The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-05-22
OLWET AND VICINITY
FRANK BARNES REPiiNTS HIS
OUTBUILDlNGS AND FENCES
WEATHER CAUSES SET BACK
TO CORN PLANTING.

Olivet, May I'm a well written
article to the Herald recently, our at.
tention was called to the following
headline, When Is a Man Dead?"
The writer was always under the i'm
preston that when a man ceases to
draw the last breath of life, he is dead,
but according to the aforementioned
article, he is only asleep. That being
the case,we want to serve notice right
now that we prefer TO take the nap on
the top side of this earth rather than
the under side. t 4eta.
Several Of our farmers planted corn
last week but the weather man inter.
fered with the plans somewhat and
caused a temporary setback.
William Kreeling spent Tuesday in
Oskaloosa, shopping.
Mrs. William Fulmer, of Eddyville,
was visiting this week among old time
friends and relatives here, who are al
ways glad to meet her when she is in
town. Mrs. Fulmer was raised in this
locality, being a daughter of the late
Israel Thompson. While age Is some
what telling on her, she still has the
pleasant smile and friendly greeting
for her old friends and neighbors. -.
In our business we find many people
that have very sensitive corns, and IL
you get within three feet of them,
they "holler." The writer has corns
on both feet and at times becomes
very sensitive to pain, but not so
much so but that he always knows
when he is right and when he is
wrong
Rev. JMcWilliams of Nebraska was
a very pleasant caller at the station
on Tuesday. He is very interesting
and pleasant gentleman to converse
with and his visit was greatly appre.
.ciated by us. t
s. Bartlema finished planting So
acres OF corn on Wednesday, May IA.
The man with the longest pole always
gets the persimmon; that's Stuart. r
Harry Borskay was a business call
er at the station on Tuesday.
The new department in the Herald,
headed Letters to the Editor" is
greatly appreciated by the readers OF
the paper and we want to see ii kept
up. .... .'ta .'.r A.. aa %
Mrs.George McCombs and son spent
Wednesday in Oskaloosa shopping.
Twenty-Five years ago there was d
store robbed in Otumwa and the
goods were found at the home of one
Of the men that committed the burg.
larry, but he was man that no one
dared suspect. The mayor of the town
at that time came out with long ar
ticle in the Courier the next day de-
Tending the suspected man. The fol-
lowing day, the owner of the goods,
after calling attention to the article,
replied as follows: ut matters not
with some people whose OK is gored so
long as il isn't theirs" This still
holds good today. o.. -.. .-
In a letter from a nephew of ours,
who is in the railroad business at Fair
Forest, S. c., he says that times are
dnller there than he ever knew them.
Nothing doing: merchandise high:
wages low. tn. ..
The Herald man was sorry to read
in the Herald of our old esteemed
friend, w. IL. A. Fricke, of Bolton,
being in trouble there. He was our
book-keeper and neighbor at Foster
for nine years and we never knew a
nicer or more competent man than he.
He was always kind and courteous in
his dealings with people, and was a
man of culture and refinement. In
days gone by, he was secretary of the
Martha Washington Institute at Chi
cago and the Bolton Company is too
be congratulated upon securing his
services as book.keeper, as there is no
better.
We notice with much interest in
the press dispatches on Tuesday that
our old friend c. w. McCarty is rec
commended for postmaster at Ottum-
wa. Charley was among the first rail-
road men that we ever knew in Iowa
lie was dispatcher and agent at Ev-
ans over twenty years ago with J. c..
Finesy
Frank Barnes. south OF town. had
all OF his outbuildings and yard
fences repainted this week Franks
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