Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-28
NEWS FROM NEAR BY
Daily Doings Of Some Of Ottumwa's
Close Neighbora
Personal, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
Everything From Joyous births 70 the
Philosophical Observation ofsages,
Arc Chronicled by tho Courier's
Special Correspornents.
CHARLTON.

CHARLTON.
Charlton, June 27.-The Epworth
League of the M. e. church will give a
musical medley at the opera house on
Thursday, July %. Selections will be
played on every form of musical in
strument obtainable in Charlton.
There will be.vocal selections by Villa
Elise Brown and Sue d. Copeland and
a whistling solo by o. S. Hatcher.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. ID. Monroe and little
son Harry left Monday for Topeka,
Kansas, to attend family reunion.
They will visit awhile in Kansas City
before they return.
Messrs. Oliver Hatcher and Arch
Johnson, of Springfield, ILL.,, returned
to their home Monday evening after a
weeks visit with the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Hatcher, of this
place.
Robert Chapman, of Clarke county,
was calling on friends in the city Mon
day and Tuesday.
The boys and girls who are to take
part in the bicycle parade on the
Fourth of July are busy at work on
their practice drill under the leader
ship of w. L. Wilson. They are prac-
ticing each night and by the Fourth of
July they will present very pretty
appearance. The racers too are hard
at work and every evening sees the
fair grounds filled with flying wheel
men getting ready for the great bicy-
Gle race the Fourth.
The mercury in the thermometer set
a new mark for the June weather man
TO shoot at, on Tuesday when the hot
sun ran it up higher than it has yet
reached this season, registering 101 de-
grees in the shade and in some places
as high as 105 degrees.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Eckfelt, of St.
Louis, are in the city for few days
visit with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
F. Eckfelt.
VIM. Peel and family have returned
from a weeks visit with relatives at
Mendoza. Mo.
The Mesdames Hollinger, Deming
and John Culbertson and the Misses
Hollinger very enjoyably entertained d
large number of their lady friends at
the home of Mrs. Deming on Tuesday.
Robert Nolan met with very pain
full, tho not serious accident on Satur-
day. He was in f. C. Stanley's gro-
Gerry close by the open elevator shaft
when a ladder struck him in falling
and threw him into the bottom Of the
shaft, eighteen feet below. He struck
q cross piece i'll his flight that changed
the course of his fall so that inplace Of
striking on his head he hiS on his back
and shoulder, which fact no doubt
saved his life. No bones were broken
and outside from severe shaking up
he is all right.
At a called meeting of the school
board of the independent district of
Charlton on Friday evening final ar
engagements were made for the erection
of the new school building. The plans
and contract were approved and signed
and the bonds of the contractors ac-
cepted and approved aud everything
got in shape so the work can go for
ward at once.
Word has been received in Charlton
of the death of old Mr.. Wadsworth, of
Indianola. Mr.. Wadsworth is the faith
er of Miss Bette Wadsworth, who was
high school teacher here last term, and
who has many Charlton friends who
deeply sympathize with her in her be-
reavement.
The Union township Sunday school
convention was held at Derby Sunday
and quite number of Charlton peo-
pie drove down to attend the meet
ings. All report most earnest, en-
thusiastic convention and very en-
jOyable time.
Monday was the hottest day Of the
season, the thermometer reaching as
high as 81 degrees above zero in the
shade and not breath of air stirring.
II. S. Glenn drove out to Belinda
Monday and returned to Charlton with
his wife who was at the bedside of
Mrs. Sam Book whom she reports as
much better, but not yet entirely out
Of danger.
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