The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-05-22
NEWS FROM NEARBY
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
GATHERED 5Y WiDE.AWAkE
HERALD CORRESPONDENTS IN
TOWNS AND COMM uNlTiES.
BALD PRAIRIE.

1
Miss Flossie Harlowe spent Satur-
day night and Sunday in Oskaloosa
with Mrs. Maggie Weatherwax
Ed Lewis, who has been very i'll
with pneumonia for some time, was
able to be out short time Friday.
Miss Iowa Hale visited Thursday
with Miss Ruby Thomas.
Miss Flossie Harlowe and Milton
Morrison attended church services at
Coal Creek Sunday evening.
Mr.. A Hale was a caller at the
Chas. Hale home Saturday.
Business callers in Oskaloosa Sat
urday were Mr.. and Mrs. John Boil
som, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Pilgrim and
three daughters and Mrs. M. L.
Thomas and two daughters.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bolsom treated
themselves to a new buggy Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Shaw have
moved to their new home on the
John Schultz farm.
George Pilgrim spent Sunday after
noon with Jim Shaw.
Several in tbs neghborhood are
planting corn. John Bolsom and Geo.
Pilgrim have had their corn in about
| a week.
| " III TldlDle anu Will DdTTOW nave
erected new chicken houses on their
places.
Miss Bertha Patrick helped Mrs.
Ellen Shaw with her house cleaning
Friday. J
James Buckner has treated his
farm house to coat of paint. M. L.
Thomas is living there this year.
Miss Iowa Hale is assisting Mrs.
Jessie Lewis with her house work
while Ed is On the sick list.
Miss Flossie Harlowe spent the
week in your city with her cousin,
Mrs. Warren Weatherwax, 432 North
Tenth street.
Visitors at the Thomas home Mon
day evening were Misses Hazel and
Flossie Pilgrim, and Robert Morrison.
Mrs. Ellen Bolsem was called to
New Sharon Friday by the death Of
her cousin, Grandma Letter.
Mrs. VIII Pilgrim and Mrs. Patrick
and son Guy, also her daughter and
husband, Mr.. and Mrs Jenkins Nor
gan, were called to Coal Creek Friday
by the death of their uncle, Leo De
Long.
Misses Mildred Morrison, Hazel
and Flossie Pilgrim, and Milton and
Robert Morrison and Andrew Hale
spent Wednesday evening with Ruby
and Harry Thomas. The same crowd.
with Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Pilgrim and
Cora Hale, of Oskaloosa, visited FRI
day evening at the Thomas home.
The young folks are talking Of hav-
ling dialogue and the school box
supper on the evening of June s.
Everybody come and bring a box and
have good time.
Miss Bertha Patrick stayed Thurs
day night in Beacon with Mrs. Mary
Pilgrim.
Miss Mary Hale is visiting this
week in Des Moines.
Misses Mildred Morrison and Ruby
Thomas attended the Sunday school
at Six Mile. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Barrow visited
from Friday until Monday in Lovilla.
Mrs. E. A. Farnsworth, of Ander-
son, near Knoxville, spent Monday
might and Tuesday with her sister,
Mrs. M. L. Thomas.
John Nelson and son, Carl, stopped
at the NJ. l.. Thomas home Saturday
while on their way to Oskaloosa.
Miss Cora Hale, of Oskaloosa, came
out to Albert Hale's Friday and re-
turned home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mat Thomas and fam
lily spent Sunday at the James
Names home east of Oskaloosa.
Miss Ruby Thomas spent Wednes-
day afternoon at the Jesst Lewis
home with Miss Iowa Hale.
Miss Ruby Thomas spent Tuesday
Afternoon at the Bald Prairie school
Visiting the teacher and pupils.
Jim Shaw spent Wednesday even
ing at the Geo. Pilgrim home
Miss Hazel Pilgrim visited Friday
in Oskaloosa. f ...
jerks Morgan visited Saturday at
the Guy Patrick home.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Davis, of near Os-
kaloosa, spent Sunday evening at the
NJ. l.. Thomas home.
Matching chickens, cleaning house,
! and planting corn between showers
or getting ready to plant are the or
, iders of the day in this neck of the
! woods. E..-