inquired about
the Abba Chautauqua and asked him
if he had a booklet that told of the
dates, etc He dug up the booklet
and there was not a word said or a
program given that enabled the man
to find out what he wanted to know
We print this as suggestion that
other people connected with the Abba
Chautauqua may remedy the fault al
the next meeting. Shockley asked me
how we paid out in Abba and | gave
him the o. K. signal and he said he
did not see how it could possibly be
so, and used the strongest language
ne ever uses when he said, there was
so derned little advertising about it.
had thought the Abba Chautauqua
had been fairly well advertised, but
| guess | was wrong. | am going tC
commence to advertise the Abba
Chautauqua for next year and ask al
you good Monroe county people tC
watch for the dates.
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Say, | used more nerve than any
man in Oskaloosa had the nerve to do
| hustled down to the big establish
ment of the Oskaloosa Vehicle ant
Auto Co., just before the time fol
the speaking and told them | just
had to have an auto right away tC
get out to the grounds with the speak
er of the afternoon. o. f. Schee is
manager of the business. Guess may
be he is likewise proprietor, but any
way he quit debating letter, hustl
ed out to the garage in the rear OF
the place and in two minutes by the
watch he had us loaded into car and
going to the grounds. We had to run
slow, because they have the same or
dinance as we have in Albia-"speed
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