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From: "Jim Laird" <>
Subject: [KSJEFFER] Local Items: Oskaloosa: January 28, 1898
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:24:54 -0500


The Oskaloosa Times
Friday
January 28, 1898

Mr. and Mrs. R.V. LINDSEY are rejoicing over the arrival of a bouncing baby boy, which arrived Monday morning. Dr. McCREIGHT in attendance.

We see by the New Era that our friend "Bob" GEPHART was visiting friends in Valley Falls last week. What we want to know is, Did he get his broken toe fixed?

Dr. JOHNSTON says that he is still engaged in the practice of medicine, notwithstanding the contrary inference conveyed in the recent school reports issued as an advertising scheme by a Kansas City firm.

The roads were so bad here the first of the week that MORROW had hay delivered on horse-back too rough to haul.

Clark HAVENS, T.N. McBRIDE and J.M. DAVIS are happy. The cattle they had on the Kansas City market last Thursday brought good prices. Clark HAVENS received $4.95 and McBRIDE and DAVIS go $4.90.--Winchester Star.

>From the Topeka Capital we learn that D.E. METZGER, formerly with the Meriden Tribune is now Secreatry of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association. He has resigned the office of Justice of the Peace of Rock Creek township and C.L. CHILDS, of Meriden has been appointed in his stead.

Ed. Van Liew Under Arrest.
The prohibitory fight in Pottawatomie county is getting decidedly warm. County Attorney SKENE convicted a couple of gamblers in the district court and they retaliated by filing a complaint against the county attorney charging him with permitting the sale of one kind of beer in the county on the payment to him of a certain amount per keg. He was arrested but released on habeas corpus but re-arrested.
Ed. VanLIEW, of Valley Falls, who travels for the Val BLATZ brewing company of Kansas City is one of the witnesses against the county attorney and was arrested Tuesday on a charge of taking orders for liquor. The case promises to be interesting.

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