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The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
Givin Locality.

Givin, Jan. 28.-The third Red Cross
entertainment will be given next Fri
day night February 1. Come and help
a good cause. A good program is prom
Used.
Our sick ones who are improving
are Mrs. Steven Davis, Mr.. Morgan
Williams, Master Ray Harper, and
Harry Reese who is entertaining the
measles.
Mrs. Rose Holt is seriously ill. DR..
Wilcox expects to take her to the hos
pital tomorrow. Her many friends hope
for a speedy recovery.
The Red Cross will serve lunch at
two sales in the near future, W. T.
Roberts on the 28th, and Reed McMur'
ray on Feb. 5th.
Mr.. Ray Bomers of Kirksville, Mo.
was called here by the death of his
father, Mr.. Bowers who passed away
al the Soldiers Home at Marshalltown
Saturday morning. Funeral held at
that place and the body was token to
Eddyville and interment made IN High
land cemetery Monday afternoon. Mr.
Stevens, step-son, of Nebraska, also
arrived Monday morning.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
East Center Personals

East Center, Feb. january was
exceedingly cold. On the 31st the
mercury registered 25 degrees below
zero.
Mrs. Daniel Hull visited recently
with Mrs. j. H. Williams.
People in general are finishing their
butchering.
Leslie Harvey's hay bailer has been
in this neighborhood the past week.
Chas. Without attended the short
course in Ames this week. 49,.
~ The Red Cross was held this week
with Mrs. ]. r. Colville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Without and baby
Helen of Hedrick and Miss Nell Will
holt of Grinnell spent the week end
at the parental w J. without home.
The many friends of A. ]. Lytle are
pleased to hear the encouraging news
Mrs. Lyle reports from Rochester.
They are expecting to return home
soon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Browneller of Oska-
loosa visited recently with their son
Wilbur and wife. -
Mrs. Charles G. Roe and son Jack
of Seattle, Washington, who are here
for visit at the parental w. j. Will
holt home, spent the week end with
Mr.. Roe's sister, Mrs. Homer Dye and
family of near Lacey.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
News Items From Cedar Route One

Cedar Route No. 1, Feb. 1.-THE
auxiliary of the Red Cross of Kirkville
were unable to hold their meeting
Tuesday ON account of being out of
yarn. ~ a.-
The writer is in receipt of letter
from one of the soldiers stationed at
Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
He states they are having fine wea-
ther-run around all day in their shirt
sleeves. He states he don't know how
long they will be there, but they hope
to go to France soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Johnson of
Moline, H., are visiting relatives in
Kirkville and vicinity.
w. j. Brown delivered wood in Kirk
VILE Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Semas Brown OF OF
tumwa Route 8, were shopping in
Kirkville Tuesday.
/ Miss Alpha Cook of Eddyville was
operated on for appendicitis.
DR.. ]. G. Kepler, of Kirkville called
at the Will Richie home Wednesday.
Miss Viola Ross was shopping in
Kirkville Tuesday.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
Spring Valley.

Earl Wymore and wife, Ed. Zook and
wife, Mrs. w. P. Wymore and Mary
Hoyey Murser and Paul Remmarck
helped Jas. Denney's with their butch
ering last Thursday.
Veil Ellsworth was buried last Fri
day at Wymore cemetery.
Perry Spain and wife visited Sunday
at the A. J. Lockard place.
George Bunting and family and the
Paul Remmarck family visited at the
Jas. Denney place Sunday.
Mrs. Virgil Williams and children
visited one day last week at the Per
ry Spain home.
Johnnie Hadley has been quite sicl
from an infected toe.
Red Wing.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07

will come out all right and that we
will all be on our way back soon. He
was so blue he was sick.
There were few machinists that
came over on the boat and who got off
at Vladivostok. They were Russians
and paid their own way over here.
One of them is d brother to one of our
interpreters. Think how hard it must
have been for the two to part. They
are both fine young fellows and are
the only two of the Russians that l
talked to very much. One of them is
now in Russia and the other with US
and they don't know when they will
meet. Some of them were just 50
homesick and blue that they did not
eat at all. / feel awfully sorry for
them. s #.
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NEW RESIDENTS
lila II OF 0SkALOOSA
-. .ti.+.s. + f..F .s..sE = 4 q.

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Mr.. and Mrs. j.. M. ELAN and son
are residents Of Oskaloosa and are
liking at 30S list avenue East. Mr.
Elam is an insurance man.
=. .:-.-:-
Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Steirwalt and
son of Washington have become resi-
dents of Oskaloosa and are living at
AIS South Market street. Mr.. Stierwalt
| is a postal clerk on the Rock Island.
''a - = =.
w. B. Harvey and family have re-
Gently moved to Oskaloosa from near
Lacey and reside at l116 High avenue
West.
Prof. and Mrs. c. II. Newcomer of
Wadsworth, Ohio, are new corners to
Oskaloosa and have apartments at
GLE c avenue West Mr.. Newcomer is
teacher in the high school,
- - =.
d. j. Dykstra and family have NOV
ed from their farm west of Beacon to
OGkaloosa and will reside at 708 A
avenue East Mr.. Dykstra has purchas-
ed the Midway Garage on South First
street.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Soults who have
been living about five miles south of
town have moved to Oskaloosa and
have apartments over 1874 First avenue
West. @
Mrs. M. E. Lewis and her brother
Jack Harrison have moved from their
farm southeastern town to GOT North
& street.
-. - =.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Gordon and fam
lily have moved from Kansas City Mo-,
to Oskaloosa and will reside at 901
Sixth avenue East. Mr.. Gordon has
accepted a position as fireman of the
local yards of the M. & st. L. ,Ry.
Mr. and Mrs. j. Hardly and their two
daughters and son of Rock Rapids,
Iowa, have recently moved to Oskaloo-
sa and are residing at 10 X avenue
East. - #st
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Mr.. and Mrs C. H. Hicklin of Delta
have moved to Oskaloosa and they
will live at 10 Fourth avenue East.
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r. C. Kisor and family have moved
from near Pella to Oskaloosa and will
reside at 1894 M avenue West
"a. - 80
Neal Halshos and family have NOV
ed from near Pella to oskaloosa and
will live at S24 North list street.
- - -
j. F. Russell and family who have
been residing near Lacey have moved
to sOskaloosa and win occupy the
vacated by DR.. B. G, Williams
on C avenue East extension.
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Nagasaki, Japan, $3.50 p. m, Dec. 49,
1917


1917.
We pulled into the harbor here and
dropped anchor at 6:30 D. m. We
made good run over here, as it is
665 miles. BY the time we get back
to Vladivostok we will have travelled
good 10000 miles. l don't think now
that there is any doubt but what we
will go back to Vladivostok as soon as
we get our supplies. / think we will
take back a three or four months
supply of stuff and probably do our
own cooking. Can't tell just yet what
the lay out will be. / am glad we
got to come down here anyway as we
will probably be here for four or five
days and can get out and see the town.
The scenery coming in here is wonder
full. There are so many islands. We
passed one large island yesterday
about p. m. and have been in sight
of land all day today. We passed
along the coast of Korea. You can
get your map and see just where we
were. The Japanese officials have
been on board and we all passed in
spection and suppose quarantine will
be lifted in the morning so we can go
ashore. ..... .. ...
The news bulletin today read rather
badly and said that japanese war
ship had put in there to protect the
engineering corps. Of course, the en-
gineering corps is all on this boat
here in Nagasaki. / don't know how
they get things all balled up so. !
suppose you will get all that stuff in
the papers there. Lots of the fellows
are worrying because they think their
folks will worry about the news they
get. ~
The weather is warm here and we
are all comfortable again. 1t was so
cold in Vladivostok that the water
taps in the wash room froze up and
everything was all over ice We slept
well, all the cover We could get over
US and then put our sheepskin over
coats over US to keep warm.
(Since the above was written, Mrs.
Morgan has received four other let
ters from her husband, Lieut.. Morgan,
and his ship and all the men are still
at Nagasaki, Japan, not knowing what
the next move will be. There were 216
enlisted men on board. These men
came mostly from west of the Mis-
sissippi, but there was one contingent
from Philadelphia. They are all ma
ture men, duly enlisted in Uncle Sans
service and, of course, wear the regu-
lation uniform. Mr.. Morgan has a
commission as lieutenant His broth
err, Russell, 10 years old, is now in
France, going over with our own COM
pany H. AS stated last week, the
United States government enlisted
these men, now at Nagasaki, for work
in Russia, demonstrating the railway
system. The Russian interpreters
who went over with these men, were
to the United States, not
having landed in their own country
Ed
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
Mabaska Is LOYAL

Mahaska county is going over.
with her quota of Red Cross member
ships and workers. We, are within
short distance of the much desired
goal and we are going to have the
number. Come on in while the COM
ing is good DO not be the last.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07

U. S. A. T. Thomas" twenty-five
hours out from Vladivostok on
the sea of Japan, Tuesday, Dec.
IS, 1917.
This that have to write today will
undoubtedly be a great surprise to
you. Well, we reached Vladivostok
Friday morning and left yesterday,
Monday, at a p. M, and very few OF
us set foot on the shore. Maj. Blunt
told US that under the circumstances
he was not going ashore on the one
day they allowed us leave, so nearly
all of our contingent followed his ad-
vice and stayed aboard. After that
it was too late as they would not let
anyone go ashore at all. We are bound
for Japan now and l think will put in
at Nagasaki. We don't know whether
we are bound for the U. S. again or
not. l myself think we are going
there for supplies and instructions.
AS l can't say very much regarding
conditions in Russia / can't explain all
that feel. Some of the fellows think
we are headed for the States but l
feel sure that this move is just short
one and that in the end we will go
back and go to work. We might be
held in Japan for a month or so until
things clear up little. Anyway, we
will get to see Japan now, which is
more than we expected to do: Aren't
we in a queer shape for a bunch OF
men who generally know what they
are doing. We don't know thing
about where we are going in the end,
how long it will take to get there nor
how long we will stay after we ar
rive. One thing, we don't care much,
as we know that we will be taken
care of and looked after in the best
manner possible, no matter where we
are. There are very few men in the
bunch who would like to go back to
i the States now. / myself and nearly
everyone else hopes that in the end
we will go back and do the work as
originally planned. Can you imagine
i the state of mind our Interpreters
must be in. There they were within q
. few yards of shore for four days and
finally sailed away from their own ma.
tive country without setting foot or
it. They, of course, don't know where
they are going and imagine all sorts
of things. / would hate to be IN then
! places and be sailing away from New
! York without landing after having
, been gone few years. ! like one o
the interpreters very much ana as NJ
{ had about the worst case OF blues 20,
/ ever saw tried to cheer him up. w
FALL know as told him that they nav
! nothing to fear and that everytninl
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07

By percentages the increases in
numbers were: Horses, IA per cent;
mules, 2; mich COWS, As; other cat
tie, 1.9 (steers alone decreased 80
per cent?; swine increased 81 per
cent.
The greatest gain is in swine, where
the need of an increase is most i'm
portant.
Aggregate value of the livestock
on the farms, is S,263 million dollars
1923 million dollars more than a
year ago, an increase of % per cent,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
Hand Was Smashed,

Chas. Adair of Abba met with quite
a serious accident last week at Avery
when the work train was switching in
the yards, and Mr.. Adair in some
manner had his hand crushed, taking
off portion of the hand.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
18th day out of Honolulu, Wednesday,
Dec, ~, 1917

Land Alloy! We sighted land this
morning about breakfast and have
been getting closer all morning until
five miles away. We will be passing
through Hakodate strait shortly after
dinner. You may know how glad we
are to see land after having been out
thirteen days and up to this morning
we had not seen a thing of any kind
except a bird now and then. We did
not sight boat on the whole trip
from Honolulu. They think we will
reach Vladivostok by Friday noon. We
had heavy snow storm last night
and had about two inches of snow on
deck in about an hour. The fellows
got out and snow-balled each other.
1t is pretty cold this morning and the
strongest wind blowing that / ever
saw. 1t must be blowing about sew
enty miles per hour. 1t is nearly i'm
possible to stand on deck where the
wind strikes you fully. / went down
in the baggage room this morning
and opened my trunk for the first
time to get out my sheepskin coat and
my fuzzy cap. Everyone is whistling
and happy this morning and they are
so glad to see land you might think
to watch them that they were nearing
the good old U. S. A. The Russians,
OF course, are full of joy at returning
to their native land. Some of them
have been gone fifteen years. l can
imagine how it will feel to us when
we go home to get our first sight of
'home" again. Lots of these Rus
slams were never in Vladivostok be-
fore but it is Russia" to them any
way, just like New York would be
"home" to me. / guess we will have
to go through lot of red tape before
we can land at Vladivostok so we will
probably be on the boat day or two
before we can unload. Although the
sea is rough this morning none of the
fellows are thinking of being seasick
at all as land is so near.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
Webster School.

Grade two has knit and completed
one quilt of twenty squares and has
another almost finished.
A Palmer Penmanship Button was
awarded TO Mary Walker on Monday.
This was won while Mary was in the
Il class, Grade three.
The boys and girls of grade three
are enthusiastic knitters. Some of the
squares have been Joined to make a
very pretty baby blanket. Several
squares toward another blanket have
been finished.
Our Fifth grade history lesson We'd
nesday was very interesting. We play
ed Patrick Henry's Speech, Give Me
Liberty or Give Me Death" on the
Edison. Then we discussed its differ.
ent parts.
Gladys NJ Noe has been awarded
a Progress Pin for improvement in
penmanship Grade six has a Liberty
Poster on which they print the names
cf those pupils who help to win the
war.
Third Ward won the Basketball
Game from First Ward ii to Satur'
day morning at the Y NJ. C. A.
The teachers Of third ward have a
100 per cent Red Cross in their win
dow. Seyenty-five boys and girls OF
Webster school are members of the
Red Cross.
e. E. Muckler of the COMMERCIAL
Printing Co. generously donated 1000
tickets for our Junior Red Cross Bene'
III Entertainment which will be given
Tuesday evening. February IL, 1918
Josephine HOFFMAN. Rena Russell
and Frances Powell of the Norma
Training class, have been observing
the irst Grade work in Webster Buil'
ing and on Friday taught the CLASSES
in Reading. Language and Numbers
They did the work in very satisfac
tory manner.
Grant School.
The following pupils have received
penmanship awards: Students I'm
ham. virginia Davis; Progress Pins
Alice Kirk, Doris Carrot: Silver Sta
Primary Pins, George Gordon. Emme
shanahan. DOROTHY Lewis. Warrei
sparks. Francis Crookham. Rober
Bridgeman, Mary Walling, Margare
Neral; John Snider, Lorene DUNCAN
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
Has Full Fledaed County Agent.

Marion county has full fiedged
county agent in the person of T..
Ralph Miner of Washington county,
who was elected by the local Farm
Bureau last Monday at a called meet
ing of that body.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
Friday, Dec. IA, 1917. Vladivostok,
Russia.

hQSSld.
We pulled into port about II a. m.
today. 1t is now 1880 p. m. There IS
a strong wind blowing outside and it
it showing and it is pretty cold. No
one has been on shore yet except the
colonel. He was ashore this afternoon
for a couple of hours. There is lot
of red tape to be gone through be-
fore we can land. Some officials came
aboard this afternoon and looked our
passports over. We all hope to get
on shore tomorrow and look the town
over. The hotels here are full up and
there is no place to stay on shore so
we will have to stay on board until
they get ready to move US out of here.
The reason the hotels are full is that
the people from the interior all
hocked out here to the border SO they
could get away easily if there was
any trouble. ] mean, of course, peo-
pie who are not Russians. On account
of this and Russian troubles rubles
are cheaper here than in st. Paul and
/ could have saved money by bringing
gold here and buying the rubles here
This is caused by people here who
have lots of rubles and want to leave
the country and want to trade then
for gold. If you ever come ovel
bring what money you bring in golt
unless you hear differently from me
We think we will probably be giver
j our expense money tomorrow ant
hope that we can go ashore and lool
around. Everyone is anxious to ge
to where they are going and ge
started to work. The scene coming
into this harbor is very beautiful, bu
of course as it is winter time here
don't look as pretty as the one a
Honolulu did.
They say this is the first time
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
sio sum For Bridges

Marion county the past year spent
a total Of s122,41081 on bridges, cul-
yerts and maintenance and repairs
For bridges and culyerts S62,O56.94
was spent, and 6O.ss4.s7 in building
and repairing roads.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
ANIMALS ON FARMS INCREASE
Nearly Eight Million More Livestock
in United States Now Than
Year Ago.

Washington, Feb Am increase
of 7,S56,O00 in the number of animals
on farms in the United States since
year ago is shown in the annual es-
innate published by the Department
of Agriculture, published today. All
kinds of animals show substantial
gains The numbers reported in the
country now, and the increases since
a year ago, are here shown:
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
18th day out of Honolulu; Thursday
Dec 13, 1917.


Dec. 13, 1917.
We saw some pretty sights yester-
day afternoon when passing through
the straits. We saw about fifteen
boats and lots of pretty scenery. The
mountains on both sides are very
pretty and lots of them are snow
capped. We passed one smoking vol
cano. Also passed the city of Hako-
date This city is built a great deal
like Honolulu. 1t is right on the sea
shore with the mountain behind. 1t
has a population of about $4,000. If
you will get your map out you can see
just where we went through. 1t is
Japanese territory on both sides.
There were several small islands scat
tered along, too. We entered the strait
about noon and left it about p. m.
Today we are on the Sea of Japan
and haven't seen a thing all day No
land in sight at all. They say we
should sight land about a. m. to-
morrow and should be at Vladiyostok
by a. m. tomorrow. When we reach
Vladivostok we will have travelled
about 1900 miles. Then we may go
1900 or 5000 miles more inland. This
is much longer trip than ever fig
ured on taking. l hope when we go
back we can go the other way; then
we will have been around the world.
| would like to cross the Atlantic and
come into New York City.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
Grain Was Wen covered.

One thing sure the recent cold wave
has not injured the fall planted grain
which is well protected for the greater
part by ten inch snow blanket
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
kllIs LARGO Wolf.

OF. Lunsford and Mr.. Wimp. who
live south of Bloomfield shot large
gray wolf last week which weighed
thirty-one and one-half pounds.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07

United States transport ever put in
at this port. The people who came
on board here say that the people are
very glad that we have come to help
them as they need it badly. Our boat
stands in the bay short ways from
the dock. The city is very pretty at
night. 1t is very billy and the electric
lights are on all sides of us and go
way up on the hills.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
conservation at Montexun,a.

In the interest OF fuel conservation
the churches of Montezuma will hold
union Sunday evening meetings for
few weeks,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07

While out hunting recently Dewey
Hatfield and Leonard Sanders OF
Leon, Iowa, killed two red foxes.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
Olympic Theatre Sold.

The Olympic theatre Of Knoxville
was sold at public auction Friday To-
Mr.. Barrett of Corning. Iowa. for 81
900.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
KNOCKING At THE
DOOR OF RUSSIA
BUT AMERICAN SERVICE is KEPT
OUT IN THE COLD.
CLYDE MORGAN, VLADIVOSTOCK
interesting History of Trip of Rail
way Workers Held UP by Rus
Japan.
Continued from Last Week.

CONTINUED from Last Week.
18th day out from Honolulu, Monday,
Dec. 10, 1917. ........
They think we will sight Japan to-
morrow afternoon (Dec. III, some
time. Then we run alongside for a
long time and then through strait
and into the sea of Japan and then to
Vladivostok. They think now we may
reach there by Friday. hope so as,
| am very anxious to land and see
what thinks look like.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
Night School.

Attendance Tuesday evening was
the best yet, sixty-three men being
present. Jack Nelson's story of his eX-
periences in the European war was
the feature of the evening.
The extreme cold interfered with
the attendance Thursday evening, only
twenty-seven men showing up during
the evening. The interest in French
classes seems to be growing, as more
and more fellows are ordering the
books. From now on each man will
be furnished free of charge with les
son Ieaflet at each lesson. The lee
lures on Gas Engines by Mr.. Cunning
ham are being illustrated by lantern
slides showing the various mechanism
of an engine during the different
stages of the cycle. James McGregor
has been in charge of the lantern.