The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-04-18
+ REM0NT SHIPS
MUCH LIVESTOCK
E. J. AElsEL SENDS TWO CAR
LOADS TO CEDAR RAPIDS.
TOWNS FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
City Clerk Rhoads Makes creditabIe
Showing For Year - Personal
Items About citizens-senior
Glass Study Play.


Fremont April 16.-E J. Teisel
Co, this week shipped two car loads
OF mares to Cedar Rapids and c. w.
Fellers shipped car of horses to
Newton. The shipment of live stock
is moving easier this week and two
cars of sheep, two cars of cattle and
one of hogs is the record of the local
stations. A car load of oats was al
so shipped to Peoria from the o."
elevator.
Our Finances.
In the annual report as presented by
Town Clerk w. P. Rhoads for the
year ending March 81, 1918, we gath
er the following items of interest:
Amount of cash on hand April 1, 1917
$362.38; amount of receipts during
year, $3,495.36; total cash, $3,857.74
Expenses for year were $3,797.47;
Amount of cash on hand March 81,
1918, $60.27. Amount paid on city in
debtedness during the year, S673.60,
and the balance of warrants outstand-
inf, 5000. The total value of proper
ty is $61S,SO4.OO, and the taxable value
is $29S,63000 and the tax levies are
as follows: Corporation fund 10
mills, city building mills, improve
ments mills, light fund Z mills,
cemetery I mill and road drag l mill.
Total 23a mills.
Personal Mention.
Mrs. M. r. Regan of Washington,
Iowa, formerly of Fremont, has re-
turned to her home after a weeks
visit with Miss Juanita Warner and
other friends. Mrs. Regain is the
wife of the former pastor of the Bap-
fist church. Sunday last Rev w. e.
Bruner of William Jewell College,
Missouri, preached morning and ev-
ening at the Baptist church He was
well liked
Miss Hilda Moore, the teacher Of
tht fifth and sixth grades in the
Fremont schools was. on duty last
Monday after few days visit at her
home in Beaconsfield, Iowa, on ac-
count of the illness Of her father.
Lieut. Gordon Shultz arrived in
FlGInOHt last WEEK lIOlh Ndiup
ton, Kansas, and as he has been
transferred to Camp Oglethorpe, Ga,
he secured furlough of five days
for the purpose of visiting with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. F, Shultz,
who live northeast of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Kennel are en-
joying the benefits of the health re-
sort at Excelsior Springs, Missouri,
and they will be there for some ten
days yet. After the rigors of the
past winter they are taking a needed
rest.
Mrs. Emma Dalam, who has been
residing near Yankee, Iowa, has pur-
chased the Mrs. Anna Ireland proper
ty on Main street and she has moved
to Fremont and is now occupying her
new home.
A. p Norton of the Gazette was
last week called to Keokuk to serve
on the federal grand jury but after
being excused he returned in time to
get out his paper as usual. A live
rural paper keeps a good man hust-
ling all the time.
Chester Lee of Lawrence, Kansas,
has been visiting in Fremont at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Hannah
Lee, as she has not ben in the best
of health for some time past Incn-I
dentaly he has also GREETED other
friends and relatives during his stay.
Study Class Play.
The Senior class of the High school
will this year give "The Thread of
Destiny" as class play to be pre-
scented May 3d. Miss Shuell has as
signed the parts and the work of pre-
paration has already started. This
will be followed by the rehearsals, so
that from now on till the close of
school, it will be busy time for the
class,