The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-09-09
.OLIVET AND VICINITY

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/ olivet, Sept. .3,--First frost of this
year was visible here on the morning
of August 81, farmers reporting ne
bad effect.
John Cole. purchased fine blacl
driving horse for his son John last
week II every man would do this
there would be less boys leave the
farm and go to town, for it encourages
them to stay on the farm.
! Russell Kerr of Knoxville shipped
a car of feeding cattle to Knoxville
! on Tuesday. This is the third car he
has sent out OF here recently. Mr. Nc
| Weigh, his buyer informs us they are
all sold to- farmers of Marion county
Jas soon as they are unloaded
McReynOlds & Son added a large
stock of fall and winter dry goods to
their stock this week.
In letter from Hon C. w. Ram.
seyer, congressman from this dis,
trict he says he will start for Wash.
ington on Oct. l. He wants TO see
some of the East and organize his
office before Congress convenes in De.
'cember He has been all over the dis.
.triet since his return home from the
west and finds everything lovely and
the goose hangs high"
Good road talk seems to be solu.
tion to hot air and wind. We have
ten metal culverts here in the yard
that are just as they were taken out
of the car two weeks ago. We have an
iron bridge in a car on the side track
since Aug Is and no one to unload it.
The parties have been duly notified
and the matter rests right there.
We notice by the press that the au-
tomobile has reduced passenger bust
ness at this station seVenty-tive per
cent and when roads are good, train
me Uniform us that it is the same all
over this line
In letter from our nephew N. A.
Williams of Atlanta, Ga, he says he
represents seven cotton producing
states for the David Adler Clothing
Co. of Atlanta, ami says the financial
depression which they have been hav-
ing in the south for the past year has
demolished their clothing trade
Whatsoever man soweth, that shall
he reap"
l.. Hackert was a caller at the sta
ton on Tuesday. He says the recent
frost had no effect on the corn and
there will be lots OF corn raised.
3 l.. P. Seaman shipped carload OF
mine timber to the English Creek
Coal Company at Knoxville this week
F Farmers out of job until cornhusk-
ing, are hauling sand from the river
to put cement floors in their feeding
lots.
Perry Doris of Valley Junction was
in town this week calling on old
friends Perry is one of the oldest set
Tiers in Scott Township. His old friend
and neigbors always have the glad
hand for him.
We want it understood right now
that we want to select a Good Road
legislature in 1916, men of progress
ike sides
We had two farmers to call on US
this week from Black Oak township
and said they were contemplating sci
ling out and buying farm in Okla
homa. We want these men to call on
us again and if we fail to convince
them they are going to make mis-
take of their lives, we will set up the
cigars and pop.
The writer notes with much inter
est the way Mayor Harold handles
the evil doors in OskaloOsa and is to
be commended for it, for we never
a law to compel a man to violate a
law 1t Is done with his own free will,
knowledge and consent, and he must
abide by results. The very best way TO
handle these fellows who go about
committing crime would be to convict
them on general principles without
evidence.
We have not had a single person
reported this year as having attended
the state fair from this place and To-
cality Last year we had twelve and
the year before that sixteen, as our
records show.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. w. Van
rakel on Wednesday, Sept. /, an eight
pound daughter All parties doing
well.
The time is coming when a driver
of an auto will have to carry a certiti-
cate of competency. This thing of turn
ing a kid loose on the highway with
one of those cars has gone to the lin
it-mark this.
The well written article from Mr..
Rice on good roads in Mondays Her
aid was read with much interest. Moth
ing too good for Iowa. We must heart
lily echo this sentiment What he says
will never materialiZe as long as we
depend on the farmer to work them
This money must be collected in cash
as taxes and hire men to do the work
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. DeCook and
daughters left on Thursday for a
weeks outing with relatives and
friends at Indianola, also Osceola
While gone they will visit at the John
Phillips, VIII Clagham and c. Glare
homes. Frank McCombs will run the
DeCook home while the family Is
gone.
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