Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-09

Misses Lottie and May Gless re-
turned to Clay last week.
Miss leila Randall attended church
here Sunday.
Miss Apply Raglan visited at this
place Sunday.
Mrs. Davis and Ruth spent satur-
day in Sigourney.
Bidweil.
Bidwell, Aug. 9.-Mr. and Mrs. J..
H. Chisman, of South Ottumwa, spent
| Sunday with G. R. Chisman and wife
of Bidwell.
Miss Eunice Chisman returned Sat
urday from a weeks visit in South
Ottumwa
| Mrs. P. R. Brooks and Mrs. James
Johnson returned from three weeks
visit in Indiana.
e. G. Fisk is very i'll with lung fever.
His many friends hope for his re-
covery.
FIoris.
Floris, Aug. 9.-Dr. Davis made a
business trip to Bloomfield Monday.
| Joseph Lepper went to Des Moines
Monday and Jake Carr to Marshall
town.
| Miss Fay Watts returned to her
home in Oskaloosa Monday after a
few weeks visit at the P. Davis, home.
Messrs. Jim Peden, Dan Hendrick.
Will Britt, Wesley Thompson, s. G..
McCline, Charley Thompson and Miles
| Wilkinson attended the democrat coz
vention at Ottumwa.
Jeff Carter, of Eldon, was here
| T'nnCdau po11i,,o y; q,
John Wagers.
Adam Failure, of Kirkville, is here
visiting Nelse Johnson.
Will Bolman was here on bust
ness trip Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. p. Davis, Mrs Nate
Quigley and daughters, Thresa and
Lille, visited near Bloomfield Thurs
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Furge-
son.
| Mrs. J., E. Strickland and Mrs. Al
Hudson were in Eldon Thursday
w. g. Swinney and Jake f1naedlar
went to Bloomfield Friday.
Mrs. Flora Hale and son came in
from Eddyville Friday to spend the
rest of the summer with Mrs. Hale's
parents.
Eddie Davies arrived from Water
loo Friday. IA
Lewis Hoffitatten went to Bloonl-
field Saturday on business.
Wash Fielder. living south of here,
went after the COWS on the evening of
August 3, and not coming in by dark,
the children went to, see after him,
and found, him dead near we'll on the
north part of the farm, close by log
as tho he had gotten off the horse to
pump some water, and in the effort
to get on again died of heart failure,
as he has BEEN ailing with heart
I trouble. Mr.. Fielder was one of our re-
| spected citizens. He was about 20
years of age and an Industrious man,
q good neighbour and kind and atfec-
tionate father. His funeral was
preached at the home by Rev. Miller,
of Eldon, August 4th. His remains
were followed to the cemetery by Il
large coDcourse of friends where he
wa. laid by his wife who departed
from this life in March.
Miss Myrtle Mcclure arrived home
Saturday from weeks visit with ner
sister, Mrs. Tom Turner, in Ottumwa
Walter Wilson and Clara Johnson
are visiting in Gilman with their sis
ter Mrs. Bert Smith.
Mrs. N. Johnson went Friday to Big
Springs, Iowa, to visit her brother,
Sol Cromwell.
G. E. Copeland, of Laddsdale, at
tended services at the Baptist church
Sunday
Rev. Hoolwell, of the Christian
church filed his regular appointment
here Sunday and at the close of the
| ~ al IL Go,,
vert.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pane, of OF
tumwa, spent Sunday at DR.. Stew
ems
Rev. Miller will preach Mrs. Mary
Brennaman's funeral August 10 at IL
a. M, at the F'loris Baptist church
Glen Shaffer, of Bloomfield, is visit
ing at the Davis home.
Quite number OF persons from
here attended the ice cream social ct
Harlan Piles Saturday night. They
reported good time.
Hickory Ridge.
Hickory Ridge, Aug. 9-Mrs. Liza
Major and daughters, Sarah and
Ida, visited at John Anderson's, near
Blakesburg, Friday.
Nelse Halls was a Sunday visitor at
Mr.. Peterson's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson, of Soap
Creek, were calling on the Ridge last
week.
Marvin Upp and sister Ethel spent
Sunday evening at MI. Kirt Fisk's, of
near Christianburg.
Grandma Tyrell and son William,
David Bell and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Foster and family were visitors at
Albert Majors last Sunday.
Frank Burgason called on Otto Pier
son Sunday.
/ The ice cream supper at Wash
| Spears Friday night was well at
tended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Doster Major were
i callers at the Ridge Saturday