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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-13
SOUTH oTTUMwA NEWS.
[From Fridays Daily.l

/. ( i I L +.
Nels Swenson, of Munterville, was
calling on South Side acquaintance
yesterday.
Mr.. Russell, an attorney of oskaloo>
sa, is expecting to make South Ottum-
wa his future home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Houdyshell, of Munter-
vile, returned home yesterday after a
visit with Ottumwa friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Wormhoudt,
LOT kaholSa, arrived today for visit at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Worm-
houdt, s1a South Willard street.
Miss Daisy Thatcher, OF Lancaster,
Mo-, arrived in the city last evening,
and will visit at the home of her sister.
Mrs. James. White, on South Moore
street.
From Saturdays Daily.
Mrs. w. p. Myers has returned home
from three weeks visit with ier
mother at Kingfisher, Okla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Hicks, of He'd
rick, are guests at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. Milton White, 1O6 South Abel
la street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wolfe, who reside near
Batavia, have removed to South OF
tumwa, and will have clY-ge of the
Dunkard mission church, which will
be added to the list of South Ottum.
was churches.
From Mondays Daily.
Miss Isal Pratt is slowly improving
and her many friends wish her a
speedy and complete recovery.
Charles Rector has returned to his
home in southern Illinois, after a pleas
ant visit with South Ottumwa relatives
and friends.
Mrs. Charles w. Schwartz and little
son, departed Saturday Tor Leando, to
spend week visiting with MI,
Schwartz, who is there on business.
G. E. Benson, of 1872 North Willard
street, received a letter from his son,
Charles, who is now at Helena, Mont,
stating that he would leave for the
Klondike the first OF next month.
Saturday evening at the home O.
Mrs. Mary Ruckman, of 719 Church
street, Eden Mace was united in mar
rage TO Mrs. Josephine Good, by Rcy.
JOHN Lids LlS, EIstSOoI vi tuc oOutu Dlue
Baptist church. Mr.. and Mrs. Mace
will reside at the home of Mr.. Nace's
mother, Mrs. Sarah Ruckman, on
Church street.
The death of Mrs. Saphronia Good
man, OF Eastview, Ky, occurred at the
| home of her son, James Goodman, of
No. 307 Webster street, at 1880 O'clock,
Sunday morning, at the age Of SO years.
Mrs. Goodman had but recently arrived
from her Kentucky home on visit with
her son, when she was seized with the
illness that proved fatal. Mr.. Goodman
left on the Wabash this morning with
the remains of his mother, which will
be taken TO Eastyiew, where The FUN
! eral and interment will take place.
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cultivation Of this product is nearly
all in the hands Of people who have
in recent years immigrated from the

cultivation Of this product is nearly
all in the hands of people who have
in recent years immigrated from the
north.
In order to encourage the rapid in
dustrial developments of the state, the
Legislature OF Louisiana has recently
enacted law providing that no tax
will be levied for parochial and muni-
cipal purposes for ten years from JAM
uary l, 1900, on the capital, machinery
and other property employed in mining
operations, and in the manufacture Of
textile fabrics, yarns, rope, cordage,
leather, shoes. harness, saddlcry, hats,
clothing, -four, machinery, articles Of
tin. copper and sheet iron, agricultural
implements, and furniture and other
articles of wood, marble or stone, soap,
stationary, ink and paper, boat build
ing, fertilizers and chemicals; provided
not less than five hands are employed
in any one factory.
All railroads or parts of railroads
| that may be constructed and completed
prior to January /, 1904, will be ex-
empt from taxation of all kinds for
period of ten years from the date of
their completion.
From a handbook on Louisiana, pre-
pared by the Louisiana state board of
agriculture and immigration, we quote.
the following, which contains much
that is worth thinking about: \,
/ The New Soutll.
"The south has the grandest destiny
the world ever saw. No people have
such future. Her soil, her eli
mate, her products, her mineral re-
sources, her manufacturing resources,
her manufacturing ficilities, present a
combination of advantages such as are
found in no other land. The high
| moral tone of her people, the strength
Of her Christian faith, the culture Of
her higher classes, place the south
where no other people stand.
"The, small buildings on the great
oak proved that it has survived the
winter, and spring is at hand. The sur
lyiyal of the misfortunes OF the past
listone of the grandest evidences of the
strength of our civilization, and betok-
ems the coming of a better day. H.
deed, that day has already dawned. Go
where you may, over the south, you
will see evidences of improvement in
every department. of industry. The fact
that northern capital is taking posses
sion of the railroads of the south
lshows that the north has faith in the
future Of the south. Never before We're
there so many great railroads con-
structed in our region.
1.-THE northern coast of the Gulf of
Mexico is the natural center of trade
for the Western hemisphere. The con-
fguration of the continent, the direc-
ton of the great rivers, the sweep of
the ocean currents, and the prevailin:,
winds all point TO the mouth of the
Mississippi as the natural center. There
is land enough adapted to the growth
OF. sugar, contiguous to New Orleans,
to supply the wants of the continent,
and TO furnish vast amounts for. ex-
portation. 1t only needs the proper
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,npl;eat;on Of machinery and ,abor -

application of machinery and labor to
effect this great result. Asefo cotton,
the lowlands along the Mississippi
river can produce ten million Bales an
nually. New Orleans is to be the grand
est emporium Of trade for the CONT
nent. When ship communication is
made across the isthmus, New Orleans
must become the great center Of trade
for North America; and nothing can
divert it but am imperial despotism
holding huge investments OF capital
elsewhere.
''Take it all in all, the smiling sun
never looked upon a better country
or a grander people than we have hers
in the SOUTH
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.There it stands, madam, yonder on

that hill"
..Ah, it seemed so large and promi-
nent then. Yes, l. know where | am.
How dreadful it all was; the misery,
tho disease, the suffering, and then TO
think of the thousands who died.
There is no glory and glamor in war
for me since that awful day thirty-siN
years ago. And with a sob she pass
ed on, living over again, in memory's
review, the sadness of the war.
Said a veteran among the party:
cat this spot | was in the trenches,
and the lines We're SO close that we
could easily, and often did, have q
friendly chat with the 'Johnnies.'
sob, why didn't you settle it with
out further fghting?" asked the lady
above referred to.
Had the matter been left to the
men in the ranks, we would have done
so." was the laconic reply.
One of the reception committee at
Vicksburg was w. II. Blyething, a
Union veteran, who has been resi-
dent of Nicksburg since 1870. Mr..
Blyething resided at Troy. Davis coun-
ty. AT the breaking out of the war
and enlisted in Company F, ThiYtieth
Iowa infantry. He still has relatives
in Davis county and was interested in
hearing from home. Mr.. Blyething
stated that he had found no trouble in
living in the south for the past thirty
years and was enthusiastic over the
industrial and commercial development
now going on in that part OF the
country.
On to BATON Rouge. 555
From Vicksburg, where the editors
were accorded most generous hos
pi1ality,the editorial eXcursionists pro-
ceeded to Baton Rouge, the capital of
Louisiana. Here they were received
and welcomed by the governor Of the
state, Hon. Murphy j. Foster. Gov
ernorS Fosters address was cordially
itself, and in some respects it was
similar in tone to that of General Lee
ut Vicksburg. IL might be interesting
to note right here that the senti-
ment of the south is overwhelmingly
in favor of expansion, and almost eve
ny public address heard by the edi-
torial visitors advocated keeping the
flag unfurled wherever it has been
planted.
The state of Louisiana has received
great benefit from large
northern immigration. AS an .eN-
ample Baton Rouge, the inhabitants Of
which until recently have from time
limmemorial drunk the muddy Missls-
sippi river water, is today supplied
with the clearest ard purest OF ar
tesian we'll water. This change, so
beneficial to the health of the COM
munity, was brought about by The en-
terprise of capitalists from Dubuque,
Iowa, who are also largely interested in
lumber manufacturing in Baton Rouge.
Upland rice farming has in recent
wears become an immensely important
+, Industry in Louisiana. The rice i;
sown, raised, cut and threshed almost
exactly as wheat.in the north, aud the
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what to DO Un,ll the Doctor Arrive.

1t is very hard to stand idly by and
see our dear ones suffer while await
ing the arrival OF the doctor. An Al
bany IN. " dairyman called at drug
store there for a doctor to come and
see his child, then very sick with Group.
Not finding the doctor in, he left word
for him to. come at once on his return.
He also bought bottle of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, which he hoped
would give some relief until the doc
tor should arrive. In a few hours he
returned, saying the doctor need not
come, as the child was much better.
The druggist, Mr.. Otto Scholz, says the
family has since recommended Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy to their neigh
bors and friends until he has CON
tant demand for it from that part OF
the country. For sale by druggists.
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a, 1851. and has always made this her
nome. She was first married to James
Is. Stevens, whose death occurred May
., 1891. To this union seven children
were born, of whom five survive, viz:
Pearl, Henry, Frank, Oracle and En-
ma Stevens. The deceased was mar
ried again, May 5, 1892, to Cyrus judi
son, who is left to. mourn her demise.
A telegram was received in the city
last evening announcing the death OF
Joseph Hutchison, which occurred yes
terday afternoon at Eustis, Fla, where
he had been spending the winter. Mar
tin Hutchison, son of the deceased,
received word this week that his father
was not expected to live and
Mr.. Huthchison was enroute to
Florida. He had reached Gin
cinnati, Ohio, where he learned of his
fathers death, and instead of proceed
ing to Eustis, went to Hollidaysburg,
Pa, the former home of the deceased,
where the remains will be taken for
interment.
From Mondays Daily.
Wood wanted on subscription ac-
SOdhiUt fJllS SOullSI OlllCGs
Miss Eta Whipple went to Blakes-
burg ON the Milwaukee this morning,
where she will visit with relatives.
Mrs. Charles Hicks has returned to
her home in Hedrick, after visiting
with friends and relatives in this
city.
a marriage license was granted Sat-
urday to Bert NJ. Emery and Miss
Margaret L. Mcdowell, both of this
city.
benjamin NcDivitt, formerly a resi-
dent OF Ashland, near Agency. is now
making his home in Chicago, with his
sister, Mrs. Margaret Acton, who is
the widow of the late James T. Acton,
an old time resident of Wapeilo coun-
sy.
The remains of Robert Mills, whose
death occurred recently in u hospital
in the Philippines, and is now enralte
to Ottumwa for BURIAL left San Fran
cisco, Cal, Saturday evening. The de-
ceased was a son of Robert Mills, ST..
Tho inside shutters on the windows
ait the court house have been taken off
and shade curtains substituted. The
shutters were made of hard wood and
We're intended to be ornamental but
they were useless, or nearly so for
shades.
Ed Kinds and Elmer Coombs expect
to leave in the spring for trip to
Europe. They will sail from New York
about June 6, and for three months
will take in the Paris exposition, visit
Germany, France, Switzerland and
other European countries.
The death of Mrs. Nancy Mayfield oc-
Cured at her home in Winfield, Satur-
day evening, at the age Of IS years.
Mrs. Mayfield was the mother of Henry
Mayfield, for many years an employe
OF the Grips livery barn. Mr.. Mayfield
departed on the Milwaukee Saturday
evening for Winfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Scheiwe, accom-
panied by their daughter, Miss Alber-
tina Scheiwe, will sail for Europe
about the first of June where they will
spend the summer They will visit the
Paris exposition, and will also include
in their stoln abroad several places in,
lfalY, Germany, and perhaps Australia.
Miss Scheiwe is at present attending
Iowa Wesleyan university at Mt. Pleas
ant, and they will not leave until after
the close of the present term of school.
Miss Scheiwe will continue her study
of music while a broad.
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HE LAST
= WEEK

OF our Great Clearing Sale and
racks will be filled with Mems
hand welted $50 and 400 shoes
for $2.45; Mems 300 shoes for
195, made of French Vici Kid,
finest Willow and Winter Rus
sets, best box and wax calf.
Ladies finest 800 shoes for
1.95; Ladies finest hand turned
and hand welted $50 shoes for
2.45; Children IS. 1.5O shoes for
95c; Misses best 1.75 and 200
shoes for 1.2O. 1t would actu-
ally pay to buy these goods
whether you need them now or
not. Come and see them, you're
welcome whether you buy or
not.
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Conc TO Europe.
From Thursdays Daily.

Rev. q. B. Smith left ON Burlington
No. a last evening for a business trip
to England and Belgium, to be absent
five or six weeks. He represents an
other party, who intrusts to- him i'm
portant business interests. During Rev,
Smiths absence, Rev. j. q. Barton, OF
AIT. Pleasant, will attend to his work in
the American Home Finding associa-
tion in the state, and his competent
secretary will attend to all Office werk
at the home, on Pennsylvania avenue.
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ssTo North Dakota.,,

d On March IA, 30, % and April A, the
Iowa Central railway will sell round
trip tickets TO points in North Dakota
at very low rates, For information call
on coupon ticket agents, or address
Geo. s. Batty. g. p. and 4. a., Mar
shalltown. Iowa.
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Horaes wanted

L. r. Fleener will be at Shepherds
barn Saturday, March II, and will pay
good prices for horses, 4 to 10 years
old, 1900 to 1000 pounds. viii also
buy horses for the northern market,
even ii, slightly blemished and rough
in hair. Bring in your horses and see
him.
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There = a class q Peon,e

who are injured by the use of coffee,
Recently there has been placed in ali
the grocery stores new preparation
called GItAIN-O, made of pure grains,
that takes the place of coffee. The
most delicate stomach receives it with
out distress, and but few can tell il
from coffee. IL. does not cost over n
as much. Children may drink it with
great benefit. Is cents and 25 cents
per package. Try it. Ask for GRAlN-O.
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IFrom Saturdays Daily.I

: ! a.- .
Wood wanted on subscription ac-
count at the Courier office. !.
Mrs. W. P. Emery, OF Highland
Center. was in the city shopping yes
terday.
Mr.. and Mrs j. f. Fish have gone
TO Hiteman TO visit their daughter,
Mrs. l.. f. Milligan.
q Mrs. j "A. johnson passed thru the
city today enroude to her home in
3Blakesburg, after having visited rel
atives in Keokuk.
Mrs. George A. Bane went to High.
evening, where she will visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert McCor-
mick.
Mrs. T. G. Darner, who has been
4 visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs.
w. a.. Stout, 1904 North Wapel!o street,
returned to her home in Hedricl on
the Milwaukee last evening.
a marriage license was issued yes
sterday to John Allen and Miss Leitha
de Lapp. Licenses were also, issued to-
4 day to Eden Mace and Mrs. Josephine
Good, and O. Kearns and Miss Ida A.
Countryman.
Ed. Gillispie, of Chillicothe, who has
been employed in the Burlington.
4 bridge department, was taken to his
home yesterday on account of a severe
attack of rheumatism which has in
appreciated him for work.
us r. N. McElroy is at the Ottumwa
hospital, where he recently underwent
( a successful operation for varicose
4 veins. Mr.. McElroy is getting along
nicely and expects in a short time
to be able to attend to business
again.
The death Of Robert E. Buchanan,
an old resident Of Wapello county, oc-
Cured at his late residence, a few
miles west of the city, yesterday
morning at the age OF 10 years. MI.
Buchanan had been i'll for over year,
and death came as a relief to his sur
Z ferings.
sls Rev. S. G. Youngert, pastor OF the
Swedish Lutheran church, was sum
moned to Given today to conduct the
funeral services of Miss Larson, whose
death occurred suddenly at Omaha yes
terday. Rev. Youngert said that he
had not received any particulars of the
death of the young woman, but that
he had understood that she l.ad been
residing in Colorado, and was on her
way to Given to visit her parents, and
that while in the depot at Omaha she
dropped dead. The Omaha papers did
not contain any notice of the death,
and little information is obtainable.
The death of Mrs. Cyrus Judson oc-
CURED this morning at 1:15 o'clock
9 at her late residence, No. 1907 Plum
street, after a short Illness. A hus-
band and five children are left to
mourn her DEATH Marinda Denny
was born in Wapello county, December
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MANHATTAN SHOE HOUSE.
Semi Weekly Courier
CHANGING ADDRESS.

Subscribers wishing their address changed
will please give the name of the Post Office to
which the paper has been sent as well as the
Post Office where they desire it to be
changed to.
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The war i Over.

we SaLeu Will diiAoSp liSAhoitiS
awe upon the steep heights which
were SO bravely stormed by the fed
eral troops on the ED day of May,
1863. That the assault failed, none
can wonder; the only surprising thing
is that anyone lived thru the hell of
murderous shot and shell to tell the
tale, and yet we are now told by
those who We're defending those
works that for few moments on that
fateful day victory was within the
grasp of General Grant. The Union
troops We're at one point inside the
confederate works, and could have
held them and pushed the victory
along the entire line, had the situa-
ton been fully understood.
Returning to the hotel on this peace
full Sabbath day, thirty-siN years la
ter, the fact that the war is over was
brought still more fully to our realiza-
ton by an address of welcome tender
ed the visiting editors by General
Stephen d. Lee. General Lee was one
of the brave men who fought in the
confederate army at Vicksburg. He
was q worthy foe, who is today as
courageous as he was then. He it is
who bears the distinction of being the
only Confederate commander that de-
feated the great Sherman. When the
first movement was made on Vicks-
burg, Sherman lead it, confidently ex-
pecting cooperation from Grants ar
my, which was Supposed to be proceed
ing southwark thru Mississippi along
what is now the Illinois Central rail-
way. The Confederate cavalry cut the
railway behind Grant, and he had to
fall back towards Memphis. Hence it
was that Sherman's division unaided
confronted the Confederates under
Stephen d. Lee, at Haines' Bluff, and
was compelled to retire. This griz-
zled veteran of the war, who fought
so valiantly for the lost cause, welcom-
ed the editors, declared that the war
was not only over, but that he could
truthfully say, that he was profound-
ly glad that it had resulted as it did.
The institution of slavery had been the
primary cause of all the trouble, and
he believed that had this question not
been settled by the war, the aroused
and enlightened conscience of the peo-
pie of the south would have demanded
its adjustment before this. The south
was infinitely better off without sla-
very than with it, and today is enter
ing upon an era of Industrial and COM
mercial development which in few
years will make it one of the most
prosperous spots on the face of the
globe. The south stands today with
open arms to welcome intelligence,
capital and enterprise.
An 6acttnU Unctdnnf
With the editorial FORTHCOMING from
the north, was middle-aged lady,who
as young woman connected with the
army relief and sanitary work, had
visited Nicksbnrg during the siege. She
had been permitted under the Red
Cross flag, to pass from the Federal
lines within the besieged city in search
of relatives among the Federal prison
ers, who We're reported to be sick UNI
to death, and whom after all she was
unable to find. Since that day she had
mot visited Vicksburg until now,
I"Where,' she asked of a veteran who
was there himself thirty-six years ago,
Twas the Shirley House q
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Visit Oft he Courier Editor to vicks-
burg and the South.
UTTERANCE OF GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE.
Great Industrial and Commercial De-
velopment of the South-Unbounded
HospitalIty-Many Opportunities
for Profitable Investments
Editorial Correspondence

a few days ago the editor of the
courier stood upon the works" att
Vicksburg, Miss, remaining for some
time on the historic spot, now marked
by cannon, where Generals Grant,
and Pemberton met under flag of
truce on the Sd day of July, 1868, to|
arrange the terms upon which the be-
sieged Confederate army of 81 900 men
surrendered the following day. It'll
was Sabbath afternoon. With the eX-
ception of the grim cannon standing on
the hillside, more quiet and peace
full scene could not be imagined. Some
domestic animals We're grazing by the
roadside. A few colored children, ac-
tuated by curiosity and desire of gain
We're offering for sale to the visitors
mementoes in the shape of bullets and
| fragments of shells that had been pick
ed up by them on the battlefield. On|
this spot, so calm and peaceful now,
men were striving, fighting, dying by
the Thousands thirty-siX years ago.
For what? That we, their children,
and our children, and other genera
tions yet unborn, might enjoy the bles-
sings of liberty and peace in an inde-
soluble union of free and independent
states. AS we stood there, with 'rever-
emily bowed head, what a train of
thought was started, and whar a con-
trast was drawn between conditions
today and those which existed one
| third of century ago. Then brother
was arrayed in deadly conflict against
brother, and the nation was strug-
Cling for its very existence. Then the
fearful blight on human slavery had SO
Blinded the eyes and sensibilities of
millions of good men and women, that
they could not at that time see and
realize that those things for which
they were fighting and making such
heroic and desperate sacrifices of life
and property, We're contrary to their
own material best interests, as we'll as
moral welfare. God reigns and rules.
| Vicksburg fell, and this was the be-
ginning Of the end. At last came APP
pomattox, and the nation was preser-
we'd. Today we see one people. one
flag. an united nation. Nowhere in
the country will more sincere and
outspollen patriotism be found than
in the south in the year 1900. The cor
diality of the people is sincere and I'M
bounded. Everywhere immigration is
welcomed. The opportunities for pro-
ftable investment of capital are many,
and it can be truly said that the most
ample protection is given under the
laws, and by public sentiment, to life
and property. truly the war is over.
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Bulk Garden Seeds
at Walter Gephart's, Hofmann block