The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
THE OsK ALOOsA HERALD THURSDAY, JANUARY

| f1Sner OF audmS township, WHO
/, this week removing to the city. Gu
of host OF offers and OppOrtunitie,
TO sell the model home, f. M. has Civ
en- way to Mr.. Fisher. He has pur
chased another place, No. 81 Norti
&c street, and as soon as the weather
permits he will rebuild and remode
the same.
Mrs. H. o. Anderson, of Waynes
burg, Pa, is in town, a guest at the
homes of her cousins, the Walton
boys. Mrs. Anderson had been down
in Texas near the Mexican border
She was witness TO one battle i'm
which she saw seventeen people kill.
ed. She has many interesting things
to relate concerning the conflict
stories in the nature of detail that
| does not reach the public through
the press.
Rex Neil, who has been manager
of the Union Delivery Co. since the
| system was installed here last March,
and who has been very successful,
has been transferred to Marshall
town to take charge of the new sys-
tenn at that place. This is quite a
nice advance for Mr.. Neil, as the
Marshalltown system is more extern
siye than the one at this place. Mrs.
Neil and son Cedric will remain in
Oskaloosa until spring. w. r..
Matthews, formerly with the M. & St.
L. Ry., has charge of the business
here.
(From Tuesdays Daily.l
Newberg News: Arthur Clay went
to Oskaloosa Monday where he will
go on the road as travelling salesman
for the Underwood Candy Co.
Pella Chronicle: Jim Dewitt, John
Nieburg and L. F. Bousquet drove to
Oskaloosa Wednesday evening of
last week to attend a meeting.
Pella Booster: Chas. GRANDPA who
is working for Schee Auto Company
in Oskaloosa, Sundayed in this city
with his mother and other relatives.
Pella Chronicle: Mrs. John Braam
noon to visit her daughter, Mrs. c.
VerPloeg, who is in the hospital
there recovering from an operation
for appendicitis.
Mrs. Byron ". Sewers who has
been spending the holidays and hav-
ing a somewhat extended visit at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Stoton
Stephenson at Fort Morgan, Color
ado, arrived home Saturday.
Grinnell Register: Messers c. M.
Porter and c. r. Rockey, both of Os-
kaloosa and both with the Hawkeye
Lumber Company were in town look
ing after business affairs connected
with the actual transfer of the Clark
Lumber Yard to the Hawkeye people.
Pella Booster: Thursday afternoon
while Andrew Wormhoudt was doing
some carpenter work at the First
Reformed church board that he
stepped on flew up and struck him
in the left eye tearing both the eye
lids. He Immediately went to a
specialist in OskalOosa and had the
wounds cared for. He will not nee
essarily suffer from any damaged eye
sight, but it was a narrow escape.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
Twelve neighbors and friends OF Mrs.
Bert Curry, III West Boone street.
pleasantly surprised her at her home
Thursday afternoon, as she is tol
leave next week for Oskaloosa, where
she will make her home, and where
Mr.. Curry has been appointed fore
man of the Water supply of the M. &
st. l.. In a guessing contest the
prizes were awarded to Mrs. Fred
Lentz and Mrs. Gustav Mold. The
hostess was presented with half a
dozen Haviland china plates and
lunch brought by the guests, was
served.
Mrs. D. F. Marks, formerly of this
county, but for ten years past, resi-
dent of Lane County, Oregon, sends
us a marked copy of the Eugene
Morning Register giving graphic
account of fruit raising in that coun-
ty and the benefits derived from
the fruit growers association. Mrs.
Marks in note accompanying the
paper says: we came here ten years
ago last November, and we are more
in love with the country every day.
One thing ! regret about the Iowa
people, especially the OskaloOsa peo-
pie. is that when they go to Califor-
mia that they don't come by the way
of Eugene, Oregon. So many of them
come as far as Portland, then instead
OF coming down through the Walla-
mette valley, through Eugene. they
take another route and miss the best
part OF the country"
Ottumwa Courier: Jediah s. Barnes
resident of this city since 1866,
left this morning for Chicago, where
he will spend few months with his
son, b. NJ. Barnes, formerly of OF
tumwa, preparatory to leaving for
Joplin, Missouri. where he will make
his future home with his daughter,
Mrs. Matte A. Graves. Mr.. Barnes
has spent nearly half a century in
this city and has witnessed it grow
from a mere village to what it is to-
day. Born near Mansfield, Ohio, in
Richmond county, April IS, 1885, Mr..
Barnes was raised on a farm and at
tended the county schools. In the
spring OF 1854 he with his father and
four brothers left Ohio in wagon
and came TO Iowa, settling in Ma
haska county Mr.. Barnes Learned
the trade of a printer in Mansfield
and upon arriving in Oskaloosa Sc.
cured a job at his trade. According
TO Mr.. Barnes he secured a position
on the Oskaloosa Times. democrat
| ic paper and worked on the first edi-
ton of the paper issued. Leaving the
| Times. he went to Eddyville, where