The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-06-06

| urday from Ottumwa after shor
/ visit with friends.
J Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Sparks of Char
lton returned to their home Saturda.
! after having spent the week with rel
r stives in the city.
Mrs. Dale Stilwell came yesterda!
) from La Junta, Colorado. to visit ;
few weeks with her mother, Mrs. Ed
ma Hurd, and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sewers Of
Washington and son Walter were
callers in the city the first part
of the week visiting with relatives
Colonel Roosevelt paid a flying Wis
it to the Y. w. c. A. Hostess House
at Camp Dodge last week (May 27)
and expressed his opinion of it on the
house register by writing: The house
is Al" Among other guests at the
Hostess House during the last week
was Mrs. G. W. Russell of OskalOosa,
Iowa.
w. A. Pilgrim received a telegram
Saturday morning telling of the seri-
Gus illness of his father, w. III. Pill
grim, at his home in Los Angeles,
| Cal. The message stated that he
was sinking rapidly and unless there
was radical change he could not
survive very long. Mr.. Pilgrim left
Saturday afternoon to be with his
| father.
OF a gentleman well known in Os
kaloosa, the Ottumwa Courier says:
Calvin Manning suffered a slight
paralytic stroke yesterday afternoon
at St. Joseph's hospital. Mr. Man
ming was visiting his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Edwin Manning, who is a patient
at the hospital. Mr.. Manning's con-
dition is slightly improved today. He
is receiving treatment at the hospital.
Mrs. Leah Washburn, president of
the Rebekah Assembly, was in the
city Saturday, giving a school of in
struction in the Odd Fellows hall.
Some of the lodges attending were
Taintor, New Sharon, and Lodge 3S9.
Mrs. Washburn went to Marshalltown
in the afternoon to visit with Mrs
Margaret Scheter over Sunday. She
was entertained while in the city by
Mrs. Emma Sonderegger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Magee leave to.
lay for an extended visit at Paris,
California.
Harold Dean is home from training
at Kansas City for a brief furlough
with his parents.
Horatio Davis and family who have
been spending the winter at Second
avenue asst, are moving back to Ere
mont.
George Shultz was down from his
home in Des Moines and spent last
week with relatives and friends in
this section.
Mrs. Guy G. Woodin and the child
rem returned to their Chicago home
Saturday morning after a weeks visit
among old time friends here.
DR.. and Mrs. F. F. Parker drove
down from Des MOines Sunday for Il
short visit with former friends and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ramsay are
over from Knoxville to be in attend
anCe upon the Camp Meeting of the
Holiness association being held in
University Park.
John Malone former resident and
business man of OskaloOsa, but for
several years past a deniZen of Des
Moines was in the city Saturday LOOK
ing after business affairs and renew
ing old friendships.
James Fulton who has been in the
employ of Chas. V. Hoffman, and fam
lily for the past several months de
parted Saturday evening for his old
home in Richmond. Mo, where he ex.
poets to get married and reside.
Roy Tandy, a student of the Tracy
high school, and a son of Mr.. and Mrs
W. T. Tandy, of Scott township. OF
this county, won free trip to the
State Fair, from Marion County. in
the essay contest for high school stu.
dents.
Word has been received that Archie
Harding, who is with the American
EXpedtiOnary Forces in France, was
in hospital recovering from a frac-
ture of the leg sustained. while wrest-
ling with other soldier boys about the
18th or goth of April. Arch fell while
wrestling, and two other soldiers fell
on top of him.-Eddyville Tribune.
Irwin Beaver, of near Lakonta, who
purchased new Ford car couple of
weeks ago. had the misfortune to run
into a ditch while going down a hill
north of the Jesse Atkinson farm north
of Lakonta, a few days ago. Mrs. Bea
yer and baby were with him at the
time. II was at first feared that the
baby was killed. but the child soon
rallied The windshield was broken
but the car was not greatly damaged
otherwise.
Robert Bowers who for the past six
or seven years has been connected
with the Hotel Lacey has severed his
connection Herewith and left Satur-
day for Mexico, Missouri where he
becomes assistant manager of two
hotels in that CITY both under same