Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
NEWS FROM NEAR BY
Daily Doings of Some of Ottumwa's
Close Neighbors.
Personal. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
Everything From Joyous Births to
the Philosophical Observation of
sages, Are chronicIed by The cour-
ier's Special Correspondents.
CHARLTON.

CHARLTON. !.
Charlton, July 16.-Will Mcdowell,
who has been working for ]. T. Gro
zier, is now taking two weeks lay
off which he expects to spend in Col
orado and the western states.
Lee l. Culbertson and wife and
Miss Maggie BEEN left Saturday for
a weeks outing at Lake Okoboji.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam C. Porter and
children have returned to their home
his parents at Birmingham.
j. d. Beaman, formerlr of this place,
but now engaged in the drug business
at Lucas, was in town Saturday.
The lovers of fast horses enjoyed a
very pleasant matinee at the fair
grounds Saturday afternoon. There
were three matched races between
some Of our local gallopers and quite
good deal of money was wagered
on the results of the various races.
There was good sized crowd pres
ent, and as all the races were holly
contested and well run. they all de-
clared they had their moneys worth
The Kiser horse, the Van Wrinkle horse
and an old farm horse were the win
ners of the races. A few races each
Saturday afternoon would be the
means of drawing a good crowd to
Charlton and furnishing some real
sport. Some of the local horsemen
should take this in charge and see if
these matinees cannot be made reg
ular affairs.
j. l.. Irwin, ex-postmaster of Derby,
was in the city Saturday visiting
friends and attending the democratic
county convention.
Quite a goodly number of Charlton
people drove out to Harmony school
house Sunday and attended the meet
ing of the Warren township Sunday
school convention that was held there.
There was great basket dinner at
noon and an interesting and instruc-
tive program was carried out at the
convention.
The Lucas County Fair association
is very thankful to Representative R.
A. Hasselquist for securing the serv-
ices of James A. Craig of the animal
department of the Iowa Agricultural
college, to judge cattle at the county
fair this fall. This should create an
interest among the breeders of fine
cattle in Lucas county and bring out
. large exhibit of stock
81 P. S. Irwin and G. w. Carter have
returned from Des Moines, where they
were in attendance at the annual
convention of colored Odd Fellows of
Isya
Uhariton saw two political ccnven-
tons on Saturday. The republican
county convention to select delegates
to the state convention. and the dem
ocratic convention to nominate county
officers and select delegates to the
state and congressional conventions.
Both conventions were well attended,
tho marked difference could be seen
in the enthusiasm of the delegates,
the republicans being full of fire and
energy and the democrats performing
their work in a hopeless, 1istless man
ner that betokened the defeat they
are sure to experience this fall j. A.
Penick was chairman of the demo-
cratic convention and H. w. Citing
er secretary. After the call for the
convention was read a committee of
one from each township was appoint
ed to select the delegates and report
to the convention. w. H. Dewey in
troduced motion to instruct the del
egates to the congressional conven-
ton to cast a complimentary vote for
7. M. Stuart. This was opposed by j.
A. Penick and beaten, no instructions
being given. The delegates to the
state convention were: ]. f. Spiker,
N. F. Baker, J. G. Kenney, N. j..
Swanson, G H. Oleman, Thos. ODon-
mel, j. T. Barron, j. R. Bonnet. Those
to the congressional convention were:
&c. Larimer. "A. F.Jenkins, ]. A. Penick,
w. II. Dewey, F.W. Richards r. Boon
rad, H. Kubitshek, l. N. Pullam. For
member of board, G. H. Oleman, w.
pa. Nichols and G. L. Asby were nom
mated The final ballot resulted:
Nichols. Is; Ashby, IL. J. T. Irwin,
w. q. Allen and L. A. Swanson were
then placed in nomination for county
clerk. The vote on first ballot re-
suited in the selection of Irwin by
the following vote: Irwin, 81; Allen,
q: Swanson, %. T. M. Hooper and
W. B. q. Lusk were nominated for
recorder; Hooper received So votes,
Lusk 81. H. w. Gittinger and w. E.
Allen were nominated for auditor,
but each were withdrawn and this
laid over until the other offices were
filed. In spite Of an attempt to get
the name of G. w. Alexander before
the convention for county attorney,
Hon. T. M. Stuart was nominated by
reclamation. The authorship was
then taken up and w. B. E. Lusk nom
mated by reclamation. This makes
The ticket as follows: Auditor. w. B.
e. Lusk; clerk, J. T. Irwin; attorney,
TN. Stuart; recorder, T. M. Hooper;
member board of supervisors, third
district, w. H. Nichols.
Charlton, July I'M. and Mrs. Ed.
G. Lewis and family, of Russell, for
merly residents of this place, spent
Sunday in the city with Harry Lewis
and family.
Col.N B. r. Clayton, of Indianola, is
spending few days in the city the
guest of his daughter, Mrs. H. B. Stew
art.
The farmers of Lucas county who
last week were very anxious about
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