Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-05

| springs, Ark, for their health, have
returned to their home in Charlton.
Grandpa Jock Bentley is able to be
around once more after having been
conhned to the house for week with
bruises and sprains sustained in an en-
counter with fractions COW. 81
Lucas county has great hopes of
soon having the rural free delivery
system in operation. C. w. Brown and
| John White, two of the most success
full and influential farmers of Lincoln
township, have been earnestly work
ing for several weeks in thaS direction
and have secured the hearty co-opera-
ton of We3P.Hepburn, our represen-
tative in congress, who reports the
prospects bright for obtaining the de-
livery in a short time.
Miss Jessie Seigel, of Des Moines,
who has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
s. Levin, of this place for the past week
left today for New York City.
j. r. West, an old resident of Char
iton, but who for the pasp year has
been conducting business in Mime
apolis, is home for few DAYS visit
with relatives.
+ Charlton, April 4.-The county re-
Epublican committee held "a special NEE
ting Saturday at the court house
and transacted great deal of import
ant business. The most important
to the numerous candidates was the
preparations for the primary which
was completed after naming June 10
as the date for holding them. This
gives two full months of work for the
candidates, yet many more may an
nounce themselves before that date.
Rev. T. j. Borg, the newly selected
minister for the Swedish Lutheran
church OF this place, preached his in-
troductorY sermon Sunday morning.
Nearly the entire congregation was
| present. and all report themselves as
| pleased with the sermon,
The Christian Endeaypr sssociety of
i the Christian church accepted kind
Invitation of the Presbyterian society
Sunday evening and attended meeting
at the church of the latter, making it
a union meeting,
County Recorder Fora McNlains, who
has been confined 10 her bed the past
1 week with a very severe attack !ofsthe
! fever. has, SO far recovered as no; be
able 10 be, about her duties in the. Of
fee once more. /
The members of CO. Fl, Fiftieth reg
iment y N. Co. are preparing tos give
"a grand military ball atathe arinory
on April If. !s;s5s s. s,-i,ss.y
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. i. McISlyeene.swho
has been spending the winter at Hot
Springs, Ark, for their health, have
returned to their home inif Charlton,
Hooking aud feeling very much. better.
Miss Lille ,Stnith,~ofs Charlton; II has
begun her spring term, Of school AT che
/ Huntley school in Pleasant township.
Miss Lille is one of sCliariton's most
popular young women and we sbespsak
4 for her Almost SUCCESSFUL career as q
i teaeher. ssss35svx iysi... " sp;tsirrs
1 Ehes meetiagssat. the sBapt ists ehMTcli
/ ofsthis place, undersl he management, nj
the. pastor, Rev, Wilson Mills, are Prov
ing quite "a sourcesof interest and 7spir-
itual strength Rev. Mills is "a fluent,
forcible and impressive talker and
each sermon. is filed with gospel
Truths thai are making quite an inns
Ipression Oh the minds and hearts OF Ills
hearers. They have had eight add
|tions during the two weeks of the
imeeting as result OF his convincing
tlogic. \,
Mrs. j. P. Hardin and little son Jake
have returned from weeks visit
Bwith relatives and friends at Osceola.s
NJ. w. A. camp, No. PIP, of this place,
Eheld a. very interesting and entertain
ling meeting at its rooms on Monday
leyening. Two new applications We're
voted on, and several visitors present
complimented the lodge upon its excsli
lent floor work and the seeming ming pros nls
lperity Of the camp. q ssssss
Il Charles Johnson, Bert Becker aid
La weeks hunting trip and all, report
a most enjoyable tho not greatly SUI
Ecessful expedition. 8ss
Charles d. Brown, of iOttumwa, and
Harry N.'Browi1, OF Drake university.
were over Sunday, visitors with; ,their
bmother, Mrs. j. ID. Brown, of this
tplace. ~ ita Il
w. A. Nixon has secured a position
with S. H..iMallory on the farm, and
I;has moved, his family to the house .pEol
Evided for them at the lllion fruit
farm. es
Our popular drayman, Temp Perez
field, has been compelled to lay OFF
from work fora few days until. he can
|procnre another horse. The one DC
has been driving is laid up with a very
Esore foot, the resnlt'of stepping onsa
iJdli ID leMtudSss ago. p IS EssY ~ u Z
+ Master Tommy Farfer has returnRM
from a few days visit with friends At
Russell.
Crawford Boswell, an old resident Of
EChariton, and zone of the, boys i'll the
'6Os, bat who for the past few YEATS
has been a resident of Missouri, is Sn
I9the city renewing old acquaintances
land visiting his mother, AIRS. 4.Wilber
Coles.
School will be dismissed at the
bancroft school building the last OF
this month";, one month earlier than
the close of the regular term I'M order
sto allow the workmen to go tosWork Oh
the new $4,000 school house, to be
erected on that site this summer. IT
| is well that such is the case, for should
Lit continue until the regular school
year closes there are grave doubts of
their being enough pupils left going to
school at that building to pay for the
expense Of running the school. Since
tie building has been condemned aud
the frost is all out of the ground, al
lowing the true condition of the Dmld-
ling to be known. parents have become