Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08

the vacancy in the ranks will not be
called until after the encampment at
Burlington this month.
From Mondays Daily.
Aluminium combs, Beck'sPharmacs.
Mrs. d. B. Smith spent Sunday with
friends in Williamsburg.
Miss Linnie Lewis is at Agency Wis
ting friends for few days.
Thomas Hampton, of Blakesburg,
was in the city this morning on bust
ness.
Mrs. w. H.. Witter went to Eddy
vile today for a few days visit with
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Earhart, of Ell
don, were in the city this morning
shopping.
j.. B. Kendrick. of Floris, passed
through the city this morning enroute
to Hoxie, Kan.
A 10-pound daughter was born this
morning to Mr. and Mrs. w. T. Aiussel-
man, of Keith avenue.
A baby girl was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. John P. Applequist, of 1905 East
Fourth street, yesterday morning.
Mrs. Laura Dye and baby, who live
a few miles south of tho city, departed
this morning for a visit with friends
at Mt. Pleasant.
Mrs. John Adams returned to her
home in Chillicothe this morning, af-
ter visit with Miss Mamie Stoessel, on
North Market street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Bremhorst, of
Clayton avenue, are the happy parents
of an 11-pound baby boy, which arriv-
ed yesterday morning.
Mrs. II. H. Kenney, of Hedrick, ar
rived in the city this morning, and is a
guest OF her sister-in-law, Mrs. o. G..
Kenney, 1899 West Second street.
Mrs. A. r. Nestos, of Spokane, WASH,
passed through the city this morning
enroute to Bonaparte, where she will
visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Eick.
Miss Addie Judd, of Blakesburg, who
has been visiting Mrs. S. Bisselll, of
141O East Main street, departed for
her home this morning on the Mil
| waukee.
Misses Laura and Lena Spears, of
Green Top, Mo-, passed through the
city this morning enroute to Blakes-
| burg, where they will visit at the home
of their cousin, John Spears.
Police Captain John Gray, who has
been confined to his home for the past
| two weeks, on account of illness, was
able to drive down town yesterday for
the first time during that period.
DIR. L. j. Douglass, one of the city,s
Oldest physicians, has been confined to
| his bed for the past three weeks SUI
fering from dysentery. The doctor is
no better today but remains about the
same.
Rev. Nv. A. Mckenzie, pastor of the
First Congregational church, departed
at midnight last nioht for Chicago.
From there he will go 20 his home in
Canada, and will be gone from the city
about month.
Fl. p. Clark, of the Park hotel, sus-
tanned a very bud cut about the eye
Saturday. He was hanging picture
| in room in the hotel, when n por-
ton of the glass, which was broken,
fell out and struck him just below the
left eye, cutting to the cheek bone.
DR.. Hansell dressed the wound, and
took six stitches. Mr.. Clark will not
have the use of his eye for some time.
| Miss Grace Weir, the i0-year-old
daughter, of James Weir, of I'll Keith
avenue, sustains a broken leg, as the
result of a fall which she received Sat
urday afternoon. DR.. ID. A. Lalsorce
Twas called and set the broken bones.
The little Miss will be kept from her
play for the next three or four weeks.
The cause of the accident was, that
Miss Grace was playing about the yard
when she accidentally fell over the ter
race, striking on the stone wall, and
thereby breaking her leg.
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