The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-07-17
ROSE HILLS DO|NGS
TILE FACTORY Is RUNNING FULL
TiME.-kELLY RHoADS BUILD
ING CAVE FOR HOUSING THE
FIRE ENGINE.

FIRE ENGINE.
Rose Hill, Iowa, July l6.-Miss
Blanch Hinkle, of Delta, was the
guest of Mrs, Eliza Havens the past
week i
The tile factory at Rose Hill is now
running on full time with w. A. Pear
sol as manager
Kelley Rhoades has built large
cave in rear of the mayors office to
house the fire engine to have it handy
in case of fire. "
Tom Beatty shipped two car loads
of hogs from here Sunday and one on
Tuesday morning to Chicago.
The Sunday school picnic at Tioga
Sunday was well patronized by Rose
Hill people. .
Robert Doak visited near Wright
from Saturday until Sunday evening,
, with his granddaughter, Mrs. C. E.
McCurdy . .
w. H. Brown returned home from
his Gettysburg trip Monday evening
on the late train after visiting New
York City, Philadelphia, Gettysburg,
baltimore, Washington, d. c., Mount
Vernon, Alexandra, Harpers Ferry,
Mrs. Cora Haggart and Chicago with
his daughter Mrs. Lena Kent, wife OF
Prof. Charles Kent, and home to Rose
| Hill. ..
| Where to commence to write any
thing about the anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg to interest the
Heard readers is sumner. l would
lust say the battlefield comprised 20
mil m
length and monuments, statues and
markers around the battlefield makes
lit look like one large cemetery one
place marked as high water mark
with costly markers where Pickets
charge ended when they had ad-
tVanced to within ten years of the
union forces and they received grape
and canister from our guns and a
hand TO hand conflict ensued. The
few remaining beat hasty retraet
which decided the Battle OF Gettys-
burg, leaving their dead on the battle
| field. That is horror to think about.
The writer was over half mile from
this charge near Culps Hill, where
they had repulsed the desperate
charges of Ewells forces when they
tried to break through our lines on
the right of the army makers and
monuments were placed on the
ground where | was engaged in that
great struggle in memory OF the b6th
Ohio Infantry. Other regiments also
! had monuments and markers where
Engaged There is an observatory on
! top of Culps Hill built of steel l25
feet high from which had good
view OF the battlefield. There is one
on Cemetery Hill $50 feet high and
one on Big Round Top and another
on Seminary Ridge where a good
| view can be had of the battlefield.
Our camps 1t thing would be safe in
iseying covered over one square mile
of tents that were 1phched and ready
flor the old veterans TO occupy on their
larrivel, which was marked by delega-
itions from every state in the union.
| Pennsylvania and New York State
taking the lead in numbers. About
! Ii, 900 confederateS were in the camp
that was assigned them and near
where Picket made the advance in his
disastrous charge, that every school
boy has read about. The Iowa dele
cation had thir camp assigned them
near the McMillen house and the OF
| ficers in charge of the Iowa camp de-
serve great praise in their arrange
ments OF the camp. Geo. A. Newman
went through the train before our ar
rival at Gettysburg and assigned each
one on the train TO his tent. giving
the street and number OF tent. Ours
was street No. % and tent No. l6. The
assignment to tent 10 as follows; DR..
Cobb 55th Ohio, Shelby, Iowa. DR.. w.
A. Vincent Belle PLANE, Iowa; Amram
lYosburg 10th N. Y. Belle PLANE, Iowa;
last on tag at Gettysburg T. Drake Bird
| Wisconsin, Charter Goa, Iowa James
| McGinnisl il9th lnL, Harlan. Iowa;
Thomas Jones' Co. A Goth Ohio, Center
vile, Iowa; Dennis Davis Sd Ind. CAY
ialry and Henry Wetherell Battery II
list Ohio light artillery, of Oskaloosa,
Iowa. Robert Doak Co. | 66th Ohio,
Rose Hill, Iowa. Later addition W.
H. Brown Co. c 18th Iowa, Rose Hill,
Iowa and Prof Charles Kent, OF Chi
Icago. For fear OF wearing your pa
thence will close with one little in
cident that happened on the train on
the way home. One man lost his up
per teeth, for particulars enquire OF
4Jennis Davis, of OskalOosa. July l,5
will give a few brief notes in regard
to what il took to feed that throng
iof people. The head baker told me
they baked up As barrels OF flour a
day, that makes some bread. Report
from the quarter master gave out the
lfollowin rations for one day: Bee1
lS5, 900 pounds, bacon $4,000 pounds,
chicken $1,000 pounds, potatoes 1885,
600 pounds, coffee $1,000 pounds, tea
/ 900 pounds, bread $4,000 pounds,
hard bread 10000 pounds, sugar 10000
pounds, ice cream three car loads for
the 4th of July. Miscellaneous articles
not given in pounds, beans, rice, corn,
turnips, eggs, carrots, macaroni, sal
mon, cookies, milk, salt, pepper, pick
lies, cuccumbers and beets, cabbage,
tomatoes sliced and cooked. You can
See we had plenty to eat. Thisin'
Icludes the regulars, cooks and bak-
Iers and boy scouts and many civil
ans that dropped in. Bacon and beef
were not issued on same day.
ROBT. DOAK.