Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-24
they will make their future home, he
moving secured employment on the
railroad grading near that place.
BLOOMFIELD.

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Bloomfield, July 23.-The address
made by Hon. Claude r. Porter at the
democratic convention held at the
court house Saturday afternoon for
the selection of delegates to the state
and congressional conventions was de-
| livered to crowded house. The adj
dress was excellent and was well re-
ceived by the audience. Mr.. Porter.
after expressing the pleasure that it
afforded him to speak to the voters OF
Davis county by whom he has been
shown much former kindness, proceed
ed to speak in glowing terms of the
democratic national convention, thank
ing also the republican leaders for
their non-partisan praise of the man
ner IN which the convention was con-
Quoted. In speaking of the republican
national convention he expressed great
surprise that in that city, the very
birth place of the declaration of in
dependence, and where the constitu-
ton was first signed, no mention of
the fact whatever was made turnout
the entire convention. He believed
that the republican administration of
the present day was direct departure
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government and that it was the duty
OF the people to study the constitution
and declaration of independence. In
speaking of expansion he denounced
the methods of President Mckinley.
At the close of the address the con-
vention proceeded to the nomination OF
committees for the selection of dele
gates. A motion was made that a
double delegation be sent to the coll
gressional convention, each being en-
titled to " vote. The committee for
the selection of delegates to the con-
| gressional convention returned the fol-
lowing list:
w. A. Herman, S. S. Carrothers,
S. Il. Mcconnell, T.. H. Murphy, w.
| T. McNeff, U. G. Johnson, j. W. Smith,
r. S. Beauchamp, Wesley Thompson,
4. j. Selman, w. S. Kinney, o. E. Ten
Eyck, Frank Pinnell, A. W. Jackson,
Marin Carson, A. J. Selman, VIM.
Sawyer, S. A. Brunk. Special-Dr.
ii. G. Young, Dan Harper, J. A. Will
kinson, H. c. Taylor.
The committee on the state dele
gates reported the names of: w. H.
! Taylor, w. T. Caldwell, S. F. McCon-
nell, H. G. Rankin, l. F. jenkins, j..
G. Leach, w. L. Evans, N. L, Small
wood James Slakesberry, F. G. Pin
nell, G. w. Swain. Alternates-J. r.
Scarborough, H. c. Taylor, H. c..
Leach, w. A. Jackson, T. H. Murphy,
r. L. Henson, Eli Brunk w. A. Rich
ards, Chas. Cerrick.
Atkins has recently secured a
nh I, ,sa1, to, l., p1,1, srx
ed in the Hardy family as it testifes
to a most unusual circumstance rela-
tive to Mrs Atkins great-grandmother
Mrs. Parthena Jones, who appears in
the photograph with little Dio Hardy
Atkins, the child of the fifth genera
ton, seated on her knee. Mrs. Jones
is % years old andwas born in Vir-
ginia in 1903; was married in Indiana
in 1927 and later on moved to this
state. She is the mother Of five sons
and three daughters of whom five sons
and one daughter are living. She has
had 20 grandchildren of whom 10 are
living; more than twenty-seven
great grandchildren and ten great
great grandchildren. She is an ener-
getic, active woman and resides
in the east part of the city where she
takes care of her own home, visits her
relatives and occasionally attends the
Christian church of which she is a
member. Little Dio Hardy Atkins
was born in Shreveport, Louisiana,
Nov.13, 1899 and is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. Hardy. The name Dio, mean
ing diYine, was given him by his faith
er who desired that he should shoose
the ministry as his profession.