The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-07-12
Ne WIS FROM 0LIVET
TWO CITIZENS WHOSE CON-
RJNEp AGES Is 1863 YEARS,
HOE CORN.

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Henry Perfect and George Washing
ton McReynolds spent part of the
week hoeing corn. The combined
ages of these two men; is, 1853 years.
They are the spryest kids I'VE, baye,ih
town, and either one can skin a cat
or play leap.frog,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Perfect spent
Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John C, Nossman west of town. John
never does things by halves, and when
they started for home he gave them
tub of fish. Mr.. Perfect informs
us that, John has corn up six inches
high on the bottom land which was
planted the second time
II. M. Preston of Lincoln, Adams
county, was a caller at the station On
Tuesday. He says that the Red
Cross fever has caught his county
heavy, has become almost an cpl
demic We want it to keep on so that
every man and woman in the country
will catch it. 1t won't hurt!
Mr.. and Mrs. R. d. Robertson and
daughters, also Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
Robertson and son spent Sunday in
DddyVille at the William Fulmer
home. The fatted calf was slaugh-
tered and we are not advised wheth-
er there was any left after Denny
got through.
Farmers report corn doing well.
c. M, Coryell east of town has corn
knee high. He has it plowed twice
and some of 1t three times Denny
Robertson has some laid by, Stew
ard Bartlema laid his by this week. =
1t was with deep interest we read
the resolutions Of the Oskaloosa bar
in Offering their services free in
looking after the legal department of
the county in case the county attor-
ney, Maxwell O'Brien, should be call.
ed to defend his flag. That's the
sympathy that counts. Sets good
attentions in the shade,
The new, time card on this line of
the Rock Island is working out far
better than it did at first. All of
the trains are making far better time.
which is greatly appreciated.
Miss Emily Moody was q passenger
for Knoxville Tuesday to visit with
the Clark families, formerly OF this
neighborhood. #itt KS "a
H. NJ. Johnson, an old time friend of
the writer from Des, Moines, was
caller at the station Tuesday. He
informs US the mines of Polk county
are working steady and are doing
well. .."-
A. r. Sherod, the engineer of the
coal train on this line, spent the,
Fourth with his family at Valley
Junction Mr.. Sherod was formerly
a resident of Evans.
Talk about safe and sane Fourth
of July all you want to, but we miss
Young America and his flrecrackers,
and sky rockets, just the same.
Mrs. John Crispen visited this wee
with relatives and friends in Harvey.
Willis Billings with several of his
young friends celebrated the Fourth
in New Sharon and report a fine
time. ..
Miss Mamie Clark of Knoxville
spent the Fourth at the J. A. DeCook
home.
The remains of Mrs. Lewis Norris
who died at her home east of Oslka-
leosa on July 2, 1917, was laid to
rest in the Oliyet, cemetery beside
her deceased father, William Laugh
lin, on July S. The deceased was
born and raised in this township. Her
parents having located in Scott town
ship in early days, from Stark county
Ohio. He remains were followed to
the last resting place by an army Of
admiring neighbors and friends who
knew her from infancy, who join in
the sorrow with the bereayed family
to mourn their loss. The writer had
the pleasure of meeting her several
times both in Olivet and Oskaloosa,
and always found her to be rather
more than the ordinary woman in in
tenigence on all general matters, was
of a cheerful disposition and looked
upon the bright side of life, and will
be missed wherever she was known.