Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-08
Daily Doings of Some of Ottumwa's..
Close Neighbors.
Personal. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
Every thing From Joyous Births to the
Philosophical Observation ofsages,
Are Chronicled by the CourIer's
Special Correspondents.
CHARLTON.

CharltOn, March S.--Ars. ID. E. Lew
IS accompanied her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. JIM. Loving, of Creston, Oh thepi
visit to relatives at Fairfield.
Isaac Roll, Jr., is running the old
Joe Edwards dray and will have charge
of it all summer while Joe is on the
3 road for the Champion Machine Co.
Master Walter Badger, of Ottumwa,
is spending few days in the city Wis
iting with his uncle, George Barlow.
Lemuel Greene, of Derby, held a
!. public sale of all his stock and farm
ling implements Oh Tuesday. The sale
was well attended and the live stock
I aud machinery brought good prices.
He has sold his entire interest in Luz
& cas- county and expects to move in a
/. purchased some land and will make
+ his future home.
4 M. Sheurman has returned from a
weeks business trip to Chicago.
The prayer meeting of the NJ. f.
church was postponed this week from
& "Wednesday night to Thursday night
/, OH account of the moving picture show
given by the Epworth League OF that
church on Wednesday evening.
Walter Scott, who has been in Chi
;cago buying sheep, stopped over Tues
4 day i'll the city and visited his sister,
\ Mrs. w. H. Brewer, while on his way
a to Mexico where he expects to locate.
Lew ,Joslin, of Melrose. was visiting
friends in Charlton Tuesday.
A quiet little wedding was solemn
lied Tuesday afternoon at the court
house by Clerk Seward when Miss Mat
tie johnson and Earl Hutts We're made
man and wife. The ceremony was
witnessed by only a few of the most
intimate friends of the contracting
parties. Miss johnson was Il resident
of Lucas but had made here home at.
The Bates House here for several years,
and had become well known to large
circle of Charlton friends who learned
to. love her for her many excellent
qualities. The groom is comparative
stranger in our midst but comes high
ly spoken of by all who knew him as
c agmodel young man of integrity and
industry and amply worthy the lady
of his choice. The young couple went
to Lucas for a few days visit after
which they will go to Superior, Iowa.;
where the groom has purchased
I farm. Their many friends wish them
all the joy and happiness possible.
u John Lynch is spending the week
with. friends at his old home in the
southeastern part of the state.
Clarence Blake, who has been run.
ming store in 4 little town near Salt
8 Lake City, Utah, has sold out his in
terests in that place and returned to
his home in Charlton.
w. r. kurtz, who has been confined
TO the house for the past week with
severe attack of rheumatism, has so
far recovered as to be able to be
around once more.
A. o. Palmer, formerly OF this place,
but now state deputy of the NJ. w. A. 4
lodge for the state of Vermont, is in
the city, called here by the serious ill
ness and death of his daughter Anna
The funeral services of Mrs. Will
Snyder, of Washington township, were
conducted from the home of her faith,
er, p. M. White, in the west part of,
town, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.
Snyder had been sick for some time
but during it all had borne up with
patience and fortitude that touched
the hearts of her many friends. She.
was a quiet, modest woman, possessed
of many womanly traits and a gentle
ness that made her loved by all who
knew her. The remains were followed
to their last resting place in Salem
cemetery by a large sconcourse of sor-
rowing relatives and friends.
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