Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-03
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to meet his old friends once again.
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Belknap, May miss Rose Brown
OF Ottumwa, visited here with her
cousin, Stella Bachman, last week.
Mrs. j. S. Huffman and daughter
Birdie, of Ottumwa, drove over Wed.
nesday. Mrs. Huffman returned HON,
Thursday, leaving Birdie for longer
visit with relatives and friends.
Roy Pottorff, Of Chequest, attended
prayer meeting here Wednesday
night.
Little Gail Patterson was i'll last
week with catarrhal fever.
NJ. T. Patterson returned home
Thursday morning from Alexis, Ill.
where he had been called to see his
brother Tom, who died few hours
after he arrived. His brother had
been an invalid since early boyhood.
| The Aid society met at the home
of Mrs. L. C. Cree Thursday. Rag
taclling was the order of the day. A
rag tacking for the young people Was
| given at night.
=. G.. Morris, who had been quite
sick here for some time, with the
mumps, returned home to Eldor
Thursday evening.
/ The Myers brothers made a cisterr
Tor j. W. Miller last week.
i VIM. Robertson added veranda tc
the front of his residence last week
which greatly improved it's appear
ance.
| w. NJ. Williams and family, expect tt
travel this summer for the benefit O
Mrs. Williams health. If they can Sc
cure team and complete necessary
arrangements they expect to start
about the middle of MAY.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sherman died at bel
home at Sherman Chapel, Friday
April %, 1900, at 2 o'clock in the at
ternoon, from lung fever. The fun
eral occurred from the church at i
a. m. where the sermon was preach
ed by her pastor, Rev. r. S. Tague
of Selma. She was an aunt of Mrs. v
d. Bell, of this place, and was well ant
favorably known here.
i A number of people from here at
tended the funeral at Dunville. Thurs
i day, of the late VIM Garretson, o.
Floris. This is the third death in the
last few days we have been called up
on to chronicle, and all of them of ole
people.
| Tom Ware and wife, of Ottumwa
visited at the parental Ware home
Sunday afternoon and night.
Last week Fred Eberine sold his
interest in the Skinner & Eberline
store to his brother, Marion. and hi.
house and the part of lot belonging
to it to Will Tulk. Mr.. Eberline ant
wife expect to travel by wagon t.
i Nebraska for the benefit OF the lat
tiers health. They expect to star
about the middle of May.
i Mrs. Fred Eberline and children
i visited last week at Eddyville with
relatives. Mr.. Eberline left Saturday
morning for Ottumwa, where his wife
was to join him and they would visit
relatives there.
j. c. Thompson was on the sick list
i last week.
Rev. W. E. Sauerman. OF Carrier
Oklahoma, took breakfast Frida,
morning at the Thompson hotel.
\ number of Emmett Bachman',
young friends surprised him on hi
birthday last week. They had al
| gathered in the yard while he WA.
eating supper. His surprise upor
opening the door was complete. :,
good time is reported.
/ w. w. Allen has secured employ.
nent in restaurant at Eldon.
Mrs. Eli Truitt and daughter Nellie
and Nellie Housely, of Drakeviiie
were visitors Thursday at the w. NJ
Williams home
MIR. and Mrs. j. T. Prevo, of Bloom
! field, We're callers Wednesday on Mrs
Myra Morris.
The following named persons have
been appointed for house to house
visitation work in Soap Creek town
ship, by the committee: North Sta,
school district, Becky Orman, MAY
Orman; Baer school district, Luther
Cary and wife; Peppers, Mary Wheel
er. Leila Myers; King, Abbie Patter
son, Mrs. Grace Spaulding; Center
Mrs. Will Bradbury, Mrs. j. w. Crist;
Fairview, Thena Overture, Laurs
Bachman; Livingston. Laura mccarthy
Stella Bachman; Star, Lizzie Neon
nell, Mrs. Lulu Eberline; Hall, Mrs
Delmar Lee, Mrs. Frank Wells; Han
bour, Mrs. H. C. Rankin, Mrs. Jessi,
Spangler; Belknap, Mrs. Walter Bell
| Lucy Caldwell Anna Hughes, l. Ware
NJ. c. Rominger, committee.
H1UNTERylLLE.
Munterville, May PERRY Swenson
from Red Oak, is visiting his son ane
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