The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-01-24

j Roscoe Coffin, of Minneapolis. stat
secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Mi
nesota, was in town yesterday for
brief visit with his brother and siste
at Penn college.
Mrs. G. e. Magee went to Beatric,
(. Nebraska, this morning to visit SCI
eral days with her son Walter Sh
will stop for a few days with her SO
Guy at Council Bluffs.
Mrs. Minnie Groce has arrive
home from a pleasant visit with he
sons, Harry and Eddy Groce, locate
, at Albert Lea and in the employ @
tne NJ. & st. L. railway.
J. E. Donnelly, 14OS South Marke
street, who was born and raised il
this city and has worked at the low
Valve Co. for about twenty years, ha
taken charge as foreman. He will
prove capable and efficient man TO
the work.
Deputy Sheriff Eph Allender hal
returned from Canton, ILL.,, where h,
went to get William Nance, who il
wanted in connection with the Boil
ton-Hoover robbery. He is one O.
the men who stripped the engines a
the Bolton-Hoover mines of Their
brass.
Hon. j. M. Stephenson of What
Cheer, a former member of the Ma
haska County Board of Supervisors
was in town yesterday and today Wis
iting relatives and hosts of friends
Mr.. Stephenson's property is practi
cally all located in this county, and
he came over to fix up his taxes fol
the year.
Lloyd P. Conner is in receipt of a
brief but interesting letter from Roy
Kemble, Somewhere in France
Mr. Kemble says: 81 can't begin to
tell you how much l appreciate your
kindness, for letters from home are
a wonderful help to lonesome man
in France. Am having a fine time,
have seen some real warfare and am
ready to have them quit whenever
they want to. wish l could write
you a long letter, but a lack of time,
a shortage of paper, and a dearth of
interesting news make it impossible"
Mr.. Frank Burnham is. in town Wis
iting his sister, Mrs. Hugh Mccoy.
c. Cubit of Oskaloosa was in town
lest Wednesday evening visiting his
friend Miss Anna Watkins.-Eddyyi. lie
Tribune.
Gus Hamilton went to Iowa City
afternoon to have his ton
sils removed, to enable him to enter
the service.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Bovee have
gone to Santa Cruze, California. Mrs.
Bovee will be missed by the Hanna
Manufacturing Co. as she Las been
employed there thirteen years.
Relatives here are in receipt of a
letter from Lieutenant c. B. Morgan
who states that the roalroad service
corps that left for Russia, including
Mr.. Stevens and Colonel Emerson
were at Vladivostok four days and
there they left for Japan where they
are now located awaiting the outcome
Of the Russian difficulties.
Earl Alderman and Clyde Perkins
went up to North Dakota almost to
the Canada line last week to buy
some breeding ewes, the kind they
They purchased 220 of them
and shipped them to Fremont. Owing
&C. the storm they We're delayed but
are happy to get through with con-
signment the way the transportation
facilities are.-Fremont Gazette.
Mrs. r. L. Whipple was hostess at
a delightful knitting party New Years
Day when she entertained in honor of
her mother, Mrs. Dave Harvard of
brownsville, and of Mrs. r. G. Jgnney
OF Oskaloosa, Iowa. Mis-. Harvard, a
fromer resident of Cochran has wide
circle of friends here who always hail
her visits with delight. Mrs. Janney,
during her visit here has already
made many friends by her lovely per
sonality and charming cordially.
Both honorecs were presented with
lovely hand made handkerchiefs as
trophies of the occasion. After an af-
ternoon of knitting and pleasant con-
versations the guests were served
with an elegant salad course.-Journal
Cochran, Georgia.
The whole college was thrown into
CONSERVATION last Monday when the
news spread that Miss Schafer was to
leave us and enter upon her new po'
sition as deputy county recorder. II
had never dawned upon anyone that
Miss Schafer, the efficient head OF
the office force and the private secre
tary of the president as well as OF the
board of trustees, could be spared
from the college circle and all fell
dismayed over the prospect of trying
to move on without her assistance
Miss Schafer came to the college II
the spring of 1909 and week in ant
week out, through heat and cold, she
has faithfully worked for its inter
ests. Especially amid the handicap
and inconyeniences incident to tn