The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-03-21
0L|vET AND VICINITY
BOX SUPPER NETS BURR OAK
SCHOOL S14-MlSS DULIN HAS
HAD VERY SUCCESSFUL TERM
AT GREELEY.


farmers . spreading manure in their
fields the latter part of the last week.
C.. S. Apologize, of Attica, was a
pleasant caller at the station Thurs.
day while in this vicinity looking up
some good horses for the market. We
were pleased to meet Mr.. Apologize,
whom we had not seen for number
of years. He was raised on a farm
adjoining Knoxville. His oldest
brother was judge of the court in our
time in Marion county. He informs
us that work is suspended on the
road leading to the Anderson mine,
and it will take at least two months
to finish it.
There were more farmers in town
Friday than We have seen on any one
day this winter.
Walter Clark, the young man who
has been sick all winter with fever,
was a pleasant caller at the station
Friday while on his way with his
mother. Mrs. r. Clark, to visit friends
in Oskaloosa. We were glad to see
him looking so well.
Mrs. Charles Clark was a passenger
for Oskaloosa Saturday to visit
among friends.
The box supper at Burr Oak Friday
night was great big success. 1t net
ted for the school $14.00. One box
sold for $1.25. Every lady was there
and reports happy time. Mrs. Faulk'
ner never makes halves in anything
she undertakes. This gathering was
no exception to the rule.
Miss Mae Dulin, the courteous and
efficient school teacher at the Gree.
ley school, was pleasant caller at
the station Saturday while on her way
to the parental John Dulin home in
Oskaloosa. Miss Mae has had very
successful school at the Greeley, ana
is held in the highest regard by all.
The Herald man is awful glad to
see the soil one more time on this
earth.
The grange unloaded barrel of
salt here last week. 1t was sent from
Detroit, Mich. The Leighton Produce
Co. filled the order.
Everybody went to OskaloOsa Mon.
day, looking like spring blossoms and
feeling that way.
Mrs. Agnes Faulkner spent Satur
day and Sunday at the parental Nc.
Dowell home in Oskaloosa.
The writer and his better half, al,
though travelling on the shady side
of life, have pulled through one of the
hardest winters we have seen for
twenty-five years, but are glad to
know We are enjoying good health.
eyesight and presence of mind, which
is one of our greatest of blessings.
Our aged companion, who makes
every effort in life to look after our
personal wants and make our home
happy one, is enjoying as good
health as she has for a number OF
years, but we fully realize that while
this is true, we are both getting older
We want to say to our friends when
you have company or anything doing
in your locality in the shape of news,
let us know or drop note. We will
do the rest by getting it up in a way
that will do you good.
In a conversation with a Bolton
miner on Tuesday, he spoke of the
new mine there and its modern i'm
provements, and looks for good re
suits, as the demand for coal calls
for trade. The writer has known
John Canty, the foreman there, and
has always held him the best posted
mine foreman for all purposes he has
ever met in Iowa. Whatever he does
is done right. At the same time he
is a very pleasant Conversationalist
one that would merit good word
from any one, void of any stuck upI
feeling as If he were monarch in
small way, and we are glad to get
this report, and hope to see every
body there do good in every way and
we can see no reason why they
shouldn't.
The writer hopes there will be no
strained relationship between. the
miners and operators in their joint
conference, that will keep them from
reaching an agreement for the next
two years, for it is well for us to re-
member that this is an organized
age. While we recognize this as be.
ing true in the fullest sense, it is
well for the miners to study trade
conditions and look to their best in.
terests by asking anything that is
not just or fair. In no case take the
advantage of an opportunity to be
otherwise. The writer of this letter
has kept tab on the miners union
from its infancy in 1869, and he has
seen it rise and he has seen it fall,
and history often repeats itself.
The union is now up to its highest
standard in its history, both financial.
ly and in numbers, and we hope to
see it remain sO.-R. w.