The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-05-03

index finger by a stapling machine
Miss Mexican pushed the end of hel
finger a fraction too close to the
mechanism as she was working with
the books. She was caught while
the wire was jammed through the
finger-nail and flesh and there she
was held, the machine refusing tc
release until after the arrival of DR.
B. G. Williams, who dressed the
! wound. The injury is not serious
although painful. The bone was not
caught by the machine and the wire
passed through only the nail and
the flesh. ..'
Miss Gladys Beechler, north First
street, who has been reported quite ill
is somewhat improved.
Mrs. Mable Long of Omaha, Nebr, is
i'll Oskaloosa visiting with friends and
attending to business matters.
Ross Remington has accepted a DO.
sition with the Kalbach Lumber Co.,
and is now in charge of one of the de-
livery trucks.
Eddyville Tribune: Miss Eva Miller
who has been taking course of study
a. Iowa City the past winter, has join
ed the Red Cross at that place. ..
Bussey Press: ]. M. Havener went
to Oskaloosa Saturday for few days
visit with relatives. He left Monday for
Kansas City to join large travelling
show troupe.
Mrs. A. A. Heath of Delta Stopped in
Oskaloosa on her way home from
Brooklyn where she attended the dis
trict convention of the Women's Home
Missionary society.
Don Russell at the morning service
and Virgil H. Guthrie at the evening
service rendered fine vocal solos, at
the Central M. E. Church on Sunday.
Both selections were of artistic merit
Mrs. A. N. Courtney visited with
heI friends in this city while, on
the way to her home in Bussey from
Brooklyn where she attended the Dis
trict convention of the w. H. M. s.,
Eddyville Tribune: Rev. e. Huibreg-
tse, who moved from Eddyville to New
Sharon few weeks ago, filled his old
pulpit in the First Reformed Church
ct this place at ten o'clock last Sunday
morning. Rev. Huibregtse was accom-
panied to Eddyville by his wife, and
they visited at the Dieles Van Zante
home east of town.
Miss Emma Cruikshank and Miss
Wilma Targartt at the Epworth
League service on Sunday evening,
rendered enjoyable piano solos and
Misses Vera Parker and Blanche
Young contributed a pleasing vocal
duet. Miss Eta Rossiter of G. II. U.
was the leader and the subject OF
Missions" was considered. Leslie Har
vey also gave a chalk talk on 1.-THE
Ideal Christian"
w. r. Campbell says worthless ca
nine or two will do more damage in a
garden or a flour bed in two minutes
than a whole flock of chickens in
whole forenoon of scratching. He is in
favor of an ordinance that will make
an end of the mongrel and the cur and
will require the rest of the breeds to
be restrained. According to his notion
a dog has no place in town. And chief
of ponce Lawrence was so unkind as
to remind Mr.. Campfield that he was
on the council once upon time.
Herman Harris, one of the foremost
of the apple men and orchard special
lists in the county states that backward
season, thus far has had no detrimen-
tai effects on orchard fruit. Buds are
developing steadily but are not yet be-
yond the state of natural protection.
A few warm sunshiny days however
would find the trees in full bloom.
Weather conditions have tended to
make a season somewhat later than
last year. Spraying was completed for
the greater part of the first round, dur
ing April last season. The work will be
accomplished later this year.
Ottumwa Courier: Mrs. e. c. True
and Mrs. J.. c. Poulton, presided as hos
tesses at pretty card party Friday af-
ternoon at the Orchard room of the
Ballingall hotel, five tables being plac-
ed for FIVE hundred. High honors were
won by Mrs. S. A. Bowermaster and
Mrs. Fred Gilbert. The, national tri-
colors were used effectively in decor
ating the rooms and tables and also
in the three course refreshments. Out
of town guests were Mrs. Lora Mllli-
gan and Mrs. Elva Miller of Abba.
Mrs. Louise Blattner of Oskaloosa and
Mrs. Pearl Denning of Eddyville.
Montezuma Republican: M. L. Kisor
of Union Mills and New Sharon, re-
turned last week from California,
where he spent the winter at Long
Beach, A report reached here that Mr..
Kisor sustained broken leg when run
down by an automobile on the streets
foi Long Beach. This was an error. He
was knocked down by machine. sus
tanned fractured shoulder blade. Sew.
eral ribs were broken ana he was rem
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