Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-20


| Some one broke into the depot a
this place Tuesday night but fount
nothing of any value (but few bot
ties of beer) and for spite tore up ;
| few tickets.
| kirkviIle.
Kirkvilie, Sept. 2O.-Ed. Keller il
very ill with typhoid fever at tn,
home of his parents, two miles nortl
east of Kirkville.
Rev. J. G. Caughlan and wife were
| given surprise Friday evening b.
the members of Rev. Caughlan':
charge. AS an appreciation of theil
services and the esteem in which they
are held couple of handsome rock
ers were presented to them. About
forty were present.
U. P. Riley, of Platte River, Mo-, ar
old soldier of Company B, Thirty
sixth Iowa infantry, was visiting last
week with old friends and attended
the reunion Thursday and Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vim. Aiken, of Cincin
natl, Iowa, have been visiting the past
week at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Pc
ter Lykins.
wi .. AllSS IloU!iASou anu H0IlCl
aunt Betty" Piken, of Wasco, Neb.,
are visiting friends in and around
Kirkville.
Mrs Parker and little son and daugh-
ter, of Chester. Neb. arrived Thursday
for few days visit at the home OF
Mrs. Parker's daughter, Mrs. S. o.
Brown.
James Davis, of Grinnell, came
Thursday for visit with relatives in
Kirkville and vicinity.
Mrs. Bertha Gilmore, of Oskaloosa,
was the guest of her sister, Mrs. S. o.
Brown, last Thursday.
F. N. Whitney and family visited
Saturday at the home of Mrs. Whit
ney's cousin, A. T. Younkin, of Oska.
loosa.
George Clark is recovering from an
attack of malarial fever.
Two small children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Craft have been on the list of
malaria patients the past week,
John Runion and family, of Keb,
Geo. Ryerson and Vim. Marsh.
Mrs. Lou Graham visited last week
with her daughter, Mrs. Lille Hayes,
of White Oak.
James Carson has his new house
finished and has moved his family in
to it.
Theoph Reed has moved into the
house recently vacated by Jas. Carson.
Mrs. Lille Hayes, of White Oak, is
visiting at the parental Graham home.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Byers are the
proud parents of baby girl, born
last Friday.
Mrs. Lou Graham and daughter, Mrs.
Lille Hayes, went to Oskaloosa Satur-
day.
Chas. Teall and son, Glenn were
among the Oskaloosa visitors satur-
day.
BidweII.
Dudley, Sept. 20.-Most of our PEG.
pie went to Ottumwa Monday to Buff
falo Bill"
Ed. Poland, of Ottumwa, was out to
last week.
Tom OHora, of Melrose, attended
the show at Ottumwa Monday, and
visited relatives near here and Chilli
cothe, returning home Tuesday.
The social at Christiansburg Satur-
day night was quite well attended.
Miss Jennie Berry and brother, Asa
Berry, left for their home at Blakes-
burg after a visit with relatives at
Chillicothe.
B. P. Garfield, Mrs. Chas. Smith and
daughter went to visit relatives at Der
by, Kansas, this week.
Mrs. Arthur Grooms is visiting rela-
tives at Burlingame, Kansas.
chequest.
Chequest, Sept. 2O.-A number from
here attended Buffalo Bills show in
Ottumwa Monday.
The Chequest school board met in
district No. to accept the new school
house which has just been completed
in the above named district, and to
elect the teachers for the winter terms
of school and to transact all other gen.
eral business.
Nellie Morrow, of Douds, and Waldo
G. Harryman, of this place, began their
fall terms of school Monday.
John McMullen died at his home
here Sept. 10 and was buried in the LIE
ando cemetery on the 18th. He leaves
a wife, one son and two daughters to
mourn their loss. The family have
the sympathy of their neighbors and
friends.
Chas. Parker, of near Libertyville
visited over Sunday with Waldo Har
ryman.
Rev. Booten is to be the new min
lister and it is thought he will be well
liked.
G. G. Rodgers and family, of neal
Selma, spent the Sabbath at the pa
rental home of Mrs. Rodgers here
Round Point.
Round Point, Sept. 20.-Nearly ev
cry one in our neighborhood attended
the street carnival Monday and tool
in Buffalo Bills show.
The wind storm of last week die
considerable damage to hay stacks.
Geo. F. Stever was in the neighbor
| hood MDndoyy