Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24

day night on business.
Walter Clauson met with quite a
severe accident Sunday afternoon. lie
and another boy went out in the pas
ture, caught a blind horse and clam
bered on. The horse ran away AMI
into a barbed wire fence, catching
young Clauson's leg and cutting it
nearly off. DR.. Yocum was called i'm
mediately. He had to take seventeen
stitches in it. The boy was resting
easy Monday evening.
Mrs. Kuhns, of Chicago, is home
visiting her mother, Mrs. B. 4. Bates,
and family.
BLOOMFIELD.
Bloomfield, May 49, Mrs. Findley
Duffield, of North English, is visiting
at the home of her mother, Mrs. ~
B. Horn, who expects the arrival of her
sister, Mrs. Mary Rominger, of st.
Louis, today
Mrs. Will King, of Des Moines, arriv-
ed recently at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wood Owen, where
she will make months visit.
| Newton Howell, who has been inn
prisoned for some time on the charge
of having stolen horse of Ed Ryan,
has been released on bail, his father,
Chas. Ryan, having paid the bond,
which was $500.
The Christian church will be closed
for several weeks while the building
is being repaired. The rooms are be-
ing neatly papered and painted and
the electric lights are being removed
and will be replaced according to u
different system, as the present ar
rangement is very trying to the eyes
and has prevented the attendance OF
many persons for that reason. Rev
Tricilett will conduct services at the
| Presbyterian church Sunday morning
and the two congregations will mold
union services until the work on the
Christian church is completed. There
will be no services, however, on the
following Sunday, as ali denonina.
| tions will unite in attending the NJ E
church dedication, which occurs on the
27th.
The remodeling of the Lima berry
property, purchased some time ago by
O. d. Wray, is now going on under
the foremanship of j. c. Wood. The
porches, windows and interior have
all been remodeled SO that the house
is practically being rebuilt and when
completed, which is not expected be-
fore September, will be one of the
finest and most modern homes in the
city. The interior will be finished in
oak and everything in the way of mod
ern Improvements will be united in the
formation of beautiful and elegant
home.
Bloomfield, May 22.-Findley Duff
field, editor of the North English Re-.
view, spent Sunday at the home of his
mother, Mrs. j. NJ. Duffield, and after
q short visit will return, accompanied
| by his wife. who has spent the past
week at the home of her mother, Mrs.
NJ. B. Horn.
Llewellyn Palmer, well known to
many in this city, where he made his
home for number of yeaIs, made a
short visit at the home of his aunt,
Mrs. David Palmer, on Sunday, ana
returned to his home in ST. Louis.
L. 0. Gum left Monday for Des
Moines, where he will make his future
home. He was preceded some time
ago by Mrs. Gum, who went to take
treatment for deafness by DR.. j. b..
Findley.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Downing, of
Wheeling, Mo-, are visiting at he
home OF Mr.. Downing's parents, Elder
and Mrs. Downing, who will celebrate
their golden wedding on Monday
next.
Messrs. Philip Palmer and Will Dill
liner and Misses Bessie Smith md
Pauline Payne were the guests of Miss
Lucille Wycotf, of Ottumwa, on Sun
day evening.
A pleasant picnic in the woods at
Floris will be given this evening by the
friends of Lorin Bailey, who las
spent the past month or more at the
home Of Roy Hughes. and leaves in a
few days for his home at Boston,
Mass.
Claude Dabney and Ira Walton
made q pleasure trip to Ottumwa On
Sunday.
j. Stein and Henry Myers, of Chiea-
go, accompanied by Hon. Hans Mole
bury, of Austria. who is making Il
three months trip thru this country
in the interests of his chemical lab J.
ratory, at Vienna, were the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Stein, on Sun
day.
A.. NJ. johnson, Of Centerville, was
the guest of Miss Ola Baker, on Sun
day.
i. x. Gleason, OF West Grove, was
a business visitor at this place on Sat
urday.
Miss Bessie Smith spent Saturday
and Sunday in Abba, where she gis-
tied at the home of Miss Frances
Barnes.
Mrs. A. G. Phillips, of Chicago, and
son, II. G. Phillips, and wife, of Des
Moines, and Will Dillner, of Batavia,
spent Sunday at the home of the lat
ter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. III.
Dilliner
\ farewell program, consisting of
ten-minute talks and impromptu
speeches were given at the NJ. T..
church on Sunday evening, when the