The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-09-25
.LYNNv|LLE LOCALS
LADIES ORGANIZE A CIVIC I'M
pRovEMENT CLUB = SCHOOL
STARTS WITH LARGEST At
TENDANCE IN HISTORY.
Nynnville Star. sept. 1S.l

sept io.J
Roscoe Macy, Earl Macy and Rus
sell Macy of this place, Mr.. Welch
and Mr.. King of Primghar. Iowa. mo-
tored over TO Grinnell Monday where
they are all in college work this year
except Mr.. King, who goes on to Os-
kaloosa where he is at work in one of
the business houses.
Clifford Remand left for Oskaloosa
Monday where he will enter Penn col
lege.
Mrs Mary Catheart, of Bushnell,
ILL.,, Mrs. Nellie Bean of Winchester,
H., and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Potter
spent Sunday in the Dairy Grove
neighborhood while Mrs. Catheart
and Mrs. Bean renewed old acquaint-
ances. They are daughters of VIII.
liam Hart who lived in that part OF
the county in the early days. They
left those scenes thirty years ago as
girls and this is their first visit there
since.
Fleming RatcIiff returned on Thurs.
day morning from Rochester, Mimi,
where he has been for about five
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an operation for appendicitis.
In fast and snappy game on the
local grounds last Saturday, Killduff
made it three straight by batting
rally in the ninth to the tune of to
7. The home boys lost the game on
errors after pounding Van Dollen to
all corners of the lot in their part of
the sixth when four hits and an error
Melted five runs.
Monday afternoon the ladies of
Lynnville met at the school house
and organized Civic Improvement
Club, with the following committees:
Nomination, Mesdames DR.! Quire,
John Simpson, Burnham. Bylaws
and Constitution, Mesdames Heki,
David Meredith and Eliza Renaud.
The next meeting will be held in two
weeks, when officers will be elected
and organization completed.
The school this year is starting out
in grand shape. We have the largest
enrolment in our history and every,
thing now points to the most success.
full year At the present time the
boys are practicing football and as
soon as the football season is over
lied and weekly programs given.
Richard Rivers, one of our pro
gressive merchants, Is remodeling his
store and making some changes in
the arrangements of the fixtures sc
as to- make room for his increased
trade. Mr.. Rivers is consistent
and persistent advertiser and this
fact helps to explain his prosperity.
We are having about one and one
half blocks of new concrete sidewalks
put in from Briggs Bros. store east
This only adds one more stretch to
our already long string of fine side
walks. These are a surprise to al
who visit our town and are the envy
of all other towns of this size, in fact
they would be credit to a city much
larger
Harlan, Lucille and Ralph Meredith
drove over to 0skaloosa in the cal
last Monday. ..
he w. F. M. S. of the Lynnville
Friends church had an all day quilt
ing and social meeting at the home
OF Minerva Alice Monday in honor OF
Mary T.. White of Jamaica. Miss
White will be the Foreign Pastor
of the Friends church, they having
assumed her salary of $500
Charles Williams has traded 60
acre farm west of this place for one
near Oskaloosa and will move to that
place next spring. He will be missed
by his many friends who unite in
wishing him success in his new loca
ton. The price on this end of the
deal was $500 per acre.
William Macy, a farmer living
northeast of town, has some of the
finest tomatoes this year in spite Of
the dry weather. Along in the sum
mer when the dry weather set in he
arranged SO he could irrigate his to
mato patch and out of about one hun
dred plants he has sold about 1913 OF
worth so far besides what they coult
take acre of themselves and they
still have plenty of them. Mr. MACY
says that the vines are covered will
blossoms yet and seem to be an ever
green variety.