The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-12-19
PERSONALS (

(From Saturdays Daily.l

Mr.. and Mrs Chas. Madden, of Des
Moines, who have Deen guests of To-
cal friends the past couple of days,
departed this morning for Wapello,
where they will be guests at the 5. T..
Dice home.
Mrs. G. M. Green, who has been Wis
iting her mother, Mrs. Anna Curry,
deparss today for Kansas City, where
Mr. Green wan join her and then to
San Antonio; Texas, where they will
spend the winter.
Rev. C. l.. Stafford, who has been
attending a conference of Evangelical
churches at Chicago, as delegate
from the Oskaloosa district of the
Methodist Episcopal church, has re-
turned to his duties locally and is
ready for the quarterly meeting at
Lacey.
Mrs. Luella Bloomfield. who has
been quite i'll through period OF
several months, suffering with asth-
ma and other bronchial trouble, has
been taken to New Orleans by her
brother, Evan kirkpatrick, of st.
Louis. Friends here will hope for
speedy betterment of the lady.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. White have just
returned from very enjoyable three
weeks visit with their son Leslie and
wife, of Vernal Utah. bringing with
them for the winter, little three
year-old grandson, Thomas Ritten
White. They also stopped for a
weeks stay with their daughter, Mrs.
Earle Johnson and family, of Carroll
ton. Mo. ,.- ..'.
J. s. Crippen, son of Mrs. Henry
Crippen. of New Sharon. who has
been home several weeks visiting
with relatives and friends, started
for Chicago today, there to join Mile.
bonita, as her special pianist for a
tour of twenty weeks on the big Or
pheum Circuit out to the west coast
and back. This is the second season
Mr.. Crippen has been with this act.
A business letter from Dillon Stall
ker to the J. p. Hiatt firm from Belle
Helene, La, December 8, 1912, states
in closing, that he and the Blair fam
lily are all well and enjoying the mild
southern climate; have had a few
light frosts, but with good rains the
past week everything is looking fresh
aud green. Garden truck, such as on
ions, lettuce, radishes and the like,
are as vigorous as in spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Evans have
letter from their daughter, Mrs. Ray
Lyman, written from Santiago, Cuba,
telling of the safe arrival at that port
of herself, little daughter, Miss Mary,
and sister. Miss Jennie Evans. They
go inland by rail to Guantanamo,
where Mr. Lyman is located and
where they will reside. The letter
IaNa IS la1t rrhN Etnl fFstFa n
the island and left all in the best of
health and spirits.
The |. S. c. Student, of Ames, says
of former member of Penn College
and a power on their football team:
"Matty" Madison has proven a SEN
station at left half and if eligible next
year he should prove star of the
first magnitude. His size and speed,
coupled with a thorough knowledge
of the game, have enabled him to get
away for big gains all season and his
kicking has also been of very high
order, many of his punts going for
sixty and seventy yards.
Marshalltown Times Republican :
General Master Mechanic c. E. Cos
sett, of the ~ & st. L., left for Peo-
ria Thursday morning 10 superintend |
the receiving of the first consign-
ment of new freight locomotives that
arrive there tonight and Friday. The
locomotives will be put in working
condition and limbered, then started
north with loaded trains. They will
begin arriving here probably next Tue
day. The locomotives have been num-
ber,d $50 to 461, inclusive.
w. G.. Aber, who has been in town
visiting at the home OF his sister, Mrs.
X. A. Kent, en- route from attendance
at the National Congress of Farmers,
recently held at New Orleans, started
fer his home in Sheridan, Wyoming,
yesterday. He took along car load
of horses, Percherons and Normans,
all Mahaska county, Iowa, stock, Sc
Iected from the stables and herds of
Barnes Brothers, John Lyle and A.
Norris. He also took a fifteen hun
dred pound pair of yearling tlllie5
from the Singmaster farm at Keota.
W. L. Cooley, Familiarity known in
these parts as "Bill Cooley, the horse
man." and formerly associated with
r. j. Baker under the firm name of
Baker L. Cooley, but now the senior
member of the Cooley-Frey Horse
SOmpdHy Vi lUuldHdpOilb, luuidHd, "dS
in the city yesterday shaking hands
with his host OF friends. Mr.. Cooley
was on his way to Missouri where he
has String on" a drove or two of
mules for his company which is the
largest auction and commission insti-
tuition for horses and mules in the
state Of Indiana.
Names Leafiander. deaf and dumb
lad who was an employe about the
Downing hotel last year, and who had
a somewhat extended acquaintance
about town, writes TO his friend, jerks
Davis, from Kansas City, the Hotel
Portland, where he is now employed.
The lad has been in the general hos
pital for months. grieyously i'll, and
his case was given up as hopeless !.
Five physicians considered his case
and he was finally operated upon for
appendicitis and attendant troubles.
He came close to going the trip,
but the nurses brought him back TO
life and he;is able to work once more,
Z Names states that there Is nothing
4 else in life half SO good as seeing
nov and thea, a person from 0ska
1oosa He sends regards to friends
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