The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-05-07


telling of the fate of Irwin Mcbride
la former Mahaska county boy. wh'
4 was born and raised near Wright
Mr.. Mcbride is a mining engineer ant
his home is at La Junta. Severa
months ago he accepted fine Offe
to go to Mexico and develop some
mining properties there. His wif'
has just received word that he has
been made a prisoner. by the Mexi
cans. He is reported SAFE, but rela
tiyes and friends, are very, s3olicitohA!
for his welfare ~ -.. 40,
John PiCkerell.,a merchant of Cher
okee, Oklahoma, and former resi-
dent OF Oskaloosa was in town Sun
day a guest of l. II. MCCracken. Mr.
| Pickerell left OskalOOsa back in the
early eighties with his father the
Rev. Micajah Pickerell who resided
northeast of town. He went out to
take a peep at the old home place,
He remembered the old house but
that's about all that was natural. Car
bonado has come and gone since he
was here. A part of the mining prop
erty was located on land that was
held by the PicEerell family. All
OskalCosa was changed and he could
find little in the place to remind him
of his idea of the burg when he was
a lad. He was called to Des Moines
on business and having day on
thought to run down TO Oskaloosa
to renew oldtime friendships and rec.
objections.
Mrs. o. P. Dede is spending the
day with relatives in Washington.
Miss Hattie Messenger of Ottumwa
is visiting Oskaloosa friends this
weeE.
DIR. J. H. Teter went TO Des Moines
this morning to attend the State Den
tai convention
Miss Hazel Ballard has been very
sick at her home, 42S North Fifth
street, of a nervous breakdown.
Mrs. j. c. Beechler left last night
for Akron, Cal, where she will re-
main during the summer with her
sons
Keota Eagle: Del Reed lost a horse
last week. In company with Sinner
Conklin he went TO Oskaloosa Satur-
day to buy another If possible and We
didn hear what he did about it.
Eddyville Tribune: Mrs. Cora Mer-
edith of O'Neill, Nebraska, who had
been spending several weeks at the
Andy Baker home in Oskaloosa, has
been paying a visit to her niece, Mrs
Chas: Kussart.
John Harknes OF the firm of Hark
ness and Friend, who was only re-
Gently able TO return to his shop is
suffering a relapse and is again con.
fined to his bed, showing little or no
improvement from day to day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pearl Grubb came
down from Grinnell Monday and are
spending a few days with relatives in
the city, before they move to their
new home at Cedar, where Mr.. Grubb
will have charge of ais fathers lum-
Der yard.
w. J. Perkins and l.. D. Gosselink
have received the sad message OF the
death of their sister-in-law. MIS-. A. 7.
Wycoff, of Kansas City. Mrs. Per
kins and Mrs. Gosselink went to her
bedside last week and arrived in time
to see her before she passed away.
Merited advancement in the ser
vice OF his company has come to j.
w. Kinney, No. 3l9 North Fourth st.
Mr.. Kinney was the local representa-
tive OF the Mutual Life Insurance Co.
of New York. He has been promoted
TO the position of district manager,
with headquarters at PiQua, ONO,
and is moving to the place, which is
near the home place OF himself and
wife. Mr.. and Mrs. Kinney have made
warm friends during residence here
and they will be missed in social and
business circles.
Peter Mencke of Davenport has re-
turned TO his home after a somewhat
extended visit in OskalOOsa and coun.
tryside. Mr.. Mencke Is both an eX'
pert vineyard worker and a shep-
herd. lie first got in bad" in Oska-
loosa by trimming a little patch OF
grapes for a relative, soon after ar
rival, last February. Some neighbOrs
were also favored and then others re-
uuired the services OF the pruning
knife until Mr.. Mencke turned his
visit to good account. He has now
been shearing sheep here and there
about the county and had other calls
ahead when he was summoned home
Saturday by the illness OF member
of his family.
From Wednesdays Daily)
Suny News: Miss Martha Ogan
Miss Efiie Marion and Guy Runnels
of Clear Lake, spent Sunday at Os
kaloosa.
Abba Union: Arthur Chord has
changed his location from Oskaloosa
to Boone, where he Will be employed
in a pantatorium.
Knoxville Express: Mrs. r. W
Marley was in Oskaloosa yesterday
| looking after business connected witt
the property they have in that town
Washington Journal: The Rev
and Mrs. |. o. Kemble, who have beer
visiting briefly with friends mere, re
turned to their home at Oskaloosa 10
day.
Bussey Record: RS. John Maitr'
and sist,r, Miss Alice Spaur, went 4
OskaIoosa Wednesday evening. Tn
former Is removing from here to Us
kaloosa.
Newton News: A company o
friends gathered at the depot 10 sa
their good bys TO Mrs. G. b. Wes'
brook who departed for her new hon
lin OskaIoosa. The household good
were shipped day before yesterda
and the Westbrooks will now take u
their permanent residence In Oski