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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
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new RESIDENTS OF OSkALOOSA

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! Mr.. and Mrs. r. N. Creek, son and
daughter, of Unionville, Iowa, have
moved to '0skaloosa and reside at 467
North Ninth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Mechanics have
moved to 0skaloosa from near New
Sharon, and reside at 106 South Sew.
lenth street.
w. NJ. Parsch, OF DarAille, H., is a
new resident of Oskaloosa, having re-
Gently taken charge of Wordsworth
store. Mr.. Parsch has apartments at
the Y NJ. C. A.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Houck and Mrs.
Houck's mother, Mrs. Mary McDan-
iels, of Garden Grove, have moved re-
Gently to Oskaloosa and will reside at
401 North d street.
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Burdette Roland has located in Os-
kaloosa and has apartments at 409
North Third street Mr.! Roland is
the new undertaken at Wilcox-Gar
land Wilbur Co.
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Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Hawley and
their two daughters and. Mrs. Mary
Hawley mother of A. G. Hawley, have.
recently moved to Oskaloosa from
their farm three and a half miles north
of Rose Hill and will live at 5O2 North
A street
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Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Jordan have,
moved to Oskaloosa from their farm.
and reside at 115 c avenue east.
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Mr.. and Mrs. A. /. Coghlan and son.
OF Delta, have moved to Oskaloosa andI
reside at 112 Second avenue east. MrI
Coghlan is employed at the H. S. Rhy-
nsberger Poultry house.
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Mason Chifcothe, of Ohio, is newt
resident of Oskaloosa coming here TOT
take the management OF the Oska-
loosa Vitrified Brick Co.
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Mr.. and Mrs. F. V. Mathes, their son
and daughter, have moved to Oska1
loosa from their farm six miles south
Of Oskaloosa and live at 424 North
Eleventh street.
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w. H. A. Frickle and his two daugh-
.ers, Misses Evlyn and Edith, of Boil
ION, are now residents of Oskaloosa
and live at 512 North Fourth street.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
Earmer Stunned to Death.

DEBORAH, April 16.--Gilbert Haugen
an aged farmer who lived four miles
south of the city was burned to death
but just how, no one knows. He was
alone in the field burning some corn
stalks and it is supposed the fire
did not burn to suit him and he Sot
"a can of kerosene and poured some
on to urge the fire. When found he
was dead, badly burned and the top
of the can was found one side of the
body and the balance with the bottom
blown off, was found on the other side
some distance away.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
Mysophobia.

The famous dictionary compiler, DR.
Samuel Johnson, was impelled to touch
and count all the palings in fences he
passed, and If he thought he had
missed one he would start back and
repeat the nonsensical enumeration,
Mysophobia is an annoying obsession
of this sort and more frequent than
supposed, as the patients try to keep
their peculiar behavior from notice. 1t
is fear of uncleanliness or of con-
tamination.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
To Pave Highway.

Dubuque, April 16-Specifications
for the Sageville road. three miles OF
which is to be paved during the com.
ing summer. provide for an eighteen
foot driveway paved with brick laid
cement. The Improvement is to cost
IN the neighborhood of 100000, about
one-third Of which. sum is to be paid
by public subscription which will be
in the hands of committee OF Dubu.
que business men.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
New Church at Tracy

Shortly after the Consolidated
school district of Tracy was organ
lied, the old school site was sold to
the Holland people of that Vicinity
for a church. The old school house
was rebuilt and a beautiful parson-
age was erected, and the church Is
known as the Christian Reformed
church. Rev. Wander Keif is tho
minister and has large congrega-
ton.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
s. COO Geo fcr pcfcnae.

ST. Paul Mipn.,.. April ! 40. ISWt
houses Of, the Minnesota Legislature
pissed tbe public safety cmpIpissipa
bin as agreed upon BY the conference
committee and The bin now goes 70 the
governor. who VIII sissn IL l'iIc bill
carries an appropriation of sl,ooo,oeo-
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
Pioneer Woman Dead.

Ottumwa, April 17.-Mrs. T. ]. De
vim, sister of former President Ben
jamin Harrison, died at her home in
this city last evening. Mrs. Devin
was 8S years of age at the time of her
death. She had lived in this city
for many years, being one of the
pioneers here.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
New Drainage Ditch.

Another big drainage canal that
win probably cut in on the western
edge OF Marion county is now in
prospect II will begin near the
town OF Levy. in Polk county. cut
across the cor..er of Warren county.
and empty into Des Moines river near
the bennington bridge northwest OF
Swan
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
Killed by cave.in.

Logan, April 16.-Lester Jones, 8.
and Philip Moriarity 4, missing since
Yesterday morning. were found dead
partially covered by fallen earth in
ar old cave near their home at Mis-
souri, Valley last evening
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
Too Much for Father.

Miss Pansy Pyetin gave a luncheon
which was so reshershay that her
father got stage fright. He put his
share of the luncheon in tin bucket
and ate it in the woodshed.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
IeeIess Refrigerator.

GrinnelI, April 17-Edwin r. Tai
ley, a Grinnell inventor, has just SO
cured a patent for an iceless refrig-
orator. The machine does the work
without ice or chemicals. Refriger-
ating is done by means of compress
ed air maintained automatically at
the proper temperature.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
sornethlnn TO Remember.

"When you's tempted to smite an
enemy" said Uncle Eben, ..you wants
TO remember bout de nan dat
smashed his own nose slappin ut a
mosquito.'
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
FRENCH CAPTURE
10000 TEUT0Ns
IN HUGE DRIVE
Giant Offensive Opened by Gen.
eraI NiVelIe.
$4,000 TAKEN BY BRITISH
Paris Statement Says Desperate Battle
Occurred on Twenty.FiVe-Mile
Front---WhoIe First Line Of
German Positions Taken.

Paris, April I7.-The French began
an attack in the morning after several
days artillery preparation between
scissors and Reims. Several German
| lines were carried and more than TO-
300 Germans We're taken prisoner.
The official announcement of this
success, issued by the war Office, de-
scribeS the fighting as being of the ut
most violence.
The attack was on a front of more
than twenty-five miles, every inch of
which was fortified to the limit of Ger
man military science and caution.
"a desperate battle was fought
along the whole front" says the report,
"where the enemy had grouped very
important forces and great quantities
of artillery. Everywhere the valor Of
our troops overcame the eenrgetic de-
Tense of our enemies"
Whole First Line Taken.
Between Scissors and Craonne the
whole German first position fell into
the power of General Myelle's forces.
East of Craonne the French occupied
the enemy's second position south of
Juvincourt, Farther to the south the
advancing French carried their line as
far as the outskirts of BermericOurt
and up to the Aisne canal at Laivre
ard Courcy.
Violent counter-attacks launched sew
eral times north of Nille-Au-Bois were
broken down by French fire with con-
siderable losses to the enemy.
Besides more than 10000 prisoners
the French captured important mate
rial, which has not yet been inven-
toried
An earlier report said the French
penetrated the German second line at
night at several points in Alsace Great
numbers of German dead were found
in the trenches, which had been torn
up by the French shell fire. Prisoners
and booty were brought back by the
French.
$4,000 Taken by British.
London, April 17.-"Since the morn
ing of April o." says the official report
from British headquarters in France,
1--WE have taken over 1900 prisoners.
The captured material includes 1914
guns. ''Therc is nothing of special in
terCst to report a heavy rain has
again fallen through the afternoon.
"News of the opening of the great
French offensive has spread like wild
fire through the British forces" tele-
graphs Reuters correspondent ut
British headquarters in France.
Lens Not Taken Yet.
Although British patrols have been
In the streets of Lens and General
Haig's men are in the outskirts of
st. Quentin, the fall of neither Of
these towns has as yet been officially
announced.
Despite the fact that all along the
line between Lens and ST. Quentin the
German resistance has stiffened, Cen
eral Haig reports the capture of Viii
leret, which StraightenS his line north
west of st. Quentin. and announces
further progress to the northwest Of
Lens.
"5itter Fight" Says Berlin.
Berlin, April 17.--"On the Aisne,"
says an official statement issued, "a
great French attempt to break through,
with far distant object, has COM
menced after ten-days' mass fire. A
bitter fight is proceeding on 40
kilometpr front around orr foremost
positions"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-19
"Bitter Fight" Says Berlin.

says an official statement issued, "a
great French attempt to break through,
with far distant object, has COM
mcnced after ten-days' mass fire. A
bitter fight is proceeding on a 40
kilometer front around our foremost
positions"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-30
FARMERS MUST PLAN AHEAD
IN ORDER TO SUCCEED

Take a couple of travelling men,
"or instance, They get up in the
morning, have breakfast, 60 out from
he hotel, get in their machines, leav-
i7g for the days work. But before
irving off we see one of them take
4 note book from his pocket, glance
over a list of names Of people he
wants to see during the day. The
Their fellow rides off not knowing
just where he is going, or whom he
is going to call on. Which one would
you count on to get the business, the
fellow that has carefully laid his
plans, mapped his route, knowing
just where he is going and who ne is
going to see, or the fellow who goes
out in a haphazard way dropping in
here and there?
think n trouble with farmers is
that too many work like the latter
man, and don't give enough thought
to their work. I figure that it costs
a farmer, depending in the size farm
he operates, from SIS to 500 a year
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-30
OFFICERS LEAVE
DEPOT BRIGADE
Sent to Other Units in Thirtieth Di.
vision-Some May Go to
France.

Greenville, Oct. 22.-Orders were
issued at division headquarters IT,
night reassigning men and officers OF
the Fifty-ffth Depot Brigade to
other units in the Thirtieth Division.
Theorder affects 113 commissioned
officers and 5000 men of the Sixth
Training battalion of the Depot Bri-
gade, a South Carolina organization
having been the Third Battalion of
the Second Infantry. These men
will be assigned to South Carolina
units as far as possible.
The following officers were as
signed to the One Hundred and
Eighteenth Infantry, formerly First
South Carolina Infantry:
Maj. James w. Burke, Maj. Victor
H. Holmes, Capt. D. l.. Southland,
Capt. Joseph G.. Gaffney, Capt. Thos.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-30

not going to do the Dutch, as we say
in the army"
You'd better not" he grinned. 'The
water Is awful damp this evening"
But he kept his eye on the portfolio
just the same.
They brought me everything for din
ner they thought would tempt me.
did not touch it. All 1 did was to
walk the floor. Most Of the time ]
cried. For five days and nights I new
er slept or ate a mouthful of food
The very sight Of it choked me.
A guard was stationed outside my
door and another on the upper deck
The one at the door was a soldier and
the one on deck a sailor. The soldiers
belonged to the hospital corps. They
are detailed to duty on the transports
and 20 back and forth with the ship to
which they are assigned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-30
UNCLE SAM WON'T BUY
MONEY FROM MEXICO
Negotiations for Six Million Pesos
Declared OH-Price of Silver
Declines.

Washington, Oct. 22.-Negotia-
tions under which this government
had agreed to purchase 100000
Mexican pesos from the Mexican gov
eminent to be melted and coined in
to subsidiary silver, were declared
off today.
The purchase was proposed be-
cause the price of silver threatened
to reach the minted value. A hitch
caused the United States to with
draw it's offer and meanwhile . the
price of silver has fallen below that
which was to have been<paid Mexico.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-30

Fauntelroy, Capt. J. H. Samuel, Capt
T. H.. Wright, Jr.., Capt. H B Man
ners, Capt. W. W. Wade, Capt. R. T.
Brown, First Lieuts. D. E. Penland,
R. C. Thompson, Charles M. Keep
hart, Alexander Brunson, Second
Lieuts. F. C. Nelson, J. W. Frank
lin, ]. H. Koon, s. B. Thornburg, E.
Bradford, S. j. Royal.
Many officers are attached to a
ious organizations awaiting further
orders. 1t is probable that these sur
plus officers will be ordered to France
in the near future.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-30

not to take and read a leading farm
paper, The Progressive Farmer, for
instance, and put into practice as far
as it is possible to do so, the differ
emit suggestions that he may see
from time to time, offered by the
fellows that have been through the
mill, had the experience, and are
making a success of farming.-E G.
NJ The Progressive Farmer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-25
New Records i'm Single Combat

No thrilling combat between individuals in the world $ history has been told than that recorded in last nights dis patches France when German fier and British air 000 feet in the Monday and fought for an hour.
 each other They deliberately stalled their engines and standing the machines their ais slid backwards through the air in the effort get the adversary between the sghts The Brtisher time had dive almost per pendcularly himself. And the combat finally draw because had exhausted both themselves and their petrol.
 In the days of the Macedonian phalanx in the days of Spartan erosm the days of the gadatos in the days of medaeva knghhood there anything that exceeded sheer vaor daring endurance spectacular features this super -Homeric conflict in the air2
 Forty German machines brought down Monday and only two British fiers were missing What days record What flight of fancy effort of imagination three could have vsuazed the actual events of Monday single day in mankinds greatest and most tragic war?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-25

 G7T7EE deep-water sailor of today, says
 Jack London in his just-published
 S posthumous book, '"The Human Drift" pulls and hauls as he is ordered, swabs decks, washes paint and chips iron rust He knows nothing and cares less. Put him in a small boat and he is help less
 q shall never forget my child-aston- ishment" London goes on, when I first encountered one of these strange beings. He was a runaway English sailor l was a lad of F, with a decked- over, 14-foot, centerboard skiff which I had taught my self to sail. sat at his feet as at the feet of a god while he discoursed of strange lands and peoples, deeds of vio- fence and har-raising gales at sea. Then one day I took him for a sail. With all the trepidaton of the veriest little ama- teur I hoisted sail and got under way.
 Here was a man, looking on critically, was sure, who knew more in one second about boats and the water than l could ever know After an interval in which I exceeded myself he took the tiller and the sheet. I sat on the little thwart amid ships open mouthed, prepared to learn what real sailing was. My mouth re- mained open, for I learned what real sailor was in a small boat
 He couldn't trim the sheet to save himself, he nearly capsiZed several times in squalls, And once again by blundering- ly jibbing over. He didn't know what centerboard was for, nor did he know
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-25
RUN OF STAGE JOKES

From the Pittsburg Post
 Though 1t Is all the rage to advertise long runs of theatrical productions, a deafenng silence is maintained about the number of times some stage jokes have appeared in the spotlight.
 While a comedian offers no resistance to an electric light announcement of hi, presence in show 1900 nights on Broad way" it would be sad story, mates, if the Illuminated sign radiated Record breaking run of stage jokes-presented 700 times-stories that have appeared an entire season-funny saying in their fit- .teenth year.
 There is that old-timer perpetrated with a Killarney brouge about Paddy's mother waiting to>see him in the soldiers pa rade Finally she spies him bringing up the rear of the procession, Tit up" and weaving his uncertain way. Isn't he the grand sightH' she says, with much pride and admiration Look ut him in his grand uniform But, sure they're all out O step wid him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-25
LONDON'S LIFE AS A SAILOR

that in running boat before the wind one must sit in the middle instead of on the side: and finally, when we came back to the wharf, he ran the slSiff in full tilt, shattering her nose and carrying away the mast-step. And yet he was really truly sailor fresh from the vasty deep. Which points my morat. man can sail in the forecastles of big ships all his life and never know what real sailing Is.
 It is interesting to compare Jack Lon- don's view of the sailor with the old time idea of the seamen as contained in an article in the Encyclopedias Britan- mica. We read that
 "Seamanship is an art. Its principles may be stated in literary form, but mastery of it can be acquired only by actual practice on the sea. Seamanshlp has been practiced to perfection by men who were perfectly illiterate for thou sands of years before any treaties on it appeared Seamen have at all times been a people apart Till recently they have believed In practice only, have generally endeavored to preserve their knowledge as an art and mystery to be handed down by oral instruction from master to ap- prentice"
 The reason for the decay of this art of seamanship on the part of the deep sea sailor is undoubtedly the revolution ary change from sail to steam. The old time traditions have passed, and new nautical lore is just beginning to be evolved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-25
CUSTOMS OF EASTER

From the Kansas City Times.
 The method by which Easter Day is now determined Is that of the first Sun day after the paschal full moon -four teenth day of the calendar moon, or the full moon which happens upon or next after March M,) If the full moonhappens on Sunday, then Easter Day is the first Sunday following. The symbolism about the never ending miracle of the rebrth of life runs strongly through all the re- ligious and popular lore of the east. In the east it is understood, but in the west not, because its origin has been ob- scured. Just as each mornings rising sun typifies new light and life, so the reawak- ening of nature in spring after the death of winter took on a sacred meaning. The season of the vernal equinox thus came to be marked by special religious observ- ances The custom of presenting colored eggs to friends as symbols of the sea son became widespread. This custom ap- pears to have originated among the Per sians and it evidently bore reference to ths mundane egg, for which Ormuzd and
 
 nation of all things. The egg was sug- gestive of recreation, for it contains the embryo of all that is to come after. The egg shows in very simple way how life conceals itself and reveals itself. In the white stone life is concealed. A per son knows that when the time comes a little chick will break the walls of his prison in the egg, that the shell will break off and the chick will come forth alive. So the egg becomes a simple type of resurrection from the tomb. Nearly all over the world the hare is associated with the moon mythologically, and it is I on this account that the rabbit has so much to do with Easter. There has been much dispute as to who the hare should i have anything to do with the moon, but ! nobody has arrived at any satisfactory | conclusion on the subject. It is evidently | a folklore notion of extreme antiquity, which partly accounts for it's wide dis | tribution. The rabbit is nocturnal in | habit, coming out at night to feed, and that may have started the idea. It is asserted by students of such matters that
 the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit, killed in the dark of the moon represents the last quarter of the moon, and on
 that account is lucky
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-25
Favors Conscription

While have two boys that will come under the plan of conscript1on, ana both holding responsible positions, am heart fly in favor of that plan of raising an army to defend our nations honor in the present crisis" said D. M. Greene. "I cannot see how any one in the light of past history or present history for that matter, can favor the volunteer system at this time. We have before us the sad experience of England, and we had the experience in our own civil war; for when the Confederates were almost knocking at the gates of Washington, Lincoln's call for volunteers was in vain and he had to draft troops. We have recently wit messed a great deal of flag waving and spreadeagle speech making; we have witnessed a big rush to join the home for commissioned officers, but sad to say, the rush to the recruiting station has been pitifully small, compared to the rush of the thousands who will join a parade every and all occasions. What the coun- try needs today is men for the rank and file, and if we expect to do our part in the great conflict we are wasting valu- able time in clinging to the volunteer sys- tenn, when we might get down to business immediately under the conscription plan"