The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-07-11


TIC South 18th street have received
the announcement of the engagement
of their son. Captain Thomas Watson
of the Marine Corps, San Domingo
D. r., to Miss Priscilla Ellicott of Sar
Francisco, Cal. daughter of Captain
Ellicott, United States Navy. Mr.
Watson met Miss Ellicott in San Do
mingo where she has been visiting fol
the last nine months. They expect
to be married this fall.
S. M. Morris went to Marshalltowr
and Mason City Saturday to attend te
business.
Mrs. George Ross left for Iowa City
and Grinnell Saturday, after visiting at
the E. N. Brewer home.
Mr., and Mrs. c. Riley are home from
Moulton where they have been visiting
the mother, Mrs. ]. Evans.
Miss Elizabeth Studham, an enlisted
Red Cross Nurse. came from Camp
Dodge Friday evening on a twenty
four hour furlough.
Mrs. Charlie Freeberg and daughter
Leona have gone to Abba to visit few
days with friends. Mrs. j. Dehom and
daughter Lillian went with them.
Misses Mildred and Matilda Tyson
Ora Victor, and Eva Fisher are home
from Des Moines where they were en-
tertained by friends since Wednesday.
Ralph and Leland Hoff, sons of Geo.
Hoff, No. 1902 High avenue West, left
last week on call for the Great Lakes
Naval training school and are now
hard at work in training for the navy.
Roscoe Moore, engaged with c. O..
Stringfellow barber shop went to Des
Moines Thursday and enlisted in the
infantry. He successfully passed ply
steal examination and left yesterday
for California where he will enter
training camp.
The two year old child of Floyd
Ware living on the John Arnold place,
between Eddyville and Cedar, caught
its finger in the cogs of washing ma
chine in an outbuilding last Monday,
grinding off the index finger of the
right hand so that the finger had to be
amputated at the middle joint.
Charles Oldham, the we'll known cit
izen of Harrison township, we under
stand was chosen to the Democratic
as we'll as the Republican convention
of his county, but as he could not well
be at both conventions, he attended
the convention of his party-the Re-
publican.-Eddyville Tribune.
Henry w. Lunt, who in former days
put Peoria, Mahaska county on the
map, desires his friends in Oskaloosa
to know that he has changed residence
in Ottumwa, where he has been resid-
ing several years. He is now located at
No. 253 Ward street, South Ottumwa.
Take a Ward street car, and stop
right at the door" says Henry.
Of former well known Oskaloosa
young man, son-in-law of L. r. Rose
brook, the Ottumwa Courier says: AT
least one Ottumwa business man is
going to do his bit, working as farm
laborer during his vacation. Peter
Newerf will leave tomorrow for Win
terset to spend two weeks on his bro
TIERS farm. He will get right down to
hard work, helping with the harvest.
Mrs. Newerf viii accompany him to
Winterset."
Rev. and Mrs. Fillmer of Harvey re-
ceived word this week of the safe ar
rival of a second son of theirs over
there somewhere. This son, DIR. Filmer,
has a brother in France, who is cook
for a bunch of railroad signal corps
men and recently wrote that they were
then encamped near lake in beau
tIful wood and he had been fishing
and caught mess for the mess" and
he also was enjoying splendid health
and some lake bathing too.
OF a young man who attended Holt
ness University and Penn College, and
is known to many in Oskaloosa, Pic
ture Film News says: Sergeant d. M.
Gill of the United States Marines, who
played the part of Bible reading sharp
shooter in the trench scene of George
Klein's patriotic picture, "The Unbe-
lever" was severely wounded in one
of General Pershing's casualty lists.
From the mimic to the real warfare
was but a shO. step in this brave SOL
dier's life.
F. w. Glaze who is at the head of
the food conservation campaign among
the retail dealers of the county is col
lecting photographs of the window pro-
poganda being exploited by the nation
al commission in the effort to conserve
food. Many of the pictures show win.
dow decorations that compel attention.
These photographs are sent by Mr..
Glaze to the state headquarters in Dav
export and from there forwarded to
the national headquarters in Wash
ington.
Mrs. ]. H. Allen of New Sharon was
in the city Saturday. ...
Mrs. b. II. Marshall went to Mar
shalltown Saturday to visit the week
end.
Mrs. G. G. Johnson of Eddyyille was
in the city Saturday with Mrs. M
Roberts.
Miss Laura Hasley of Searsboro. Wis.
ting in this city returned to her home