The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
FOURTH OF JULY
CELEBRATIONS
NEIeHBoRINe TOWNS OBSERVE
GREAT OCCASION. .t
OSLALOOSA PEOPLE SCATTERED
No Program In Town Afforded Every.
one An Opportunity to Go Else
where. And Nearly Ev-
erybody Did.

One of the genuinely enjoyable Att
of July celebrations was that at tn,
Eyeland Grove on Des Moines Rive
in jefferson township, Saturday, Jul!
8, and the crowd participating enjoy
ed the program Rain interfered will
the afternoon events however and
many were early driven to their HON
es by the threatening clouds. A good
sized delegation of Oskaloosa people
including Mayor j. G. Harold and his
lady contributed to the size of the
crowd.
Uncle Bin" Lacey of Oskaloosa
had been drafted Tor orator and he
was al his best. He was reminiscent
first off and got the crowd He told
of being boy at celebration In this
very grove, years and years ago." in
1855, when he first came to Iowa. He
pointed out tree still standing where
on swing had hung and behold a
swing was doing duty there today
The celebration of the days gone by
were brought up, VIVID IIke, anu be.
fore Uncle Bill rested, he had the
whole crowd listening Even the boys
on the fringe of the crowd had let up
on the fire crackers to see what was
going on in the big crowd to make
everybody so still. W. r. Lacey has
made many speech in his time, but
no will have to go some to make a
better one than at Eyeland, Saturday.
At Rose Hill.
Over at Rose Hill Saturday, they
had rousing time but rain appeared
in the afternoon and claimed place on
the program and crowded the base
ball game of the list and scattered
the crowd, After hard shower the
clouds lifted and the remainder of the
day passed without jar
Iowa Brigade band was feature
OF the day and had the place of honor
Incidentally the band boys learning
of the illness of Ed Stringfellow, al
old time band man, well known about
Oskaloosa, went out to see the invalid
and played for him. They then lined
up, shook hands with the sufferer and
although no word OF parting was ex-
pressed. each one knew it was good
bye" Mr.. StringfeIlow was visibly
moved and many OF the band boys
could not keep the tears back. Mr.
Stringfellow is suffering from sarco-
ma, his case is hopeless and physi.
clans give him but few days to live.
Ottumwa and Abba.
Ottumwa Elks staged a celebration !
that attracted quite a number of Os-
kaloOsa people a long with the Elks /
and their ladies from all over south |
eastern Iowa. Parajes, day and night I
fireworks and other features made a I
day worth while
Abba put up a big celebration and /
drew a portion of Oskaloosa popula- /,
ton that went by train and AUTO An !
enjoyable program was carried out
and a pleasant day permitted by the .
weather man.
At EddyviIIe.
Eddyville, down on the southern
line of the county, over
against the corner of Monroe county, |
had one of the incest of shows. These /
boys celebrated early and had It go :,
ing late. They celebrated right They "
had everything that accompanies a
real. sure enough celebration, - fire
crackers, with no limit in size or j,
noise, red pop, balloons, peanuts,--the y,
whole smear" Eddyville was over
run with folks and people and their /
relatives. Such crowd Myi N.Y. So
many automobiles were in town, there !
was no room for the people. .t- o.. Il
All Mahaska was there, hundred of
cars. After the fire works the roads
leading north from Eddyville were 7
packed with cars and vehicles going
home. one close after another, as
thick as they could stick:
Our Iowa Brigade band was there
and was busy all day. .~zs
Cars were still arriving at Oskaloo-
So az twothirty o'clock this morning.
Everybody was happy and every
body was glad. Something to do all !,
the time and in many places, from
nerTy-go-round or ferris wheel to II
other attractions. This ancient Des
Moines river town, the oldest landing i
in Mahaska county. sure did herself Z
proud and the people of that locality II
base something to talk about for !,
months to come II
At Hedriek. .. , 1!
Hedrick received the assistance Of
} goodly crowd from Oskaloosa Satur-
day An attractive program was offer-l
ed and aside from the rain nothing &C.
Cured to interfere with the enjoy.I
ment OF the throng. In the wrestling
match between Joe Kitterman. a
Young man OF Hedrick who mas been
attracting attention of the athletic
world by his splendid mat showing.
was victorious over Shaw. Center
Vile man. He won two easy falls.
This was one of the big features of
he Hedrick celebration
At 6ussey
Bussey people arranged program
'cr the Fourth OF July picnic, one OF
me old fashioned kind The country
side turned out enmasse and an en-
Ioyable day was experienced. One OF /
he big things on the program was a
base ball game between New Sharon /
md Bussey I'm which the visitors were
by the local boys in an air
light contest containing enough field
ng thrills for a big league exhibition.
four 20 two is the way Bussey did it |
o New Sharon.
At Evans.
Evans had more people than the old
avn knew what 10 do with Monday.
Hhay came from all directions, stay-l
q all dag. and al seemed TO enjoy
hemaelyes. The usual program Of