The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-06-15


: drove to Oskaloosa Sunday evenin
and attended a show. They were
/ Misses Wanda Myers, Emma Stanle
Dorothy Shields and Cloe Cawley
! Messrs. Paul Thayer, James Levi.
Harmey Shafer and Prof. r. C. Lore
Roy Anderson, graduate of low
Wesleyan this week, remained at Nj
Pleasant to await favorable roads tina
he might drive the family car home
John Anderson states that almos
four inches of rain fell att Mt. Pleas
ant during commencement week ant
roads were impossible.
Eddyville Tribune: Fay .Soults,
brother of Scott SOults, from thu
What Cheer community, who ha
been visiting his brother, was taker
suddenly i'll Saturday morning On
Saturday evening he was taken Il
Oskaloosa. to be operated on for ap
pendicitis. The latest report was
that he was getting along nicely.
Earl G. Allen is at his home in Bea
con for a few days before going t.
! Oklahoma where he will take up hi!
work with an oil company. Mr.. Aller
| finished his college course in science
1t Iowa CITY last week and goes Il
| Oklahoma this week to take up the
same position which he filled with tht
company last summer.
Mrs. Francis Ryan, of Ninth avenue
east, remembered the Herald with a
box of the incest Strawberries that
have touched our lips this season
They were monstrus berries and of
unsurpassed flavor They were too
appetizing to place in the window for
exhibition purposes. but they were
duly appreciated by the office force
who put them to practical personal
use.
Charles r. McGlumphy, a former
Oskaloosa lad was in town last week
looking after business affairs and see.
ing old time friends. Charles has been
working hard since leaving Oskaloosa
and has something to show for it
He is now general superint endent OF
he "Blackhawk Construction Com
nanv. contractors and engineers of
Waterloo, q large concern that Operat-
as in almost all parts of the land. O..
Mrs. J. L. Jones of Round up. Mon
tana, is visiting at the Will Stump
and A. FORSYTH homes on Seventh av-
I.
brated his eighty.third birthday ami
versary and the day was made the
occasion for a big dinner served at
the Will Stump home, No. 1872 Sew
enth avenue east Gue3ts of honor for
the occasion were Mrs. Mohler and
Mrs. Nunenmaker of Batavia. sisters
Of Mrs. Forsyth. Among the company
seated at the table for dinner were
four persons over eighty years of age.
Rev. W. II. Perdew of the Methodist
EPISCOPAL church of Oskaloosa is now
n Doctor. the special hOnors and de-
gree having been conferred upon the
pastor at Iowa Wesleyan college at
commencement day program last
week DR.. and Mrs. lPerdew, both
graduates of the school, were COM
mcnCement attendants and the hon
Ors came in the nature of surprise.
Present at the college also from this
vicinity for commencement were Mr..
and Mrs. John Anderson. whose son
Roy graduated from the school with
the degree Bachelor of Science, fol.
lowing a year and n half at Penn and
a year at Ames. Harold Dean. How
ard Caring Of Fremont, Miss Ethe'
Blancheon, Miss Esther LaPimer and
Doctor Minear were also at Mt. Pleas
ant for commencement.
J. f. HolingswOrth, head of the de
partment Of Greek and Latin at Whit
worth college, has rendered his resig
nation and expects to accept a posi-
ton in the middle west. Mr.. HOl
lingswOrth, who has been at the col
lege Off two years, is a member OF
the eXecptive committee of the Clas-
steal Association of the Pacific North
west He is chairman of the Latin
section of the Inland Empire Teach
ers' association and president of the
Spokane Classical club. He has
taught a syllabus Bible class at the
Centenary Presbyterian church and
is superintendent Of the Whitworth
Community Sunday school. The
Hbove taken from the Spokane
spokesman Review relates to a for
mer New SharOnite and will be of in
terest to friends here.
MonteZuma Republican,: Mrs. G. E.
Shipley left Friday for her home in
Oskaloosa after a pleasant visit with
Mrs. A. F. Rayburn and other friends.
Mrs. Shipley came to MonteZuma
with her parents in 1856, at a time
when there were few houses. She
says there were but two trees in
town, one, an elm, in front of her
fathers home, and another, a large
rose bush, in front of another resi-
dence in the town. Mrs. Shipley left
Montezuma in 1868 for Oskaloosa,
where she has since made her home.
Mrs. Rayburn was small girl when
Mrs. Shipley lived here and was
neighbor Their acquaintance rip
ened into friendship and they find
great pleasure in talking over the old
times. Many changes have come to
MonteZuma since those early days.
Frank Campbell was at that time edi-
tor OF the Republican and Mesdames
Shipley and Rayburn well remember
his journalistic efforts.
CFrom Tuesdays Dailyl
Mrs. Ralph Graft of Marshalltown
is spending the day in this city.
Mrs. DIR. Herbert Killips is spend
ing the day in Des Moines looking af-
ter business matters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren B. Johnson OF
Ottumwa are guests in the city with
relatives for few days.
Sigourney Review: Helen Brown
went to oskaloosa Friday to visit her
aunts, Mrs White and Mrs. Dodds.