The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-11-21


Mrs. II. w. Hurt arrived home thii
morning. She was accompanied hons
by Mrs. Hurt and the children, WHIT
will be guests at the parental William
1 Hibbs home.
John zabilka and family are com
fortably located at 416 South ThirC
street, having moved to town from
the farm in Monroe township Tit
latter part of October they had pub
lie sale and after settling up matter!
on the farm, they came to Oskaloos1
last Friday.
Mrs. Sara Barr 1892 C avenue cas-
received word this morning from Ton
Zear in Victoria. Texas. of the dealt
of his son Leon killed in action IL
France. He was a member of the
medical department of the Goth In
fantry. He was a nephew of Mrs. EN-
ma Zear Bowen of this city, and the
father was former Oskaloosa boy
born and reared in this city, SON OF
the late Mr.. and Mrs. John Zear well
known pioneer citizens.
Captain Carl Underwood, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Underwood, No.
10S Fourth avenue west, is doing
things in a big way at Kemper Military
School, Boonville, Missouri. Through
the fundamentally of Captain Carl
the Kemper boys gave $4,297.52 for
United War Work and went over the
top and far beyond their objective.
The quota assigned these lads was
SI,750OO. Not content to let the
matter rest at that. point, the lads
subscribed and subscribed until the
amount reached the above figure. The
spirit g the thing was splendid and
the boys did II all themselves. Cap
tain Underwood was the leader. The
boys have never tolerated outside as
sistance in matters of this kind and
this occasion was no exception. The
cadets made their own -four minute
talk" and when Captain Carl called
for subscriptions they came in thick
and fast. The assigned quota was
quickly passed but there was no let
up. They went on and on. Carl
conducted the drive in the form of an
auction and he handled it like a vet.
eran. He secured many one hundred
dollar subscriptions and in this man.
ner went beyond the thousand dollar
line. Kemper's per capita was 1925.
Through the efforts of Captain Under
wood the average attained was $11.05.
Fred Voss of Marengo was in town
over Saturday and Sunday visiting
friends.
Mrs. Mary Porter of Beacon left
Monday for Knoxville to visit her son
Ralph and family.
Miss Mae Deck OF Oskaloosa was
registered at the Hotel Marseilles in
New York last week.
Mrs. Hugh Mccoy left Monday for
Springfield, Illinois. to visit with her
sister Mrs. Vern Beal.
Lloyd Ruby and Robert Richie of
Cedar were in town Saturday and Sun.
day visiting friends.
Miss Mabel Anderson, a Penn Col,
lege student spent the week end in
Rose Hill with her parents.
J. S. Beard of Burlington was in the
city last week called by the death of
his nephew, ]. Miller Beard
Ray Black who has been attending
school at Iowa City was in the city
Sunday visiting with his wife.
Herman Schmidt, Jr., of Davenport
was in the city Saturday called here
by the death of ]. Miller Beard.
Mrs. Dan Donaldson who has been
quite i'll with Spanish Influenza is now
able to be up and is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Minear have
received word of the safe arrival over.
seas of their son George Minear.
Mr.. E. Watkins of Marshalltown
is in the city to visit bis sister, Mrs.
Nettie Moore on High avenue East.
Ralph Crozier who has been attend
ing school in Pella spent the week end
in the city with his parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Crozier. =
Mrs. John A. spyker of Lama, o..
has arrived in, the city to be with her
daughter Miss Beatrice who is taking
a series of treatments at Abott's Hos
pital.
Jerome Quaintance of Des Moines,
was in town for a Sunday visit in the
home of his sister, Mrs. Frank De-
Weiss. He came down Saturday even
ing in his car.
A. G. Clark has been in charge of
the James Lloyd barber shop in the
Downing Hotel for the past two weeks
while the proprietor was in st. Paul
his mother.
Misses Lucille Louck and Ada Wells
by Floyd Timbrel OF
New Sharon motored to Grinnell Sat.
urday to attend the Grinnell and Os-
kaloosa High School football game.
]. A. H. Dryden of oskaloosa, was
in Montezuma Friday to visit with
his brother, John Dryden and family,
and other relatives, He left Friday for
Mr. and Mrs. Dryden will