The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-10-19
NEWS FROM NEARBY.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
GATHERED BY WlDE-AWAkE
HERALD CORRESPONDENT IN
TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES. ill.,.
MADISON.

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sized audience Sabbath a. m.
A Beckwith Round Oak heater
was purchased and set up at Madi-
son chapel this week.
Mrs. Tom Ferree and Mrs. Hall
burten's babies are receiving the at
tention of physician since last
week. Mrs. Ferrees, it is feared, is
coming down with typhoid fever. The
little one is teethng
Mrs. Walker, of Leighton, was at
Will Cruzens one day this week.
Chas. Bailey sold horse to Baker
& Cooley, delivered in the city this
week, good enough to bring $l75, if
the horse market is at low tide.
j. b. Cruzen, wife and son Rex
were at the J. F. Cruzen home for
dinner Sunday after the morning SER
vice.
Mrs. Mollie Billick is visiting her
brothers at New Sharon this week.
G. B. Coffin returned nome after
being at the home of his niece, Mrs.
Pearl Matthews, at Bethel, assisting
HeI Will nel Sdle, NHlNh "aS Satio'
factory.
Ben Zane and wife are here from
Kansas visiting relatives and friends
after an absence of over thirty years.
We read with much interest the
paper by Rev. Lloyd Tenant, of Can
tril, on The Country Church"
Byron Cruzen, wife and son Floyd,
also Fred Else and family were at the
Jack Else home Sunday after church.
Andy" Miller, of Shelby, Iowa, is
here visiting relatives indefinitely.
Fred Coffin and wife, also Mrs. G.
r. Coffin attended the reception at
the Christian church in the city We'd
nesday evening.
Mrs. Ed Harvey and children at
tended the funeral of an aunt at New
Sharon last week.
Jack Else and Chas. Bailey are the
only grown folks near here having
the whOoping cough. Mr.. Else has
been having a serious time.
The Fred Coffin household enter.
tanned Frank and Jane Whitehead
Sunday.
Miss Faye Else was visiting rela-
tives in the city Saturday night and
Sunday.
Chas Whitmore summoned DR..
Parker to administer to fayorite
horse Sunday p. m.
G.. B. Coffin sold &c head of hogs
to B. J. Snyder, delivered in the city
Monday.
Rev. Spyker and wife and Chas.
Bailey, wife and son Clarence, were
at the G. B. Coffin home Sunday for
dinner.
Lon Morris and Alfred Rinden,
from east of Oskaloosa, were at the
Will Cruzen home one day this week.
The roads are in very bad condi-
ton since the recent heavy rains,
which washed deep bitches, making
them so very narrow and almost dan
gerous in some places.
The Misses Lucille and Eva Hicks
entertained the female portion of
Madison school at their home here
last Sunday after S. S. Mrs. Will
Cruzen assisted Mrs. Hicks with
serving the dinner, which was
thoroughly enjoyed by the young
folks.
John Walraven is selling apples to
a shipper in Oskaloosa. He will have
over a thousand bushels to sell.
Harry Hicks and family, who are
soon to go to their place of residence
at Hale Center, Texas, are being
made the recipients of special atten'
tions since their sale. Last week
they attended a reception at the Ter
rel Steddom home, given in their
honor and the Lincoln Grange in a
body, numbering seventy-fve, went
to their home, taking refreshments
! in profusion and presented Mrs
Hicks with a sterling silver dessert
spoon, with the inscription Lincoln
Grange 1911" Willis Petit made the
presentation in behalf of the grange
to which Mr.. and Mrs. Hicks respond
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