The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-20

: Camp and assigned to the Field Art
lery.
b. C. Buxton, president of the Osk
loosa Savings Bank, former gener
manager of the Buxton mines, now I
Vermont. is stopping in Oskaloosi
making the Downing hotel his hea,
quarters
City Solicitor, T. ]. Bray and famil
are now comfortably located in thei
fine new home, corner of G Avenu
East and Eleventh Street The NOV
was made during the cold weathe
but all with out incident or accident
Doctor Kenneth L. Johnston termir
ated his residence in Oskaloosa thi
morning, for the time being and wen
to Fairfield to take his place in
| United States Hospital Unit. Mrs
Johnston will return to her parent
home in Anamosa next week.
Lieut.. Bert Vanderbilt has gone t,
Camp Grant at Rockford, Illinois, afte
spending several weeks at the w.
/ Vanderbilt home on the Pella road
He is a graduate of the Officers
School at Fort Smelling and has beer
assigned to duty at Camp Grant.
Miss Dana Evans, of Evansville
Texas, arrived last week for a visi
of several weeks extent with hel
grandparents Mr.. and Mrs. Franz
Gibbs, southeast of town. Miss Evans
father Conan Evans, formerly as
ISOLATED with the Mahaska county Goa
fields was one of the pioneer ant
founders of Evansville in Leon coun
| ty, Texas, and was formerly mayor o.
/ the place.
Miss Minnie Holt is visiting in
Centerville, at the Cross home.
Mrs. Tom Morgan of Beacon is con
fined to her home with quinsy.
Mrs. Maggie Morgan of Beacon is
suffering with I've burns on her hands
Miss Hattie Cole of Cedar is spend
ing the week end with relatives OF
this city. ...
Mrs. c. NJ. Johnson has returned to
her home n Abba, after a few days
visit here.
DR.. F. #. Parker and family leave
for Des Moines today, going to make
the Capitol City their future home.
Lieut.. Harry Schultz, Lieut.. Eugene
Little and Lieut.. William Burke, left
yesterday for Camp Dodge, where they
enter the military service of Uncle
Sam.
Mrs. Morris Gould has returned to
her home in Chicago after an extend
ed visit here with her husband and
daughter, Mrs. Phillip Gould, 1104 c
Avenue East.
1t is reported that ]. H. Caring,
former Montezuma garage man, now
of Oskaloost has been in i'll health
for several weeks. Mr.. Caring has
many friends here who will wish for
him an early return to health-Monte.
yuma Republican. .
Guy Kitchener of Truro, Iowa, was
the champion corn grower of the Madi-
son county corn club boys, and was
given a free trip to the International
Live Stock Show at Chicago as a re-
ward. Young Kitchener formerly lived
near Oskaloosa. He is thirteen years
old.
William J. Phillips, Morgan o.
Morgan and Earl G. Rennie of Beacon
Iowa, enlisted in the United States
navy at Des Moines, Thursday,
and James F. Houston of Oskaloosa
son of Supt. J. P. Houston of the
NJ. & st. L. road enlisted in the U. S.
navy.
Karl Swanson of the Oskaloost high
school represented the local school in
the boys declamatory contest of the
Iowa Nine Association of Iowa high
sc hools at Davenport. Swanson is a
speaker of talent, and is expected to
make a creditable showing at the
Davenport contest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Pickrell, of
Holyoke, Colorado, who have been
spending some time among relatives
in Jefferson township, were visiting
friends in Eddyville last Thursday.
They went aut to the Springer home,
in Jefferson township, that evening.
On Friday they went to Oskaloosa and
remained over Sunday visiting at the
J. C. Fisher home and with other rel
atives and misunderstanding Tribune.
The Sheriff Coal Company, in Mon
roe county, two miles southwest OF
Loyilia bids fair to become one of
the leading shipping concerns in that
section of District Is. At the present
time there is nothing going on except
the work of development, which how
ever, is no small job. Only entry
drivers, air-course and air-shaft men
are now employed. The total force is
about twenty men. But even that
small force is loading 100 ions every
day on the Northwestern branch cars.
The company has promised the rail-
raod 500 cars each day after January
1st which means that the mine will
have 100 to 125 miners at work by
that time. The vein is 51a to feet
thick.-KnoxVille Journal.
w. J. Billick shipped a car load OF
cattle to Chicago Wednesday.
Franz Sbults notored IN What