The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-09-06

/ Few days. The two families SDen
Sunday and Monday in Eddyville will
relatives and friends.
Officer John p. Wilson of the loca
police went to Knoxville yesterday Il
be with President John p. White o.
the United Mine Workers who de
livered an address at the Labor Day
celebration at that place.
Paul Edwards. SON of DR.. D. M. Ed
wards, resigned president of Penn
college and now head of Earlham
college, left Monday noon for Rich
mond, Ind, to join his father and
mother in their new home.
Thomas ]. Bray left Saturday night
for Washington and New York
While in the East he will attend the
annual meeting of the American Bar
Association at Saratoga Springs, New
York, on Stepmber 4 and 5.
Albert Miskimmins, formerly of
Oskaloosa college and later engaged
in the law school of Drake univers.
ity, has returned from residence of
several years in Alaska and called on
friends and acquaintance in Oska-
loosa Saturday.
Mrs. Louisa Luther, who is In very
poor health, has gone to the southern
part of the state to be with her
daughter, Mrs. Pauch. Mrs. Luther
was accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Carrie, who will assist in car
ing for the mother. .....
Thomas A. Carlin, son of City Clerk
Thomas H. Carlin, who is company
clerk of the Headquarters Company
of the Third Infantry regiment of the
Iowa National Guard, encamped at
Des Moines, spent today in Oskaloosa
visiting at his home.
Miss Gladys Ellwood, daughter of
Adjutant and Mrs. Ellwood of the
Salvation Army, arrived yesterday
from Omaha for ten days visit
with her parents. She returns to
Omaha to be married to Carl Bayer
IL. The event will be
celebrated as an army wedding.
R. e. Ryan, former M. & ST. L.
t ainmaster, stationed at Oskaloosa,
has been appointed M. & st. L. sup
arintendent over the central and
western division, with headquarters
At Minneapolis. He succeeds G.. p.
Stemple, who has been made superin-
.endent of the Virginia railroad un-
Ter E. E. Kerwin.
Hon. W. L. Harding of Des Moines,
Governor of Iowa, passed through
Oskaloosa Labor Day on his way to
The Governor made the
Lacey Hotel his headquarters during
his brief stay here and amused those
gathered about the hotel lobby with
many humorous Incidents of the last
campaign.
Warren Cadwallader and Warren
Shoemake have entered civil service
as clerks at the local
)ostoffice. Both have temporary ap.
The local office has
suffered from the war. Major John
=. Bradbury, clerk, has been called
nto service; James Bass, also a
,lerk, has entered the Officers Train
ng Camp at Fort Smelling, and AL
pert Hellings, rural carrier, has been
,alled in the first draft.
Tom Richie of Cedar was in town
Mr.. Richie has been en-
gagged with the contracting firm of
Sutton & Gromer of Plattsburg, Mo-,
Turing the summer and was sent
back to Cedar to put the finishing
touches on the Cedar Consolidated
school, to have the new building in
readiness for opening. Mr.. Richie
has been engaged with the firm on
lew school house at Mt. Pleasant to
which place he returns after the Ce-
lar work is completed. Speaking OF
Mt. Pleasant, Mr.. Richie declares:
IF Mt. Pleasant had Oskaloosa'sI
park with her wide streets, or if Os-
had Mt. Peasants wide
streets with her own beauty of park,
either exchange would make a win
ner." ....-. .
Joe Risney, who is now located in
is here to move his fam
ly to the Wisconsin city. Mr.. Ris-
ney. is foreman of the foundry de-
partment of the Davis Manufactur-
ing Company, of which Frank Davis,
a former Oskaloosa boy, is owner.
Mr.. Risney says there are now about
500 people employed in the plant,
and when he gets the new foundry in
working order there will be- over
one thousand on the pay roll. Five
other foundries have been making
castings fro the Davis Company, and
the inability to get them on time in
duced Mr.. Davis to put in foundry
of his own. And in order to insure
the success of the new department
he selected another oskaloosa boy to
manage 1t.
Chieyer C. Caves of Ramona, Cali
fornia, formerly of Fremont, Mahas-
ka county, is here in Oskaloosa for a
visit with his father-in-law, ]. M. En-
dicott Mr.. and Mrs. Caves and
Miss Nadine and Master