The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-12-14

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Ora L. Garrett, Cedar ..... 20
Isaac L. Rains, oskaloosa. -. 20
25i9 and
Ellie Augusta Hunt, oskaloosa! 10
TAYLOR.--The funeral Of Perry
Taylor win be held Wednesday, Dec.
10, at $50 ?. ma Sr the Friends
church, Lynnyille, iowa. Interment
at Lynnvi.le cemetery
M'WILIIAMS-Th infant daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth McWilliams
of East pes Moines township, died
Sunday, December 10. about one
month old. A private funeral will be
held.
GREEN. William Green, an aged
and inflrm inmate of the County Farm
rassed away at his room in that in
stitution at four o'clock Sunday
morning, December 10, 1916. the re-
suit OF a general decline with which
ne has been suffering several months.
He has been an inmate of the County
Home about ten years. Funeral SER,
vice was held Monday afternoon, and
interment made at the Home GENE
terry.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. were
received in the city on Saturday of
the birth of a daughter, Martha Jane,
to Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Backman, at
the Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des
Moines: The little lady is grand
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Back
man of 100 East Thirteenth street of
that city, and of E. E. Knisley OF Os-
kaloosa. Mrs. Eackman will be
remembered to Oskaloosa friends as
Miss Bess Knisley.
BARNHART-F Albert Rarnhart,
aged co years, 8 months and days,
passed away at the Abbott Wilcox
hospital, at 1920 Monday morning, af-
ter an illness of three weeks with
perferation of the stomach. Following
an operation early Saturday morning,
Mr. Rarnhart's condition grew from
bad to worse, and death came early
Monday morning.
Mr.. Rarnhart was born in Ohio,
March 6, 1856 and moved to Iowa So
years ago, and since then he has been
a resident Of the Hawkoye state.
Funeral at the Cheesman Funeral
Home, at two o'clock. Wednesday af-
ternoon, December IS, 1916. Interment
.at Forest Cemetery.
The deceased is survived by wife,
two sons, Chester Barnhart of Cska-
loosa, and Clifford Barnhart of ST.
Paul Mimi, one daughter, Miss Hazel
Barnhart of this city, five brothers
and sisters, and his aged father.
STANTON-Writing to the New
Sharon Star from Pasadena, Califor-
MIA, II. ]. Vail say:
Another one O. our cherished citi-
zens of New Sharon colony in Pasa-
dena has passed from earth into the
higher life, our long time neighbor
and friend, David Stanton. He was
born in Belmont county, Ohio, March
81, 1888. He was married in Wash.
iGgton county, that state to Miss
Rebecca Moore, April 10, 1855. They
resided two years near Marietta Ohio,
moving from there to near Oskaloosa,
Iowa. in 1857, then to New Sharon,
and in 1859 moved to their farm north
of town, which was their home until
1892, when they moved into New Shar-
on where they remained until 1895,
when they came to Pasadena. He leav-
.es wife and two children, Edward
NJ, who was born in Ohio and Mrs.
Cora E. Schooley, born on the farm
near New Sharon. Funeral services
was held at the home III North Lake
Ave, at p. m, November goth, under
the auspices of the spiritualist socie-
ty of which he had long been men,
Der. At his request the body was Gre
mated.
"His was long and useful life. He
was a son of Borden Stanton, who was
New Sharon's first postmaster, car
ing for the mail at his little home
where now is the residence of Price
Marsh and he went once week to Os-
kaloosa for the mail. Older residents
of New Sharon have not forgotten the
kindly old gentleman, one of their
most highly respected citizens, cous-
in to secretary of war Stanton, under
Lincoln.
There was large gathering of rel
atives, and neighbors at the funeral.
IA great wealth of flowers was in evil
dence. and four former New Sharon
friends, Charles Hughes, G. w. Way,
David and H. ]. Vail served as pail
bearers"
Many Automobiles in Town.
Hundreds and hundreds of auto