The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-03-05
BUDGET
c. N. NElL's BARBER SHOP RUIN.
ED BY FIRE, TOY BLIZZARD
PLAYS ABOUT THAT SECTION
f. OF THE COUNTY.
Clipped from the Gazette)

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Sunday morning about 2 o'clock fire
was discovered in c. N. Neil's barber
Ishop and before it was put out the
whole interior of the building as well
as the contents was ruined. There
was a dance west of town Saturday
night that ran into the wee sma'
hours of Sunday morning and the
boys returning from the dance about
u o'clock discovered the blaze. 1t
had gained considerable Roadway and
1.-THE boys were afraid to break in the
door or window for fear it would Gre
! ate draft that would allow the fire
to consume the whole structure and
the surrounding buildings. Charles
Kline, one of the BARRIERS in the shop
| lived only block away, so they hur-
lried to his home and got the keys to
open the front door, The room was
dense with smoke and one of the fell
lows who threw the first bucket of
water got lost in the place and was
almost suffocated before he could be
found and gotten out. The alarm was
given and large crowd assembled to
| fight the fire, which was put out be-
fore 1t gained any Roadway on the
outside of the building. The interior
of the building is ruined as well as
the contents. A year ago Mr. Neil
put in three of the latest chairs and
a new wall case and these are now in
ruins.
A toy blizzard played around this
part OF the country Sunday night and
Monday. Not much snow, but the
northeast wind piled high what fell.
Railroad traffic on the 20" was in
terrupted to the extent that the even
ing freight did not arrive and the
passenger was annulled before it left
Oskaloosa. The NJ. & st. l.. trains
ran about on time here, except the
Afternoon, which was about three
hours late. The delay was caused in
Illinois. Freights went through on
schedule time.
DR.. and Mrs. l.. A. Combe and son,
Ivan, who have been at Colfax, for
the past two weeks, arrived home
Tuesday evening. The doctor has
been taking treatments at that insti
tuition and comes home much bene-
fitted by the baths but will rest a
week or so before resuming his prac-
ice
The neighbors of Mr., and Mrs. Geo.
Steele, south of town, surprised them
Monday evening by going in on them
and spending the evening. The
Steeles are going to move to a farm
near Farson, and the party was in
the nature of a farewell gathering.
Walter Springer was the victim
,of carefully planned surprise party
Saturday evening at his home, four
miles south of town. The occasion
was his birthday anniversary and a
right royal good time was had by all
Ben Roof returned Thursday even
ing from Des Moines, where he was
in attendance upon the annual meet
ing of the Iowa Hardware Dealers
association. He reports large atten-
dance and an interesting session.
Harry Beaver shipped a nice lot OF
horses out of Fremont, Tuesday, by
express to Prospect, Ohio. There
we're thirty in the consignment and
the animals weighed from 1,400 to
1000 pounds each.
We understand that two tickets
for the municipal election have been
gotten out and that there will be
a lively scrap for the several town
offices at the election on Monday,
March 80.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. f. Hitchcock and
children, who have been visiting rel
atives at Milton. Iowa, aud at Mis-
souri, points, arrived home Friday
after n two months absence.
r. u. Hitchcock has sold bis res
idence property on Pine street to
Mrs. f.. Dickey and possession will DO
given ON April 1. We understand the
ron Silpra ion WAS 81 900
John Thomas, of Cedar, was in Os-
kalooSa, Monday, and as the o. was
annullcd, he either stayed all night
or else walked home.
f. J. Heisel was at Coggan, Iowa,
the first of the week where he closed
deal disposing of one of his best
imported horses.
Miss Edith Roberts was called to
Linsday, Cal, Friday, by the illness
of her sister, Mr. J. Edward Corwin.
Mrs. Margaret FinkbOner left TO-
day for a months visit with relatives
at Peoria, Bloomington and Chicago.
d. c. Alexander, of Oskaloosa, was
in town Thursday, visiting old ac-
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