The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-06-06
MEANT EVERY WORD
oLlVET SCRIBE PUTS THE o. X.
ON THE GRIFFIN NOTE.

Olivet, June 3. - l.. S. Drew of
Harlan, Shelby county, was 9 caller
Tuesday. Mr. Drew said he was a
democrat. He does not know how
Porter stands on the temperance
question but he don't want to see
the return of the saloon in Iowa and
is undecided as to whom he will vote
for for governor this fall
II. w. Van Rocket spent Wednes-
day in Leighton trading.
NJ. A. Peterson of Decatur county
was in this neighborhood this week
looking after business matters.
Buying coal in May to burn in
Nocember does not seem to work out
well in Ottumwa. Our oldest daugh-
ter, Mrs. Long, writes that mines
there have not worked for over a
week and don't know when they will
work. We get the same report in
a letter from Green county.
The Herald man noted what our
old time personal friend w. b. Grit
fin wrote to Mayor Harold on haV-
ing clean city. While we might
say it could not well be otherwise,
we want to say we have known Billy
Griffin personally and well for over
.wenty years and have had dealings
with him both as a private citizen
and a public man. AS sheriff OF
Monroe county for number of years
we always knew him to be man
that never trified with matters; al
ways meant just what he said; and
we want to insure the army of Herald
readers that this was the case in his
letter to Mayor Harold.
r. w. Marley, Professor Davis, Har
ry Whitlatch, and J. c. Whitmore OF
Oskaloosa were pleasant callers al
our station Thursday while in town
rheir time was short, much to oul
regret.
The writer acknowledges the re
eeipt of an invitation from Miss Jes
sic Duboc, to attend the Sth grade
graduation exercises in the M. E
:hurch in Oskaloosa Saturday, June
|, at 1880 p. m, and regret very much
1ur inability to be there.
F. B. Hunt, a Rock Island brake
man on this line from Knoxville to
Evans, is expecting a call every day
to enter the U. S. Tank service and
to go right to France. Mr.. Hunt
served three years in the service fol
Uncle Sam in the bad lands of Dako
ia carrying dispatches to headquar
;ers. He informs us he often rode
horseback fifty, miles a day in the
service. He passed the examination
for First Lieutenant before a loca
board at Charlton and will receive
$177 per month from the start in the
service. He got this from his per
sonal record in his previous service
Mr. Hunt informs us these tanks are
IN the principle of a box car of steel
run on wheels. They can climb
hills the same as a wagon. They
are built so strong that they will
turn the average bullet or shell and
the men can stand in there all day
and shoot the Huns, on the outside
and he is going to do it. Frank is
model young man with the best OF
habits. He spent his early life as
trapper in the mines at Evans. He
has n mighty nice little wife in his
home at Knoxville. He is leaving
. $125 a month job as brakeman to
enter this service. He says that
his wife is willing for him to go, fol
it is only a matter of time when all
the young men of his age will have
to go. They have no children.
1t certainly pays to plant good seed
s. Bartlema planted a small piece OF
corn in town Saturday, May IS. On
Saturday, May %, you could see il
from one end of the row to the 9th
pr. This corn could be seen coming
out of the ground in five days after
planting.
Mrs. A. Long of Ottumwa spent the
week in town with her father helping
to nurse her feeble step-mother.-
r. w.