The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-03-23

/ family came into the Village lin the
/, evening. The news of Phillips
abundant supply spread like a prai-
RE fire, and he had an abundance OF
callers. Everybody came to see
4 him. Everybody seemed to appre-
ciate him. They were all plain
spoken people, and were not asham-I
ed to ask for what they wanted; Mr..
Phillips levee lasted till bedtime, and
4 wa~ continued in the morning until
breakfast, at which hour he found he
had loaned out barrel OF flour TO
entire strangers, and 1t is likely all
Oskaloosa breakfasted on hot biscuit
Instead of scorn.bread, which was the
more common fare, -
| - =. -
1t is related that DR.. T. A. Boyer
and his neighbor, Van Delaslmutt
found their supply of meal and flour
! almost exhausted 1t was quite i'm
possible to get anywhere because OF
the high water. They heard OF
corn cracker some eight or ten miles
up the river and sent w. A. Delash-
mutt with four bushels of corn
packed on two horses. He arrived
at Mr.. Nossman's, the owner OF the
mill, only to find that it was out OF
repair. On learning. however, oil
! the pressing need, the mill was doc
tored up and by daylight next morn
ling Mr.. Delashmutt was ready to re.
turn with his four bushels of ground
corn. During the day DR.. Boyer no.
lticed~a vessel ascending the river
loaded with -four. He put out into
the swollen stream with two men and
| tho ctpa MGR
he requested the captain to sell MIN
a supply of flour. The captain rcid
him it had been ordered by the gov
eminent for the soldiers at Fort Des
Moines and he could not sell 1t. MI
Boyer told him he must have some
-four if he had to scuttle the boat TO
get it. After some conversation the
captain agreed to let him have two
! barrels of -four for the privilege OF
loading his vessel with rails which
we're floating about in drifts along the
river. His vessel had made the trip
from St. Louis and was short of
fuel. Mr.. Boyer got his -four ashore
and rolled it up by the side of his
cabin, covering it with some boards.
When his friend Van Delashmutt
came over shortly afterwards he took
him out to show him his prize. He
could not have been more dumbfound-
ed if he had been confronted by a
bear. How two barrels Of flour
could have reached that wilderness
home unannounced, was more than
he could understand The true pio-
neer never enjoys good thing alone,
and Mr.. Delashmutt got one of the
mysterious barrels and its welcome
contents .'' - ..""''
-:--:--:-f ..'.~,
Mrs. Emily ]. Coryel, states that
in the very early years when. mills
were so very far away and -four very
scarce Washington Threlkeld dug oul
hard wood stump near his cabin
as to form a kind of basin and fas'
tened an iron wedge to the end of a
stick, giving it a handle, which he
used as a pestle to crush, shelled
corn. When the corn was thorough
ly beaten it was sifted and the fine
portion used as meal, while the
coarse PARTICLES FEera .Xsorked1 9p4 into
hominy. This contriVance proved to
be of much value to- the neighborhood
and people came in good numbers to
use it, taking their turn. just as they
did at the mill. , g. ,'t
=. =. -
Then Benny" Roop came to town
and started his bottling works which
was afterwards converted into flour
ing mill, and OskalOOsa people from
that time on were able to get all the
food stuff they needed by patrOniz
ing home industries. Mr.. ROOp own
ed the whole west end of town and
used most of it for a hog lot, where
he fattened many fine pOrkers. He
fenced off a big section of it, how
ever, and built thereon the finest
home in iowa up to that time. II
vas a brick mansion, and the ma
terial was all hauled here by team
from KeOkuk. Those were the days
of prosperity for the west end" am
the elite of the city lived west and
north of the line drawn from the
Gait House through the Green Cas-
tle," to Mr.. Roops mill. But the
railroad came along and sliced the
town in two, turned the RoOp man
sion into hotel and eating house and
built depot in the front yard. Even
before this, Mr.. Roop got sore on the
TOWN. ana InONSu 10 Beacon where lie
built another big mill and among 9th
er things put a quart OF whiskey in
the corner stone. Some sixty years
I afterwards w. A. Sewers bought the
old mill and had it wrecked to make
miners houses out of the material
And it is recorded that he would not
speak to anybody for four days af.
ter some fellow opened the corner
stone one night and swiped the con.
tents. -., ......,r ...
Chap. XVI-TAe Press.
A. ID. Lasker. a Jewish boy, went
to Chicago from his home in Louis
! vile. Kentucky, years ago. The
story goes that he and his father had
agreed to disagree over business
methods, and giving the son $4,000 in
cash. told him to go to Chicago and
make his own way. The boy &C
copied the challenge, and upon land
ing in chicago he rented a room IN
the Congress Hotel and started out
to look for a job. He finally ran
across one as Office boy for the firm
of Lord 4: Thomas advertising
agents. With a job to his credit. Mr..
=