The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-10-30
'OL|VET AND VICINITY
CORRESPONDENT ReJolcEs AT
FACT THAT HIS YOUNGEST
GRANDSON WINS YEoMANS
DEcLAMATORY CONTEST.

Olivet, Oct. 27.-Mrs. Cora Moss
man, of Valley Junction, spent the
week in town calling ON old friends
and neighbors, who are always GLAD
to meet her
Walter Clark left Friday for Spirit
Lake, where he will hunt and fish fol
a while. "
You send a boy to town with q
sack of the best peaches that evei
grew in the county. He may carry
them around all day and return al
might without making single sale
Why? Because no one asked hin
what he had in the sack. The same
with the merchant that doesn't adver
tise. He is sure not to make the
cause no one will ask him what he
has in his store. He should tell the
people through the advertising col
umns.
Mrs. F. C. Drake rented the Lee
Nossman place in the west end OF
town this week. She expects to run
a poultry business there.
Clyde Robinson lost several young
hogs this week.
The writer has been having all
kinds of time this week over the
report of the Ham Barnes sale in the
Herald. Some of the Herald readers
inform us that there was wild and
erroneous mistake made in saying
that steers, sold for $S5.75, when II
should have been $S4.75. We want
Ham Barnes and the Herald editor
to be more careful what they say in
print, for everybody reads the Herald
G. H. Laughlin returned home
from Missouri Thursday. While
there he sold a number of his stock
and rented his farm for a year.
The Herald man is all stuck up
this week in reading the report of the
Yeoman's doings in Ottumwa. We
find there that our youngest grand
son, Francis Fredrickson, was award.
ed first prize in the children's declam.
atory contest for children under eight
years of age. This young fellow is
now seven years of age and has two
gold medals, having been awarded
first prize by the same society one
year ago.
We notice those MeXicans still
keep foolin' down there and will until
your Uncle Sam puts his foot down.
And to quote Andrew Jackson, by
the eternal, if you don't quit your
foolin' We'll make you"
The man who suggested a univer-
sal costume for women is evidently
all wrong. A woman's charm rests
partly on her individual taste and the
expression of her individuality in the
decoration of herself. A wise creator
made no two of us just alike, so we
cannot merge and run ourselves in
one mold. Neither would it be wise
to do so, for variety is spice.
John Rogers, who has been laid up
for some time with a bad foot, was a
passenger for Oskaloosa Saturday.
While at work in the mines at Dallas
fell on his foot and broke
two bones just behind the big toe.
When mans wife can cook a
square meal, it Is not necessary for
her to hang fruit pictures on the wall,
or dressed fowls, nuts, and raisins,
for the table will tell.
The Herald want ad man is getting
his side of the paper up in a No. l
shape of late He has his little ads
classitied-salted down with spicy
DTtNlIy anu StINeu up W youl tdSLc'
Try one.
A. DeCOok lost fine two-year-old
Norma colt this week. He didn't
know there was anything wrong with
it until he found the animal dead in
the pasture.
Olivet has not improved any for
some time in the way of buildings or
real estate changing hands, but for
kids and dogs we certainly are top
nOtchers.
Mrs. R. V. Clark spent Saturday in
OskalOOsa shopping.
Our correspondence this week
shows a whole lot of aspirants looking
after the political fences. The best
advice that we can give some of them
at this date is to tackle a hoe and
shovel for a living.
The writer has had it sung in his
ears for a half century or more, Take
off this robber tariff If you want to
live cheaper, as we'll as to clothe
yourself and family" 1t is off and
we rise to a point or order and ask
What's the matter now?
w. H. Keeper, the Spencer man
from Oskaloosa, was in town Thurs
day. He reports trade in the grocery
line better than 1t has been for some
time. X. w.