The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-10-18
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we're visiting friends in oskaloosa
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Van Maanen o
near Leighton were 0skaloosa call
ers Wednesday.
Miss Roxie LETTERS visited las
week in Knoxville at the parental
Thos. letters home.
o. T.. Turner and wife Of oskaloosa
drove down to Sigourney Sunday and
spent the day with relatives.
Albert Kuhn of Washington, Iowa,
has returned to his home after at
tending a holiness meeting here.
Mrs. Ruth Traister of oskaloosa
has accepted a position in Colfax
with the Colfax Mercantile store.
III. Long returned to his home in
washington, Iowa, Thursday evening
after few days stay in Oskaloosa.
Viola and Emily Moody visited
over Sunday at the parental John
Moody home on the Knoxville road
E. c. Doggett of Sigourney is max
ing plans TO move to Oskaloosa and
win turn the farm over 10 his son
Bruce.
Miss Anna Johnson returned TO
her home in What Cheer after spend
ing a few days visiting with friends
and relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs James Davidson and
Miss Gladys of Newton spent last
Sunday with relatives and friends in
Oskaloosa They made the trip in
their car.
Prof. and Mrs. E. II. St.anahan
and Rev. and Mrs c. o. Whitley left
yesterday by auto for Richmond. Ind,
where they will attend the Five Years
Meeting of the Friends church.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. White and Mrs.
J. p. Dodds of Oskaloosa visited
their mother. Mrs. E. S. Sampson, on
Sunday, at the home of her daughter
Mrs. C. W. Brown, in Sigourney.
Mrs. c. f. Barnard and faithful
band of w. c. T. U. workers distrib.
uted considerable effective literature
at the public meeting on Thursday
evening at the Central M. E. church.
c. Ed Eeman of the Peoples Trust
and Savings Bank was visitor in
Fremont this week. Ed is hust-
Ter and fits about this and other
and is popularity known by
nearly everybody.
Father William Crosson states
that he has been voting for temper
ance and prohibition for II years.
long before there was my w. c. I.
u, Anti-Saloon League or Prohibition
party. He is probably our oldest
pioneer, 90 years of age, and expects
to vote again.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Boyd and
Mr. and Mrs. James Boyd and son
David of Cedar, Mr.. and Mrs. d. E.
McFaIl of Oskaloosa, and Miss Min
ME Crozier of Los Angeles, Califor-
mia, spent Wednesday at the Joseph
Boyd home. Mr. Will Crozier hav-
ing car troubles, was also welcome
guest.
Charles H. Anderson of the Ander-
son Canning Co, is rejoicing this
year in an extra fine pack of toma-
toes, but the pack this year instead
Of all going TO the jobbing trade as
usual, one-haIf will be held in reserve
for the use of the government and
this requisition applies to canning
companies all over the country. So
the soldier boys will soon be enjoy
ing Oskaloosa tomatoes.
Mrs. ]. B. Bryan, Mrs. Fred Wells
and Harold Bryan, wife and son mo-
tored to Oskaloosa Saturday to spend
the day at the home of the formers
son, Chester Bryan, and family. Com.
ing down the stairway Mrs. J. B. Bry-
an turned to watch Lathal, son or
Mr.. and Mrs Harold Bryan, descend.
In doing so she lost her balance and
fell, sustaining many contusions and
bruises. Mrs. Bryan was brought
home and has been slowly recover
ing. She is able TO get out but still
feels the effect of the fall which
might have resulted more seriously.
MonteZuma Republican.
r. / Garden went to Tracy last
evening for q brief visit with his
daughters before departing this even
ing upon his trip to the joint reunion
OF Federal and Confederate forces at
vicksburg, Mississippi. Mr.. Gar
denis regiment participated in the
memorable siege of Vicksburg, and
the men were in the trenches forty
two days before the final surrender
on July 4, 1868. Mr.. Garden hopes
10 meet members of an Alabama
regiment C. s. A. who were opposite
his regiment, inside the works, and
recall the many incidents experienced
both serious and amusing.
While driving TO town in his farm
wagon one day last week, p. A. Sand
berg of Pleasant township was some
what shaken up and bruised when a
Ford car driven by two men from
north of Oskaloosa collided with his
wagon. upsctting the wagon and
throwing him out. A spoke was
broken out OF one of the wagon
wheels. The accident occurred on
the Bridgeport road short distance