The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-26

Mrs. White of Fremont, who hal
been visiting with relatives during
the winter, is now with her daughter
Mrs. Spurgin, and expects to visit
with her for some time.
! Thomas II. Sewers of the Sewers
Manufacturing Co, has just returned
from successful business trip to
Hastings, Minnesota. He reports a
fine trip and splendid prospects.
On Sunday evening, Miss Evelyn
Smith was the leader of the Epworth
League service and those attending
were delighted with the musical con-
tributions of Miss Jennie Fry and
Miss Pearl Jones. The selections
were both instrumental and vocal.
G. f. M. Schlenker was a passenger
for Des Moines, Sunday, accompan-
| led by his granddaughter, Miss
Maxine Riggs, who is returning to
her home after a weeks visit with
her grandparents here. Her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Riggs, ae nicely To-
Gated at 3031 Dean avenue.
dJu6I bOlilIldHt FlClu oCSlSIaiJ
of the Dubuque college, was visitor
with Father Lotus OF St Mary's
church for a brief time on Monday.
Father Rohlman is organizing an en-
dowment campaign for Dubuque col
lege and is visiting number of col
lege towns in Iowa. He came here
to visit Penn college but was called
home by telegraph before being able
to carry out his mission.
Arnold Eddy, student of the Os-
kaloosa high school, was severely
bruised and cut Monday afternoon,
by the unexpected explosion OF
chemical compound that he was mix
ing in the chemistry laboratory of
the school. Eddy was mixing chem
icals in a porcelain mortar. The
mortar was blown into many pieces.
Eddy's face and hands We're cut and
peppered by the explosion.
Nelson McDonough went to Nor
raj, Nebraska, Monday on business
trip.
Mrs. F. Bernick was called to Ames
Tuesday morning by the death of her
mother.
Mrs. w. ]. Roberts returned from
Knoxville Monday where she had
been to attend the funeral of her
aunt
Mrs. Josephine Barnhill of Great
Falls, Montana, is in Oskaloosa and
will make an extended visit among
friends.
Mrs. Emma Hasty, who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Coons,
returned to her home in Rose Hill on
Monday.
II. Z. Motto, who has had dog tax
No. l for several years, was again
the first to pay up after the annual
call for license money. Payment is
starting out slowly and comparative
ly few receipts have been written.
Up to Saturday evening only ten
tags had been paid for.
Frank Morrison, a former Oska-
loosa boy, now in business in Fowler,
Kansas, was a visitor in town over
Sunday. Mr.. Morrison had not been
in Oskaloosa before for thirty years,
except for a day or two six years ago
when his mother died. He finds
many changes in the town since he
left it.
Knoxville Journal: Mrs. Ed J.
Smith of the Olive Chapel neighbor-
hood, nine miles south of town, is
taking treatment for the relief of
rheumatism at a hospital in Oska-
loosa. Mrs. Smith has been suffer-
ing from the trouble mentioned since
last October and has been belfast
most of the time.
Little Josie Quaintance, aged five
years, daughter of Frank Quaintance
residing a little way northeast OF
town, was initiating her father i'll
cutting fuel in the wood lot Sunday.
The ak was a little heavy for the
midget and the blade fell upon the
tiny foot, making painful cut across
the top, but none of the bones were
injured
Sigourney News Walter Hicklin
and Daisy d. Ramey were united in
marriage at the parsonage Sunday
right at 8 o'clock. They were at
tended by Lacey Kerr and Peal
Clary. They will make their hcine
in Oskaloosa where Mr.. Hicklin is
employed as book keeper. The best
wishes of their many friends will fol-
low them.
Eddyville Tribune: Ray Cartwright
of Eldon and Will Robinson, the Os-I
kaloosa grocer, came down from Os--
kaloosa last Friday morning for a
little outing on the parental j. T.
Johnson farm across. the river, and
while here they planted potatoes for
Mr.. Johnson. Ray and his family
had been spending week or two Wis
iting the Robinsons in Oskaloosa
while the Cartwright baby was being
treated at the hospital in oskaloosa.
In a letter from their new home in
Wyoming Mrs. Mamie X. Clark