Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-15
Daily Doings of someof ottumwa's
Close Neighbors.
Personal, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
Everything prom Joyous births to the
philosophical Observation ofsases,
Are CllronicIed by the CourIer's
special Correspondents,
CHARLTON.

~ OHdTICOU. A1dICA a.
stead, No. 2s9. B. A. Y, will hold a
box supper Thursday evening after
their regular meeting and G arge at
tendance of visiting Yeomen from
n~eighboring Homesteads is expected.
Al Gartin is suffering from q very
sore thumb, the result of a serious Y
with an az. He was trimming, a stake
and had the handle of h az between
his legs holding the stake With the
other hand, when something caughti
the handle of 5he ak that was SILK
ing out behind him, causing the blade
to slip and strike his thumb.
Mrs. c. A. Abramhamson is reported
as confined to her bed with a severe
attack Of grip.
Ben Mellefont has departed for a
few weeks visit with relatives M
friends at her old home in Montezuma.
Miss Lizzie Martin, of Benton town
ship, has come ITO town and begun
work in Mrs. w. H. Hemphills dress
making shop as an apprentice.
Harmon Heed, who has been spend
ing a few days with his cousins, Misses
Maggie and Anna BEEN, returned 10
,sslis home at ST. Joseph, Mo-, on Tues
day.
Il. B. Terrill. ST., is suffering very
greatly from a small abscess or the
cyelid Of his left eye that the doctors
say may prove very serious and
affect the sight of the other eye, with
the probability of causing him to be-
come totally blind.
Miss Carrie Gasser departed Tuesday
for an extended stay at Pocatello, Ida
Ao, where she has secured employment
as bookkeeper in her brother Georges
store ait chat place.
John Clouse, who is living in town
until he can finish his new house III
Whitebreast township, is bemoanina
the loss of about forty-two chickens
He recently sold a place in LincolI
township but had not taken all the
things away YET. Among those left
was a number OF chickens which he
had locked in the hen house. Some
parties knowing he was in town broke
the lock on the door and helped them,
selves 10 forty-two of his chickens.
They were in no Murray to get away
as they stopped long enough to pull
The heads off of nine of them right il
front OF the hen house. There is nc
Clu6 10 VIC bnlcfSS, OuU OCll 10 iEduJ
for them now should they come back
as he is sleeping at the house.
Miss Katherine McRay, who is leai
ing the music at the Christian churc
meetings here, went down to Humes
ton on Wednesday to spend the da
with her mother, returning the san
evening in time for the services at tn
church.
Bob Bradford. one of the most higI
ly respected citizens of Lucas count,
died at his home in Libert township
Tuesday, of a bursted artery. Bo
had been sick for about a week 9
lung fever, but was much improve
and was walking around the hous
when the artery just above the hea,
broke and choked him TO death wit
the escaping blood. He was an hol
est, handwriting farmer and con
manded the highest respect from
large circle of Lucas county friend
who extend their deepest sympathy
his wife and relatives.
Miss Cora Z. Combs, one of th
teachers in our public schools, has r,
turned from a few days visit wit
friends at Des Moines.
Mrs. Sterling Morris is rapidly in
proving after a several weeks siege &
catarrhal fever.