Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-04
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Marshalitown has female corn f
loctor. M II {
1.-THE devil in solution" is the latest d
definition for alcohol Ii
A. Oakley Hall Mas not Seen found
yet. Gone to hunt Charley Ross.
The most popular amusement in
Fairfield il TO got drunk and fall into
a gas ditch. glt
A Dubuque woman was arrested |
and fined last Tuesday for scAlding !
her brother-in-law. 2 GIRL sit l.
The Denison School Board have
forbidden the school s'marmsY to trip
the light fantastic toe.
Col. d. b. Hills, Of Keokuk, has
been selected as a visitor to West
Point Military Academy.
Hon. j. B. Grinnell has sold his
fine stallion, Young Pilgrim, to some
Hardin county parties for 5000.
To city debt of Des Moinos on the
9Th of March, amounted to. $527, S79.77,
and there was only so ,479.39 to meet
it.
The Odd Fellows. of Dcs Moines,
are to have grand banquet at the
Exposition building on the 9th of
April. aaa u III ieia
AMissouri Judge has decided that
woman is not an cold maid' till she
is thirty-five. That takes our girls
all out of the woods. 0
aButtcriae" is the new substance
that takes the place Of butter. 1t is a
combination Of tallow, lard and hair
to suit the taste of the consumer.
One hundred and seventy-two
members were taken into the Method
list Church at Agency City, during the
recent revival. n ~
Il John Mahcr and John Anderson
.iwere arrested on the Goth inst, at
f Des Moincs, for burglary and cattle
stealing at Council Bluffs. -
Brooklyn, Powcsheik county, Iowa,
! had very successful winters revival
season, $50 persons having united
! with the churches Of that burg.
The X. & ID. M. Railroad now being
classed as "B" road by the State
Board, is permitted TO increase its
!, passenger rates u cent per mile.
i Miss Alta M. Hulett, Chieago's lady
j lawyer, died recently at San Diego
al California. She bore high char
!. lacter, both as woman and lawyer
It'll A willow basket factory has beer
+ started in the lower end of town
7. Two boys peddlo the baskets in town
y and are doing quite lively trade.
Fl Mrs. Henry Gilhorn, of Providence
Q Iowa, committed suicide last Satur
e day afterno on, By drowning IN Hon
+ ey Creek. The body was not foun
re till Sunday.
The economical woman will /
pleased to know that her last year
bonnet can be adapted to the sprin
i'd style by placing it where loade
ok wagon will run oyer it lengthwise.
Fish Commissioner Shaw has flu
n nished the Western Iowa Fish ASS
We citation with 10000 brook trout Il
oe Distribute on in tho streamsin the "
II. cinity of Council Bluffs.
til A travelling dentist invaded Blu
" lington last week, and hung out Il
rst startling sign, 18th pullin'."g He al
ed announced that he was prepared
GO make "falls teath. "-Hasok-Eye.
S. N. Doolittle, Of this city, NOV
A. to Tracy, Marion county. He ct
oy retains his interest in the Falcon
'p- Castle medicine business. Tracy W
de find Mr.. Doelittle good citizen.
A gentleman by the name of j.
ast Mack has rented the fine brick sto
he room adjoining. Ennis drug store {
". Main street, and will have somethir
is. to say to the readers Of the CoURIl
lin next week. " 81 -
or The man and boy injured by Il
las railroad accident yesterday evenin
er were not hurt as bad as expected, al
&C, in few days will be as well as tn,
81 ever were. Their bruises were n
~ serious. jlt@2I1 10 "a
to twas a lislle amusing to old bal.
headed bummers, at the union dept
to-day, to see ladies, change cars. II
la rain was pouring down in torrent
Is and the schooners sailing under ba1
g, poles, made the change quite lively.
= Christ Schuttlcr, the abscondii
x johnson county cattle dealer, wi
Nv mysteriously disapr cared a few da
~ ago with ,frsh Chicago woman, "
nd found in st. Louis by relative al
- has returned home. ,s4.
fc- A downtown grocer advertises
The a single that he has dried "been
Sc and "pees" for sale. This is offset
,ed 10 Second-street washerwoman W
notifies her custoners.to come to I
:. @Nortli dorc on West sidc."s SCI
all We are pleased to print elsewhe
Illy from The Seeing Machine Jonrn
,all of New York, an article to the eff
,rt- that the great Singer Sewing MACH
ons Company has adopted an Ottum'
em invention, to-wit: the Johnston RI
,nts fer.
ro- We are in receipt of the catalog
ate Of Ridge Farm Short Horns, VIII
the ARE to be sold at Oskaloosa on
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