Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09
RLAKESRURG,

is visiting at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Roberts.
r Blakesburg, NOV. 9.-There will be "a
box supper at Frank Williamson's next
Friday night. p
Sherman Dorothy and son Roy, left
Tor Spencer, Neb., Tuesday.
Election day passed off very quietly
in Blakesburg, there being quite a
number of stay-at-home voters.
VIM. r. Jones erected new wind
mill on his farm last Monday.
Wright Barnes will dispose of his live
stock at public sale on Thursday, the
18th. Mr.. Barnes has rented out his
farm and will move to town.
Bert Dorothy has returned from near
Grinnell, where he has been staying the
past summer.
VIM. Rowe has completed a large
new blacksmith shop.
NJ. Fl. Abernatliys went to Ottumwa
Tuesday evening to hear election re-
turns. 81
YAMPA.
Yampa, Nov. 9.-Literary met last
night. 1t will meet every Wednesday
night from now on during the winter.
The question discussed last night was,
Resolved, That ignorance is bliss
The question was decided in favor, of
the negative.
G. E. Walker was transacting bust
ness in Ottumwa yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hall were in Ottumwa
yesterday.
Miss Clara Galloway closed her school
at Buckeye last Friday, and Stanton
Yeager commenced the winter term on
Monday.
Miss Cora Mcneil is able to be in
school this week.
Mrs. Walker and her sister Blanche
were Ottumwa shoppers Friday.
Miss Lizzie Carman, of Agency, re-
turned home Tuesday after alvisit with
friends at this place.
Clell Farley was in Ottumwa Fri
day. ,its ri
Mr.. and Mrs. Patterson, of Illinois,
are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Hall
Mrs. j. F. Reno went to Batavia to-
day. ast II
brothers, near Bladensburg, Tues
day.
! Mrs. Hannah Reese and Mrs. Clara
ellis, of Agency, visited with Mrs.
Kate Reese, Tuesday. -
The men in this vicinity are busy
gathering corn.
\, c. E. Walker is invoicing his goods
today. with a view OF laying in win.
ter supply. 4 ,..4 I
,,,rs, Vim. Phillips visited at the Yea.
ger home yesterday.
HILLsBORO.
Hopewell, Nov, 9.--Howard Mercy.
nolds is very i'll with typhoid-pneumo.
mia. as
AR. Huffman, living near here. died
at his home this morning.
1 Misses Eva Walker and Ethel Nor,
visited Saturday night with Misses Lu.
lu and Clara White.
Mrs. E. B. White is in Ottumwa.
Bert Albright and family took din.
ner Sunday with the Mort family.
Bert White and family and Hardin
Garrison and wife spent Sunday with
Zeke Dye and family.
FranINSimmons and wife, OF Albany
Isaac McReynolds and family, of North
Star, Rev. Jones, of Hedrick, and Miss
Emma Hunter. took dinner at the Ham.
ilton home Sunday.
Moy Hunter has just finished his new
house, Tim Hamilton is building new
house, and Sam Hunter is also prepar.
ing to build.
Timothy Howk started this morning
1 for Nebraska.
Misses Lulu and Laura Orman visit
ed Saturday and Sunday with their un.
Gle, George Eal1ins, and family.
Lawyers Steck and Smith, OF Ottum
wa, were hunting in these parts, Mon
day.
1 SELMA.
Selma, Nov. o. AS the people
throughout Van Buren, county have
known for years that Hon. w. L. Bald
win, of this place, fayors river bridge
at Selma, his reelection to the Office
of county supervisor yesterday is con.
sidered as an endorsement, by popular
vote, of the building Of bridge over
the Des Moines at this place. And as
Mr.. Baldwin is a republican, it seems
that not only does the election of the
national ticket Of that party give pros.
perity to the county at large, but in