Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

from tuesdays Daily.
A marriage license was issued yester-
terday to Jesse Mills and Miss Dora
Slater.
Miss Regina Mccormick, of Highland
Center, was in the city yesterday visit
ing friends.
Mrs. d. Howard, of Blakesburg, has
returned home after a visit with Mrs.
j. Cubberdell, of Hughes addition.
The Oskaloosa Gun club will hold an
amateur tournament Feb. 20, 81, and
%. Feb. 81 will be devoted to a live
bird shoot; 25 birds, s25 entrance,
Lewis Johnson, charged with an as
sault and battery upon the person of
r. N. Wilcox, was found guilty in jus
tice Billiards. court yesterday after
noon, and fined one cent.
Miss Edith Evans returned home last
evening from visit with friends at
Moravia. She was accompanied home
by Mrs. L. d. Whitton and Miss Myrtle
Taylor, who will spend the week with
relatives and friends inathe city.
C.3E. Miller, assistant superintendent
of the Dain manufacturing company,
and j. Dain, Dr., are in the city today
inspecting the buildings and superin-
tending the erection Of the machinery
that is being put in, the most of which
is entirely new, much of that at Car
rollton being too light for the heavier
work that will be demanded in the new
plant.
Sheriff Mattern, of Des Moines, ac-
companied by Police Judge Silvara and
A. Conrad, passed thru the city today
on Burlington No. 10 enroute to Fort
Madison, having in charge four pris-
oners, T. S. Langdon and Thomas
Mack, each sentenced to four years. of
hard labor for breaking and entering;
Jacob G. Gaven, one year at hard labor
for forgery, and Frank Mckenzie, two
years for larceny.
District Deputy Grand Master J. A.
Ballard OBLIGATED at the public install
lation Of officers of the 1. o. o. F.
lodge in Highland Center last evening.
Among those who accompanied him
from this place We're Messrs. and Mes
| danes Martin Schwartzenbach L. NJ
y McCreary and Art Snyder, and Messrs.
r. L. Tilton, George Hanks, Harry
Ayres, Charles Ayres and others. The
ceremonies We're held in the Methodist
church after which the guests sat down
to banquet.
City Solicitor Captain w. II. c.
Jacques has returned from Des Moines,
where he and Dr. B. f. Hyatt attended
the meeting of the Iowa League OF
municipalities, recently held in that
city. Captain Jaques says that the
league recommended the passage of a
paving law nearly identical with thai
formulated and recommended by the
convention of city solicitors at cou-
vention recently held in the same
place. The full text of the law was
published in the Courier soon after its
adoption by the league, and now that
1t has the sanction of two conventions
who represent the needs of cities, to-
gether with the correct idea of the law
governing the assessments in view oil
the recent adverse decisions, it will
undoubtedly, it is said, be passed by
the present legislature.
From Wednesdays Daily.
Mrs. John Foley, of Batavia, was in
the city today on business.
Mrs. u. Tadlock, OF Blakesburg, re
turned home this morning after visi,
with friends.
Mrs. I. T. Chedister, Of Blakesburg
returned home this morning after !;
short visit with friends
A ten-pound son was born this morn
ing to Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Hogue, oi
1l6 North Wapello street.
d. ,Hopkirk, of Fairfield, the county
treasurer of Van Buren, county, was
in the city today on business.
Mrs. ]. j. Doty, of Blakesburg, re
turned home this morning after brie1
visit at the home of her son, Charles
Doty, of 610 West Second street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Goodfrend, of Char
ter Oak, arrived today for visit al
the home of Mrs. Goodfrend's parents
DR.. and Mrs. N. w. Attebery, on Yves
Ottumwa street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George stodghill
formerly Of Ottumwa, but now of Sa
Ida, Col, who have been visiting rela
tives and friends in the city for tn,
past two weeks, have gone to Chilli
Gothic for visit.
Harry Knight young man wei
known in this city and formerly in III.