The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-08-08
ROSE HILLS DO|NGS'
FRANCE BROTHERS AND JOE
HA MA UNLOAD FEEDING
SHEEP-THREsHi MACHINES
IN ALL DIRECTIONS.

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Oskaloosa was at Rose Hill the past
week on business and the guest OF
DR.. w, N. Wright.
Mrs. Thomas of Fort Dodge is Wis
Iiting at the parental E. Busby home
and with her brother, ]. r. Busby.
France Brothers unloaded a double
deck car Of feeding wethers at Rose
Hill the past week and drove them to
their farm northwest of town and will
feed them the coming winter.
Albert Ball of Delta was a business
caller at Rose Hill recently.
Joe Hanna brought in car load of
sheep from Omaha the past week and
unloaded at Rose Hill and drove them
to his farm for grazing and feeding
purposes.
The tile factory has started running
the past week making tile and the
machinery for making cement posts
has arrived and will soon be put in
place.
Sol Morgan pastured a field of rye
until very late in the spring and it
was eaten down to the ground, and he
cut and threshed 81 bushels to the
acre from the same ground
Sol Brown, Frank Souter, Will
Reed, Chas. Vallandingham, Sol Nor
gan and Ernie CASTOR drove to Monte
yuma last Friday in Gaston's auto to
hear William Jennings Bryan tell
about the Chicago and Baltimore
conventions.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Mari of Aims
worth arrived at Rose Hill Saturday
in their auto and were guests over
Sunday at the John Hummell home.
Mrs. Mabel Vallandingham return
ed last Saturday from Cedar Rapids
where she had been visiting Mrs. Zet-
ia Stringfellow, former citizen of
Rose Hill.
Threshing machines are running in
all directions and grain is turning
out we'll Wheat is making rs to 80
bushels to the acre; oats so to go bu.
to the acre; the hay crop has made
three times as much as last year and
the prospect for corn is good but it
lis needing rain TO make a good yield.
The band concert Saturday was a
hummer The town was a perfect
jam. What Cheer had representa-
tives on the ground that were here
to be seen and attract attention.
Tom Beatty shipped one car load
of hogs to Chicago, leaving here Sun
day morning on the, stock train.
Comrade John Long of Ainsworth
arrived here Monday and is guest
of his daughter, Mrs. A. G. Hawley.
He will journey on to South Dakota
where he. will visit another daughter,
Mrs. Woods
Aborn Bowen, of Erie county,
Pennsylvania, is the guest of his cous,
in, Landen Bowen, of Rose Hill.
Eddie Bridges, wife and son, of
Wright, We're Sunday visitors at Rose
Hill with their son-in-law, Dick He'd
lund.
The hotel at Rose Hill caught fire
Tuesday about the noon hour. The
fire company was soon on hand and
extinguished the flames before they
had made much Roadway. The tele,
phone girls turned in the alarm and
saved the town from a disastrous fire.
The Fremont Chautauqua boosters
arrived at Rose Hill Monday on
schedule time Fifteen autos filled
with boosters and the Fremont band
made a nice procession. The band
gave some fine selections of music
The whole crowd was a JULY set of
boosters and departed for Delta about
4 o'clock.
Mrs. j. r. Busby returned home
Tuesday evening from Colorado,
where she had been for the past
month for the benefit of her health.
Harrison Myers, Of Central City,
Nebraska, arrived at Rose Hill Tues.
day evening and is the guest of J.
D. Blake He was born and raised
near Rose Hill but has made Nebras
ka his home about thirty years. He
visited here twelve years ago.
Mrs. Lydia Criswell and children
of Ottumwa, are here visiting her
grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Ravens.
Chef Wyman has moved from Oska
loosa to Rose Hill to property recent
! ly bought here and fixed up to his
taste, and will make this his future
home.
Mrs. John Gable is on the sick list
but is given kind attention by her
daughters and is reported improving
Mrs. J.. H. feathers and daughter
Mrs. Fred Wheeler, of Oskaloosa
were down at Rose Hill Tuesday and
visited Mrs. John Asher.
William Emory and ]. N. Wymore
were the first at Rose Hill to receive
pension certificates under the new
law Of May IL, 1912.