The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-03-16
THE HOT STOVE CLUB
Oliver Organization Will Adjourn
Monday Mch. 9th.

| Olivet,, March 11.-(By R. W.
| The last, evidence we have had oil
spring is the hot stove club" at their
] meeting on Monday, March 6, when
they decided to adjourn on Monday
March 81, at 1900 noon. 1t was
found at their meeting that the attend
ance was dwindling until they did not
have quorum and in order to retain
! their charter, it was to their best in
terest to adjourn. The Lord has no
objections and know the people have
MT any. 1t was so ordered.
The coal business on the Rock ISL
and from Knoxville to Evans is on
the boom There is more coal going
over the road at this date than there
has been all winter.
r. V. Clark spent Monday in Oska-
loosa setting himself right with the
county treasurer. 8.
. At this time the leading thought OF
the people Is preparedness. Here is
dimes to doughnuts if the United
States would do. all its own preparing
at first cost and cut out the profit
this preparedness talk would be
mighty scarce, for if the men who
started wars had to do all the lighting
it is a settled fact there would be
no more wars.
H. Nj. Thompson spent last Tuesday
in Oskaloosa settling up his business.
Mr.. Thompson sold his farm and is
thinking some of locating ON a farm
in New Mexico.
Ira Shaffer spent last Monday in Os.
kaloosa keeping himself straight with
the sheriff and county treasurer.
II. Castings of Runnells, Iowa, was
in town last week talking up auto Oil.
This man has an awful hard name.
Don't know how his oil is 1
The writer landed in Oskaloosa,
Mahaska county. from Astoria, ILL
nOis, on September l, 1882. During
al these years, we never knew Ma
haska county was the original home
of Adam and Eve, while located in the
Garden of Eden until we read what
the Roustaout said about this in his
history of the county, Thanks.
II. w. Morrison of Newton, Kansas
was in this locality looking after bus
mess last week.
The news from Washington shows
that congress has decided to let viii,
son carry out just what the constitu
ton says he shall do
Ora McCombs was a passenger for
Oskaloosa on Thursday. He informs
us Uncle Van McCombs, who has been
sick all the winter at his HON esouth
of town, is improving some daily with
indications that he will get well He
and his family, who have watched
over him all winter both day and
night, certainly have had hard
time of it. We are glad to see their
efforts rewarded with a restoration
of good health. .,r-
]. p. Bennett, an aged veteran of
Cass county, was a caller at the sta
ton on Thursday. He is not we'll
impressed with the present war pol
icy advocated at the capital and well
says that if those loud-mouthed fell
lows were as familiar with war as he
is, they would keep still
The Herald reporter was made to
feel sad on reading the papers of
Wednesday of the death of Clarence
liarkless, miner, who was killed at
Bidwell mines on that day. Eighteen
or twenty years ago the writer and his
youngest daughter, Mrs. j. H. Fred
drove three imles in the coun-
try on Soap creek to marry him to the
wife, who is now left to mourn. III
was the darkest night we ever saw
and out of one hundred and ten cou-
pies we married in our time, he mar.
ried the best looking woman of them
all.
Prof. R. H. Williams of Oskaloosa
and Duncan Reed of Rose Hill were
in this locality buying a horse from
Geo. Barnes south of town. Mr.. Will
liams is a brother-in-law of w. r
Tandv. He says the prohibition par.
ty will nominate the state ticket top
to bottom.