The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-02-04
NEW SHARON NEWS
REsEKAH LODGE WINS A FINE
PIANO - THE EASTERN STARS
PLEDGE 500 TO NEW LIBRARY
-OLD FIpDLERS' CONTEST.
(From the Star.l


The predictions of a whirlwind fin
ish for the piano contest conducted
by Day & LIE Cocq in connection with
their mammoth stock reduction sale
were not in the least exaggerated.
The Rebekah lodge won the fine $3.50
piano, with Mrs. D. S. Miller a close
second The vote stood as follows:
Rebekah lodge. 2,472,10O; Mrs. Dave
Miller, 2,450,6O0; Mrs. Cecil Harper,
100000.
The members of Prairie Chapter,
No. 1877, Order of the Eastern Star,
have pledged themselves to raise 500
to pay the balance due on the new
piano in the Masonic hall. To ac-
complish this end they have engaged
the Pythian Glee Club of Oskaloosa to
give a benefit entertainment in the
New Sharon Auditorium next We'd
nesday evening, February 3.
Manager George WiswelI will give
treat to the lovers of old time mu-
sic at the Auditorium next Friday
night, January 20. The entertain
ment will be an Old Fiddlers' Contest
in which cash prizes will be given.
Phillip Raymond the infant son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Allen Hughes, re.
siding in the southwest part of town,
died Friday, January %, as the re-
suit of pneumonia, aged eight months
and twenty-nine days.
Il. II. Woodward has sold his resi-.
dence property, one block north of
the Auditorium, to Wilbur Rice, and
Mr.. Woodward will move his family
r. h1 x,Ths oh, l.
the Eclipse Lumber yard
Mrs. A. L. Grims of Waukon, Iowa,
who has been enjoying a visit at the
home of her sister, Mrs. T. R. Os-
borne, left Tuesday for Des Moines
and from there will go to Sioux City
to visit her parents.
+. A. Younkin was in Des Moines
Monday and called on Geo. II. BarbouS
who has been in the Methodist hos.
pital for several weeks. Mr.. Bar
bour's condition is somewhat i'm
proved.
Rev. w. s. Gardner, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church, is as
sisting in revival meetings at Deep
River and chere will be no preaching
at the local church for two or three
weeks.
The library committee of the New
Sharon WOman's Club cleared 500
from the oyster supper given in the
basement of the NJ. f. church last
Thursday evening.
Albert Van Skike ZELDA closing out
sale at his farm near Taintor last
week and moved to Pella Monday. He
has taken charge of the White Way"
hotel.
Mrs. A. J. Lloyd was able to return
last evening from the Methodist hos
pital in Des Moines where she sub
mitted to an operation several days
ago.
Mrs. A. L. Fox, living west of town,
has been seriously i'll with pneumonia
for several days but is reported
slightly improved this morning.
The board Of trustees will receive
bids on or before Saturday, February
6, 1915, for superintendent and road
work in Prairie township.
Worth and Oscar Burbank, accom-
panied by Ed Colville, went to Leroy,
Mimi, the first of the week to look
at farm lands.
Mrs. Lewis Dysart has returned
nome from an extended visit with her
daughter, Mrs. David Savage, at Sa-
lem, Iowa.
Earl Cope, son of Mr.. and Mrs. p.
T. Cope, has been ill and confined to
his home for several days but is now
better
Mrs. Comfort Ryan, of near Peoria,
mother of DR.. J. G. Ryan, has been
seriously i'll. She is improving
slowly.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Terbell are the
happy parents of a baby daughter,
born Saturday morning, January %.
Mrs. Ching Leary and children of
Taintor came Friday to visit her
brother, George Mccain and family.
The T. j. Mccain estate farm three
miles northwest of town, has been
sold to Graham Andre.
Miss Mary Mcnamara, who was in
jured by falling on the ice last week,
Is slowly improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Phillips baby
has been seriously i'll but is some bet
ter at this writing.
J. E. Crandall shipped a load of
hogs to Keithsburg Wednesday.