The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-08-17
IF THE LAW IS OBEYED
Weed Cutting is Dead Law in
Some Sections.

, Olivet, Aug. IL, (By R. WD--This
writer has heard whole lot lately on
the non-enforcement of the law. God
help lot of people If 1t was enforced
Take the weed law for instance. This
is a good law but is practically dead
letter. We haven't got time to
cut weeds. There is no money in it
for us. Nuff said.
Mrs. John Cole spent Tuesday in
0skaloosa shopping.
Mrs. E. A. Minkler and son, of Os-
kaloosa, spent the week here with
her husband who is doing a lot of
ditching for the Rock Island.
j. A. DeCook and J. III. Perfect
spent Tuesday in Oskaloosa calling
on friends. AL is out of job this
week and injoying life He has Ford
car that he has run for over a year
and has had only one blow out. This
shows care and judgment.
! Fast friends in fast company often
bring fast results.
! w. H. Anderson. of Des Moines,
was in town on Tuesday looking aft
! er business,
| A man In order to get good harvest
must not only SOW good seed but do
good work after the sowing has been
done.
| When the building of a new Penn
| College in Oskaloosa and the estab-
! lishment of the worlds fair. it GER
tainly will be live town for some
time. When such men as Walter
Dexter and Rosebrook get mixed up
in it, ii is sure go.
The Herald man was glad 10 see
our national, state and county ticket
set up in the Herald. Have been
looking for it for a month ..... ....
Hughes in his Detroit speech ex-
pressed just what the working peo
pie of this country have been clamor-
I ing for for half century, recogni-
! ton of the working man as a man,
not a serf.
AL DeCook hung up his harness
and tools at ONE and informed us he
has a season ticket for the chautau..
qua and was going to. use it up. Ali
right Al. 1t is far better to live seven
years well spent than fourteen in
misery.
Mrs. Lem Hackert who was oper,
ated upon at her home short time ago
for gall stones is reported doing
we'll. The stone was an inch long.
! L. Hackert. southwest of town, was
a caller at this office on Wednesday.
Mr.. Hackert inworms us he took a
! car load of hogs to Chicago a short
1 time ago that he sold for 1915.
Among the lot was one hog two years
| old that weighed 645 pounds Think
of it. One hog two years old bring
ing the price of the best horse in
! Scott township few days ago.
Through the courtesy of A. J. De
! Cook we were favored with a ride in
the country on Sunday east of town.
| If our dry friends don't believe Iowa
! is dry, We want them to take a trip
) in the country While on this ride
we found some good looking substant-
! ial improvements made on the Knox
Vile road. The low places were
raised up three feet high and made
/ as level a sa flower garden, with
bitches on each side that would drain
anything. Whitlatch put in a nice
concrete bridge on that road this
sumemr. 1t shows a full knowledge
of his work; couldn't be improved up
on. The best evidence of prosperity
we saw was at the John Moody home.
John has a house full OF girls. Last
year he built two large barns on his
place. This year he is adding four
| feet TO the height of his dwelling. also
making 1t larger and some mighty
nice artistic porches. We like his
style of painting his barns He has
variety of coIors, bright and tastey.
but no red. John is to be congratu-
lated on his taste.
Miss Minerva DeCook spent Sun.
day morning at the John Moody
| home.
I Mrs. J. w Mcdowell, of Oskaloosa.
who has been visiting her daughter
Mrs. Agnes Clark for a week, return
ed home on Saturday.
4 There is no use of talking about
Boston when you are in Philadelphia,
i but the corn crop is very short in this
i locality We saw some on Sunday
that wouldn't make anything and but
very few apples.
r. ID. ROBERTSON has the foundation
of his house finished and carpenters
started to work on it this week.
Uncle John Dolan, the custodian of
j the Tracy Capital. was in town on Sat
turday on business and calling on old
/ friends. That water over there agrees
I, with Uncle John. He never looked
/ better than he does now. He reports
the boom still on over there
! John Dulin, roadmaster for the
Rock Island, spent two hours In town
on Saturday. Don't like the way he
! came to town as he walked. Was glad
to see him all the same.
John McCombs east of town spent
Monday in Osl1aloosa on business.
! Uncle John reports corn short. west
of town to the county line.
Robert Gilmore OF Kansas. was a
caller at the station on Monday Mr..
I Gilmore says this dry weather has
[, had killing effect on crops In his
state. He says the pople Of Kansas