Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
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From Mondays daily.
Miss Cynthia Holmes, of Percy, who
has been visiting friends at Batavia.
returned home via this city this morn
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. H. Asbury and
daughter, Miss Bertha, accompanied
by Mrs. Asbury's mother. Mrs. Jay, of
Moravia, went to Humeston this morn
ing to visit relatives.
Miss Phranie Knox, of Keosauqua,
who has been visiting friends at Belle
Plaine, Kansas. was a guest yesterday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. o. He'd
rick. and departed for her home on the
Rock Island this morning.
Harry, the 5-months-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. D. {. Albright, died at G
O'Clock yesterday morning at the fam
lily residence, 213 Union street. The
funeral services were held today and
the remains were Inferred in the
Agency cemetery.
The funeral services of Mrs, Mary
Barrett, who died last Saturday morn
ing, were held at the late residence of
the deceased, PIC West Fourth street,
at 1870 this afternoon. The funeral
procession drove. TO Kirkyille where
the. remains were inferred.
Mrs. Carrie J. Haywood, wife OF Viii
liam Haywood. died at $50 yesterday
afternoon, at the family residence, 1912
West Second street. The funeral SER
vices were held this afternoon at 2
o'clock and the remains were inferred
in the Ottumwa cemetery.
Oskaloosa Herald: Mrs. c. T.. Willard
and daughter, Miss Helen, who have
been visiting friends in this city, de-
parted this morning for Ottumwa.
From there they will go to their new
home in Catskill. n. Y, where Mr..
Willard has recently engaged in bust
ness.
franklin d. Edgescomb, of Geneseo,
Ill.,, died yesterday morning at the
boarding house of Mrs. Ellen Allen,
ITO South Jefferson street. The deceas-
ed was GA years OF age and had been ill
several weeks. The remains will be
shipped tonight to Geneseo, where bur
ial will take place.
John Swanson, an old gentleman re-
siding at ola West Main street, was adj
judged insane by the commission this
morning and taken to Mt. Pleasant at
noon by Deputy Sheriff Slavens. He
has been melancholy for some weeks,
but the decisive stroke came at the
death of his wife, which occurred last
week.
Saturday afternoon the McElroy ia
miles of the city enjoyed a family pic
mic in Bakers grove. There were
about thirty-tive members of the FAM
lily present and the afternoon was a
most happy one. The picnic was Civ
en- in honor of the three daughters of
Rev: j. NJ. McElroy: Misses Abbie Nc
Elroy, of Newburg, N. Y; Mary Nc
Elroy, of New York City, and Mrs. E..
p. Beard, of Liberty, Ohio.
Joseph Ray, night baggageman at
the Union depot, will leave Thursday
evening for a thirty days sojourn
with relatives in Philadelphia and 9th
er eastern cities. This is the first
time in forty three years that MIR. Ray
has asked for a lay-off1and he certainly
deserves the vacation. He has worked
at the union depot in this city contin-
ously for the past thirty years and by
choice has always been on the night
force.
Charles E. Case, brakeman in the
employ of the Burlington, residing in
this city, was injured Friday night
near Woodburn. He was on side lad
der Of one of the cars and struck a
post. which knocked him from the
train. He was brought to this city
Friday night on fast mail No. 8 and ia
ken to his home. His injuries We're at
first reported very serious, but this af-
ternoon he is doing well, the worst in
jury being a badly sprained ankle.
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