The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-08-23
THE 0LIVET ITEMS
CORRESPONDENT SPENDS DAY
WITH Mr.. AND MRS. SEAMAN.

Olivet, Aug. 18.-(By r. W) -
The Herald man and his wife through
the courtesy of Mr.. and Mrs. L. p.
Seaman were favored on Sunday with
a ride and visit to their home south
of town where we spent very pleas
ant day with. those good people.
Two and one-half years ago Mr..
Seaman purchased the eighty acres
of timber land he is now on, for $62
per acre. He now has forty acres
of it cleared off and in cultivation and
some pasture. Has two four room
houses on the place, good well water
right in the yard, good cow barns,
stables and corn cribs and has sew
eral head of young stock.
Since coming to this place he has
sold sixteen hundred dollars worth
of timber from it, largely mine tim
Der. This week he shipped car
load of dry cord wood to Oskaloosa.
He has ready demand for his tim.
Der and says the timber alone will
more than pay for the place.
He showed US FIVE acres of corn
that he planted July Q, and it was
three feet high or more and is still
climbing. Will make some corn
lots of fodder, for an Iowa farm new
er fails. He is well pleased with
his purchase.
This family has three sons and
three charming little daughters at
their home. They send four and FIVE
of them to the Olivet Sunday school
every Sunday They moved to Scott
township from Marion county and
we are glad to have them for neigh
bors as they are enterprising citizens.
At, the noon hour we sat down to
table loaded with the good things
of life fol- il there is a woman on this
earth that knows how to satisfy a
hungry crowd, it is a farmers wife,
and Mrs. Seaman and daughters are
leaders in this line. In the evening
we returned to our home having
spent a pleasant day in the country.
Z. E. Ives and family of Oskaloosa
spent Sunday in town at the Billings
home.
J. H. Rouse of Scott county was
caller at the station on Monday.
w. i. Tandy added greatly to the
appearance of his place by tearing
up the unsightly hedge fence in front
of his place and replacing it with a
good hog-tight, bull strong wire
fence. 1t looked like new place on
our last trip over there.
When a man can make SIS ner
acre out of one crop of wheat he GER
tainly would be an ungrateful cuss
to kick about the times or prices a.5
far as he is concerned in particular.
L. Hackert and son Henry drove
up to Des Moines on Friday. While
they were there they bought a blower
for their threshing machine. Mr..
Hackert informs us that they have
threshed out up to this date oats that
made 80 bushels per acre and wheat
SO bushels per acre, an unusually
large crop. He has one son, John,
drafted in the first call and his older
son, Henry, will come in the second
call. Mr.. Hackert is one of those
men that never looks back but keeps
the sun shining in front of him. Our
latch string is always on the outside
when he comes to town and he knows
it.
Aire Hol, south of town, was call
er at the station on Monday. Mr..
Hol informs us he will have about
one car of apples to sell this fall
good apples to keep for winter He
usually has from three to four car
loads to ship.
lit would be we'll for a. whole lot OF
the people we meet almost daily to
remember that education lasts from
the day we are born to the day of
our death. Unhappy is he or she
that does not learn something every
day. r
g. Neal Sedrel, south of town, thresh-
cd his whetit on Tuesday. He in
forms us his wheat went 25 bushels
per acre!n He had no oats.
Mrs. John Cole and son John spent
Monday in Oskaloosa trading.
a. NJ Williams of Hardin county
as caller at this Office on Tuesday.
J. H. Perfect spent Monday even
ing in Oskaloosa, trading.
The price of coal certainly varies
from the articles we read on coal.
No two counties have the same price.
$3.50 a ton for lump, coal on the cars
at Knoxville is quoted for this place.
Last winter we handled six car loads
of coal from that place for local trade
with the farmers.
Mrs. Annie Peterson of Cass coun-
ty visited in this neighborhood with
relatives and friends this week.
Uncle John Thompson and Aunt
Martha returned home on Tuesday
from visit with their daughter,
Mrs. A. l.. Tucker, near Harvey I'm
Gle John says that they have fine
home and good farm. During his
fifty years in Iowa he says that he
never saw better crops than at the
present time. Uncle John is no
spring chicken and he knows just
l.