Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-16

Sat1On tomorrow.
Rev. w. II. Dillon, of Alartinsburg,
will preach at the Methodist church
this evening. The services commence
at 1880 o'clock.
James Morrison left yesterday for
Arkansas City, Kan, where he will join
"a surveying force which is laying out
new railroad thru the southern part of
Kansas.
ALBA.
Abba, Jan. 15.-Friday afternoon,
from the Presbyterian church, was
held the funeral of Miss Anna Johnson,
the unfortunate young woman who met
her death by drowning in the Burl-
iDgton reservoir, near MaXon, Wednes-
day. The young woman was 16 years
OF age. her father being pump man
for the company, She had started to
school at the usual hour in the morn
ing, and has had been her custom
since the ice had formed, she went to
cross the reservoir. She had gone but
tive feet from the shore when she step.
ped into an air hole and the body sank
beneath the ice. She was not expect
ed to return until evening, and her alb
sence was, of course, not thought of,
until o'clock arrived Her parents
then became uneasy and Mr.. Johnson
came to town and made inquiry in re-
"ard to her. He found she had not
been at the home of her sister, Mr..
Oscar Dalin, in this city, and one o.
her schoolmates informed him that she
had not been at school all day. He re-
turned home and went to the pond
and on the ice saw her hat and books.
Word was Immediately sent to Abba,
and Il large number of men went to
the pond and assisted in the search
for the body. About 1 o'clock the
next morning the body was found
about thirty feet from where she had
gone down. Miss johnson was pleas
ant little woman and she had many
friends over the city who called at the
bereaved home to express their sorrow.
The schools were dismissed Friday af-
ternoon and all the, members of the
high school, with the teachers, attend
ed the funeral in body. The inter.
ment took place in Oak View ceme-
terry.
The, hoard of supervisors of this
county has reduced the price to be
paid to the official papers for printing
the board proceedings and the numer-
Gus tables and reports of the county
auditor and county treasurer. The
price heretofore has been thirty-three
and third for proceedings, and one
dollar for table work. Now the board
proposes to nav but twenty-five cents
for every ten lines of brewer in pro-
ceedings and fifty cents for table work.
AS consequence the papers are on the
war path
The Consolidated Coal company will
establish a new town in the precincts
of Monroe county, and they. have al
read taken steps in that direction.
-Four of the prosperous farmers who
are residents of Bluff Creek township,
have been asked to put valuation on
their land and the. have done so The
four men own section of land, lack
ing forty acres, and it is about as fine
site for town as could be found in
the state. The men have set their price
at $50 and SIS per acre. A short time
ago the men sold the coal under the
same land to the same company and
received $25 per acre for the coal alone.
If the company now takes the top at
the price asked it will bring the farm
ers $S5 and 500 per acre for their
land
w. p. Hall, the Lancaster (Mo.)
horse buyer, was in Abba yesterday
and he left over $4,000 with Monroe
county farmers in exchange for horse
flesh. He purchased ninety-th three head
of horses.
The business in the county recorders
office has become so rushing and so
extensive that the assistance of an
other person is needed to keep up with
the records. and Miss Fern Bartram
has been selected as the deputy. The
county auditors Office has been one
of the best paying in this county for
the past year, and a condition has ex-
listed that never happened in the coun-
ty before. When the recorder made
his settlement with the county this
year, it showed he had received in fees
in the office $1,225.50. As the recorder
can receive but $1,000 per year, the
balance was turned into the county
funds, and the recorder has credit for
it on the treasurer's books. It is a
very healthy condition when the re-
corder must turn part OF his fees into
the county fund.
CEIILLICOTIIE.
Chillicothe, Jan. 16.-Mrs. Caleb Con-
well, OF Colorado, arrived Tuesday
to visit her mother, Mrs. Blackman.
Jim Alternately, brakeman on the
burlington, j spending a few days at
the qrental home.