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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-11
GOING TO CHURCH.

Marshalltown Times Republican !:
It is astonishing how much more apt
one is to catch cold going to church
than going to the office, according to
the popular on.-Council Bluffs
Nonpareil.
Oh, we don't know! When one goes
to the Office, where he has learned to
adapt himself to conditions, he dances
around when he is cold or swears at
the janitor, which he couldn't dosin
church. There he is expected to take
a precise position and absorb all the
cold, If it is cold. One of the surpfis-
ing features is that ladies can go and
sit in their wraps in pews, where, if it
be too hot or too cold, they do not suf-
fer from it when they go out. If they
should attempt to remove their wraps
or change position, as they should,
they would feel that all eyes were cen
tered upon them. Happily many OF
the churches are now provided with
the best of furnaces and wideawake
janitors as well as preachers, and with
comfortable and attractive audience
rooms and interesting services they are
very inviting. Some who have never
tried it might find it profitable to in
vestigate in this direction.
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vestigate the claims of said settlers,
made report thereon on the first Of
May, 1896, which report is embodied in
senate document No. 25s, Fifty-fourth
congress, first session. 1t shows that
the amount of awards made by the
commissioners to settlers and claim
ants on said Des Moines river lands
aggregated iS1s3,S54.O7. All Of said
claims except one have been finally
---'7 after three years of effort, to the
parties entitled thereto, the benefciar-
les have been scattered thru nine
states and territories. The beneficiary
of the remaining claim of $133.33 is a
native of Sweden, whose address is I'M
known, and which, after diligent eff
fort, it has been impossible to ascer-
tain"
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interests of the whole state. He has al
ready served some time in the Iowa
legislature, and has had experience in
affairs of the state. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that the action OF the Cum
minis mem made it necessary to con-
duct the speakership contest along sem
atorial Ares for it makes DR., Bowen's
position one OF .delicacy. 1T is be-
ylieyed, however, thai his uprightness
and fairness will bring him safely
through all the hard places, and will
enable him to do much to further the
interests of the republican party and
the people of Iowa. There will be no
division of interests in the party and
no soreness will remain in the ranks
of republicanism. Ali republicans,
now that the contest is over. will: work
together in harmony to further the in
terests of Iowa, to make her a great
state and power in the nation.
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oTTUMWA's BANKS.

The annual meetings of the banks
of this city for the purpose Of electing
officers have drawn attention to their
prosperous condition and the success
full business year they have just pass
ed. thru. During the troublesome
times of the late democratic admins
tration it was a source of annoyance
10 business man to own stock or be a
director in bank. It is very different
now for the widespread prosperity of
business conditions turnout the coun-
try makes banking profitable enter
prise and places shares OF stock well
above par. The solid banking institu-
tons Of Ottumwa are pride and COM
fort to every business man and resi-
dent Of the city, and it is agreeable to
know that they are fourishing in ex-
act proportion with the rest Of the
commercial world.
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The Lafayette dollars (fftv thousand
in niimber) authorized by congress in
aid OF the Lafayette monument, to be
erected in Paris in the name of the
American school youth, are now in the
hands of the commission and ready for
distrib This coin. which is a le-
gal tender dollar, bears upon its face,
q in bas-relief, a double medallion of the
heads OF Washington and !. Lafayette
and upon its reverse a miniature repro
dnction OF the equestrian statue of La
fayette used for the monument. 1t is
pronounced the most artistic coin turn
ed out by the United States mint. The
Lafayette dollar thus not only serves
TO aid the memorial work, but forms
a new and beautiful tie between the
4 two great republics of Europe and
America, and therefore the coin must
be regarded as an international EN-
blem. It constitutes a most desirable
{ souvenir and memento of the Chill
dren's monument to the Knight OF
Liberty" and the Universal Exposition
of 1900. The limited number issued,
! II is thought, will make these coins
extremely rare and in very great de-
mand. The first coin to be struck OF
& the $4,000 will be presented, in beau
h tiful casket, to the president OF the
French republic by President hfcKin-
ley. The price OF the coins is So each.
{ Tt is the purpose of the commission to
I distribute the dollars as generally as
possible, but orders for as many as
i 300 will be filled, until the first 10000
I are disposed OF, $4,000 having been al
ready ordered and paid for in advance
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The street. PAYING Que.tIon.

Keokuk Gate City: The logic of the
street improvement muddle is this. The
present Iowa law and custom recog-
nizes the principle of taxing the cost
in proportion to the benefit derived by
adjacent property; it says that this is
substantially accomplished by using
the front foot as basis of computa-
ton. The new idea in use in Illinois,
enunciated by the federal supreme
court, and recently adopted by District
Judge Eichelberger, of Ottumwa, rec
ognizes the same principle of taxing
according to the benefits to adjacent
property, but says the front foot basis
of computation is not just one; it
proposes to look at each lot and tax
for itself what is decided to be the
actual benefit to that lot under present
conditions. The old way has worked
without friction in Iowa; the new way
has worked for years without friction
infneighboring Illinois and other places.
Both ways seem as satisfactory as any
taxes can be, and the courts are en-
gagged in determining which is the
most equitable. The fact probably is
that the old way was perfectly fair in
olden times when one lot was worth
as much as the next one; and that
changed conditions may make one lot
much benefited by street paving and
the next one benefited much less. The
courts will decide and then everybody
will guide right on the new line. In
the meantime there is no reason for
worry. r.
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business caller at this place Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Hanow, of BlalSes-
burg, spent Thursday at the Williams
DELTA.

Delta, Jan. 1.-THE officers OF the
]. o. O. F. gave supper to the mem-
bers Saturday night. Covers We're laid
for fifty.
Lemley and Mitchell, two OF our bus
mess men, We're at the county seat
Monday between. trains.
Grant Ewing, our chicken man, car
ried off five prizes at the state poultry
show at Keota.
John Bowen, OF Oskaloosa is visit.
ing friends here.
The Galloway boys left for their
home Monday. after years residence
in our town.
Harry Club, an old Delta boy, and
just returned from the Philippines, is
visiting his old schoolmates
II. G. Fisher, the druggist, is spend
ing few days in Oskaloosa.
Mrs. Cora Kendall, formerly OF. Sig
Quincy, is spending a few days with
friends before returning to her home
in Colorado. VIC
DR.. Gibbons, U. P. minister, form
erlv of Humeston, is visiting j. d. Hen
derson and wife.
j. F. Galloway left for Tingley, Mon
day evening, having sold his business
to Wilkinson & Sons.
James Club and Marcus Utterback
will move to town this spring, having
rented their farms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spears, OF Hedrick,
were visiting the Beatty family, Mon
dav
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BLOOMFIELD.

Bloomfield, Jan. H. Chauncey Shell
ton and family, of Rocky Ford, Colora-
do, are visiting relatives in this city.
Ben Gargwood and Miss Ellen Moore,
of this city, were quietly married on
Sunday, Dec. 81. by Elder M. Downing.
ediately after the ceremony Mr..
Garwood returned to his home in the
south part of the city and the bride
resumed her duties as cook at'the Shell
ton hospital where she has spent the
past three years. "A week later the
marriage was made public and Mr.. and
Mrs. Garwood began housekeeping at
the groom's residence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim KeIso received the
sad news Monday night that their
daughter MatSie, who some three
months ago became the bride of Prof.
Newton, of the state university at
Boulder, Colorado, died Monday morn
ing at her home in Boulder, at the age
Of 80 years. For several years, while
living in this city, she was employed
as a printer on the Bloomfield Farmer,
and later on the Davis County Re
publican, where she remained until q
year ago when she went to Boulder,
where she made, her home with rela-
tives. The remains will be brought to
this city for burial Friday when the
funeral services will occur at the Chris
tan church at 2 p. M, conducted by
Revs. II. r. Trickett and j.. w. Stark.
Mrs. Kate Campbell, Of Bridgeport,
Texas, daughter, of Mrs. Kelso, arrived
here Tuesday morning.
Miss Stella johnson spent few
days at the Steckel home while on her
return to her home in Moulton, after
spending some time in Chicago.
In the case of the petitions for spe-
cial permits for the sale of liquor
brought before the court on Saturday
by DR.. S. II. Perry of the north side
drug store and Isle Gordenier, of Pu-
laski, Judge Sloan granted the permits
on Wednesday morning.
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Daily Doings of Some of Ottumwa's
Close Neighbors
Personal, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
Everything From Joyous Births to tho
Philosophical Observation ofSages,
Are Chronicled by The Courier's
Special Correspondents.
CHARLTON.

Charlton, Jan. 11.-G. w. Harp, who
had two ribs broken several days ago
by the kick of a horse, is able to be
around the stable again, tho not able
to go to work
+ 81. d. Copeland returned Wednesday
from a few days business trip to Chi
cago.
Prof. ]. NJ. Hanlin has been appoint
ed by the board of supervisors as
deputy clerk, with a salry of 5000 a
year.
Mrs. Fl. n. Paine, one of the Oldest
residents of Lucas county, died at the
home Of her son, r. S. Paine, on Tues
day, from the effects of stroke of
paralysis. Mrs. Paine was 10 years of
age, and had been resident OF Lucas
county for thirty-five years, having by
her model conduct and lady-like man
ners, combined with tender and
friends, who mourn her death and
extend sympathy to the aged husband
and sorrowing family.
The bright spring weather that has
been with us for several days, was
surrenlv terminated on Tuesday even
ing by a cold, damp rain, that lasted
nearly all evening, turning cold and
freezing up, making things very rough
and continuing turnout Wednesday, al
lowing the people to begin putting up
ice once more.
The Noxall boys and the City Guard
band have announced their home tai
ent minstrels for January ~, and the
people are assured Of a good enter
tainment.
Misses Myrtle and Mabel Graham, of
Winterset, are visiting their cousins,
Misses Lulu and Lelo Graham, of this
place.
Miss Leona Howard is reported as
quite dangerously i'll.
Carl Abrahamson has begun work
regularly at w. e. Lewis grocery
store.
Glenn Murray, who has been work
ing in Charlton for the past six months,
returned to his home at Tacoma yester-
day.
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CHEQUEsT.

Chequest,s Jan. 10.-Seth Roush IL do
ing an extensive job of saving for
Plowman brothers of railroad ties and
bridge lumber, which they are now de-
livering at Douds.
John Farago and family, of near
Troy, and Tom Agey and family, of
Floris, visited at Mart Farago's last
Sunday.
G. C. Rambo attended the farmers
Institute, which convened at Keosau-
qua last week.
W. H. Harryman, c. c. Rodgers, Rich
ard Green, M. F. Lee, A. E. and Otto
Mccullough ATTENDED the horse sale at
Keosauqua last Wednesday, the latter
disposed of good horse at q fair
price.
Claude Gray, who is teaching school
here. in company with his sister, who
is teaching near Selma, visited over
Sunday with their uncle in Ottumwa.
r. S. Harryman and family spent
Sunday at the parental j. n. Hill
home, near Bloomfield.
Miss Alma Rambo is absent from her
home here, the guest of friends at OF
ley. l5sJis ,fs
Henry Holtz, Henry Green and F. p.
Horn, all of Leandoy were business cali
ers in this section Tuesday.
Misses Verna and Alma Plowman
spent the Sabbath with their friend,
Eva Hanshaw.
Miss Mabel Whey, of Elmo, Mo-, ar
rived here Friday, for an extended Wis
il among relatives.
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Another Tale of Two cities.

Des Moines News: A brief dispatch
a few days ago contained theannounce-
ment of the contamination of, one of
the greatest engineering feats of this
the nineteenth-century. The dis
patch told of the opening of the Chica-
go drainage canal. f4 .e4 i,sl
Why this modesty upon the part Of
the city of Chicago which has spenb
millions, upon the canal which con-
meets the waters of Lake Michigan
with the Mississippi river? Where was
the wind of the Windy City? What an
opportunity to exploit its enterprise
was here. Why this Joey, Bagstock
disposition so suddenly manifest?
There was milk in the cocoanut.
Chicago stood in daily dread of an in
junction at the instigation of st. Louis,
which city has strenuously opposed the
canal, claiming that Chicago's sewer
age would be undiluted by the time it
reached that city. The canal once be-
ing opened, Chicago believed no court
would grant an injunction.
1t is your turn to move, St. Louis.
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General Otis will. on the arrival OF

l
General Otis will, on the arrival of
q transport which is expected to reach
him in q day or two, have 5000 troops
in the Philippines. This is the full
extent of the force which is intended
4 for that part of Americas territory.
~ will ndoubtedly be large enough TO
meet all the country's needs. The only
fare which is expected hereafter
Is that Of the guerilla order, and this
can not last long. All the strongholds
OF the Filipinos OF any Importance
have been captured. The great bulk
of the rebels are disbursed in small
bands, scattered over a region compris-
ing 81 q quarter of the whole island.
They are not near enough to CO.
operate in any considerable numbers
hereafter. The greater part of the
work which the troops will have to do
lis to garrison important commercial
or strategic points. But whatever the
duties may be the force now in the
islands will be adequate to them.
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BUNCH

Bunch, Jan. 11.-Miss Mamie Adams
entertained quite number of her as
sociates last Wednesday at a quilting
in honor OF her eighteenth birthday
She received quite number of pres
ents. At nighn she gave party and
her house was crowded with friends.
Samuel Adams has rented his farm
to Eli Swain and has bought the 7. A.
Selix property in Bunch. He is going
to put in another store here.
w. L. Glassburner was so unfortu-
nate last Thursday as to make severe
wound in his hand with a nail.
Charley Simons went to Eldon last
Saturday to visit with relatives and
friends Sunday.
Harlan Scott returned to his home ait
Jacksonville, Mo-, last Tuesday even
ing.
Rev. Moore, OF West Grove, will hold
services at the Pleasant Hill church
next Sunday at II o'clock a. m.
Eli Swain was in Ottumwa on spe-
cial business last Thursday.
Enoch Wright and family were over
Sunday visitors at the home of their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Wright,
of Ottumwa.
AAohA ASSdh was III SVthhi"o OAC ady
last week on business.
The statement sent from Bloomfield
December 30, in regard to the Fred
Scott suicide in which it says that sew
eral weeks ago he had trouble with his
wife who went to live with her parents,
Elijah Hoover, is mistake. He moved
his wife to the home of her parents
March /, 1899. He then spent the sum-
mer in Oklahoma and Kansas, return
ed and rented house of w. j. Glass
burner, In which they went to house
keeping again. On Thursday evening,
Dec. 90, he took his wife to the home
of her parents and said she might re-
main till Monday, but instead he wenu
for her on the next day and asked her
to go home. She being in very poor
health at the time and the baby having
q severe cold, told him she was not
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.RLAKEsBURG.

Blakesburg, Jan. 11.-Rev. De Yoe
is holding protracted meeting at Prair-
lie Chapel.
Frank Hardy is making an extended
eastern trip.
Herman Snow is putting down deep
well on his farm, south of town.
G. Z. Dorothy returned Thursday
from Morning Sun, where he attended
a sale OF Poland-C China hogs. Mr.. Dor
othy purchased two very fine ones.
Robert Glover returned last week
from a trip thru Kansas and Nebras-
ka.
Calvin Smith has purchased a fine
piano for his daughter, Miss Laura.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Berry and Mr..
and Mrs. 7. j. Williams are rejoicing
over the arrival of new daughters at
their respective homes.
Miss Hester Glover returned to Ce-
dar Falls after enjoying short vaca-
ton at home.
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Chicago,. Bab billing Brook.

Des Moines Leader: Altho it's course
has been reversed and the. waters of
Lake Michigan are now flowing up the
Chicago river to happy union with the
Mississippi, it is not yet claimed that
it, the river, has become crystalline
brook babbling between the soap fac
tories and the glucose works. While
the blow has been a sad one to Mr..
Mike Robe. Esq, he still refuses to
surrender possession entirely of the
old homestead.
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YAMIPA.

Yampa, Jan. 11.-QOe of Tie pleasant
events of the season was the surprise
birthday party on Miss Efie Morrison,
on, New Years day,sit being her six
teenth birthday. Her mother and sis
ter planned the surprise for her. Those
present were: Miss Orpha Reno, Alta
Creamer, Emma ellis, Myrtle Reno,
Myrtle Dreamer and Mabel Gillis. She
received a fine gold watch and chain.
j. S. Reno is building another new
barn.
Mrs. Mahala Mcclure. who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Daley. was Yampa passenger yester
day. ssaa
Invitations are cont for party a
Frank Reno's. aatsGoig ynRiss
Joseph Scarf, Of Agency, was
Yampa caller yesterday.
The children of Yampa are havini
a siege of chickenpox.
George Giltner and j. T. McAfinn
went to Ottumwa today as witnesse1
in the Marsh and johnson trial.
John Carman was in County Line
and Batavia on business last Satur.
day.
Frank Reno was in Batavia yester-
day.
J. K. Hilton was in Batavia last Fri-
dav.
Dan johnson, of Agency, was In
Yampa yesterday on business.
Frank Reno shipped two car loads Of
straw yesterday.
John E. Reno, who recently had his
arm broken, is doing fine.
sir. Reno was in Ottumwa yesterday
on business.
Mrs. B. II. Burnaugh had turkey
roast Yesterday.
Fred Hall and family gave dance
at their residence, last Saturday even
ing.
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should TRY to Compromise.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: M. Guer-
in, who SO short time ago, shut him
self up in a fortified house and resist
ed the attempt of the French govern
ment to get him out is now resisting
its effort to shut him up again, and
the French government which then
wanted to get him out now wants to
get him in, Guerin and the govern
ment would get along better If they
could agree on wanting the same
thing at the4same time.
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KIRKVILLE.

Kirlville, Jan. 1.-THE all-absorbing
question and the one most widely dis
cussed up here, is are we in the nine
tenth or twentieth century?
c. Irwin, of Rosemont, Neb., is Wis
iting his cousin, Robert Irwin, and
his relatives, the Allison families.
James Kirk and Jesse Shaver did
not go to Wisconsin, as we noted re-
Gently, but are still at home.
On last Friday night Miss Maggie
Mckee, of the grammar room of our
school, entertained her pupils at her
home, three miles north OF Kirkyille.
Twenty-six boys and girls were pres
emf, and to say it was happy crowd
is tellino it right. Oranges and ba-
nanas were served. Various games
were played and the evening was very
pleasantly spent. Fred Brown and
Manly Forsyth chaperoned the party
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ROUND POINT.

Round Point, Jan. Mrs. Carpen-
ter and Mrs. Sumner Siberell were yis-
itors at the A. R. Burns home on Nom
day.
On last Thursday Mrs. Carrie Baer
and Mrs. George Hill spent the day
with Mrs. Burns.
Mrs. Wright, of Kansas, is spending
the winter with her daughter, Mrs.
Clara Giltner.
Since the holidays the young people
or Round Point have all returned to
their school work. Robert Burns to
Parsons college and others to the OF
tumwa high school, Business College
and Mrs. Peck's school.
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A Terrible suggestion.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: 1t would be
too awfully bad if the Fenians should
kidnap Billy Mason and Jonathan P.
Dolliver and store them on the Maine
border along with other high explo-
sives. One charge of Masonic, deliy-
cred at the proper range, might be ex-
pected to devastate a wide scope of
country and shake the ground to such
an extent that grasshopper eggs nearer
the surface than twenty-seven inches
would not hatch next year.
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
The Explanation.

Marshalltown Times-Republican: A
Kansas. newspaper man who wound up
the notice that his office is for sale
with the statement, 'sthe editor is
tired" carried the following at the
head of his paper, probably as ra-
tional explanation of the situation:
For president in 1900, Hon. w. j.
Bryan, of Nebraska. For governor of
Kansas in 1900, Hon. David Overmeyer,
of Topeka"
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Not the Time for h.

ATT. Pleasant Republican,: This is
scarcelv the time to revive old ami
mosities by trying to cut down south
ern representation in congress. The
good feeling arising from the Spanish
war has put the democrats into hope
less minority, anyhow.
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\ Our trade with Cuba, Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines last year
exceeded $4o,0OO,00O. an increase of
over 100 per cent. When all these ISL
ands are engaged in peaceful industry
the present figures will be multiplied
many times. Mg4sa
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ALasaon for Them.

Cedar Rapids Republican: May ii
never again be necessary for papers
like the Des Moines Capital to write
columns of inuendo against republi-
cans. The capital city papers ought to
learn from this experience that it is
not wise in any way to abuse all who
cannot agree with them in, their polit-
ical preferences.
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The anxiety with which some people
are searching for convenient abbre-
Walton Of 1900 is significant Of the. rush
we have permitted ourselves to get iri-
no. It ought to do us good to stop
once in a hundred years and give the
date its full pronunciation.
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e ALL The American and most Of the
Spanish prisoners in Luzon have been
liberated BY our advancing forces. The
first anniversary OF war with the Ia
gals will see difficult task nearly ac-
complished.
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War department. expenses are 3s per
cent less than they were at this time
last year, and the treasury surplus for
the last six months is over $21, 00O,-
900. Prophets who saw financial ruin
in the Philippine policy are keeping
nflief Is -