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

| car for few days visit with hi
! brother George f. Griffith and TIL
boys and their wives drove to Colum
bus to spend Sunday with the grand
mother Mrs. Thomas Griffith and en-
joyed a splendid visit among relatives
at that place. Frank went west abou
eleven years ago to work for an uncle
| He next rented a ninety-acre trac
next the farm of his uncle and pu
the whole piece in corn. This gave
him a start. He now has farm Of
better than two hundred acres of his
own and is doing fine. He has also
married in the meantime. g..
Deputy County Recorder Miss Pearle
Snider, is visiting today and Sunday
with Mrs. and Mrs. Lawrence Ward
err, at Farson, Iowa.
Rev and Mrs. Arthur NJ. Lewis ar
rived home this morning from a
months outing spent in Missouri and
Kansas. Regular services will be re-
sumed by the Rector at st. James
church tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Dewitt and
children who have been spending the
summer at a resort near Holland,
Mich, returned home Friday. The
family were met in Ottumwa and mo-
tored to Oskaloosa.
John II. Crowder who has been sew
erely i'll of stomach trouble and con.
fined 10 his home No 1908 South Sec
ond street for ten weeks, is some bet
ter, but his condition is regarded as
near a serious point. ....
DR.. ]. NJ. Barnett and family are
home from their outing and visit with
his son in Chicago. DR.. Barnett
agrees with other tourists that the
Lincoln Highway is about the poorest
road in the Middlewest.
Misses Edith and Mary Sherman
and Mrs. Ross Mccormick motored to
Knoxville Thursday afternoon for
brief visit at the Homer Garretson
home and returned home Frida morn.
ing. They were accompanied home
by Mrs. Garretson,
Miss Edith Smith accompanied by
her mother, Mrs. F. G. Smith, went
TO Des Moines this morning where
they will visit for few days when
Mrs. Smith will return home and Miss
Edith will go to Waterloo where she
will visit friends for several days.
A. w. Hollingsworth, a member of
The board of supervisors of Mahaska
was unable to attend the
board meeting yesterday afternoon, a
called session during which contracts
for new bridges were awarded. Mr..
Hollingsworth is i'll in a Des Moines
hospital. ..-....
Ralph A. Sherman who has been
spending his months vacation susti-
cation at the homt of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. s. L. Sherman on the Car
Donado road, left Wednesday evening
Ior his work at the Bureau of Mines
in Pittsburgh, Pa. Ralph carries back
4 good coat of tan and a few blisters
On his hands to prove to the Pitts
burghers that he did his bit on the
farm to down the high cost of living.
Walter Evans, of Des Moines. form
erly of Oskaloosa, passed through
town this morning on his way back
TO Des Moines, after an extensive tour
Of Iowa, in company with three other
Des Moints young men, members of
q musical quartet, which did preludes
for a chautauqua system by way OF
summer vacation. The quartet has
all through Iowa. Mr.. Evans
by way of trade, is linotype operator
for the Des Moines daily paper
Oskaloosa people had a glimpse of
a real Canadian soldier this morning
in the person of a former Oskaloosa
lad, Mr.. Tim Fritch who is now an
active Tommy" in full uniform. Tim
went up into Canada and enlisted in
the Seventeen Heavy Artillery and is
a big gun battery man. He is expect
ing to receive call any moment to
report for service and TO be transport
ed to the front. In anticipation for
the other side he has furlough to
see relatives. Tim is looking fine and
is brown as an Indian. He went to
Ottumwa this afternoon to be with his
brother Art who met him here.
Miss Ida Welch who has completed
a six weeks course at the State
Teachers College at Cedar Falls.
stopped off on her way home for a
visit with her sister in Des Moines
and on Monday of this week was taken
with severe spell with what was
thought to be an liberated tooth but
upon consulting a specialist it was
found the the liberated root had
caused an infection of the jaw bone,
making an operation Immediately nee
essary. Miss WEIGH was taken to the
Mercy Hospital Tuesday morning
where the operation was performed.
The tonsils being found in bad con-
dition were also removed. The patient
passed through the operation success.
fully and while very sick and still in
the hospital. she expects to resume
her work at the opening of school next
Tuesday.