The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
BIC GRANGE SOCIAL
The "Fatted Calf Was Killed" At
. ~ the G. A. johnson Home.

OllYet, July II Thy X. W.)-Mrs.
Wingfield of Oskaloosa returned home
on Wednesday from visit at the John
son families home east of town Mrs.
Wingfield informs us the grange held
a big social at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. A. Johnson on Tuesday. The
fatted calf was slaughtered right on
the spot and served up on the alter of
kindness by Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson.
Thirty-siX people were fed during the
evening and enough was left to feed
as many more. We return many thanks
to Mrs. Wingfield for this report as
it is a pleasure to us to report these
social gatherings in this letter. We
regret not being present. ~
! Word was received in town on
/ Thursday that a son of Alex DeGose
was bitten by water moccasin snake
the day before. There was no particu-
liars. rh.2T |'-! ...H. .i''.' 81 f.
/ = A number of adm lringrs neighbors
land friends of Mrs. J. A..DeCoolc gath
cred at her. home, ,west 0 flown on
"Wednesday evening to celebrate her
49th birthday. Refreshments . we're
lserved and happy social time report.
lea. COulun De OLneTWlSe, . 49,
Charles Needham. the Rock Island
conductor on the line from Knoxville
J to Evans, left on Monday with his wife
and two children for a thirty day va
cation in Washington, Seattle and Pu.
/ get Sound. also OREGON and California.
Frank Hunt, the Rock Island brake.
man, who has been laid up for time
at his home in Knoxville resumed his
run on Thursday. .....
J. Fl. Garner of Des Moines was in
town this week looking after business.
He says in his travels he don't see
much work being done on roads. en-
cept putating in metal culverts and
finds the largest stock of weeds he ev-
err saw in Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs Louis Norris of Spring
Creek spent Sunday evening in town
with her mother at the G. H. Laughlin
home on Market street.
i Mesdames V, r. McConbs' G.. H.
Laughlin. Geo. McCombs spent Monday
in Oskaloosa shopping.
Mrs. Jennie Dickson of Beacon spent
Sunday at hte parental home of Mr.
and Mrs. V. B. McCombs home, south
of town. Mrs. Dickson informs us they
are building the Capital of Garfield
township at beacon. s,.. ..-. .....
We notice what the fruit men Of
! Oskaloosa said about wooden boxes
being 20 high thov couldn't use them
and hsdf to resort ITO paper eohtaiLr IS.
Too bad ,aS ,.,- 49, 80
John Drillin. roadmaster for the
Rock Island, was a pleasant. caller at
the station on Monday, while in town
looking after the road. ...,. ..,.r
! B. NJ Anderson of Kansas, was in
town this week on his way to visit
friends in Keokuk county He says
I they. have prospects for a large crop
out there this year, especially small
grain. Co., ,.... ~
Dave Thomas, brakeman on this line
from Knoxville to Evans is running
out OF Wapello this week as an extra
conductor.
The writer received a whole lot of
mighty nice pictures and advertising
matter from Robt. Garden of Arizona
this week. for which we return thanks.
Uncle Bob says you can't tell CO.
coanut by looking at the shell. Correst.
neither can you tell soil and product
of country by looking at picture.
John Blakely of Rochester was in
COWH Ou 1ueSudy. MI. DldhSly I6pOIL ID
corn doing well, also hay, but oats are
short and rain needed bad. -.'.
W. T.. Phillips of Oskaloosa was in
town on Tuesday. We are always glad
to see Billy, for he is full OF sunshine.
Hon c. w, Ramseyer writes the ad-
ministration at Washington. is still
Iplodding along" No one knows what
he is going to do but himself. He says
all reports coming there indicate that
Hughes will be elected president. p
= We noted with much interest What
the Rochester correspondent said
about the ladies of that community dis.
icussing some of the leading questions
of the day at their meeting, and want
to congratulate them on it. This writer
has listened to grouches, chronic kick.
ers, calamity howlers, who kick, fuss
and stir around and want to raise
the - on taxes and roads, until
he sometimes wants to emigrate where
he can hear something better.