The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-01
OL|vET AND VICINITY
FARMERS ARE BUSY ThRASHlNG
AND THE YIELD Is GREAT,
GOING FORTY AND OATS SIXTY
BUSHELS PER ACRE.

Olvet, July 30.-A man from Pella
was coming over the hill at the sta.
ton Saturday in his gas wagon, when
the machine baked and ran back
down the hill into a wire fence. We
went over the hill to render any as.
sistance we could, when we found a
young man turning a crank to wind
up the thing. The crank slipped of
and struck him on the leg. He first
said, 20, Lord" but he changed, and
sent a veritable blue streak to the
other fellow. We pulled out for home
where the sun always shines.
Mesdames Rogers and DeHon spent
Saturday in Oskaloosa shopping.
Mrs. Scott Smith and daughter, OF
Tracy, visited at the parental DeHon
home last week
Ted Corvell, of Bolton, was in town
Friday. He reports the work in the
mine there very slack at present.
! We received letter this week from
our time-honored friend, Prof. N. j
Hibbs, the superintendent of the Hite,
man schools. leading mining town
in Iowa. He informs us that they
have an enrolment of 900 pupils
there. Their high school has gone
from 81 to 81 pupils in two years. Mr.
Hibbs spent his early life in Seymour
| Wayne county, where he received a
common school a1nnaftnn he
grew up to manhood he attended col
| lege in Des Moi1es, where he finished
his studies. While principal of the
Foster school in Marion county, he
made his home with us, as he was
then on the bachelor list, and finally
realized that he was only half man
Then he "hiked", over to Lovilia
where he found better half, who
was the best looking young woman
! in that town. He is now getting a
salary of $1,000 year, has hand
some little son and daughter, who
have been away visiting for two
weeks. He has been putting in his
leisure time killing weeds and writ
ing to his friends. We were one OF
the number. We want Mrs. Hibbs
and the children to stay at home fol
a while, then go again. This will! en-
able the professor to write.
Everybody went to Oskaloosa Sat
urday evening to spend the Sabbath
in that city.
Henry Wilson, of Des Moines, was
a business caller in town Saturday.
Of all the sins the auto has commit
ted, that of raising the price of shoe
leather is the greatest.
Farmers are busy thrashing this
week. They report grain turning out
well.
me Herald man. cast his first vote
at Kings Mountain, N. c., in 1868
The polling place was right at the
foot of the mountain, where the last
battle of the Revolutionary war was
fought, except one, that of Cowpens
s. c., by General Morgan. This cleo
ton, Grant and Colfax, were running
against Seymour and Blair, and it was
warm campaign from start to finish
From that day to this, we have kept
in close touch with politics and all
general matters that interest the
public, and have taken an active part
in each campaign, but we don't recol
lect of ever seeing the strained rela,
tions exist between political parties
there is today. The line is drawn
nn tc n . IN Th1
shall rule, but we have implicit con
fidence in the people.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Laughlin, of Gar.
field township, spent Sunday at the
c. Fl. Laughlin home. In a converse.
ton with Mr.. Laughlin he informed
us that he is the crop reporter for
his township, and he finds the best
crops In his travels he has seen for
twenty years. He cited one man that
Ithrashed out ten acres of fall and win.
ter wheat that turned out forty bush.
els per acre. Joe Dusenberry on his
farm near Evans thrashed oats that
turned out sixty bushels per acre. He
says the corn crop is practically made.
Mr.. Laughlin taxes a keen interest in
politics as well as all public matters.
He is ready conversationalist, who
looks on the bright side of life. We
were glad TO meet him. He owns a
nice farm on the Knoxville road, has
a wife, three daughters and two sons
to brighten his home.
Mr., Perry, the real estate man from
Knoxville, was pleasant caller at
the station a short time on Friday.
He informs us that the new mines in
Marion county are not rushing things
very lively at present.
The passenger business at this
place increased rapidly last week, as
We had passengers for three trains
each day during the week The farm.