The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-10-09
BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES

G. C. Grub, New Sharon .23
1882 and
Hazel Dyer. Creston. .23
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Thomas f. Spicer, Ottumwa. . !. SO
1899 and
Luella e. Franklin, oskaloosa, ). &c
SHIRK.--Born, Sunday, October :,
1918, to Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Shirk, of
207 High avenue west, an S14 pound
boy
ROSEBROOK.--!Bor to Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Rosebrook, No. 914 First
avenue east, Monday morning, Sept.
80, 1913, a son, weight IL pounds.
Mother and babe doing nicely and the
father is wearing a big smile.
HOIT.-Died, at the home of the
home Of the parents, on the Beacon
road southwest of town, at 2:15
O'Clock D. m. Friday, October 3, 1913,
after an illness of several weeks with
diabetes, little Bernice Marguerite
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John b.
Holt, aged years, 8 months and 10
days. Funeral service at the Chris
tian church, North First street, Sun.
day, October 5, at 900 o'clock p. m.
Interment in Forest cemetery. The
death of the child is particularly sad
and the sympathy of the community
goes out to the sorrowing family.
Observation-Disclosures communica-
ton to Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Graft, No.
SIC ID avenue West, gives information
of the death at Slater, Iowa, Thursday
morning. October 2, 1913. at Z o'clock,
'of Elmer Thorson, who suffered with
tuberculosis. Funeral from the late
home Saturday afternoon at o'clock
and interment at Slater. Deceased
was well known in Oslaloosa. He was
in the service of the Iowa Central and
the M. & st. l. Rys. and gained wide
acquaintance through his service at
the local round house and machine
shops as clerk and store keeper. He
was forced to leave OskalOOsa by rea.
son of failing health. He went to the
Santa Fe company in New Mexico in
the hope that the change of climate
would work a benefit, but when he
Returned to the home of his mother at
Slater early this summer he brought
with him the knowledge that the end
was not Tar distant. He is survived
by widow and four children, two be.
ing a pair of twins, born in March OF
this year. Sympathy goes out from
the hearts of friends here to the sor'
row-burdened home and family.
DOMER - JONES. - One of the
prettiest weddings that it was ever
the writer's privilege to witness oc-
CURED at five o'clock on the evening
of October /, 1913, at the home Of
Mr. and Mrs w. A, Hanna in Dan.
vile, Iowa, when Miss S. Edith Jones
of Oskaloosa, la, was united in mar
riage with Rev. O.. G Domer of APP
pleton City. Mo. At the appointed
hour, Mr.. Harry Matthias of Mediapr
| oils rendered a beautiful and appro-
pirate piano selection. Mr.. Ray Mix
of Danville then sang Beloved! II Is
Morn" Miss Avon Chandler of Dan
vile played Mendelssohn's Wedding
March. The bride and bridesmaid,
Miss Elya Jackson, were met at the
foot of the stairs by. the groom and
groom's man. Mr.. Wm. Odell Rev,
A. A. Heath of Delta preceded the
bridal party to position beneath a
canopy of green, where they remain
ed standing while Mr., Mix again sang
very tenderly 81 Love You Truly"
DR.. Lambert, pastor of the Danville
Methodist church, offered prayer.
Miss Vida Hanna then sang in clear
lyric soprano, Answer" Rev. Heath
then read the ever beautiful and i'm
pressive Methodist Episcopal cere-
mony. After congratulations boun-
teous four course dinner was enjoy
ed. Five young ladies, friends of the
bride, gracefully served the tables.
The Hanna home was beautifully
decorated with ferns and flowers in
great abundance. the color scheme
being yellow and white. The floral
decorations of the table were of vel
low chrysanthemums. The bride
was attired in a simple white dress
of silk voile. She carried a shower
bouquet of white roses. The BRIDE
maid was in yellow and white and
carried 4 bouquet Of yellow roses :.
There we're thirty guests present:
MIR and Mrs. John Grapes, Elizabeth
and Bernice Grapes of Bloomington,
H.; Mrs. Ellen Jones of Revere, Mo. !;
Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Heath and
daughter, of Delta, Ia; Rev. VIM,
Odell of Knoxville. Ia; Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Hunt and Miss Helen Hunt and
Mrs. G. w. Deets of Burlington: DR..
and Mrs. Matthias and son Harry, OF
Mediapolis; Miss Elva Il. Jackson OF
Oskaloosa; Misses Mabel Kelly, Fay
Hunter. Vida Hanna. Gladys McCar-
gar, Bertha and Avon Chandler, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Mix, DIR. and Mrs.
Lambert and DR.. Giese, all Of Dan
vile. The bride has for the past
two years been engaged in .evangel-
istic singing in the Iowa and Upper
Iowa Conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal church. The groom has
for four years been attending school
at Central Holiness University at
Oskaloosa, Iowa He has recently
been appointed pastor of the Upton
Circuit, Methodist churches. These
young people have host of friends
who join in wishing them many hap
by and useful years in their chosen
work.-"Witness."
N. Y. Beat her to death and took $500