Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-10
Agency is having a turn of mea-
sles and humps.

Agency is having turn of mea-
sles and mumps.
The public schools close for the
summer vacation, June 9th.
Williamson & Finley ssare maxim g
some very handsome Improvements
in their drug store.
Ottumwa has caught the disease at
last, and soon will havea uniformed
base ball club.
The decrease in the public debt for
April, was $2,7sl,lSl. The decrease
since June Both, 1875, $2O,75o,467.
Gurley Baker is erecting large
addition to his residence, corner Of
Second and College streets.
Ed. Chambers, of Egan. Harper &
Coils putting up for himselfa hand
some residence in Norris addition
Coles Circus will do Fairfield on the
18th, and Howc's will clean the hall
dollars out of Bloomfield on the 18th
Joseph Brooks is one of the Arkan.
sas delegates to the Cincinnati Con
vention. Joseph used to be presiding
elder on this district.
Ed. Wentz, formerly station Agenr
at Belknap, is now in charge of the
Chicago, Rock Island Il Pacific Office
at Eldon.
1t is rumorcd among railroad mer
to-day that the &. b. & @. railroad
company has leased the X. & d. NJ
for term of SO years.
Two thousand seven hundred dol
lars, have been paid into the city
treasury, for saloon license, during
this week, with two days to hear from
The Bloomfield Democrat say
that Clay B. Whitford, of Mt. Pleas
ant, has bought half interest in thu
Bloomfield Republican,.
A shoemaker says there is a young
manin the city whose memory onl,
reaches to his knees, as he has forgot
ten that his $l4 boots are unpaid for
The Black Killers have commenced
returning already, and one who ar
rived in Sioux City day or two age
reports great destitution among the
miners.
The Ottumwa Musical Association
will give their last concert on Thurs.
day Evening, May 25th. Let every.
body turn out and help the society, al
this is for a charitable purpose.
He Kissed her good bye at the de-
pot at noon and cried about it. There
were not less than forty men standing
near who would have performed the
the same operation and laughed at it,
The lightning rod peddlers in
johnson county are getting each 9TH
er by the ears in newspaper war.
If they are to be believed the public
are being terribly swindlcd by all of
them.
Twenty-four dwellings are now in
process of erection in this city. OF
these eleven are east of Market street
and thirteen west. A pretty good
start for SO early in the st,son and
hard times.
The cutters in Council Bluffs arc
full of dead dogs, and the Nonpar,e
pathetically dcplores The destruction
of the canine tribe. 1t says that an.
body who will poison an innoccn
dog would poison child.
The tramp nuisance, thanks to til
effective service Of our police force,
becoming thing of the past in thi
city. When tramps generally lear
that to visit Ottumwa it means wor
as well as eat they will give our cit
wide berth.
r. T. Darnum, the great Snowman
is on the road again with what j
comedies the triumph Of his life in til
show line. We received letter fror
him, written at the Mayors Office
Bridgeport, Conn.,, in which he say
that he will be around this way agail
this summer.
Charley Boude, the genial agent o
the X. e ID. NJ, is waiting, patientl,
waiting, for the annual turnover t,
the C. b. & @. He says the newspa
pers have sold the X. Il ID. NJ every
spring for several years, and that thi
is about the usual time for the trans
fer to be made.
We understand that three or foul
saloon keepers propose to abandon tn
club system of doing business, and
will start large billiard hall and 50
loon in the building adjoining thu
drug store Of Moore a Goodall
The troubled waters of few days
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